The Eighty-Dollar Champion
Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation
Written by Elizabeth Letts

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $1.99

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Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he...

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Into Thin Air

Written by Jon Krakauer

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 12, 1998
Price: $11.99

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner)... Read more >

Wave

Written by Sonali Deraniyagala

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She...

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1491 (Second Edition)
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $12.99

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
 
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of...

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The Botany of Desire
A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Written by Michael Pollan

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $11.99

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once... Read more >

Animal Wise
The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Written by Virginia Morell

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $12.99

Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.
 
   Did you know that ants teach, earthworms make decisions, rats love to be tickled, and chimps grieve?  Did you know that... Read more >

Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Written by Carl Sagan

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2012
Price: $7.99

Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen... Read more >

The Wave
In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
Written by Susan Casey

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $9.99

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,  ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis­missed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws... Read more >

The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $11.99

It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >

The One-Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
Written by Masanobu Fukuoka
Preface by Wendell Berry
Afterword by Masanobu Fukuoka
Translated by Larry Korn
Introduction by Frances Moore Lappe

Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2010
Price: $15.95

Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man... Read more >