Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living
By: Catie Marron
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully designed, full-color personal account of what it means to become a gardener, filled w…
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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
By: J. Drew Lanham
4.23
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2. The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
By: Stanley Kunitz , Genine Lentine , Marnie Crawford Samuelson
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the … read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
3. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
4. Murder at Wedgefield Manor (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #2)
By: Erica Ruth Neubauer
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of World War I, Jane Wunderly-a thoroughly modern young American widow-is traveling abr… read more
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- audiobook
5. American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens
By: Nick McCullough
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“I love this book. Here are home gardens of designers from every part of our great country that are… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
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
- audiobook
7. Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives
By: Kitty Tait
4.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A cookbook full of heart that explores the redemptive power of baking. Kitty Tait grew up a funny, … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
8. Antoni: Let's Do Dinner
By: Antoni Porowski
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Antoni Porowski shares 80 of his favorite weeknight recipes to help fans make it from Monday to Fri… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Things to Look Forward To: 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day
By: Sophie Blackall
4.19
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Everyone needs things to look forward big things and small things, on good days and on bad days, w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
10. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
12. Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers
By: Marta McDowell
3.51
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have … read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
13. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
14. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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- audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
15. Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias: A Guide to Growing and Arranging Magnificent Blooms (Floret Farms x Chronicle Books)
By: Erin Benzakein
4.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous dahlia blooms from celebrated farme… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
16. The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)
By: John Shen Yen Nee
3.62
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a po… read more
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- audiobook
"The British are oddly vulnerable to charm. I've found that in England it's often the easiest path to one's objective. And hurts none along the way."-John Shen Yen Nee, The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)
17. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- memoir
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
18. Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
By: Sharon Blackie
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new book by the author of the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, empowering w… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
19. Bea Wolf
By: Zach Weinersmith
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A modern middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, featuring a gang of troublemaking kids wh… read more
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"Dawn rose, like a jerk."-Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf
"Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here."-Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf
20. The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food
By: Melissa K. Norris
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Live a Bountiful Life Do something good for your family by learning how to plant a garden that will… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
21. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
22. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
By: Karen Armstrong
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
23. House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating, Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift)
By: Myquillyn Smith
4.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the hea… read more
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- audiobook
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- self help
"De chemische bestanddelen van verschillende bloemengeuren stimuleren bepaalde stemmingen en beïnvloeden hoe alert of juist ontspannen we ons voelen. Zo is recent gebleken dat lavendel, waarvan de kal…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
"Zelfs de kleinste wezens beschikken over een zenuwstelsel dat dopamine of aanverwante moleculen nodig heeft om tot zoek- en verzamelgedrag aan te zetten. De menselijke zenuwbanen zijn wellicht een co…"-Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
25. Inadvertent
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.09
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
26. To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
27. Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living
By: Catie Marron
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully designed, full-color personal account of what it means to become a gardener, filled w… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
28. The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide: How to Combine Shape, Color, and Texture to Create the Garden of Your Dreams
By: Jenny Rose Carey
3.84
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
“Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of yo… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
29. The Elegant and Edible Garden: Design a Dream Kitchen Garden to Fit Your Personality, Desires, and Lifestyle
By: Linda Vater
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook … read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
30. Nature's Best Hope (Young Readers' Edition): How You Can Save the World in Your Own Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This middle grade edition of the groundbreaking bestseller by Doug Tallamy will inspire kids to use… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
- nature
31. Wild: The Naturalistic Garden
By: Noel Kingsbury
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'This extraordinarily useful compendium should be required reading for anyone aspiring to ... a gor… read more
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- gardening
- nonfiction
