NC SciFest - April Sweetbean Bonus - Adult and Teen

Celebrate the NC Science Festival with April's Sweetbean Reading Challenge! Read about science all month long with fun books, cool facts, and exciting discoveries. Let’s read, learn, and discover the wonders of science together!

Updated March 27, 2025
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"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
Feynman, Richard P.
Paper Book
One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous...
A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Weinersmith, Kelly
Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECTBEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex?...
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Yong, Ed
Paper Book
'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' The Times, Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly...
The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales
Sacks, Oliver
Paper Book
A short history of nearly everything
Bryson, Bill.
Ebook
The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies. 'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science....
The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here
Jahren, Hope
Paper Book
'Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative and - above all - essential' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Hope Jahren is an award-winning...
What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions
Munroe, Randall
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Totally brilliant' TIM HARFORD 'Required reading across the world' NEW YORK TIMES From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to...
Why we die : the new science of aging and the quest for immortality
Ramakrishnan, Venki
Paper Book
A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan'Enthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON'A must-read.' - STEPHEN FRY...

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