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• World of Wonders

  in Praise of Whale Sharks, Fireflies, and Other Astonishments

  Nezhukumatathil, Aimee,

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  "From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us."

• The Perseverance

  Poems

  Antrobus, Raymond,

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  "In this extraordinary debut collection, award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus interrogates anger, grief, illness, vulnerability, deafness, and race through a commanding engagement with language, tongues, listening, and sound. In the wake of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Below the Edge of Darkness

  a Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

  Widder, Edith,

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  "Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life Between the Tides

  Nicolson, Adam, 1957-

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  "Adam Nicolson, the award-winning author of The Making of Poetry and The Seabird's Cry, explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist's curiosity and a poet's wonder in this beautifully illustrated book"--

• Northern Light

  Power, Land, and the Memory of Water

  Ali, Kazim, 1971-

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  "Places do not belong to us. We belong to them." The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Outlaw Ocean

  Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

  Urbina, Ian,

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  "There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and with no clear international authority, the oceans have become the setting for rampant criminality--from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Borealis

  Sabatini Sloan, Aisha,

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  Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space-- Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan's experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Earth Keeper

  Reflections on the American Land

  Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-

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  "In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why We Swim

  Tsui, Bonnie,

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  "Bonnie Tsui looks at our love affair with the water, from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races, and she goes around the world to explore its significance in many cultures."

• How to Lose Everything

  a Memoir

  Couture, Christa, 1978-

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  Disability, death and divorce are part of a string of losses that leave this award-winning musician fundamentally changed as she learns to navigate her grief and find a way forward. Christa Couture lost a piece of herself--in more ways than one.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lineage of Rain

  Pineda, Janel, 1996-

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  In this spellbinding debut, Los Angeles-born poet Janel Pineda sings of communal love and the diaspora and dreams for a liberated future.Lineage of Rain traces histories of Salvadoran migration and the US-sponsored civil war to reimagine trauma as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Muddy People

  a Muslim Coming of Age

  El Sayed, Sara,

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  "By turns heartfelt, bitingly funny, and emotionally devastating, Muddy People is not your average coming-of-age tale. I loved this memoir of a young Egyptian-Australian girl growing up Muslim. It's a clear-eyed, fierce debut; every word rings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Particulate Matter

  Lemus, Felicia Luna, 1975-

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  Particulate Matter is the story of a year in Felicia Luna Lemus's marriage when the world turned upside down. It's set in Los Angeles, and it's about love and crisis, loss and grief, the city and the ocean, ancestral ghosts and history haunting.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spirit Run

  a 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

  Álvarez, Noé,

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  Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Great Adaptations

  Star-nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

  Catania, Kenneth, 1965-

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  The irresistible enthusiasm of Great Adaptations couldn't come at a better time."--David P. Barash, Wall Street Journal "Be very amazed."--Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words and Becoming Wild How one scientist unlocked the secrets behind some of…Read moreRead more of this annotation