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As Heard on NPR's This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book that celebrates ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers and the author of Inciting Joy

suddenly shut Whisperwood’s gates and the beloved park was left to wither away along with the family’s dwindling fortune

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Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places Valentine Seasonal and marks the arrival ofJourney through Earths most extreme, seemingly hostile environmentsand marvel at the remarkable creatures that call them home. From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear hostile to lifeyet where, nevertheless, life flourishes. In North American forests, wood frogs awaken each spring from solid blocks of ice. Under the Saharan sun,