Browse Books: Nature / Animals

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Paperback) By Elisabeth Tova Bailey $14.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (Paperback) By James Herriot $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Butterflies and Moths: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) (Paperback) By Robert T. Mitchell, Herbert S. Zim, Andre Durenceau (Illustrator) $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover) By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator) $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	On Animals (Paperback) By Susan Orlean $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great and Small) (Paperback) By James Herriot $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (All Creatures Great and Small) (Paperback) By James Herriot $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Lord God Made Them All (All Creatures Great and Small) (Paperback) By James Herriot $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Nursery Earth: The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World (Hardcover) By Danna Staaf, Richard Strathmann (Foreword by) $27.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion--Surprising Observations of a Hidden World (Hardcover) By Peter Wohlleben, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Foreword by), Jane Billinghurst (Translator) $24.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback) By Frans de Waal $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback) By Frans de Waal $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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Science Friday Book Club

Listeners to NPR's Science Friday may know that the program also has a monthly book club, with recommendations each month.

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November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong