Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners
By: Maureen Boland
3.92
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
3. Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
By: Agatha Christie , David Suchet
3.82
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a f… read more
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"I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced"-Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
"I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write …"-Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
4. Un Lun Dun
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mieville's Embassytown. What is Un Lun Dun? It i… read more
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5. Passalong Plants
By: Steve Bender
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Passalongs are plants that have survived in gardens for decades by being handed from one person to … read more
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6. The King of Elfland's Daughter
By: Neil Gaiman , Lord Dunsany
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the mos… read more
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7. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nature
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
8. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
By: Patrick Rothfuss , Nate Taylor
3.88
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient pa… read more
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"Estaba harta de ser tan única."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"Some days simply lay on you like stones."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"...and he was absolutely not a selas sort."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"Her name was like an echo of an ache in her."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
9. She and Her Cat
By: Makoto Shinkai , Tsubasa Yamaguchi
3.69
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
“It was the start of spring. It was raining. That was the day that she brought me home.” This is… read more
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"Let's go home together."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"The only one waiting at home for me is my cat!"-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"And then after that long, long phone call, she wept."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
"When she came home, she smelled the way I like. But . . . her face seemed sadder than when she left."-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat
10. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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11. The Andreasson Affair: The Documented Investigation of a Woman's Abduction Aboard a UFO
By: Raymond E. Fowler , J. Allen Hynek
3.92
Format: 594 pages,
For 10 years Betty Andreasson could tell no one about her bizarre, terrifying encounter with aliens… read more
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12. 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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13. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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14. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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15. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
By: Freya Marske
3.91
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more
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"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
16. Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
By: Brom
4.29
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only… read more
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"You will think me foolish. But I wanted to be a fairy queen, to run barefoot through the woods, to sing like a bird and fly through the trees." She smiled. "To be able to talk to the animals."-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
"He stared up into the trees, watched them sway in the soft breeze, watched the sun drift slowly across the sky, hour after hour, until it began to sink from view, trying to let go, to let his mind dr…"-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
"Buzzing filled his ears, and he watched several bumblebees bounce from flower to flower. He found their hum soothing, and there, at the moment, felt he could watch them forever. He drank in the scent…"-Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
17. 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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"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
18. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.86
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more
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"Dread works best in complete silence."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
19. A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more
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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
20. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
21. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
22. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
23. Our Hideous Progeny
By: C.E. McGill
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more
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"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
24. Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
By: Kira Jane Buxton
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a gen… read more
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"Penguins, it turns out, are pretty fucking delightful."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
"Murders are forever, and what happens to one happens to all."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
"The woods carry sounds in their slow rhythms, sounds that only a heart can hear."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
"And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around."-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)
25. Il fascismo eterno
By: Umberto Eco
4.33
Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition
“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more
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"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno
"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno
"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno
"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno
26. Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
By: Alice Hoffman
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hof… read more
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- magic
"Never watch another woman burn"-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"For some, witchery was a choice, but not for them."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
"You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage."-Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Practical Magic, #0.1)
27. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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- nonfiction
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
28. Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity
By: Dan Jason
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Much of our food comes from seeds. But where do our seeds come from? And where are they going? For … read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2)
By: Alice Hoffman
3.97
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
In this star-crossed short story from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman, timing is ev… read more
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30. The Barrow Will Send What it May (Danielle Cain, #2)
By: Margaret Killjoy
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits t… read more
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- magic
31. Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners
By: Maureen Boland
3.92
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
been said to be beneficial for roses, and that horticulturists now approve the practice? Or that mu… read more
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- magic
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- own
- witchcraft
