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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865
Aug 2026
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Jul 2026
What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods
Jun 2026
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner
Apr 2026
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald
Apr 2026
Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound by David B. Williams
Mar 2026
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations by Robert Bryce
Mar 2026
White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree by John Pastor
Mar 2026
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
Feb 2026
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
Feb 2026
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Jan 2026
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Dec 2025
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Nov 2025
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Nov 2025
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Oct 2025
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
Sep 2025
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley
Sep 2025
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Aug 2025
The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan
Aug 2025
American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel
Aug 2025
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
Aug 2025
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Aug 2025
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg
Jul 2025
We, The Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific by David Lewis
Jul 2025
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
Jul 2025
Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains by William Ashworth
Jun 2025
Apocalypse Never: How Environmental Alarmism Hurts us All by Michael Shellenberger
Jun 2025
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates
May 2025
Bringing up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
May 2025
Chip War by Chris Miller
May 2025
American Serengeti by Dan Flores
Apr 2025
The American West and its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Mar 2025
In Defense of Plants by Matt Candeias
Mar 2025
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William Bernstein
Mar 2025
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
Mar 2025
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard
Feb 2025
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands
Jan 2025
Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
Jan 2025
For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi
Nov 2024
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin
Nov 2024
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
Nov 2024
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin
Oct 2024
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha D. Schull
Oct 2024
The Land Breakers by John Ehle
Oct 2024
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire by Peter Stark
Oct 2024
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change by Bren Smith
Sep 2024
Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew Wilkinson
Sep 2024
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
Sep 2024
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Sep 2024
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Sep 2024
Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman
Aug 2024
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton
Aug 2024
Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Jul 2024
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
Jul 2024
The Nature of Oaks by Douglas Tallamy
Jul 2024
Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
Jul 2024
Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie
Jun 2024
Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
Jun 2024
King of Fish by David R. Montgomery
Jun 2024
Sea People by Christina Thompson
May 2024
Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
May 2024
Nothing to Envy – Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Apr 2024
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Apr 2024
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Apr 2024
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. Davis
Apr 2024
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
Mar 2024
Lesser Beasts by Mark Essig
Mar 2024
American Rascal by Greg Steinmetz
Mar 2024
The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
Feb 2024
The Treeline by Ben Rawlence
Feb 2024
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Feb 2024
Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock
Feb 2024
Whirlwind by John Ferling
Jan 2024
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Jan 2024
Winter World by Bernd Heinrich
Jan 2024
Hero of the Empire by Candice Miller
Jan 2024
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Jan 2024
The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis
Dec 2023
Where is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
Dec 2023
The Box by Marc Levinson
Dec 2023
Physical Geography: The Basics by Joseph Holden
Dec 2023
Changes in the Land by William Cronon
Dec 2023
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Nov 2023
Dreams of El Dorado by H.W. Brands
Nov 2023
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
Nov 2023
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
Nov 2023
The Millionaire Fastlane by M.J. DeMarco
Nov 2023
The Google Story by David A. Vise
Nov 2023
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
Nov 2023
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Nov 2023
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Nov 2023
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Nov 2023
A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
Nov 2023
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
Nov 2023
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
Nov 2023
On Writing by Stephen King
Nov 2023
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Nov 2023
Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
Nov 2023
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Nov 2023