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Updated February 2, 2026
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
#1 New York Times bestseller * #1 Washington Post bestseller * #1 Indie Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's...
Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
Thor Hanson
Paper Book
An award-winning natural-history writer presents "the perfect mix of science and story" (Sy Montgomery), opening the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks: "I couldn't put it down" (Doug Tallamy).    We all live on nature's...
The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life
Drew Harvell
Paper Book
A Nature Best Book of 2025 * A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick An elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist Hundred-year-old giant clams,...
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
Christine Webb
A New York Times's Notable Book of 2025 An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species--and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural...
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
Alan Weisman
Paper Book
One of Heatmap's 18 Climate Books to Read in 2025 The award-winning environmental journalist's extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the...
In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
James C. Scott
Paper Book
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit   A New Yorker Best Book of the Year   "Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott's...

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