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Nature, Animals & the Environment

Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
• Last Chance to See

Barbara Blossom Ashmun
• Married to My Garden

Peter Benchley
• Shark Life: True Stories about Sharks & the Sea

Eliza Berkowitz
•  A Kid's Guide to Backyard Stargazing

Raymond Bial
• Rescuing Rover: Saving America's Dogs

Derek Brockway & Julian Carey
• Weatherman Walking (Walks around Wales)

Dawn Baumann Brunke
• Animal Voices: Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life

Bill Bryson
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Tim Cahill
• Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

James Campbell
• Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the Americas' Legendary Cat

Mary Kay Carson
• Scientists in the Field: The Bat Scientists

Gerard E. Cheshire
• Garden Wildlife: Revealing Your Garden's Secrets
• Indoor Wildlife: Revealing the Creatures Inside Your Home

Andrew Cotter
• Olive, Mabel & Me: Life & Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

Lynn Marie Cuny
• Through Animal's Eyes: True Stories From a Wildlife Sanctuary

Tim Dietz
• Tales of Whales

Richard Ellis
• Monsters of the Sea

James D. Fair
• 100 Great Wildlife Experiences: What to See & Where

Michael W. Fox
• Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth & Humans

Lisa Gensheimer
• Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest, with Ed Bernik

Jane Goodall
• Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Joan M. Griffin
• Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail

Richard Guy
• The Ascent of Man
• The Mysterious Receding Seas

Denis Hayes
• The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair

Bernd Heinrich
• Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

Peter Hillyard
• The Book of the Spider

David Brendan Hopes
• A Sense of the Morning

Mike Horn
• Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle

Alexandra Horowitz
• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, & Know

Sue Hubbell
• Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
• Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys In to the Time Before Bones

Jamie James
• The Snake Charmer

Steve Jenkins
• The Beetle Book

Kenneth Kamler
• Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance

Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Serviceberry: Abundance & Reciprocity in the Natural World

John A. Kinch
• A Journey for All Seasons: A Cross-Country Celebration of the Natural World

Gene Logsdon
• A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats & Benedictions

Peter Lourie
• Scientists in the Field: The Manatee Scientists
• Scientists in the Field: Whaling Season

Margaret Lowman
• Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology

Amanda Lumry & Laura Hurwitz
• Adventures of Riley: Dolphins in Danger
• Adventures of Riley: Mission to Madagascar

Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
• The Lost Words
• The Lost Words: Spell Songs
• The Lost Spells

Tory Mather
•  Scenic Natural Wonders of Pennsylvania: Caverns, Overlooks, Falls, & Vistas

Joanne L. McGonagle
• The Tiniest Tiger

Jana Milbocker
•  Gardens of the Gilded Age: Lavish Landscapes from America's Golden Era

Sy Montgomery
•  The Soul of an Octopus

Jane Moore
• Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat

Paula Morin
• Honest Horses: Wild Horses in the Great Basin

Jim Ottaviani
• Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey & Birute Galdikas

Roger Tory Peterson
• Feeder Birds: Eastern North America
• Field Guide to Feeder Birds: Eastern & Central North America

Noble S. Proctor
• The Songbirds Bible

Matt Ritter
• A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us

Jim Robbins
• The Man Who Planted Trees

Julia Rothman
• Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World under the Sea

Dan Rouse
• How to Attract Birds to Your Yard

Hope Ryden
• America's Last Wild Horses

Scott Russell Sanders
• Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journey

Vandana Shiva
• Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature & Knowledge

Andrew Spielman & Michael D'Antonio
• Mosquito

Douglas W. Tallamy
• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

Stan Tekiela
• Birds of Pennsylvania Field Guide

Beth Terry
• Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit & How You Can Too

Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell
• The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big & Small

Jean Vernon
• The Secret Lives of Garden Bees

Nathalie Ward
• Do Whales Ever...

