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  Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

  Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.
  
  Marcia Bjornerud’s life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary…

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  Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

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  Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

  Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is…

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  The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

  A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America. Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of In…

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  Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

  A definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show
  
  Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revere…

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  Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West

  Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploratio…

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  Angle of Repose

  Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western fro…

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  Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

  A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the c…

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  A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19

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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
  
  In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functi…

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  Gliff

  From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing.
  
  An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-ver…

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  An American Childhood

  Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap …

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  The Backyard Bird Chronicles

  A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight.
  
  Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time th…

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  West

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  The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

  A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.
  
  We embraced the mediated life—from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the …

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  A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

  Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs Through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction…

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  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard…

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  Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

  A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023 • A New Yorker B…

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  Legends of the Fall

  'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration and danger at the beginning of the Great War, confirms Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the fin…

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge

  Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover.
  
  In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course o…

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