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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Paperback) By Sy Montgomery $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods (Paperback) By Danna Staaf $15.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Ocean: A Photicular Book (Hardcover) By Dan Kainen, Carol Kaufmann $26.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Sharks (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) (Paperback) By Andrea Gibson, Robin Carter (Illustrator) $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone (Hardcover) By Juli Berwald $31.05 Contact us to check availability or search our used and rare book site at www.findbooks.com	Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Paperback) By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adrienne Maree Brown (Foreword by) $15.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature: A Visual Masterpiece of the Natural World (Hardcover) By Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Glitsch (Illustrator), Ernst Haeckel (Illustrator) $48.09 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark (Hardcover) By Greg Skomal, Ret Talbot $29.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature: A Visual Masterpiece of the Natural World (Paperback) By Adolf Glitsch (Illustrator), Ernst Haeckel $32.49 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses (Hardcover) By David Scheel, Laurel "Yoyo" Scheel (Illustrator) $28.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner) (Paperback) By Nathaniel Philbrick $18.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life (Hardcover) By Helen Scales, Marcel George (Illustrator) $24.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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Science Friday Book Club

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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