Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation
By: Paula Marantz Cohen
3.30
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation Talking Cure is a…
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1. Bless Me, Ultima
By: Rudolfo Anaya
4.08
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with … read more
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2. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes"-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
3. The Empathy Exams: Essays
By: Leslie Jamison
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Examsis a bold and brilliant collection; winner… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
4. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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5. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
6. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- nonfiction
7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
8. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
9. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
11. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
12. Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
By: Nicholas Humphrey
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's l… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
13. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
14. In a Flight of Starlings
By: Giorgio Parisi
3.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings
15. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
By: Karen Armstrong
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
18. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- essays
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
19. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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- nonfiction
"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
20. The Laughter
By: Sonora Jha
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more
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21. Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation
By: Paula Marantz Cohen
3.30
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation Talking Cure is a… read more
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