The Imperfect Environmentalist
A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and Saving the Earth (Without Losing Your Mind)
Written by Sara Gilbert

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 13, 2013
Price: $18.00

Actress, producer, mother, and imperfect environmentalist, Sara Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery bags? Fortunately, we now know... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $16.00

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

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and... Read more >

Sand County Almanac

Written by Aldo Leopold

Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1986
Price: $7.99

"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle

These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our... Read more >

All That the Rain Promises and More
A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
Written by David Arora

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1991
Price: $17.99

Full-color illustrated guide to identifying 200 Western mushrooms by their key features. Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $16.00

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
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...

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Sixth Edition

Written by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $27.95

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 6th Edition contains the most all-new material since the first edition was published more than 25 years ago. The latest edition will include 300 new art figures; unique subspecies maps never before seen in a field guide; extensive migration information overlaid... Read more >

Mushrooms Demystified

Written by David Arora

Format: Trade Paperback, 1056 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1986
Price: $39.99

Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner's checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushrooms, plus detailed chapters on terminology... Read more >

National Geographic Angry Birds
50 True Stories of the Fed Up, Feathered, and Furious
Written by Mel White
Foreword by Peter Vesterbacka

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.95

"If playing Angry Birds has suddenly turned you into a bird lover, you’ll want to get your talons on the latest book National Geographic Angry Birds: 50 True Stories of the Fed Up, Feathered and Furious." --geekstyleguide.com

This hilariously eye-popping book showcases real-world angry birds and 50 fantastic stories peppered with tips... Read more >

Walden
Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2004
Price: $10.95

First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and... Read more >

Wave

Written by Sonali Deraniyagala

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.00

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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