6 must-read nonfiction books like A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition by Lorraine Johnson

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A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition

By: Lorraine Johnson

4.66

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Support biodiversity with this practical guide to creating habitat gardens for native pollinators i…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition by Lorraine Johnson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more

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2. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

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3. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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4. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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5. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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6. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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7. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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8. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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9. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

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10. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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11. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

Cover of Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) by Kate   Hilton

12. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

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13. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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14. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

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15. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

4.32

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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16. The Paris Deception

By: Bryn Turnbull

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From internationally bestselling author Bryn Turnbull comes a breathtaking novel about art theft an… read more

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17. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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18. Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World

By: Eve Rodsky

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play comes an inspirational guide for setting ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition

By: Lorraine Johnson

4.66

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Support biodiversity with this practical guide to creating habitat gardens for native pollinators i… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region by Rick Gray

20. The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region

By: Rick Gray

5.00

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

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21. My Face in the Light

By: Martha Schabas

3.51

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARD "My mother is … read more

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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