Robert Finch

John E. Elder

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Vermont

W. W. Norton is pleased to announce that The Norton Book of Nature Writing is now available in a paperback college edition.

The Norton Book of Nature Writing

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#hardcover #nature #coffeetablebook Beautiful photo of sea life. Printed in 1964.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Within a Rainbowed Sea

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Richard Powers

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

A Novel

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Overstory

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Sy Montgomery

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

"An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"--

The Soul of an Octopus

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Arkansas

An Unnatural History

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

The Sixth Extinction

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Timothy Ferris

Oregon

A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

A reference guide for stargazers offers star charts and information on equipment, planets, and stellar photography.

NightWatch

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Edward St. Aubyn

California

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set in London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge--for the purposes of pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, or survival--and the consequences of fleeing from what we know about others and ourselves.

When Olivia meets a new lover just as she is welcoming her best friend, Lucy, back from New York, her dedicated academic life expands precipitously. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off the grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two--but Lucy has received shocking news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow, Lucy's boss, Hunter, Olivia's psychoanalyst parents, and a young man named Sebastian are pulled into the friends' orbit, and not one of them will emerge unchanged.

Expansive, playful, and compassionate, Edward St. Aubyn's Double Blind investigates themes of inheritance, determinism, freedom, consciousness, and the stories we tell about ourselves. It is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics, and neuroscience as it is about love, fear, and courage. Most of all, it is a perfect expression of the interconnections it sets out to examine, and a moving evocation of an imagined world that is deeply intelligent, often tender, curious, and very much alive.

Double Blind

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Delaware

Bucket showers and baby goats

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#paperback #nonfiction #health #cookbooks #food #nature #educational #leiaslibrary

Massachusetts

A Natural History of Four Meals

"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

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Inside of book full of interesting bird facts …each feather has a million parts, birds from different areas gace different accents, which came first…. Back corner on cover bent. Inside pages like new. 


Lore & Legends Science & Nature Hands-On Projects

Everything You Never Learned About Birds

Learn how to forest bathe throughout the seasons. Beautiful illustrations. 124 pages

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Reconnect with Wild Places & Rejuvinate Your Life

The Joy Of Forest Bathing

Jack Brubaker

Pennsylvania

As the largest river on the East Coast of the United States, the rolling Susquehanna is the indispensable tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary. Gathering strength from scores of streams along its 444-mile journey, the river delivers half of the freshwater the bay requires to maintain its ecological balance.

Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake traces the course of the Susquehanna River through New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland to the bay. Fifty-six short chapters discuss key locations along the route and how the river changes from sources to sea. These chapters also look at how natural resources influence, and in some ways shape, the lives of the people and their communities.

Along the river tour, Jack Brubaker examines the natural and human history of the Susquehanna, exploring how the river has been used and abused, as well as its current condition and future prospects. He explains how the unusually shallow, rocky river has substantially altered its drainage pattern over geologic time and how it continues to cut channels while erasing and creating islands.

For generations the Susquehanna has ebbed through the daily lives of the riverside residents, providing water to drink and a place to pump sewage. Floods have humbled those who chose to live close to the river's edge, and droughts have fretted farmers. A vibrant fishery has provided sustenance and recreation for hundreds of thousands.

The Iroquois and the Susquehannocks reluctantly yielded the river to white settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the Susquehanna defined the American frontier. Coal mining, lumbering, and hydroelectric and nuclear energy production polluted the water and nearly ruined the landscape beyond hope in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hope returned in the latter part of the last century as the people of the Susquehanna began restoration efforts.

With the aid of more than 70 maps and illustrations, Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake provides a bold new look at a dynamic old river. This powerful journey brings alive the Susquehanna, its history, and the colorful personalities who live along its banks.

Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake

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Alaska

Guide to the Reptiles of the Eastern Palearctic

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Monarch Butterfly Bundle includes: 
-How to a raise Monarch Butterflies *NEW! 
A Step-By-Step guide for kids book
-Butterfly Farm Live Habitat *NEW SEALED! 
Uncle Milton Wildlife Habitat

Michigan

*NEW!! Monarch Butterfly Bundle: How To Raise Monarch Butterflies & Butterfly Farm

Reader's Digest Editors

Combines a field guide to finding and preserving medicinal plants with a detailed home advisor to their uses in cooking, cosmetics and health

Magic and Medicine of Plants

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Vintage edition (1950) in very good condition for its age. There is two issues, a crayon scribble on the inside front cover and the book is starting to separate on the inside spine, which doesnt affect reading or the book itsself. This is beautifully illustrated in soft chalk like art and a wonderful story. A true book to be treasured. 

South Carolina

The Christmas Forest 

David Harrison

A concise, illustrated guide compiled from the Canoe & Kayak magazine. Focusing on whitewater kayaking, this book covers strokes and manoeuvres-the Duffek, hole surfing, waterfall running, and eddy turns, plus advice on navigating through tough stretches and setting up racing exercises.

Whitewater Kayaking

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Lee H. Whittlesey

Very good condition. One small bit of blue on the outside of a couple pages but does not bleed into the page. See photos. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Accidents and Foolhardiness in Our First National Park

Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist there and in wild areas in general.

Death in Yellowstone

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New Jersey

Hikes trips tours adventures

Canadian Rockies access guide 

Jim Wilson

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North Carolina

The What, Where, When, How and Why of Gardening in South Carolina

Besides serving as host to PBS program Victory Garden, Jim Wilson has been honored with several prestigious awards. They include election to the Garden Writers' Association of America's Hall of Fame, Garden Communicator of the Year by the American Nursery Association, and Life Member of the National Council of State Garden Clubs in 1996. Jim features 175 of the plants that are best suited for the state's hot, humid climate, including annuals, bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, groundcovers, hardy perennials, vines, roses, shrubs, trees, turfgrass, and wildflowers. The South Carolina Gardener's Guide shares with readers a survey of South Carolina gardening from the fist European plant explorers to the blooming botanical gardens following World War II, to today's very sophisticated and multi-variety organic gardens. Gardeners of the Palmetto State will appreciate information about plant habits, design uses in the landscape, planting instructions, and maintenance advice.

South Carolina Gardener's Guide

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Anna Carey

Montana





Bestselling author Lauren Kate calls Eve "a gripping, unforgettable adventure--and a fresh look at what it means to love," and bestselling author Cynthia Hand calls Once "thoughtful, heart-wrenching, and romantic." Fans of Matched, The Handmaid's Tale, and the first two books in the Eve series will be swept away by Anna Carey's tale of romance and sacrifice in the chilling dystopia of The New America.



Eve is trapped in the City of Sand, married to a man of her father's choosing, but she can't forget her love for Caleb--or her passion for the rebel cause. When rebel armies invade the city, Eve uses her position as princess for the ultimate act of rebellion--killing her father, the king. Then tragedy strikes, and Eve must choose who to leave behind, who to save, and who to fight in this final battle for freedom.

 

 

Rise

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Wisconsin

Five vignettes, from dawn to midnight, present the dramatic dynamics of survival and competition in and around a typical North American pond, featuring such animals as a pickerel frog, water snake, and opossum.

Butternut Hollow Pond

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Linden Hawthorne

Indiana

American Horticultural Society, Expert Advice from a Trusted Name in Gardening

Offers advice on choosing plants for shady areas, preparation, planting, and care, and describes a variety of species.

Gardening in Shade

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Jonathan Poppele

Illinois

A Field Guide to the Constellations

Few activities are more peaceful and inspiring than stargazing, and this is your field guide to the night sky. Constellations are organized by season, and each entry features history, details and simple instructions for locating the constellation.

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Robert Finch; John E. Elder