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July 05, 2021

Fox & I by Catherine Raven

July 05, 2021/ Connor Carrns
Fox & I by Catherine Raven

The memoir of an unlikely bond that forms between a solitary woman and a wild fox.

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July 05, 2021/ Connor Carrns/
Animals & Nature, Biography/Memoir
Connor Carns, Catherine Raven, Fox & I, foxes, nature, natural histry, natural history, memoir, Connor Carrns
April 03, 2021

Library of America E. O. Wilson

April 03, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
Library of America E. O. Wilson

The great naturalist E. O. Wilson gets a lovely Library of America volume.

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April 03, 2021/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist, E.O. Wilson, David Quammen, Library of America, natural history, Steve Donoghue
December 05, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Nature!

December 05, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Nature!

The category of nature has become much more relevant in the year of COVID-19.

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December 05, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Stevereads
Best Books of 2020, Nature, nature writing, White Feathers, Bernd Heinrich, Good Boy, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Being Frog, April Pulley Sayre, Becoming Wild, Carl Safina, The Nature of Fear, The Book of Eels, Daniel Blumstein, Patrik Svensson, Owls of the Eastern Ice, Jonathan Slaght, American Birds, Andrew Rubenfeld, Terry Tempest Williams, Library of America, Cat Tale, Craig Pittman, Nature Underfoot, John Hainze, Steve Donoghue, stevereads
November 24, 2020

The Gull Next Door by Marianne Taylor

November 24, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Gull Next Door by Marianne Taylor

A gull-smitten writer takes on the thankless task of defending the world’s least-liked bird.

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November 24, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
The Gull Next Door, sea gulls, natural history, herring gulls, Marianne Taylor, birds, Steve Donoghue
October 18, 2020

Phyllostomid Bats: A Unique Mammalian Radiation

October 18, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Phyllostomid Bats: A Unique Mammalian Radiation

The leaf-nosed bats of the New World get a glorious volume.

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October 18, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
Theodore Fleming, Liliana Davalos, Marco Mello, bats, natural history, nature, Steve Donoghue, University of Chicago Press
October 01, 2020

Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow

October 01, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow

A new book by the man spearheading the drive to bring beavers back to English waterways.

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October 01, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
Derek Gow, Chelsea Green Publishing, Steve Donoghue, animals, nature, environment
September 10, 2020

The Nature of Fear by Daniel Blumstein

September 10, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Nature of Fear by Daniel Blumstein

A new study looks at the extent - and the unexpected benefits - of fear in the animal kingdom.

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September 10, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Health & Psychology
Daniel Blumstein, nature, natural history, marmots, Steve Donoghue, animals
June 29, 2020

Lost Companions by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

June 29, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Lost Companions by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

The bestselling writer on the emotional relationships between humans and their pets writes a new book about the endings of those relationships.

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June 29, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Lost Companions, Reflections on the Death of Pets, animals, pets, Steve Donoghue
June 02, 2020

The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson

June 02, 2020/ Olive Fellows
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson

A new book delves into the mysteries of eels.

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June 02, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
Animals & Nature
Patrik Svensson, eels, nature writing, natural history, animals, Olive Fellows
May 30, 2020

Tornado God by Peter Thuesen

May 30, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Tornado God by Peter Thuesen

A new book looks at how American religions deal with devastating “acts of God”.

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May 30, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Religion
Peter Thuesen, weather, American history, American evangelicals, tornadoes
May 26, 2020

The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman

May 26, 2020/ Olive Fellows
The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman

Jennifer Ackerman, author of “The Genius of Birds,” returns with another book about the wonders of the avian world.

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May 26, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
Animals & Nature
Jennifer Ackerman, nature writing, birds, birding guides, Olive Fellows
April 30, 2020

What It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley

April 30, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
What It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley

David Allen Sibley’s latest bird book is a beautifully-illustrated oversized volume on the behavior of a few dozen well-known species.

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April 30, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
David Allen Sibley, birds, nature, nature writing, ornithology, Steve Donoghue
April 25, 2020

Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition)

April 25, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition)

The legendary Peterson field guide gets a long-awaited new edition.

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April 25, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
roger tory peterson, Peterson's Field Guide to Birds of North America, nature, birds, birding guides, Steve Donoghue
March 12, 2020

Reef Life by Callum Roberts

March 12, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
Reef Life by Callum Roberts

Ocean Scientist Callum Roberts visits the worlds imperiled coral reefs and talks with the people trying to save them.

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March 12, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
callum roberts, coral reefs, natural history, nature, Steve Donoghue
January 28, 2020

Cat Tale by Craig Pittman

January 28, 2020/ Olive Fellows
Cat Tale by Craig Pittman

A new book describes the long and fascinating quest to save the fabled Florida panther.

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January 28, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
Animals & Nature
craig pittman, animals, nature, Olive Fellows
December 16, 2019

The Best Books of 2019: Nature!

December 16, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2019: Nature!

And now for the annual Stevereads year-end list for the best in nature!

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December 16, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Stevereads
nature, animals, stevereads, Best of 2019, Best of Lists, Steve Donoghue
November 25, 2019

The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger

November 25, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger

An angry grizzly bear (is there any other kind?) interrupts a group of young friends on a Canadian camping trip

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November 25, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Action/Adventure, Animals & Nature
Alex Messenger, nature, animals, survival stories, Steve Donoghue, Action/Adventure
November 20, 2019

The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand

November 20, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand

Brand’s enthusiasm for foxes is brightly infectious in this slim, enchanting new book.

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November 20, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
animals, nature, Adele Brand, Steve Donoghue
October 21, 2019

Dogs by Mark Alizart

October 21, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Dogs by Mark Alizart

Monoglot dog lovers can now spend an hour basking in Alizart’s singularly Gallic combination of eloquence and hooey.

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October 21, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Nonfiction Translations, Animals & Nature
dogs, Mark Alizart, Robin McKay, French translation, nonfiction, Steve Donoghue
October 15, 2019

Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers

October 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers

A genuinely thought-provoking broad-range inquiry into the strange, elastic period between youth and adulthood in humans and animals.

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October 15, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers, Scribner, animals, Steve Donoghue
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