The Tulip
By: Anna Pavord
3.41
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 …
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1. The Mansion
By: Henry Van Dyke , Elizabeth Shippen Green
4.16
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money … read more
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"… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice."-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"Like any good optimist, I don’t expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did."-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness.…"-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"… they are beating their brains out against one of the foundation rocks of our national character itself. Which is the premise that politics and political office are not and never have been the metho…"-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
2. From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
By: Amy Stewart
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She wanted a garden. When she and her husband finished graduate sc… read more
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- horticulture
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stre…"-Amy Stewart, From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
3. Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Joan Druett
4.05
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
4. A Princess of Mars / Gods of Mars / Warlord of Mars / Thuvia, Maid of Mars / Chessmen of Mars / Master Mind of Mars / Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom #1-7)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , J. Allen St. John
4.04
Format: 1167 pages, Kindle Edition
When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona dessert, he wakes up on the plan… read more
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"The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to hav…"-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars / Gods of Mars / Warlord of Mars / Thuvia, Maid of Mars / Chessmen of Mars / Master Mind of Mars / Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom #1-7)
5. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- science
6. Desert Terroir: Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderland
By: Gary Paul Nabhan
3.60
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history--ecological, cultural… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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8. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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- historical
9. Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
By: Cynthia Barnett
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and pain… read more
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- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
10. Amsterdam
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more
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11. Waverley
By: Walter Scott
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Waverleyis set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in… read more
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12. Tulip Fever
By: Deborah Moggach
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze wi… read more
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13. Plant Them Deep
By: Aimée Thurlo , David Thurlo
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Medicine men and members of the Plant Watchers society report that sacred healing plants are disapp… read more
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14. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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15. Travels With My Aunt
By: Graham Greene
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more
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16. The Language of Flowers
By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weave… read more
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17. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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18. The Camel Club (Camel Club, #1)
By: David Baldacci
4.24
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Existing at the fringes of Washington D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a m… read more
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19. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
By: Erik Larson
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more
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20. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
By: Gretchen Rubin
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
21. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- history
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
22. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
23. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
24. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
By: Matthew Gabriele
3.65
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
25. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.20
Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more
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26. The Tulip
By: Anna Pavord
3.41
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 … read more
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- art
- history
- historical
- horticulture
- natural history
- gardening
- plants
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
27. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
28. The Nutmeg Trail: A Culinary Journey Along the Ancient Spice Route
By: Eleanor Ford
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Interwoven with divine recipes and stories, Eleanor Ford’s latest cookbook The Nutmeg Trail is a fa… read more
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- history
29. American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
By: Victoria Johnson
4.03
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson R… read more
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- gardening
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30. A Natural History of the Hedgerow
By: John Wright
3.87
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
This is a guide to hedgerows past and present. John Wright describes their origins and long history… read more
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31. The Ancient Tea Horse Road: Travels With the Last of the Himalayan Muleteers
By: Jeff Fuchs
4.05
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
"If a cup of tea isn't offered, a relationship isn't offered." -Himalayan saying For thirteen c… read more
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- history
