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Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

Craig Foster - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From the creators of the Academy Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, an immersive journey into the underwater world that inspired it - and holds transformative lessons for us all Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South...
 
 
Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time

Robert Downey Jr - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLERA Publishers Weekly Pick #1 New Release Barnes & Noble PickIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one...
 
 
Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

Nancy A. Nichols - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had - and will continue to have - on the lives of women.. Since their inception...
 
 
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans

Tessa Hill - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. Beneath the waves and along the coasts, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In response, the people who know the ocean most intimately are taking action for the sake...
 
 
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling...
 
 
Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World

Miriam Darlington - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

"Beguiling. The gentle and persistent search by Darlington sparkles." - The GuardianA plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, wading through marshes, hiding between mossy...
 
 
42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not To)

Chris Ferrie - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you ... you were right!Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it's also a bit of an asshole. After all, remember that you are just a group of atoms structured in a specific...
 
 
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

John O'Connor - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot...
 
 
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth...
 
 
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Manjula Martin - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record.. A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times,...