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Life: The First Four Billion Years: The Story of Life from the Big Bang to the Evolution of Humans by Martin Jenkins

Life: The First Four Billion Years: The Story of Life from the Big Bang to the Evolution of Humans

Martin Jenkins

80 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction middle grade science informative slow-paced
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer

Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Andrea Pitzer

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

Meg Lowman

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

496 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder

Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Edith Widder

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir science adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

Richard Lloyd Parry

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective sad slow-paced
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began

Valerie Hansen

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters by Max Hardberger

Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters

Max Hardberger

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir adventurous medium-paced
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith

Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World

Laurence C. Smith

356 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative slow-paced
The Mountains of Saint Francis : Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped our Earth by Walter Álvarez

The Mountains of Saint Francis : Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped our Earth

Walter Álvarez

304 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced