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A True Story
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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by Chloe Dalton
Published Mar 2026
Read ReviewsA moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
by Peter Heller
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip - a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence.
by Porochista Khakpour
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsA powerful, beautifully rendered memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery.
by Fredrik Sjoberg
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg's life collecting hoverflies on a remote island in Sweden
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA consideration of all things paper: Entertaining, illuminating, irresistible, a book that masterfully guides us through paper's inseparability from human culture.
by Dr. Nick Trout
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsTender, wry, and ruminative, Ever By My Side is a tribute to the power and beauty of ordinary life and a celebration of how pets make it all the sweeter and richer.
by Roger Rosenblatt
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsWhen his daughter, Amy, died suddenly of a heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. His story tells how a family makes the possible out of the impossible.
by Stacey O'Brien
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsWhen biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing, she knew he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild, so gave him a permanent home living with her. This is the funny, poignant story of their two decades together.
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
Read Reviews'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsTimothy explores the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animals own sensibility and his deeply empathetic relation to the world around him.
by Christopher Reeve
Published Jun 1999
Read ReviewsThe determined, passionate story of one man, and how he and his family came to grips with the kind of devastating, unexplainable shock that fate can bring to any of us.
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Published Jun 1998
Read ReviewsBauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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