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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback) By Robin Wall Kimmerer $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover) By Robert M. Sapolsky $35.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback) By Rebecca Skloot $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Paperback) By Robert M. Sapolsky $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive (Hardcover) By Philipp Dettmer $35.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (Paperback) By Mary-Frances O'Connor $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Paperback) By Robert Kolker $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition (Mass Market) By Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (Introduction by) $7.95 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 Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Paperback) By Sam Kean $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover) By Ed Yong $27.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Paperback) By Richard Dawkins $21.00 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