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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

by Amanda Berry

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

by Greg Melville (Goodreads Author)

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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

by Mark Harris (Goodreads Author)

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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman

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But a torrent of recent findings have pointed to major declines in the abundance and species diversity of insects in places around the world. Seemingly without cause they are crashing, their numbers thinning out at astonishing rates at ...more

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“We all came from the sea once, and therefore anyone wishing to understand life on this planet has to first understand the sea.”
― Patrik Svensson, The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

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“Life is a constant, merciless fight that everyone loses.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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“Most spores can’t germinate in the leafy carpet of their own parents”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

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“You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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