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| Title | Fathoms | Author | Giggs, Rebecca | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781982120702 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 352 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. |
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| Title | The Code Breaker | Author | Isaacson, Walter | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781982115869 | US Price | $20.99 | CDN Price | $27.99 | Pages | 560 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. |
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| Title | The End of Everything | Author | Mack, Katie | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Science | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781982103552 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 256 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AN NPR SCIENCE FRIDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, and THE GUARDIAN From the cohost of the podcast The Universe with John Green and one of the most dynamic stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” (The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. |
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| Title | Extraordinary Insects | Author | Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Science | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781982112882 | US Price | $18 | CDN Price | $25 | Pages | 256 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| This enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we could not survive without them is “a joy” (The Times, London) and “charming...Highlighting them in all their buzzing, stinging, biting glory” (The New York Times Book Review). |
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| Title | A Lab of One's Own | Author | Colwell, PhD, Rita | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781501181290 | US Price | $17.99 | CDN Price | $24.99 | Pages | 288 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| A “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system. |
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| Title | The Language of Butterflies | Author | Williams, Wendy | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781501178078 | US Price | $17 | CDN Price | $23 | Pages | 256 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| In this “deeply personal and lyrical book” (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures—the butterfly—shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives. |
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| Title | The Math of Life and Death | Author | Yates, Kit | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Mathematics | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781982111885 | US Price | $17.99 | CDN Price | $24.99 | Pages | 288 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Brilliant and entertaining mathematician Kit Yates illuminates seven mathematical concepts that shape our daily lives. |
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| Title | One Giant Leap | Author | Fishman, Charles | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | History | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781501106309 | US Price | $18 | CDN Price | $25 | Pages | 512 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission. |
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| Title | The Soul of an Octopus | Author | Montgomery, Sy | Sub-Imprint | Washington Square Press | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Nature | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781451697728 | US Price | $18.99 | CDN Price | $25.99 | Pages | 272 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. |
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| Title | The Tangled Tree | Author | Quammen, David | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | Format | Paperback | Category 1 | Science | | | | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781476776637 | US Price | $19.99 | CDN Price | $26.99 | Pages | 480 | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history. |
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