The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
By: Wendell Berry
4.21
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Wendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this new…
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1. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
2. All Over Creation
By: Ruth Ozeki
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community—from the celebrated… read more
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"Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation."-Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
"As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books."-Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
"You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all."-Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
"Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how ofte…"-Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
3. What It is Like to Go to War
By: Karl Marlantes
4.00
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Matterhorn, this is a powerful nonfiction book abo… read more
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"Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy."-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
"The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission."-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
"Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body"-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
"Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death."-Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War
4. Against Everything: Essays
By: Mark Greif
3.50
Format: 31 pages,
In Against Everything, Mark Greif makes us rethink the ordinary, taking our own lives seriously, ex… read more
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5. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- poetry
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- nature
6. The Dog of the South
By: Charles Portis
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more
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8. The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
By: H.W. Brands
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes … read more
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9. The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicl… read more
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10. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
11. The Journey of August King
By: John Ehle
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Discovering Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave in 1810, August King faces a mor… read more
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12. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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13. Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
By: Nick Offerman
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The star of Parks and Recreationand author of the New York Timesbestseller Paddle Your Own Canoeret… read more
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14. Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
By: Lundy Bancroft
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft--a counselor who specializes in working with abus… read more
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15. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
16. Prodigal Summer
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Prodigal Summerweaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabi… read more
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17. Crow Lake
By: Mary Lawson
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more
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"Feeling must have rendered her numb."-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake
18. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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19. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
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- nature
- science
20. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
21. Weather
By: Jenny Offill
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more
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"How do you know all this?"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."-Jenny Offill, Weather
"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "-Jenny Offill, Weather
22. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
By: Janet Skeslien Charles
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more
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23. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
24. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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- nonfiction
25. When Things Get Dark
By: Ellen Datlow
3.90
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Sh… read more
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"Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor."-Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark
26. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
27. Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount
By: Richard Rohr
4.61
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God, he was talking about an utterly different way of relati… read more
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- nonfiction
"We know everything today and believe almost nothing. It is not reason that drives our lives, but passion or the search for it. It is not words and concepts, but living images that grab our souls. It …"-Richard Rohr, Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount
28. Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time
By: Rory Groves
4.41
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
With over thirty thousand occupations currently in existence, workers today face a bewildering arra… read more
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- cultural
- economics
- nonfiction
29. Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages
By: Grace Hamman
4.06
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
C.S. Lewis noted that the church has a Whenever Christians are brainstorming together about who Je… read more
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30. The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
By: Wendell Berry
4.21
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Wendell Berry's profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this new… read more
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- economics
- nature
- science
31. Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport (Bloomsbury Sigma)
By: Madeleine Orr
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The world of sport has a new climate change. In the last few years, a world championship marathon… read more
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