10 best-selling nonfiction books like Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Siisip Geniusz

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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings

By: Mary Siisip Geniusz

4.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anish…

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1. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By: Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseb… read more

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  • nonfiction
"He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small …"

-Bill James, The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

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2. The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

By: Peter Tompkins , Christopher Bird

4.00

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Exploring the world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest discoveries of … read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • environment
  • science
"Vogel makes the prediction, which he stresses is as yet far from established fact, that since living things all have a high water content, the vitality of a person must be in some way related to the …"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

"Asked to sum up the importance of his research with plants, Vogel replied: "So much of the ills and suffering in life comes from our inability to release stresses and forces within us. When a person …"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

"Singh then experimented on a vast number of species, such as com­ mon asters, petunias, cosmos, and white spider lilies, along with such economic plants as onions, sesame, radishes, sweet potatoes, a…"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

"Thomas A. Edison told his associates that "Carver is worth a fortune" and backed up his statement by offering to employ the black chemist at an astronomically high salary. Carver turned down the offe…"

-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

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3. The Pale King

By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more

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Cover of Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer

4. Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

By: Samuel Thayer

3.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

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  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of 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

5. 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

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  • ecology
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"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

6. Communion: The Female Search for Love

By: bell hooks

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American… read more

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7. An Unkindness of Ghosts

By: Rivers Solomon

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The HSS Matildais a generation ship organized much like the antebellum South. Embroiled in a grudg… read more

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8. A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause

By: None

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

"Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by… read more

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9. 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

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10. The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants

By: Samuel Thayer

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A guide to 32 of the best and most common edible wild plants in North America, with detailed inform… read more

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11. The Raven Tower

By: Ann Leckie

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more

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"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

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12. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

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  • ecology
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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13. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

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  • native american
  • nature
  • indigenous
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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14. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • ecology
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) by Naomi Hirahara

15. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more

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16. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"

-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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17. Slave Old Man

By: Patrick Chamoiseau

3.89

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptiona… read more

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18. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • nature
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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19. Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition

By: Debt Collective

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

With debt cancellation emerging as both a key area of debate in the Democratic primary and a cataly… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings

By: Mary Siisip Geniusz

4.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anish… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • herbs
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs by Eli  Nixon

21. Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs

By: Eli Nixon

4.63

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Cardboard workshop how-to, karaoke songbook, nature drag theorization, 450-million-year-long love l… read more

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5 must-read environment books like Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings by Mary Siisip Geniusz

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

Peter Tompkins , Christopher Bird

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Raja Shehadeh

4.23

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Several Short Sentences About Writing

Verlyn Klinkenborg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

4.04

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