11 must-read adult books like Made of Rivers by Emory Hall

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Made of Rivers

By: Emory Hall

4.49

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Emory Hall's much anticipated debut collection of poetry, Made of Rivers , unearths the depths of t…

If you liked the adult plot in Made of Rivers by Emory Hall , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Nine Horses

By: Billy Collins

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America's Poet Laureate for 2001-2003, continues his delicate negoti… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult

2. More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

By: Laurie Colwin

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

More Home Cooking,like its predecessor, Home Cooking,is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong p… read more

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3. The Road Between

By: Courtney Peppernell

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Road Betweenis poetry well-lived. Poetry for the soul that walks the fine line between losing y… read more

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  • poetry

4. Why I Wake Early

By: Mary Oliver

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more

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5. poyums

By: Len Pennie

4.58

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more

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  • poetry
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6. Clarity & Connection

By: Yung Pueblo

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on un… read more

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  • poetry
"taking a moment to figure out how you really feel instead of letting old patterns decide for you is one of the most authentic things you can do"

-Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection

"the goal is not to heal and then begin your life the goal is to embrace healing as a life long journey and allow genuine connections to emerge organically along the way."

-Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection

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7. Wild Mercy

By: Mirabai Starr

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

We live in a world that has suffered the abuses of an unbalanced masculine rule for thousands of ye… read more

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  • poetry
"Our capacity to forgive is our superpower."

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of no…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the wor…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

"Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. Th…"

-Mirabai Starr, Wild Mercy

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8. 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
  • adult
"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

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9. Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

By: Jarod K. Anderson

4.36

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hid… read more

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  • poetry
"There's an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke."

-Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

"SIT WITH ME I’m not trying to write a tailored suit. I’m trying to write boot socks, warm from the dryer. There’s an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke. I write for the we…"

-Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

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10. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

By: Lisa Damour

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Damour's The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents book and Emory Hall's Made of Rivers

  • adult
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11. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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12. Ayurveda Beginner's Guide: Essential Ayurvedic Principles and Practices to Balance and Heal Naturally

By: Susan Weis-Bohlen

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

“Susan’s approach to Ayurveda is simplicity itself. In Ayurveda Beginners Guide she has described t… read more

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13. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)

By: Yung Pueblo

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more

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  • poetry
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14. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book and Emory Hall's Made of Rivers

  • poetry
  • adult
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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15. Covenant, Vol. 1 (Covenant, #1)

By: LySandra Vuong

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Discover Lysandra Vuong's hit supernatural action Webtoon Covenant in print for the first time ever… read more

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  • adult
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16. Persephone Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

4.21

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-winning author Trista Mateer returns with another mythical a… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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17. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

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18. Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

By: Cleo Wade

4.42

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk , hailed as “the poet of her generation… read more

Similar categories in Cleo Wade's Remember Love: Words for Tender Times book and Emory Hall's Made of Rivers

  • poetry
  • adult
Cover of Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice

19. 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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20. The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

By: Mathew Micheletti

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Inner Work will take you on a hero’s journey through the uncharted depths of your subconscious … read more

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21. Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.08

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your c… read more

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  • poetry
"What if practicing peace is slowing down and realizing there’s more to see?"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"Peace is an invitation in daily life to breathe deep, right here, in the uncertainty."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"We don’t have to understand everything before we hold both shadow and light. We don’t have to eliminate every unknown before we take action. We don’t have to get rid of the darkness to see where the …"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

"Peace is the river in the desert, not on the other side of it. Today I am still seeking that river. And not just a river far off somewhere that I must arrive at, but the river that runs wild and free…"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

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22. 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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  • poetry
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23. The Way Back Home

By: Courtney Peppernell

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things—your hope, your strength, yourself. … read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"They wonder why we need big parades filled with color and confetti or a month dedicated to asking for recognition and empathy. And to them, I do not respond in anger or affliction, even if sometimes …"

-Courtney Peppernell, The Way Back Home

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24. 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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  • poetry
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25. Words of a Goat Princess

By: Jessie Reyez

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A moving poetic debut from a talented artist, Words of a Goat Princess is everything you love about… read more

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  • poetry
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26. She is the poem

By: June Bates

3.96

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

She Is The Poem is a love letter to women and a celebration of sapphic joy. This collection tackles… read more

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  • poetry
"If I must burn down m life in order to fix it, I will."

-June Bates, She is the poem

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27. Girl (Remastered)

By: Jessica Jocelyn

4.26

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best selling author who brought you Chasing Wildfires and Finding Daisies, Jessica Jocelyn… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Jocelyn's Girl (Remastered) book and Emory Hall's Made of Rivers

  • poetry
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28. Made of Rivers

By: Emory Hall

4.49

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Emory Hall's much anticipated debut collection of poetry, Made of Rivers , unearths the depths of t… read more

Similar categories in Emory Hall's Made of Rivers book and Emory Hall's Made of Rivers

  • poetry
  • adult
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29. The Moonflower Monologues

By: Tess Guinery

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Just as the moonflower dares to stand and blossom, growing bright and free in the shadows of the ni… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Finding Daisies

By: Jessica Jocelyn

4.26

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding Daisies takes the reader through the life stages of a girl who endures untold trauma and ul… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Over the Influence: A Memoir

By: Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

4.30

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

A breathtakingly candid memoir by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, the chart-topping, multi-platinum recordi… read more

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  • adult

22 must-read poetry books like Made of Rivers by Emory Hall

Transform Your Habits

Nine Horses

Billy Collins

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Road Between

Courtney Peppernell

4.53

Transform Your Habits

poyums

Len Pennie

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Clarity & Connection

Yung Pueblo

4.29

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8 Best contemporary books like The Way Back Home by Courtney Peppernell

Transform Your Habits

Inward

Yung Pueblo

4.22

Transform Your Habits

LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

Atticus Poetry

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Amanda Lovelace

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

Amanda Lovelace

3.85

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