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Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Orphan Anne Shirley has always relied on her imagination to help her. Now she is being sent to Avonlea to …

The reenchantment of nature: the denial of religion and the ecological crisis by Alister E. McGrath

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes, Bryan Sykes

"In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the …

The diversity of life by Edward O. Wilson (Questions of science)

What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a book about natural history …

Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould

What would the world have been like, if George Bailey of "It's A Wonderful Life" hadn't been born?

George …

The red queen by Matt Ridley

1493: uncovering the new world Columbus created by Charles C. Mann

From the author of 1491 -- the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas -- a deeply engaging new history of …

Endless forms most beautiful by Sean B. Carroll

The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

For better science students, this is a collection of 31 essays on natural history.

The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory …

Trilobite by Richard Fortey

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and …

The return of the prodigal son by Henri J. M. Nouwen

The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen