Cacophony of Bone
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway…
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1. If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
By: Sharon Blackie
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our stream… read more
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- ireland
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"Menopause is not a medical condition, it is an earthquake, shaking us to our deepest foundations, wiping out the edifices we've so carefully constructed on what we once imagined to be the solid groun…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
"If women remember that once upon a time we sand with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
2. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
3. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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5. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
7. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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8. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
9. Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky
By: Caro Giles
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Nor… read more
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10. George: A Magpie Memoir
By: Frieda Hughes
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more
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"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir
11. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
12. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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- nature
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
13. Let the Light Pour In
By: Lemn Sissay
3.67
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more
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14. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
15. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
16. Drifts
By: Kate Zambreno
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more
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17. The Instant
By: Amy Liptrot
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more
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"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
18. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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19. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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20. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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21. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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22. Year in Practice
By: Jacqueline Suskin
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“If you’re looking to get still, turn inward, and learn to trust your voice, this is the book for y… read more
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23. Cacophony of Bone
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway… read more
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- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- nature
24. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more
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"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
25. Handiwork
By: Sara Baume
4.17
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily proc… read more
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26. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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27. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
By: Amy-Jane Beer
4.10
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more
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- memoir
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"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness
28. Constellations
By: Sinéad Gleeson
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, … read more
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- ireland
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"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"The pregnant body is not solely its owner's domain. In gestating another person you become public property."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Hair has been used to define women racially, sexually, religiously. It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, fuckability"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
29. Winter Solstice: An Essay
By: Nina MacLaughlin
4.25
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neigh… read more
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30. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
By: Hannah Stowe
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than part … read more
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31. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
By: Sara Glass
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more
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