Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
By: Laurie Lacey
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this delightful book, Laurie Lacey’s reflections on the magical world of plant life and the gath…
Want to ReadIf you liked the indigenous plot in Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections by Laurie Lacey , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
By: Heather O'Neill
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Heather O’Neill charmed readers in the hundreds of thousands with her sleeper hit, Lullabies for Li… read more
Want to Read $ 13.49Similar categories in Heather O'Neill's The Girl Who Was Saturday Night book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child."-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
"Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth," I said and stormed inside. "Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door," Hugo called after …"-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
"Oh, we had a lot of sex back then in Montreal; it wasn’t just me. Blame it on the cold. The roses in everyone’s cheeks made them seem way more appealing than they actually were. We confused the indoo…"-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
"You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the …"-Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
4.16
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
3. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
Want to Read $ 12.47Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
4. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
By: Gabor Maté
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Gabor Maté's When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
5. The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki
By: Roger Lewis , None , None , William Jones , None
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
The ancient landscapes of Eastern North America are reflected in the language and cultural expressi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Roger Lewis's The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
7. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Octavia E. Butler's Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
8. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
9. Wenjack
By: Joseph Boyden , Kent Monkman
3.80
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2017OLSN Northern Lit Award An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Joseph Boyden's Wenjack book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
10. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
11. A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
By: Marie Brennan
3.84
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the s… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"I have often found this to be true since, that matters which seem terribly important in the early days of such a journey (what will people back home say?) fade into triviality with the passage of tim…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"... I think that was the moment at which I realised I was truly leaving. This is something the gentlemen readers of this memoir may not understand, but the ladies will know it all too well. If they a…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
"It’s—it’s as if there is a dragon inside me. I don’t know how big she is; she may still be growing. But she has wings, and strength, and—and I can’t keep her in a cage. She’ll die. I’ll die. I know i…"-Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
12. The Twisted Ones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.64
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds lo… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"Perhaps Welsh fairies stole children and confiscated their vowels."-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
"It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia."-T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
13. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
14. Nestlings
By: Nat Cassidy
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings
15. Whalefall
By: Daniel Kraus
3.73
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
16. Stolen
By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Ann-Helén Laestadius's Stolen book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- indigenous
"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen
17. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
18. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
Want to Read $ 7.95Similar categories in Bob Joseph's 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
- indigenous
19. When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)
By: Rebecca Schaeffer
4.21
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Dexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who is determined to … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3) book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"Sometimes freedom comes at an ugly price." •pg.246 - Nita"-Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)
"Anytime a Zannie is the only one enjoying a situation,you know something has gone terrible wrong."-Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)
"Kovit made a small sound in the back of his throat but rolled with it, matching her vicious kiss with equal force..."-Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)
"Looking at Fabricio meant facing her own part in his screams. It meant facing that she didn't actually feel bad about what she did."-Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)
20. Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)
By: Rebecca Schaeffer
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Rebecca Schaeffer's Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2) book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
"How many secrets does it take before it's all a lie?"-Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)
"I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices."-Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)
"All lives are hard. But some leave you alive, and some leave you dead."-Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)
"Sometimes she could see the monster inside him. And sometimes he made her see the monster inside herself."-Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)
21. 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
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
- indigenous
"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
22. You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance
By: Asha Frost
4.49
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Indigenous Medicine Woman Asha Frost invites readers to learn the healing medicine of the 13 Ojibwa… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Asha Frost's You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
- indigenous
23. Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality
By: Bob Joseph
4.21
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
A timely sequel to the bestselling 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act —and an invaluab… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Bob Joseph's Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
- indigenous
24. Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
By: Laurie Lacey
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this delightful book, Laurie Lacey’s reflections on the magical world of plant life and the gath… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- reference
- nonfiction
- native american
- indigenous
25. A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3)
By: Sarah Hawley
3.99
Format: 444 pages, ebook
Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying a… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Sarah Hawley's A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3) book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
26. Combattre le why-why
By: Rébecca Déraspe
3.90
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Combattre le why-why C’est pas du théâtre Mais c’est un peu du théâtre Mais pas comme d’habitude… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Rébecca Déraspe's Combattre le why-why book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
27. Knot Body
By: Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
4.36
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Bringing … read more
Want to Read $ 7.40Similar categories in Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch's Knot Body book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
28. The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest
By: Joan Baxter
4.34
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Joan Baxter's The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
29. The Mi'kmaq Anthology
By: Lesley Choyce
4.40
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
A varied and spiritual collection of work by the Mi'kmaq writers of Atlantic Canada. Both young and… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lesley Choyce's The Mi'kmaq Anthology book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
- nonfiction
- indigenous
30. Generations Re-merging
By: Shalan Joudry
4.29
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
“Each generation must make their own / journey through a thick terrain” starts Generations Re-mergi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Shalan Joudry's Generations Re-merging book and Laurie Lacey's Mi'kmaq Medicines: Remedies and Recollections
