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From environmental disasters to apocalyptic events, these reads are sure to shake you.

Gnomon : a novel

Anthem : a novel

The memory police : a novel

A children's bible : a novel

Red clocks : a novel

Body of stars : a novel

Alexandria : a novel

The city inside

36 righteous men

The seed of Cain

The great transition : a novel

Survivor song : a novel

American war : a novel

Deal with the Devil : a Mercenary Librarians novel

They will drown in their mothers' tears

The blood of angels

On the isle of Antioch

The Sky-Blue Wolves

Midnight, Water City

Dead astronauts

Miseducation : how climate change is taught in America

The heat will kill you first : life and death on a scorched planet

Between urban and wild : reflections from Colorado

Braiding sweetgrass

Are we screwed? : how a new generation is fighting to survive climate change

Speed & scale : an action plan for solving our climate crisis now

How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need

The water will come : rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world

Imaginary borders

Sightlines : a conversation with the natural world

Odyssey : young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the voyage that changed the world

Deep nature : photographs from Iowa

The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change

This America of ours : Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the forgotten fight to save the wild

Archives of joy : reflections on animals and the nature of being

On the wild edge : in search of a natural life

Paradise falls : the true story of an environmental catastrophe

Disasterology : dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis

Behind the curve : science and the politics of global warming

Fire season : field notes from a wilderness lookout

A question of power : electricity and the wealth of nations

The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness, and greed

How to read nature : awaken your senses to the outdoors you've never noticed : taste direction, smell time, hear the weather, and more

Coming to land in a troubled world : essays

Woman, watching : Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the songbirds of Pimisi Bay

The great pivot : creating meaningful work to build a sustainable future

Energy's digital future : harnessing innovation for American resilience and national security

Global warming 101

Untamed : the wildest woman in America and the fight for Cumberland Island

When women were birds : fifty-four variations on voice

Reminders of him : a novel

Confess : a novel

The two lives of Lydia Bird : a novel

Losing hope : a novel

Swim back to me

It ends with us

After we collided

Maybe someday : a novel

The probability of Violet and Luke

One night on the island

After ever happy

The two lives of Lydia Bird : a novel

Maybe not : a novella

One day in December : a novel

One day in December : a novel

The redemption of Callie & Kayden

The children's crusade : a novel

When you love a true story, well told

Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive

Heist : the oddball crew behind the $17 million Loomis Fargo theft

The dressmaker of Khair Khana : five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe

The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece

The sixth extinction : an unnatural history

Mike Nichols : a life

The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust

Ruthless tide : the heroes and villains of the Johnstown flood, America's astonishing gilded age disaster

The last goodnight : a World War II story of espionage, adventure, and betrayal

The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia

The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War

The deepest South of all : true stories from Natchez, Mississippi

Running away to home : our family's journey to Croatia in search of who we are, where we came from, and what really matters

Public enemies : [America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-34]

A night to remember

Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall

Girl in the dark : a memoir

Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial

Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"

A brave and cunning prince : the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America

Architecture's odd couple : Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States

Return to the Reich : a Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis

Father of lions : one man's remarkable quest to save the Mosul Zoo

Orange is the new black : my year in a women's prison

I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer

The Auschwitz photographer : the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls

The spymaster of Baghdad : a true story of bravery, family, and patriotism in the battle against ISIS

Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated woman

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