Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
By: Alexandra Morton
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her p…
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1. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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- environment
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2. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
By: Tanya Talaga
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- canada
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
3. The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
By: Joseph Boyden
4.22
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violen… read more
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- canada
"So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes."-Joseph Boyden, The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
"I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the s…"-Joseph Boyden, The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
"But why?" Gabriel asks. "Why do they wish to cause such pain to another human?" "Why does the Spanish Inquisition do what it does?" I ask. "Why does our own Church burn witches at the stake? Why did …"-Joseph Boyden, The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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5. War of the Whales: A True Story
By: Joshua Horwitz
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Two men face off against an all-powerful navy--and the fate of the ocean's most majestic creatures … read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
9. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nature
- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
10. Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
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11. 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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- canada
"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)
12. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- ecology
- biography
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- nonfiction
- environment
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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
13. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Jessica McDiarmid
4.30
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
14. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
By: Leah Thomas
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more
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- nature
- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
15. 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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- nature
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
16. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)
By: Helen Knott
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more
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- biography
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17. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- canada
18. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
By: Caroline Van Hemert
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
19. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
By: Thor Hanson
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick *Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards … read more
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- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
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20. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
By: Helen Knott
4.31
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more
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"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir
21. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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- nonfiction
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22. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- memoir
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- nature
23. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
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24. Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
By: Josh O'Kane
3.94
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFro… read more
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- nonfiction
- canada
25. 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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"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
26. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- memoir
27. Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon
By: Alexandra Morton
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her p… read more
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- biography
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- politics
- animals
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28. Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation
By: Robert Joseph
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Re… read more
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29. Turning
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through … read more
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30. When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
By: Martin Williams
3.66
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet… read more
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- environment
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31. Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality
By: Bob Joseph
4.21
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely sequel to the bestselling 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act —and an invaluab… read more
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