rough house: a memoir
By: Tina Ontiveros
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Tina Ontiveros was born into timber on both sides of the family. Her mother spent summers driving l…
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
By: Ivan Doig
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens o… read more
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3. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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4. The Orchardist
By: Amanda Coplin
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift fami… read more
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5. Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy #2)
By: Gerald Durrell
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell's dazzling sequel to My Fami… read more
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6. A Wolf at the Table
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead bod… read more
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7. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
By: Gregg Olsen
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more
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8. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
By: Cea Sunrise Person
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more
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9. The Art of Mending
By: Elizabeth Berg
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets--secrets that have shaped the personali… read more
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10. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence
By: Teresa Van Woy
4.56
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more
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11. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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12. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
13. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
By: Laurie Notaro
3.97
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. L… read more
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14. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
15. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Free Lunch
By: Rex Ogle
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a w… read more
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"I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot."-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch
"On the back, it has the address, and says, free lunch! A chill runs up my spine. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it cos…"-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch
17. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
18. Crow Talk
By: Eileen Garvin
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more
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19. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
By: Kevin F. Adler
4.26
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did … read more
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20. Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
By: Lizzie Johnson
4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire--the nation's deadliest wildfire in a ce… read more
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"Then, on a blustery evening in October 2017, the worst wildfires in modern state history ignited. They ripped across Northern California, pushed by the Diablo Winds. The infernos killed 44 people and…"-Lizzie Johnson, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
21. National Geographic Bucket List Family Travel: Share the World With Your Kids on 50 Adventures of a Lifetime
By: Jessica Gee
4.61
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In this indispensable guide by the mega-popular Bucket List Family, discover expert tips for travel… read more
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- memoir
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22. Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir
By: Brittany Means
4.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Brittany Means’s childhood was filled with abuse, neglect, violence, and instability, in part cause… read more
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23. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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24. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The… read more
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"One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow fi…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn’t understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerati…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
"As a fraction of GDP, the United States spends on job-training and assistance programs barely one-fifth as much as the average among industrialized countries. Moreover, the United States has signific…"-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
25. Godshot
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.77
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourte… read more
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"The loneliness of a monster can only become sentimental after it is dead."-Chelsea Bieker, Godshot
26. Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
By: Gretel Ehrlich
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, here is a wondrous meditation on… read more
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"During a chance meeting, the naturalist E.O. Wilson advised me to give up thinking we are doomed. "It's our chance to practice altruism," he said. I looked doubtful, but he continued. "We have to wea…"-Gretel Ehrlich, Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
27. Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)
By: Kira Jane Buxton
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
MOST ANTICIPATED by Bustle • "Sci-Fi Thriller" recommendation from Buzzfeed • An Indie Next Pick … read more
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"Oomingmak could not swim."-Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)
"Stories suture up our wounds, stitch us back together. They keep our loved ones alive."-Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)
"A tear slipped down the cheek of my nestling, whose calloused skin could not protect her eggshell heart."-Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)
28. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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29. rough house: a memoir
By: Tina Ontiveros
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Tina Ontiveros was born into timber on both sides of the family. Her mother spent summers driving l… read more
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- love
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- psychology
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30. The Deeper the Roots
By: Michael Tubbs
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The making of a visionary political leader―and a blueprint for a more equitable country “Don’t t… read more
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31. Heartbroke
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and… read more
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