The Immortals

6 best books like The Immortals (Amit Chaudhuri): Flights, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Celestial Bodies, It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella, Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science, 100 Heartbeats: A Journey to Meet Our Planet's Endangered Animals and the Heroes Working to Save Them

Flights
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525534199
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
AuthorRichard Louv
ISBN1565125223
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
Celestial Bodies
AuthorJokha Alharthi
ISBN1948226944
Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated...
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
AuthorSeth
An Acknowledged Classic returns gorgeously re-designed.

In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken--one of the best-selling D & Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his...
AuthorCarol Kaesuk Yoon
ISBN0393061973
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science: the field of scientific classification, or taxonomy. Yet, in spite of Linnaeus’s pioneering...
AuthorJeff Corwin
ISBN1605298476

It’s no secret that our planet—and the delicate web of ecosystems that comprise it—is in crisis. Environmental threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and land degradation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species each day. In 100 Heartbeats, conservationist...
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