Snowy Tower (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 2)
By: Martin Shaw
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Snowy Tower, Shaw gives a highly original telling of the grail epic Parzival. Dr Shaw claims the…
Want to Read"The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up."-Martin Shaw, Snowy Tower (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 2)
"The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up."-Martin Shaw, Snowy Tower (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 2)
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1. If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
By: Sharon Blackie
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
'Rising high up on the heather-covered moorlands, seeping through our bogs, flowing down our stream… read more
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- nonfiction
- mythology
"Menopause is not a medical condition, it is an earthquake, shaking us to our deepest foundations, wiping out the edifices we've so carefully constructed on what we once imagined to be the solid groun…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
"If women remember that once upon a time we sand with the tongues of seals and flew with the wings of swans, that we forged our own paths through the dark forest while creating a community of its many…"-Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman
2. In the Dark Places of Wisdom
By: Peter Kingsley
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
The author of "Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic" has unearthed a sensational, true story of a … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- mythology
3. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- philosophy
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
4. Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
By: Malidoma Patrice Somé
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Medu Dagarima iz Burkine Faso nema razlikovanja izmedu prirodnog i natprirodnog: zivi komuniciraju … read more
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5. The Dangerous Old Woman
By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
3.89
Format: 32 pages,
Dr. Estes asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only o… read more
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6. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
7. Provenance (Imperial Radch)
By: Ann Leckie
3.84
Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition
Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more
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"Diplomat does not mean nice,"-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)
8. A Monster Calls
By: Patrick Ness
4.35
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness.… read more
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"Belief is half of healing."-Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
"And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"-Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
"But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas."-Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
"A veces la gente necesita mentirse a sí misma más que ninguna otra cosa"-Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
9. In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
There's an old Irish proverb: 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'. In this bo… read more
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10. An Oresteia
By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Hardcover
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11. 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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- nonfiction
"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
12. Saga, Volume 8
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.46
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions… read more
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"Welcome to Abortion Town!"-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I'm not necessarily opposed."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"I´ve held you in my heart since the day you left me. But you´re too heavy to carry another step. And I need to keep moving."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
14. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
15. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
16. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
17. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
18. 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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- nonfiction
19. 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
20. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- nonfiction
21. 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
- writing
"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
22. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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- nonfiction
"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
23. The Bear
By: Andrew Krivak
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last t… read more
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"Sleep is the only balm I know."-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"But we don't get to choose when we leave here to sleep on the mountain. We all have to sleep on the mountain one day. Even the bear. Even when we struggle with all our will not to."-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit and so, too, were they. The difference was she could choose to change her habits. Animals changed when they were afraid. Change befor…"-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"Imagine it from here everything you say in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean look…"-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
24. The Radiant Lives of Animals
By: Linda Hogan
4.38
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award From a celebrat… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Snowy Tower (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 2)
By: Martin Shaw
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Snowy Tower, Shaw gives a highly original telling of the grail epic Parzival. Dr Shaw claims the… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- writing
- arthurian
- mythology
"The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up."-Martin Shaw, Snowy Tower (The Mythteller trilogy, vol. 2)
