Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
By: Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
First published in 1972, “Think Little” is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: …
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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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- nature
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
"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. Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
By: Larry McMurtry
4.12
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon… read more
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"Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long."-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
"I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence."-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
"The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had be…"-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
"Buffalo Hump wanted to see the ocean because the ocean would always be as it was. Few things could stay forever in the way they were when the spirits made them. Even the great plains of grass, the ho…"-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- politics
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
4. When Breaks the Dawn (Canadian West #3)
By: Janette Oke
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
After surviving a harsh first year in the far north, Elizabeth Delaney and her Royal Canadian Mount… read more
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5. Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.72
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie … read more
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6. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
7. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
By: Neil Postman
3.93
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Deat… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
By: David Whyte
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Crossing the Unknown Seais about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how … read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
By: Eric Metaxas
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more
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11. A Burst of Light
By: Audre Lorde
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Black freedom fighter's strength and signifying words. Essays. 1989 Before Columbus Foundation Amer… read more
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12. City of Illusions
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
1.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and n… read more
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13. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
14. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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15. Fox & I
By: Catherine Raven
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more
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- environment
- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"-Catherine Raven, Fox & I
16. 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
"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
17. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
18. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
19. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
20. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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- nature
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
21. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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22. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
23. Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
By: Anne Lamott
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we nee… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"So, writing. What a bitch."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
"... expectations are resentments under construction."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
"It is okay to fear death. Many people who don’t can be a little too pleased with themselves."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
"We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
24. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
25. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
26. How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"The reward of friendship is friendship itself."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
"Quanto più uno ha fiducia in sé, quanto più è armato di virtù e di saggezza, in modo da non aver bisogno di nessuno e da considerare ogni suo bene un fatto interiore, tanto più eccelle nel cercare e …"-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
27. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
By: Patty Krawec
4.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- nature
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
29. An Idea Can Go Extinct (Green Ideas)
By: Bill McKibben
3.30
Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- essays
30. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
By: Mark Arax
4.43
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land wh… read more
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- nature
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
31. Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
By: Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
First published in 1972, “Think Little” is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: … read more
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- ecology
- memoir
- agriculture
- theology
- politics
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