Sophie Webb
• Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage

David Wilk
• Amazing Dog Stories

Simon Wills
• A History of Trees

Simon Winchester
• Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
• Pacific: Silicon Chips & Surfboards, Coral Reefs & Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, & the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

John Yow
• Wyland: 25 Years at Sea

Science

John D. Barrow
• The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless & Endless

William M. Bass
• Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

Eliza Berkowitz
• A Kid's Guide to Backyard Stargazing

Robert W. Bly
• The Science in Science Fiction

Alex Boese
• Elephants on Acid: & Other Bizarre Experiments

Michael Brooks
• 13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Bill Bryson
• A Short History of Nearly Everything

Mary Kay Carson
• Scientists in the Field: The Bat Scientists

Disaster Science

Martin Dugard
• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Richard Ellis
• Monsters of the Sea

Chuck T. Falcon
• Family Desk Reference to Psychology

Michael W. Fox
• Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth & Humans

Stanton T. Friedman
• Flying Saucers & Science

Simon Garfield
• Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time

Louis Haber
• Black Pioneers of Science & Invention

Denis Hayes
• The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair

Robert M. Hazen & James Trefil
• Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Jamie James
• The Snake Charmer

Max Jammer
• Einstein & Religion: Physics & Theology

Michio Kaku
• Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation & Time Travel

Ralph Lewin
• Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural & Socio-Historical Coprology

Peter Lourie
• Scientists in the Field: The Manatee Scientists
• Scientists in the Field: Whaling Season

Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
• Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Margaret Lowman
• Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology

Stephen Hawley Martin
• The Science of Life After Death

Barbara Oakley
• Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed & My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend

Jim Ottaviani
• Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey & Birute Galdikas

Ian Passingham
• Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time

Paul Raffaele
• Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual

Carol Ann Rinzler
• Dictionary of Medical Folklore

Mary Roach
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Frank Ryan
• The Mystery of Metamorphosis: A Scientific Detective Story

Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
• Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

Mark Thompson
• 101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space

E.J. Wagner
• The Science of Sherlock Holmes

Sophie Webb
• Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage

Philip Zimbardo
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Health & Body Issues

Natalie Angier
• Woman: An Intimate Geography

Jim Bailey
• The End of Healing

Carlyn Beccia
• I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures

Nathan Belofsky
• Strange Medicine

Ursula Bielski
• There's Something Under the Bed: Children's Experiences with the Paranormal

Grace Bowman
• Thin

Jaime Breitnauer
• The Spanish Flu Epidemic & Its Influence on History

Rufus C. Camphausen
• Return of the Tribal: A Celebration of Body Adornment

Elizabeth J. Cockey
• Drawn from Memory: A Personal Story of Healing Through Art

Barry R. Davis
•  The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, & the Discoveries That Changed Our World

Chuck T. Falcon
• Family Desk Reference to Psychology

Charles Gant & Greg Lewis
• End Your Addiction Now

Mike George
• Learn to Relax: A Practical Guide to Easing Tension & Conquering Stress

Ana Nez Heatherly
• Healing Plants: A Medicinal Guide to Native North American Plants & Herbs

Tom Hutton
• Carrying the Black Bag: A Neurologist's Bedside Tales

Kay Redfield Jamison
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods & Madness

Elisabeth Janos
• Country Folk Medicine: Tales of Skunk Oil, Sassafras Tea & Other Old-Time Remedies

Gregory L. Jantz
• The Stranger in Your House

Kenneth Kamler
• Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance

Daniel Matthew Korn
• Why Diet & Exercise Fail: How Current Research Contradicts Conventional Wisdom about Weight Loss

Peter Langman
• Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Susan Magee, with Dr. Kara Nakisbendi
• The Pregnancy Countdown Book: Nine Months of Practical Tips, Useful Advice & Uncensored Truths

Jacqueline Marcell
• Elder Rage, or Take My Father ... Please: How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents

Wendy McClure
• The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Classic Diet Recipe Cards from the 1970s

Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis
• I am Your Disease: The Many Faces of Addiction, with Heiko Ganzer

HP Newquist
• The Book of Blood: From Legends & Leeches to Vampires & Veins

Michael Putzel
• The Price They Paid: Enduring Wounds of War

Marilea C. Rabasa
• Stepping Stones: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss & Transformation

Dr. Bob Rich
• Striking Back from Down Under

Carol Ann Rinzler
• Dictionary of Medical Folklore

Cynthia Sabotka
• Life is Like a Line: A Memoir of Moods, Medication & Mania

Lori Schiller & Amanda Bennett
• The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

Josh Schonwald
• The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food

Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
• Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

Marilyn Wann
• FAT!SO?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size

David Zinczenko & Matt Goulding
• Eat This, Not That! The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution