Yarn Works: How Anyone Can Spin, Dye, and Create Their Own Yarn
By: Wendy J. Johnson
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Yarn Works: How Anyone Can Spin, Dye, and Create Their Own Yarn provides crafters with everything t…
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1. Learn to Spin with Anne Field: Spinning Basics
By: Anne Field
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An invaluable resource for the novice spinner, from internationally acclaimed spinner and weaver, t… read more
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- nonfiction
- knitting
2. Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn
By: Maggie Casey
4.17
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
For knitters, crocheters, and weavers ready to make their own yarn, this handy guide provides detai… read more
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- art
- knitting
- nonfiction
- reference
- crafts
3. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more
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"I love whom I love."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
4. The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
By: Jonathan Stroud
4.24
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty ye… read more
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",,Plenty of time for a cup of tea. Then we find ourselves a ghost."-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
"I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession."-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
"His dark eyes sparkled as he looked into mine. In that instant it was as if nothing in the world fascinated him as much as me."-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
"Я багато що побачила в Кумб-Кері-Голлі цієї ночі, але ця квола посмішка на старечих лютих вустах була найстрашнішим з видовищ."-Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
5. The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting
By: Clara Parkes
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, … read more
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- crafts
- nonfiction
- knitting
6. Respect the Spindle
By: Abby Franquemont
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle rem… read more
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- art
- knitting
- nonfiction
- reference
- crafts
7. Once Upon a Knit: 28 Grimm and Glamorous Fairy-Tale Projects
By: Genevieve Miller
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Iconic fairy-tale characters from storybooks, movies, and television inspire this collection of mag… read more
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- reference
- nonfiction
- knitting
8. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all b… read more
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9. The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3)
By: Jonathan Stroud
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout… read more
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10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
11. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
By: Cait Flanders
3.47
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the co… read more
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- nonfiction
"I wanted to be surrounded by those who valued living over working, Spending time outdoors over spending time online, and doing things for themselves over paying for every possible convenience"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"Stuff I purchased with every intention of using, but only because I told myself it would somehow help. I wasn't good enough, but this stuff would make me better. I wanted to read, wear, and do everyt…"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"I couldn't ever blame them for trying to get me to shop with them or ship for myself or simply enjoy my money - this was a behavior many people learned and exhibited in all kinds of circumstances in …"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
12. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- nonfiction
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
13. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
14. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
15. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
16. Cat + Gamer, Volume 1
By: Wataru Nadatani
4.18
Format: 200 pages, None
Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life … read more
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17. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
18. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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19. The House Witch 1 (The House Witch, #1)
By: Delemhach
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
A heartwarming and humorous blend of fantasy, romance, and mystery featuring a witch with domestic … read more
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"Your names aren’t ridiculous, my lord—"-Delemhach, The House Witch 1 (The House Witch, #1)
"You look as lonely and out of place as I feel."-Delemhach, The House Witch 1 (The House Witch, #1)
"Goodbye, Kip. May we never have to speak again."-Delemhach, The House Witch 1 (The House Witch, #1)
"I cannot change these things. So I must focus on what can be done."-Delemhach, The House Witch 1 (The House Witch, #1)
20. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- nonfiction
- knitting
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
21. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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22. Wild Sign (Alpha & Omega, #6)
By: Patricia Briggs
4.51
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham must discover what could make an entire community … read more
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"He is very good at blending in, my father-in-law. But don't mistake him for anything but a ruthless bastard."-Patricia Briggs, Wild Sign (Alpha & Omega, #6)
"Anna was pretty sure no one else at the table believed the cold relationship Bran and Leah had was a good thing. It wasn't abusive - not quite. Not physically abusive, anyway. But Anna would have las…"-Patricia Briggs, Wild Sign (Alpha & Omega, #6)
23. Yarn Works: How Anyone Can Spin, Dye, and Create Their Own Yarn
By: Wendy J. Johnson
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Yarn Works: How Anyone Can Spin, Dye, and Create Their Own Yarn provides crafters with everything t… read more
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- knitting
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- reference
- crafts
24. Knit Hats with Woolly Wormhead: Styles for the Whole Family
By: Woolly Wormhead
4.36
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
International hat-knitting icon Woolly Wormhead is known for her unique, innovative hat designs and… read more
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- nonfiction
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