Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics and Place
By: Pam Houston
4.28
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Letters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Co…
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1. Abide with Me
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles … read more
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"You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world."-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me
"He thought of the words of the hymn he had always loved: Help of the helpless, O abide with me. He knew one could say - perhaps Rhonda Skillings might say - that this was merely the plea of a frighte…"-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me
2. Breath, Eyes, Memory
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists… read more
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3. The Burgess Boys
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the pub… read more
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4. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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5. The Devil's Highway: A True Story
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, i… read more
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6. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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7. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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8. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
9. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
10. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
11. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
12. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- nature
13. Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more
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"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise
14. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
15. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- nonfiction
16. I Will Die in a Foreign Land
By: Kalani Pickhart
4.07
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. “Only a Rus… read more
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"What is the act of love if not bold? As the world comes apart, nothing to lose- What is love if not a promise to go on?"-Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land
"My mother was the one with the gift. She had a soft voice that warbled like a bird, but it was my father who wanted us to learn music. We learned the arts, my father said, to be civilized people beca…"-Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land
"Loss, when it occurs, has memory stronger than the mind, stronger than visual recollection patterned in the brain. It’s something the flesh knows, the muscles know, like a dancer reciting a step done…"-Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land
17. The Cactus League
By: Emily Nemens
3.43
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
An explosive, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseballJason Goodyear is the star outf… read more
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"Ask any fan, and she'll tell you there's something satisfyingly linear about baseball: three strikes, three outs. Four bases, nine innings. A lineup, for chrissake-you don't need to be an etymologist…"-Emily Nemens, The Cactus League
18. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more
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- nature
"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
19. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
By: Margareta Magnusson
3.58
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning— now a TV series… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"...unless you depend on your looks for your career or your joy, hinging your life on looking young is such a bad idea."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
"The world is always ending, and yet it continues to survive. We must always hope for a sustainable future, but hope is not enough."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
"It is never too late to do anything, unless it is really too late and you are. dead. The moment you start thinking it is too late, then you begin to die. I will keep going and do all I want to do."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
"The older I get, the more I find that I remember clearly all the things I said yes to, just when I was about to say no. I must admit I have not been open-minded all the time. I just wish I had been."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
20. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
21. Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
By: Amy Irvine
4.01
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty this fall, and its iconic autho… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
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"By nature, we are a cabal."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
"Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity."-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
22. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
23. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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24. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
25. Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old
By: Steven Petrow
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of “things I won’t do when I ge… read more
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- memoir
- essays
26. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
27. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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- memoir
- nature
28. Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains
By: Steph Jagger
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild . In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her … read more
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- memoir
29. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon
By: Lyn Slater
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more
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- memoir
- essays
30. Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics and Place
By: Pam Houston
4.28
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Letters penned during pandemic by writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine as they shelter in place in Co… read more
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- westerns
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