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Nonfiction books about seashells and animals that reside in them (mollusks) and other critters that you can find at the beach
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The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
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Ian Cox (editor)
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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A Natural History of Shells
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What A Shell Can Tell
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Shells of the World: A Natural History
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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Tears of Mermaids
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Stephen G. Bloom (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Diamond Dust (Poems From the Black Sea) Volume I
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Anca Ioviţă (Goodreads Author)
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Florida's Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber
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4.53 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Newberry: The Life and Times of a Maine Clam
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4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Kingdom Of The Seashell
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3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Diamond Dust (Poems From the Black Sea) Volume II
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Anca Ioviţă (Goodreads Author)
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Diamond Dust (Poems From the Black Sea) Volume III
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Anca Ioviţă (Goodreads Author)
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Searching for Seashells: An Artist's Guide to Treasures on the Beach
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4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Civilization And The Limpet
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Diamond Dust (Poems From the Black Sea) Volume IV
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Anca Ioviţă (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Seashells (First Book)
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The Edge of the Sea
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4.19 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Diamond Dust (Poems From the Black Sea) Volume V
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Anca Ioviţă (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Seashell Towns
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Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
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Lisa-Ann Gershwin (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Walking Sideways: The Remarkable World of Crabs
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3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 94,
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Life Between the Tides
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Fire In The Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean
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4.26 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
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Carl Safina (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
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Crabs: A Global Natural History
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4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor
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3.90 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Lives of Seaweeds: A Natural History of Our Planet's Seaweeds and Other Algae
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An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed
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4.47 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Sea Around Us
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4.17 avg rating — 4,929 ratings
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Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book)
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Life & Love of the Sea
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The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
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4.36 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Oceanology: The Secrets of the Sea Revealed
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4.35 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells
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4.48 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species
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4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Other Minds
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Seasons of the Sea
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist
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3.84 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
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Carl Safina (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 945 ratings
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The Unnatural History of the Sea
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4.33 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Florida's Fabulous Seashells: And Other Seashore Life
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4.53 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Oyster: A World History
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The Ocean World
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Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
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3.80 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
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Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
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Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
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4.34 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life
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Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates
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4.44 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed
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Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia
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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
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The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
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Danna Staaf (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean
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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
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3.90 avg rating — 898 ratings
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Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish
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Jellyfish: A Natural History
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Lisa-Ann Gershwin (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 154 ratings
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A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder
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Coming to Pass: Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
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The Secrets of Sand: A Journey into the Amazing Microscopic World of Sand
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Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere
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The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World
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Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species
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Craig Pittman (Goodreads Author)
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Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe
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