The Voice of the Coyote (Bison Book)
By: J. Frank Dobie
3.95
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulatin…
Want to Read"A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull."-J. Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote (Bison Book)
"A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull."-J. Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote (Bison Book)
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1. The Yearling
By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts … read more
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- classics
- animals
"Words began fights and words ended them."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
2. People of the Deer
By: Farley Mowat
4.07
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"The Ilhalmiut do not fill canvases with their paintings, or inscribe figures on rocks, or carve figurines in clay or in stone, because in the lives of the People there is no room for the creation of …"-Farley Mowat, People of the Deer
3. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
4. The Good Lord Bird
By: James McBride
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy … read more
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5. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
By: John Vaillant
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
6. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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7. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
By: Peter Matthiessen , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages,
In 1975, a fatal shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indians resulted in the deaths of two ag… read more
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- nonfiction
8. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
By: Dan Flores
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more
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9. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
By: Kathleen Norris
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norr… read more
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10. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
By: Pearl S. Buck
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more
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11. Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
By: Kent Nerburn
3.83
Format: 32 pages,
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12. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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- classics
"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
13. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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- westerns
- classics
"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
14. White Fang
By: Jack London , K.A. Applegate
4.02
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he … read more
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- classics
- animals
"He was a silent fury who no torment could tame."-Jack London, White Fang
"Các sự vật không phải bao giờ cũng đúng như vẻ bề ngoài."-Jack London, White Fang
"Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway."-Jack London, White Fang
"Got to take a gamble. The only way to find out is to find out."-Jack London, White Fang
15. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
16. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
By: Sally Denton
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
19. The Rabbit Hutch
By: Tess Gunty
3.52
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more
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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
20. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- animals
21. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
22. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- animals
- natural history
23. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
24. Sundial
By: Catriona Ward
3.80
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more
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"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"-Catriona Ward, Sundial
"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."-Catriona Ward, Sundial
"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."-Catriona Ward, Sundial
"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."-Catriona Ward, Sundial
25. Conjure Women
By: Afia Atakora
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more
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"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
26. Any Man
By: Amber Tamblyn
3.86
Format: 288 pages, ebook
In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startlin… read more
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"People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek."-Amber Tamblyn, Any Man
27. The Voice of the Coyote (Bison Book)
By: J. Frank Dobie
3.95
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulatin… read more
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- classics
- westerns
- animals
- natural history
- dogs
- nonfiction
- nature
"A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder o…"-J. Frank Dobie, The Voice of the Coyote (Bison Book)
