23 Top nonfiction books like Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life by Annie Daly

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Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

By: Annie Daly

4.34

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

ALOHA (love) • 'ĀINA (land) • MO'OLELO (stories) • 'OHANA (family) DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HA…

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1. Honolulu

By: Alan Brennert

4.08

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city. "In … read more

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  • cultural
"Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

"Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest."

-Alan Brennert, Honolulu

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2. Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

By: Lucy Knisley

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

When cartoonist Lucy Knisley and her boyfriend John broke up, Lucy wondered if she would ever find … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
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3. What the Dead Know

By: Laura Lippman

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and th… read more

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"Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being."

-Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

"Her classmates were gossiping their way into adolescence, literally and figuratively."

-Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

"Talking about the characters in a book she had enjoyed felt like gossiping about friends."

-Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

"He gave her his best smile. He loved women who brought him food. Even when they were plain and unattractive, like this dumpy, pockmarked girl, he loved them."

-Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

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4. This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

By: Melody Warnick

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #… read more

Similar categories in Melody Warnick's This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Magical Thinking: True Stories

By: Augusten Burroughs

4.26

Format: 192 pages,

From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming… read more

Similar categories in Augusten Burroughs's Magical Thinking: True Stories book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
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6. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

By: Liliuokalani

3.17

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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8. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Stanley Blair's Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
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9. Hotel Laguna

By: Nicola Harrison

3.80

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, Hazel Francis left Wichita, Kansas for California, determined to do her part for the war e… read more

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10. Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

By: Alan Brennert

4.12

Format: 309 pages, ebook

This companion tale to Moloka'i tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantine… read more

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"We are together, all else can be endured."

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"Let the things of long ago drift away on the water"

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"Her grief was a storm, a driving rain falling too fast to be absorbed"

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

"There might be more to the universe than any one religion could explain."

-Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)

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11. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It takes courage to live through heartbreak. Breathing is n o small feat"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"I will stretch my hands up to the sky, to say, “I am afraid but I will try,"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"While we are trying to make sense of things, may we learn to make peace with things."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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12. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

By: Jessica Grose

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Grose's Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
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13. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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14. 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

By: Annabel Streets

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walkin… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Streets's 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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15. Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii

By: T.W. Neal

4.36

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

Für Fans vom Schloss aus Glas und Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss kommt Krimi- Autorin Toby Nea… read more

Similar categories in T.W. Neal's Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
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16. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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17. Hula

By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in Hilo, Hawai'i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that u… read more

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"We used to grow taro, bananas, sweet potato. Now we grew headstones. The only remaining place where Hawaiians were still a majority was in the cemetery. We were a species on the brink of extinction."

-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula

"In Hilo, we are the `āina. Its mist is our breath, its rain our tears, its waters our blood. Our veins run deep, our song louder than their noise. Roots too deep to extract. That’s the thing about hu…"

-Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Hula

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18. Local

By: Jessica Machado

3.66

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is an… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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19. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

By: Shawn Levy

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more

Similar categories in Shawn Levy's The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
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20. The Incomplete Book of Running

By: Peter Sagal

3.86

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s beloved show Wait Wait..Don’t Tell Me and a popular columnist for Ru… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Perhaps you would like to start running. You never have tried before, or you did and you hated it, and now you wonder how to begin moving in a way that will keep you going. Get up. Start. Go. Move. T…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

"If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands a…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

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21. Edgewood

By: Kristen Ciccarelli

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

No matter how far she runs, the forest of Edgewood always comes for Emeline Lark. The scent of damp… read more

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"Emeline's attendants fluttered like moths as they dressed her, oblivious to her unhappiness. They helped her into a midnight-blue gown with two glittering cicada wings stitched down the back in gold …"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

"With her hand tucked into his elbow, Rooke led Emeline down halls awash in the golden hues of sunset. Vases bordering the windows sprouted green pine boughs and branches of bright red sumac. As Emeli…"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

"In its place rested a flower. A white anemone, pretty as a star. What the...? Emeline pinched the flower's stem between her fingers and plucked it out from beneath her stool. Light caught in the tran…"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

"A tiny orb rested in the center of the pale green pillowcase. She picked it up. The orb was smaller than a marble, but bigger than a pearl, and it was unnaturally cold to the touch. Opal-like colors …"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

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22. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

By: Amy Kenny

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Little Book of Sloth Philosophy

By: Jennifer McCartney

3.92

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

Relax, unwind and soak up the wisdom of the sloth with the slowest page turner you’ll ever read. … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

24. No One Tells You This

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.91

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

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25. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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26. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of I Never Thought of It That Way by Monica Guzmán

27. I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Monica Guzmán

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more

Similar categories in Monica Guzmán's I Never Thought of It That Way book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
Cover of Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

28. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare

By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more

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29. Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

By: Annie Daly

4.34

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

ALOHA (love) • 'ĀINA (land) • MO'OLELO (stories) • 'OHANA (family) DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HA… read more

Similar categories in Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • travel
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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30. Talking to the Wild: The bedtime stories we never knew we needed.

By: Becky Hemsley

4.49

Format: 125 pages, Hardcover

A collection of poetry by Becky Hemsley which takes us on a journey from the universe right back to… read more

Similar categories in Becky Hemsley's Talking to the Wild: The bedtime stories we never knew we needed. book and Annie Daly's Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life

  • nonfiction
Cover of A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

31. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more

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  • nonfiction

5 Top travel books like Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life by Annie Daly

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This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

Melody Warnick

5.00

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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

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Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii

T.W. Neal

4.36

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Jessica Machado

3.66

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What Monstrous Gods

Rosamund Hodge

3.32

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A Feather So Black (Fair Folk, #1)

Lyra Selene

3.77

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Castles in Their Bones (Castles in Their Bones, #1)

Laura Sebastian

4.06

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Isabel Ibañez

3.80

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