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Updated May 13, 2026
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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
Winchester, Simon.
Paper Book
"As our climate changes, the force of the wind is set to grow. By looking to the past and the future, Winchester examines the twinned possibilities alive in this bluster: the power of the wind to tear our world apart and its ability to help us travel farther and do more." --...
Life on a little-known planet : dispatches from a changing world
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised,...
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Roach, Mary
Paper Book
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet...
The genius bat : the secret life of the only flying mammal
Yovel, Yossi (Ecologist and neurobiologist)
Paper Book
"[A] wonderful book." --Nature "A mind-opening adventure." --Natural History An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world's leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of...
A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
Pollan, Michael
Paper Book
The Instant New York Times Bestseller "Pollan's real genius--the word is not too strong--remains intact. That is his uncanny ability to scent the direction in which the culture is headed. He did it with food and psychedelics, and now, though A World Appears focuses on...
When the forest breathes : renewal and resilience in the natural world
Simard, S.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of Finding the Mother Tree offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature's deep-rooted cycles of renewal. "A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world...
The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells about Our World and Our Lives
Khatwa, Anjana
Paper Book
A geologist's revelatory account of how our planet's seemingly inert bones pulse with unexpected vitality "Poetic and heartfelt."--Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive? A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants
Adelman, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way--and of their amazing afterlife. Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants...
Human nature : nine ways to feel about our changing planet
Marvel, Kate
Paper Book
A Scientific American Best Book of the Year A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes...
The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature's Clues
Gooley, Tristan
Paper Book
We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, you can find Sirius due south in the night sky? And have...
Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
Shea, Neil
Paper Book
A Recommended Read from Yale Climate Connections "[Frostlines weaves] together natural history, indigenous perspective, and environmental transformation in the Arctic. The book helps bring a human story to the science of climate change."--Parade A...
Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
George, Rose
Paper Book
Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first time in history, humans are eating more farmed fish than wild, and our fish consumption is...
Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
Kluger, Jeffrey
Paper Book
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL 2025 From the bestselling co-author of Apollo 13 comes the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon. Without Gemini, there...
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America
Baron, David
Paper Book
"There is Life on the Planet Mars" --New York Times, December 9, 1906 This New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron...

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