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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker

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"A powerful and necessary book that looks at the threat of emerging diseases with clarity and realism, and offers us not just fear but plans."---Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and exp ...Show more

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Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

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Category: Environment

Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more

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End of Epidemics, The: How to Stop Viruses and Save Humanity Now by Fryer, Bronwyn

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Category: Health

The 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the world — and revealed how unprepared we are for the next outbreak of an infectious disease. Somewhere in nature, a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey, or pig, preparing to jump to a human being. This not-yet-detect ...Show more

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Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

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Category: Environment

Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary e ...Show more

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Surviving Autocracy by MASHA. GESSEN

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Category: Politics

"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey ...Show more

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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres

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Category: Sustainability

The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humanity. In this timely and important book, two of the principle creators of that agreement show us why and how we can now realise its' promise. I hope it is widely read and acted on' Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger o ...Show more

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Caste: The Lies That Divide us by Isabel Wilkerson

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Category: Cultural Studies

'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hi ...Show more

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Notes from an Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell

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Category: New International Non-Fiction

"Insightful, affecting, funny, and appropriately terrifying." --Sally Rooney"Harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell." --Jenny Offill By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense--and coming to grips with the future &nb ...Show more

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Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically by Stephanie Yeboah

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Category: Memoir & Biography

"The truth is, body positivity is for white women. White female bodies being safe is paramount to maintaining white supremacy."- Stephanie Yeboah, 2017Twenty-nine year-old plus-size blogger Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life. From being bullied at school to being ...Show more

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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes

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Category: Theory & Essays

'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more

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In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

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Category: Memoir & Biography

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Each ch ...Show more

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Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith

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Category: Cultural Studies

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about ...Show more

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Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker