The Radiant Lives of Animals
By: Linda Hogan
4.38
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award From a celebrat…
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1. If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
By: Sharon Blackie
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our stream… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- spirituality
"Menopause is not a medical condition, it is an earthquake, shaking us to our deepest foundations, wiping out the edifices we've so carefully constructed on what we once imagined to be the solid groun…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
"If women remember that once upon a time we sand with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
2. 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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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"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
3. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- nature
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
4. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
By: Linda Lawrence Hunt
3.73
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
5. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
By: Richard Wagamese
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
6. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- ecology
- essays
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
7. The Blue Fox
By: Victoria Cribb , Sjón
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NORDIC LITERARY PRIZE AND NOMINATED FOR THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE The year is 18… read more
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8. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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9. Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
By: Ruth Reichl
3.00
Format: 1118 pages,
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticula… read more
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10. 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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11. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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12. 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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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
13. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- spirituality
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
14. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
15. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
16. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- animals
- nature
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
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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- nonfiction
- ecology
- 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. Terrace Story
By: Hilary Leichter
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about lo… read more
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"Of course, I know the details. I just reject your premise," the woman said. "What premise?" "The premise that there is no love when a person is alone."-Hilary Leichter, Terrace Story
19. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- nature
20. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
21. The Cat Who Taught Zen
By: James Norbury
4.32
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the author and illustrator of the international bestseller Big Panda and Tiny Dragon comes a b… read more
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- animals
- spirituality
"What we want is seldom what we need. And what we need is almost never what we want."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"I once heard someone say, it was not the journey or the destination that mattered most, but the company."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"If something isn’t right, just telling your friend can make it seem better, even though they might not know how to fix it."-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
"It is better to begin the journey, make some mistakes and correct your course, than to wait until everything is perfect and never even start"-James Norbury, The Cat Who Taught Zen
22. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
By: Will Schwalbe
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.12
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more
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"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
24. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
By: Debra Magpie Earling
3.66
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges pr… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"Do not trust anyone who tells you there is only one story. If there were only one story or one way of seeing things all stories would die."-Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
25. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog
By: Rick McIntyre
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
26. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- animals
- nature
27. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
By: Leah Myers
3.81
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more
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- nonfiction
- native american
- memoir
- indigenous
"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
"You don't have the right to define my identity."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
"She gave up herself and her identity for security."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
28. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
29. Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
By: Pema Chödrön
4.36
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
In her first new book of spiritual teachings in many years, Pema Chödrön offers new wisdom, heartfe… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
"When we stop seeking the familiarity of samsara, when we stop fighting the groundlessness of freedom from imputed meaning, emptiness becomes an experience of awe, of the infinite, of limitless pace."-Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
"Status quo is not very helpful for spiritual growth, for using this short interval between birth and death. On the other hand, expanding our ability to feel comfortable in our own skin and in the wor…"-Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
30. In the Lateness of the World: Poems
By: Carolyn Forché
4.03
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country's most celebrated … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- nature
"This life is not the same as your other life."-Carolyn Forché, In the Lateness of the World: Poems
31. The Radiant Lives of Animals
By: Linda Hogan
4.38
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award From a celebrat… read more
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- poetry
- ecology
- memoir
- animals
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- nature
