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The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate

Amy Brady, Ph.D.
Format: Paperback

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives - including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this...
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

NICK LANE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Kindle Edition

From the renowned biochemist and author of The Vital Question, an illuminating inquiry into the Krebs cycle and the origins of life."Nick Lane's exploration of the building blocks that underlie life's big fundamental questions - the origin of life itself, aging, and disease...
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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

DAVID ROBERTS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing."By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west...
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Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing

Polly Barton - Liveright
Format: Kindle Edition

For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue."The language learning I want to talk about is sensory bombardment. It is a possession, a bedevilment,...
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Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste

Eduardo Garcia - ‎Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

Learn what you can do right now to reduce your carbon footprint with this inspiring, accessible, stunningly illustrated book based on Eduardo Garcia's popular New York Times column.   "This beautiful and practical book on the climate crisis is for people of all ages, packed with...
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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

Fariha Roisin - ‎Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status...
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Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

LYNDSIE BOURGON - LITTLE BROWN SPARK
Format: Hardcover

A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree...
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing - and one of the most decorated journalists of our time - twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue"I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time...
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

Elizabeth Letts - ‎Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback‏

In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor's...
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The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

Resmaa Menakem - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys America's deteriorating democracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country. "All of us need to read this book - and then act on it." - Angela Rye, NPR political analyst...
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