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Silent Spring (Paperback) By Rachel Carson $17.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Paperback) By Elizabeth Kolbert $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis (Hardcover) By Annie Proulx $26.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (Hardcover) By Cal Flyn $27.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Paperback) By Ed Yong $20.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Backordered	Werner's Nomenclature of Colours;Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts (Hardcover) By Patrick Syme $41.59 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover) By Ed Yong $30.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants (Hardcover) By Fez Inkwright $16.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback) By Thomas J. Elpel $36.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Ten Birds That Changed the World (Hardcover) By Stephen Moss $30.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Paperback) By Thomas Halliday $22.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Paperback) By Ben Goldfarb $17.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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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