For Love of a River: The Minnesota
By: Darby Nelson
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the river town of Morton, Darby Nelson developed a deep taproot of affection that anc…
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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
By: J. Drew Lanham
4.23
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2. American Indian Stories
By: Zitkála-Šá , Susan Rose Dominguez , Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
American Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. Shadow Tag
By: Louise Erdrich
3.30
Format: 215 pages,
"Erdrich is a true original. [and] one of our major writers." -Washington Post Book World Shadow Ta… read more
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4. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
By: Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin
3.67
Format: None pages,
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and ant… read more
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- nonfiction
5. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
6. The River (Brian's Saga, #2)
By: Gary Paulsen
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"We want you to do it again." These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change his life. Two years… read more
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7. Kitchens of the Great Midwest
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Lars Thorvald's wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine--and a dashing sommelier--he's left to … read more
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8. Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
By: Susan Casey
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
From Susan Casey, the New York Timesbestselling author of The Waveand The Devil's Teeth, a breathta… read more
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9. LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more
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10. The River We Remember
By: William Kent Krueger
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more
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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
11. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
12. The Bookbinder
By: Pip Williams
4.07
Format: 437 pages, Hardcover
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more
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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder
13. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)
By: C.J. Box
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more
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14. Smile: The Story of a Face
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A People Best Book of the Year. Time and The Washington Post's Most Anticipated List. Longliste… read more
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"When diseases and stories are chronic, doctors and writers often both run for the hills"-Sarah Ruhl, Smile: The Story of a Face
15. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)
By: William Kent Krueger
4.21
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more
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16. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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- nature
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
17. Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22)
By: C.J. Box
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm’s way. Now … read more
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18. The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
By: James Patterson
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Move over, Dickens—America’s favorite storyteller has written a modern Christmas story for the ages… read more
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"In fact, all ten aristocrats were cleaning like the revolution had happened and they were desperate to blend in with the masses."-James Patterson, The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
"We'll be fine even if we miss you every millisecond of every moment of every hour of every day. You will always be in our hearts."-James Patterson, The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
"The next day was Christmas Eve. In some countries, Christmas Eve is a bigger celebration than Christmas Day. In Canada, Sweden, and Denmark, families open their presents on Christmas Eve. In Italy, t…"-James Patterson, The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
19. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
20. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)
By: Allen Eskens
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more
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21. Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
By: Allen Eskens
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his ow… read more
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"There are no miracles, my friend. God's hand is in everything; it's only when we can't explain it that we call it a miracle."-Allen Eskens, Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)
22. Warrior Girl Unearthed
By: Angeline Boulley
4.34
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more
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"Some friendships can endure anything."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed
23. Sharks in the Time of Saviors
By: Kawai Strong Washburn
3.83
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboar… read more
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"Big destiny is a thing you get drunk on."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
"Everyone's always 'just joking,' right? Except when they're not."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
"Hope can be a god as well. It's something that can be prayed to."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
"Sometimes I don't know if the fight finds me or I find the fight. Especially with my family."-Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
24. Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the State
By: Curt Brown
3.85
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put c… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Brave Enough
By: Jessie Diggins
4.20
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland… read more
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26. Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It
By: Erin Brockovich
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Erin Brockovich's long-awaited book--her first to reckon with conditions on our planet--she make… read more
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- science
27. After Oz
By: Gordon McAlpine
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The… read more
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28. The Surrogate
By: Toni Halleen
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A probing novel about a newly married couple, the surrogate they hire to carry their baby, and the … read more
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29. For Love of a River: The Minnesota
By: Darby Nelson
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the river town of Morton, Darby Nelson developed a deep taproot of affection that anc… read more
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- nonfiction
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30. To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota
By: Cathy Coats
3.75
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
The largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sough… read more
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- history
31. Red Bird Danced
By: Dawn Quigley
4.25
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
With lyrical verse and powerful emotion, Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe) tells the story of urban Native kids… read more
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