9 Top nonfiction books like Building Community Food Webs by Ken Meter

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Building Community Food Webs

By: Ken Meter

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers…

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1. Americanah

By: None , Jashar Awan

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, … read more

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2. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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3. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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4. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more

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5. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more

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6. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution

By: None

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and sometimes hilarious story of a family that quit the rat race and left the city to… read more

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7. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more

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8. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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10. 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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11. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. 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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"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

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13. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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14. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

By: Jane Goodall

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more

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"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"

-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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15. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.05

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more

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  • food
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"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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16. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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17. Solito

By: Javier Zamora

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more

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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

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18. Building Community Food Webs

By: Ken Meter

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers… read more

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