Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living
By: John Kaag
3.82
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
What Thoreau can teach us about working―why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it mo…
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1. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- classics
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2. Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
By: David Owen
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes The Colorado … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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- classics
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
5. Henry David Thoreau: A Life
By: None
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and th… read more
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6. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
7. The Pine Barrens
By: John McPhee , James Graves
4.00
Format: 290 pages,
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Ph… read more
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8. The Tie That Binds
By: Kent Haruf
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the bac… read more
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9. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By: Alex Hutchinson
4.13
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. 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
- audiobook
"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
11. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
12. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
16. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- biography
- history
- audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
17. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
18. Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today
By: Hal Hershfield
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set your future self up for success with the “fascinating, profound, and immediately practical guid… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Lessons from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life
By: Mark Matousek
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
"This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America’s genius for freedom and p… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
By: Simon Parkin
3.95
Format: 432 pages, ebook
The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arreste… read more
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- biography
- history
- audiobook
21. Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living
By: John Kaag
3.82
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
What Thoreau can teach us about working―why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it mo… read more
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- biography
- history
- americana
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
