6 must-read nonfiction books like Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness by Devon A. Mihesuah

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Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and no-nonsense practical advice about he…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness by Devon A. Mihesuah , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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2. An Oresteia

By: Euripides , Sophocles , Aeschylus , Anne Carson

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

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3. The Changeling

By: Victor LaValle

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One man's thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after … read more

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4. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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5. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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6. Cat + Gamer, Volume 1

By: Wataru Nadatani

4.18

Format: 200 pages, None

Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life … read more

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7. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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8. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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9. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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10. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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11. Sea Prayer

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.10

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more

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"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

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12. Bestiary

By: K-Ming Chang

3.44

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this sp… read more

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"It was a relief to love something already dead."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"Don't tell me how it ends yet. Tell me that it doesn't."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"The fog smelled like fucking, like us, like our sweat fermented into sweet pudding"

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

"The only man you should marry is the moon, [...], so you can divorce it every morning."

-K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

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13. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Remembering is the death of mercy."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

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14. Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays

By: Gillian Sze

4.18

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

"One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

3.59

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and no-nonsense practical advice about he… read more

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