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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Ben Rawlence - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents...

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The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa

Jonathan B. Losos - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover.. The domestic cat - your cat - has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little time into one of the most successful...
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DIY Projects for Cats and Dogs: 20 Easy-to-Build Creations for Your Best Friend

ARMELLE RAU - CompanionHouse Books
Format: Paperback

Pamper your pet while you save money by doing it yourself! This book shows you how to build inexpensive, functional accessories to make your home a pet paradise. DIY Projects for Cats and Dogs presents 20 simple projects that you can make in just a weekend, without any advanced skills or special...
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How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

Tom Mustill - ?Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill - the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty?ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak - asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication."When a whale is in the water,...
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The Secret Life of Cows

Rosamund Young - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animalsAt her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the cows (as well as sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam...
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Cat vs. Cat: Keeping Peace When You Have More Than One Cat

Pam Johnson-Bennett - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

America's favorite cat expert and award-winning author shows how adding another cat to your home does not have to be the start of a kitty apocalypse. Although cats are often misunderstood as natural loners, you can readily introduce new members to your family, and keep the fur from...
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Afterglow

EILEEN MYLES - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books) . This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved...
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

Renowned paleontologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte charts the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs' successor: mammals, which emerged from the shadows to rule the Earth.In his acclaimed and bestselling The Rise and Fall...
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Living Without Plastic: More Than 100 Easy Swaps for Home, Travel, Dining, Holidays, and Beyond

Brigette Allen
Format: Hardcover

Every year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of plastic. These products will never break down and will endlessly pollute our oceans, air, land, and food chain. But the good news is that there are many steps, small and large, we can take to change our plastic-using habits. This...
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Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of Historys Most Iconic Extinct Creatures

Ben Mezrich - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species - the woolly mammoth - by the best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel. "With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories worthy...
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