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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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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, Mit, and the Fight for Women in Science
Breaking Through: My Life in Science
Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna's Double Helix
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
In the Shadow of Man
Silent Spring (Anniversary)
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Lab Girl: A Memoir
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World
She Can Stem: 50 Trailblazing Women in Science from Ancient History to Today - Includes Hands-On Activities Exploring Science, Techn
Shining Star: Vera Rubin Discovers Dark Matter
Reaching for the Moon
Taking Off: Airborne with Mary Wilkins Ellis
How to Hear the Universe: Gaby González and the Search for Einstein's Ripples in Space-Time
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor Volume 4
ADA Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life
Queen of Leaves: The Story of Botanist Ynes Mexia
Swimming with Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark
Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention
The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made of
When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex
Ellen Takes Flight: The Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
Always Looking Up: Nancy Grace Roman, Astronomer
Elon Musk
We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too)
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases--And What We Can Do about It
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins--From Spices to Vices
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love
Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World
Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
The Curious Human Knee
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos (Original)
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, Mit, and the Fight for Women in Science
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
The Lichen Museum
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
The Nix
Bewilderment
The Future
How I Won a Nobel Prize
When Women Were Dragons
The Immortal King Rao
The Mountain in the Sea
The City We Became
Users
The Tiffany Girls
How High We Go in the Dark
A Wolf Called Wander
Hatchet (Reissue)
The Lost Library
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
See You in the Cosmos
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
The Forgetting Machine
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
A Bird Will Soar
Freewater (Newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner)
Da Vinci's Cat
Once Upon a Camel (Reprint)
The Last Mapmaker
Always, Clementine
Flush
Big Ideas for Little Environmentalists: Restoration with Wangari Maathai
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath
Lewis Latimer: A Brilliant Inventor (Bright Minds)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
Mae Among the Stars
Reaching for the Moon
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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