Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
By: Hannah Kirshner
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its wate…
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1. The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
By: Michael Booth
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown in… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
"This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They go out, they drink a lot of beer and they eat dead pigs, and then they go home and have sex with strangers afterwards."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
"The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country."-Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
2. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- nature
"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
3. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
By: Rachel Cusk
3.66
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that follo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"[I]t has struck me that along with all other losses, I might lose friendship, too. I am not equal anymore to the people that I know, and what is friendship but a celebration of equality?"-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
"The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison."-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
"In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best …"-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
"What I lived as feminism were in fact the male values my parents, among others, well-meaningly bequeathed me—the cross-dressing values of my father, and the anti-feminine values of my mother. So I am…"-Rachel Cusk, Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
4. The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
By: Jacques Pépin
2.50
Format: None pages,
In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells th… read more
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- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. Lost Japan
By: Alex Kerr , Bodhi Fishman
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Origina… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- japan
6. Wait Till You See Me Dance
By: Deb Olin Unferth
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cu… read more
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7. Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line
By: Michael Gibney
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney us… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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9. The Food Truck Handbook: Start, Grow, and Succeed in the Mobile Food Business
By: None
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Food trucks have become a wildly popular and important part of the hospitality industry. Consumers … read more
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10. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more
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11. The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt and His Adventures in the Wilderness
By: Darrin Lunde
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
The surprising story of intrepid naturalist Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the… read more
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12. Footnotes in Gaza
By: Joe Sacco
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more
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13. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cookbook author and food writer Ruhlman explores the evolution of the American grocery store and ho… read more
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14. Swordspoint (Riverside, #1)
By: Ellen Kushner
3.91
Format: 385 pages,
The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories. Hailed by critics as … read more
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15. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
16. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
17. 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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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
"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
18. The City Inside
By: Samit Basu
3.31
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”Joey is a Reali… read more
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"They're on display. Indi's making sure her body catches the light as it changes colour off his smartatt reads, always a spectacular angle, never missing a beat, turning and placing his partner in an …"-Samit Basu, The City Inside
19. Ephemera
By: Briana Loewinsohn
4.00
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
A debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephem… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
21. A Quantum Love Story
By: Mike Chen
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend… read more
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22. 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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- nature
23. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By: Mark Bittman
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with W…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became …"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least nea…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
24. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- memoir
- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
- nature
25. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
By: Pico Iyer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
26. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
27. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.88
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously ill… read more
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- travel
- art
29. Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
By: Hannah Kirshner
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its wate… read more
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- art
- memoir
- travel
- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- japan
- crafts
- nature
30. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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31. Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking―How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
By: Caroline Paul
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
