The Thinking Spot

The Thinking Spot is your friendly neighborhood bookstore offering books, SCIENCE and learning for ALL ages!

 

                      Store HOURS: Wednesday through Sunday 10am - 6pm, Tuesdays Noon - 6pm, Mondays - closed

 

3311 County Road 101, Suite #4, Wayzata MN 55391. 

 

We have STEM toys and puzzles for kids, beautiful note cards and notebooks, puzzles, calendars, and nature guides in addition to thousands of STEM-focused nonfiction and fiction books for Adults and Kids of all ages! And lots of space to just sit and read! 

 

Come hang out with the books OR find that one-of-a-kind gift for your loved ones!

 

As always, you can purchase any of our featured books from the list below OR any book using the search bar.

 

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The Future
The Mountain in the Sea
How High We Go in the Dark
The Tiffany Girls
The Cartographers
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
The Golden Spoon
Quantum Radio
How I Won a Nobel Prize
Dinosaurs
The Terraformers
Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein
Good News, Planet Earth: What's Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too!
The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches from Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope
Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters
A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
The Lichen Museum
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
Trees: An Illustrated Celebration
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
Ten Birds That Changed the World
The (Big) Year That Flew by: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?, the Illustrated Edition
I, Human: Ai, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...and Other Amazing Cosmic Facts
Don't Mix Up My Puppy!
Nature Stories: Little Comet-Discover an Amazing Story from the Natural World: Padded Board Book
How It Works: Digger
Bilingual Pop-Up Peekaboo! Ocean - El Océano
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth
The Octopus Escapes
Monarch Butterfly Board
Pop-Up Birds
Once Upon a Book
A Vaccine Is Like a Memory
The Museum on the Moon: The Curious Objects on the Lunar Surface
The Gentle Genius of Trees
Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular
Mother of Sharks
Great Carrier Reef
Search for a Giant Squid: Pick Your Path
Brains On! Presents...Meet My Micro-Pets!
Zigzag
A Coral Reef Story: Animal Life in Tropical Seas
Dogs: A History of Our Best Friends
Rise to the Sky: How the World's Tallest Trees Grow Up
A Field Guide to Leaflings: Guardians of the Trees
The Wonderful World of Water: From Dams to Deserts
The Last Mapmaker
Leeva at Last
The Windeby Puzzle: History and Story
The One and Only Ruby
Melt: A Breathless Adventure Story of Courage and Survival in a Warming Climate
Greenwild: The World Behind the Door
The Eyes and the Impossible
Megalops: A Sharks Incorporated Novel
Wrecker
A Horse Named Sky
Wayward Creatures
The Lost Library
Smithsonian Kids Dinosaur Guidebook & Projector
Inside Out Human Brain: Explore Inside Your Body's Super Computer
The Chemistry of Disgusting Things
Backpack Explorer: Rock Hunt: What Will You Find?
See Inside How Things Work
The National Parks Scavenger Hunt: A Family-Friendly Way to Explore All 63 Parks
Hands-On Science: Matter
Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children's Love for Everything Wild
All about Maps Amazing Activity Book: Fun Facts, Mazes, Games, and Brain Teasers
Factology: The Human Body: Open Up a World of Information!
Would You Rather? Box Set: 3 Book Bundle for Ages 8-12 (Perfect Christmas Gift and Stocking Stuffer for Kids)
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day (a Graphic Novel)
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids: Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Ecologists, Past and Present; With 25 Illustrated Bi
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
The Bones of Birka: Unraveling the Mystery of a Female Viking Warrior
The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change
Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition): How You Can Save the World in Your Own Yard
Smart: Use Your Eyes to Boost Your Brain (Adapted from the New York Times Bestseller Visual Intelligence) (Reprint)
The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution
The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code (Reprint)
The Botany of Desire Young Readers Edition: Our Surprising Relationship with Plants
Packing for Mars for Kids