The Wisdom of Trees
By: Max Adams
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A passionate and informative celebration of trees and of man’s ingenuity in exploiting their resour…
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1. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- british literature
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
2. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- plants
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
3. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is … read more
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4. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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5. The Genius of Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
3.84
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more
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6. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
By: Robert M. Pirsig
3.78
Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more
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- philosophy
"This forest silence improves anyone."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"The more you read, the more you calm down."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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9. The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Audio CD
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more
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10. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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11. The Dig
By: John Preston
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk the… read more
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12. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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13. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
14. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
15. 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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- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"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
16. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
17. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- nature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
18. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
19. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
20. To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the h… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe."-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act."-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family…"-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"...I took a deep breath and a first step, and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I had imagined. I think every child should have an experience like the f…"-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
21. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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- nonfiction
"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
22. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- ecology
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
23. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
24. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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- nature
- british literature
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
25. Harlequin Butterfly
By: Toh EnJoe
3.37
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of l… read more
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26. Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; ho… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
27. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
By: Tristan Gooley
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times–bestselling author Tristan Gooley opens our eyes to the secret language of trees—and… read more
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- ecology
- natural history
- plants
- nonfiction
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
28. The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
By: Roman Krznaric
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we still inhabi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
"What might our descendants wish we had done better for them?"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"[H]ow can we design an evolutionary learning capability into our political, economic, and social systems so they are not crippled by rigidity in the face of changing circumstance or external shocks."-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
"[W]e have colonized the future. We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, and nuclear waste, and which…"-Roman Krznaric, The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
29. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
By: John Lewis-Stempel
4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
- science
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
30. The Wisdom of Trees
By: Max Adams
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A passionate and informative celebration of trees and of man’s ingenuity in exploiting their resour… read more
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- ecology
- british literature
- natural history
- philosophy
- plants
- nonfiction
- science nature
- environment
- nature
- science
31. The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries
By: Jillian Scudder
4.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An offbeat guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts. Astrophysicist Dr… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
