How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times
By: Annie Chagnot
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This wide-ranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, …
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1. The Beauty
By: Jane Hirshfield
3.87
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and esse… read more
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- nonfiction
"In a room with many windows some thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly."-Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty
2. Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in t… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
3. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
By: Stephen Sondheim
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Ken… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. The Adventures of Superhero Girl
By: Faith Erin Hicks
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy you… read more
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5. 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power (Mentor Series)
By: Gary Provost
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
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6. Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger
By: Robin Arzón
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
An ultra marathoner and running coach captures the energy and joy of running in this illustrated, f… read more
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7. Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
By: Dani Shapiro
4.04
Format: 226 pages,
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8. Red Bird
By: Mary Oliver
2.83
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's… read more
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9. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
By: Joy Harjo
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievem… read more
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10. Lucky Wreck
By: Ada Limon
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's fir… read more
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11. The Mini ADHD Coach
By: Alice Gendron
4.33
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive guide to ADHD that explores its diverse types, symptoms, diagnoses, and misconceptions… read more
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- nonfiction
12. 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
"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
13. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- nonfiction
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
14. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
15. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
16. Where Hope Comes From
By: Nikita Gill
4.01
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill return… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?"-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From
"Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma."-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From
"Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary."-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From
"I, too, hope to be that confident in a love. Someone who I know will still love me, even if I do not run to them every time they call."-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From
17. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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- nonfiction
18. 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
- anthologies
19. 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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- nonfiction
20. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- nonfiction
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
21. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
22. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Between Two Moons
By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant encla… read more
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24. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more
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25. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
By: James Crews
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An Indie Poetry Bestseller and Nautilus Award Winner! Crews, a fine poet and teacher, appears to h… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
27. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal
By: James Crews
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
28. Convergence Problems
By: Wole Talabi
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Convergence Problems is a new short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian … read more
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29. How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times
By: Annie Chagnot
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This wide-ranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, … read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
30. Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection
By: James Crews
4.41
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
31. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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