A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
By: Rebecca Elson
4.31
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Rebecca Elson was an astronomer. Her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. F…
Want to Read $ 11.49"For the most part school science was textbook learning: memorising names and arrangements of human organs or plant parts. Experiments were essentially like following recipes, trying to make the results come out the way you knew they were supposed to. The subject may have been science, but the process wasn't."-Rebecca Elson, A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
"For the most part school science was textbook learning: memorising names and arrangements of human organs or plant parts. Experiments were essentially like following recipes, trying to make the results come out the way you knew they were supposed to. The subject may have been science, but the process wasn't."-Rebecca Elson, A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
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1. 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
- 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
2. Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
3. The Lost Words
By: Robert Macfarlane , Jackie Morris
2.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic an… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- nature
4. What We Lose
By: Zinzi Clemmons
3.67
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman comin… read more
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5. The Crafty Art of Playmaking
By: Alan Ayckbourn
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
With over sixty plays written and premired at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough before goin… read more
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6. Drift
By: Caroline Bergvall
4.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North At… read more
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7. Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
By: David Mamet
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The purpose of theater, like magic like religion...ids to inspire cleansing awe. With bracing direc… read more
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9. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
10. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
11. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
12. The Seep
By: Chana Porter
3.66
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more
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"Grief is happy memories."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"-Chana Porter, The Seep
13. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
14. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
15. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)
By: Eliza Chan
3.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more
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16. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- nature
17. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
18. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
19. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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- nonfiction
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
20. Mother for Dinner
By: Shalom Auslander
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
By the author of Foreskin's Lament, a novel of identity, tribalism, and mothers. Seventh Seltzer… read more
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"Séptimo solía preguntarse con precaución si terminaría contrayendo el odio de su madre, si heredaría su intolerancia, como un virus, como un defecto de nacimiento, a pesar de sus esfuerzos por resist…"-Shalom Auslander, Mother for Dinner
21. A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
By: Rebecca Elson
4.31
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Rebecca Elson was an astronomer. Her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. F… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- nature
- science
"For the most part school science was textbook learning: memorising names and arrangements of human organs or plant parts. Experiments were essentially like following recipes, trying to make the resul…"-Rebecca Elson, A Responsibility to Awe: Poems (Oxford Poets)
