A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy…
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting do…
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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.
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Mozart's Starling
A charming story of Mozart and his pet starling, along with a natural history of the bird.
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The Terraformers
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.Buy this book on Amazon
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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek.
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing
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Lavinia
In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice.Buy this book on Amazon
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendi…
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
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Desert Solitaire
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a …
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs
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The Kingdoms
A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved.
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Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His firs…