Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature
By: Manchán Magan
4.68
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (suc…
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christop… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Soviet Daughterprovides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in … read more
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4. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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5. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
By: Robert Pool , K. Anders Ericsson
4.03
Format: None pages, ebook
A survey of the psychology of expertise, providing techniques for developing mastery of any skill, … read more
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6. Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats, #1)
By: Sebastien de Castell
4.04
Format: None pages,
Falcio is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia,… read more
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7. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.29
Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. "Another world is… read more
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- childrens
"Crivens!"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"That'll do"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"Witches are naturally nosy,"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
"(...) or there will be a reckoning!"-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
8. Tangleweed and Brine
By: Deirdre Sullivan
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Tangled tales of earth, salty tales of water Bewitched retellings of thirteen classic fairy-tales w… read more
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9. A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU. No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empt… read more
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- childrens
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."-Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
"It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends."-Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
"If you're too afraid of going astray you won't go anywhere"-Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
"This book had two authors, and they were both the same person."-Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
10. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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11. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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- nonfiction
12. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
13. All Hallows
By: Christopher Golden
3.55
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more
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14. 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
15. The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
By: Alice Hoffman
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellb… read more
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"Everything worthwhile is dangerous."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
"Language was everything. Trust was for fools. Love came and went. Words could be stolen."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
"Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
"Time is out there. Everything that ever happened is still happening. For instance, if I took your hand in mine."-Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic (Practical Magic, #2)
16. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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- ireland
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
17. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- ireland
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
18. 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
- 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
19. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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- folklore
- nonfiction
20. 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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- nature
"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
21. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
By: Shaun Bythell
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more
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- nonfiction
"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
22. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- nonfiction
- irish literature
- ireland
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
23. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more
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- folklore
- nonfiction
- nature
24. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
By: Joy Harjo
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
25. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
26. Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
By: Neema Avashia
4.26
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “T… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
By: Billy Connolly
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-m… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Savage Her Reply
By: Deirdre Sullivan
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember."-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply
"Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my a…"-Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply
29. The Last Days of New Paris
By: China Miéville
3.54
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more
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"Liberation was fucked up."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
30. Girls Who Slay Monsters: Daring Tales of Ireland’s Forgotten Goddesses
By: Ellen Ryan
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER KPMG Book of the Year – Children’s Books Ireland Awards Unsung stories from ancient Irish… read more
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- ireland
- childrens
31. Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature
By: Manchán Magan
4.68
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (suc… read more
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- folklore
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- nature
