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Berwin delivers a bang-up debut packed with adventure, betrayal, love and, naturally, rare plants. New York ad woman Lila Nova, increasingly disillusioned with her job and the city, becomes enchanted by a handsome guy selling plants at a green market.

An incrementally violent confrontation develops between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands, and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures.

In this utterly enchanting book, food writer Carpenter chronicles with generosity and grace her experiences as an urban farmer.

When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight.

With great care, attention to the scientific evidence and a wonderfully accessible style, Coyne, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago, presents an overwhelming case for evolution.

A group of graduate students accepts work with a mysterious biotech company in Hawaii, only to be abandoned in a treacherous wilderness when they discover their employer’s dark agenda.

Searching for the remains of an extinct bird that had once been in the collection of eighteenth-century naturalist Joseph Banks, Fitz, a modern-day conservationist, uncovers some of the mysteries of Banks’s life.

The authors recount the adventures, mythmaking, and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system, and the enduring ideals that fostered its growth.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist French goes behind the scenes at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo in this absorbing and balanced account that reveals extinction, conservation, and captivity issues in all their moral complexities and features a very memorable cast.

In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems.

Stranded in a frigid mountain wilderness after a plane crash, a gifted surgeon and a young magazine writer are forced to rely on each other for survival while confronting painful truths about their personal lives.

A researcher for a pharmaceutical company journeys into the heart of the Amazon delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years – a dangerous assignment that forces her to confront the ghosts of her past.

Neve Halloran and her teenage daughter, Mickey, struggle to build a new life amid the harsh beauty of a wildlife sanctuary in Rhode Island’s South County.

After losing their parents, the Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor.

This claustrophobic and pulse-pounding narrative follows two of the world’s premier cavers – an American and a Ukrainian – as they race to explore Earth’s deepest caves.

Outside a remote village in Russia’s far-East, a team is dispatched to hunt down a vicious man-eating tiger. John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative non-fiction that combines a riveting portrait of a mysterious region of the world with natural history of nature’s most deadly predator.