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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe (Hardcover) By Aomawa Shields, PhD $28.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy (Hardcover) By Moiya McTier $27.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback) By Neil deGrasse Tyson $15.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (Paperback) By Lisa Randall $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Stars and Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and Solar System - Updated and Expanded Edition (Princeton Field Guides #114) (Paperback) By Ian Ridpath, Wil Tirion $22.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover) By Scott Kelly $29.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
A Peterson Field Guide To Stars And Planets (Peterson Field Guides) (Paperback) By Jay M. Pasachoff, Professor $24.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Backyard Astronomer’s Field Guide: How to Find the Best Objects the Night Sky has to Offer (Paperback) By David Dickinson $21.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog (Paperback) By Chad Orzel $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World (Hardcover) By David Baron $27.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books) (Hardcover) By Stephen Petranek $16.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Space Exploration—A History in 100 Objects (Hardcover) By Sten Odenwald, John Mather (Foreword by) $25.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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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