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Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River by John Fleck, Eric Kuhn

Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

John Fleck, Eric Kuhn

8 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction science informative medium-paced
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction feminism health history informative reflective medium-paced
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Christian Cooper

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir nature race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Camille T. Dungy

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir nature race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Bad Cree

Jessica Johns

259 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
fiction horror literary magical realism dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

290 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

Chemistry for Breakfast: The Amazing Science of Everyday Life

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction science funny informative lighthearted fast-paced
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail

We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

Dahr Jamail

13 hours, 38 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction nature race emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

7 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Whiskey Tender

Deborah Jackson Taffa

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0linda_elaine's review
nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective fast-paced