The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance
By: Mandy Aftel
4.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more
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2. Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume
By: None
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Let Scent and Subversiontake you for a whiff on the wild side of 20th century perfume. Perfume has … read more
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3. Perfumes: The Guide
By: Luca Turin , Tania Sanchez
4.03
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first book of its kind: a definitive guide to the world of perfume Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez… read more
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4. Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron
By: Spencer Kansa
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the e… read more
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5. Garlic and the Vampire
By: Bree Paulsen
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more
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6. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
7. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
8. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
9. All-Night Pharmacy
By: Ruth Madievsky
3.52
Format: 304 pages, ebook
*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more
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"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy
10. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
11. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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12. Unfamiliar, Vol. 1 (Unfamiliar, #1)
By: Haley Newsome
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on the wildly popular webcomic from Tapas, Unfamiliar is an endearing and whimsical story ful… read more
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13. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
14. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
15. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon
By: Kate Andersen Brower
4.16
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever auth… read more
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16. A Rip Through Time (A Rip Through Time, #1)
By: Kelley Armstrong
4.02
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a ki… read more
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17. 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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"...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
18. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
19. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
By: Amanda Lovelace
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, … read more
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" -call us alexandria "-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
"Confiança não é egocentrismo"-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
"Fuck the idea of staying calm."-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
"i am the girl with the arsonist heart"-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
20. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
21. Garlic and the Witch
By: Bree Paulsen
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more
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22. Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
By: Elise Vernon Pearlstine
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from t… read more
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23. The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
By: Katy Kelleher
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the f… read more
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24. In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents
By: Dominique Roques
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry's l… read more
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"El perfume nos tranquiliza primero hablándonos de nosotros y después nos cautiva hablándonos de él mismo."-Dominique Roques, In Search of Perfumes: A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents
25. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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26. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair
By: Lucy Knisley
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Library Binding
WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more
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27. The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology
By: Eric Lee-Mäder
4.43
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Delve into this fascinating appreciation of milkweed, an often-overlooked plant, and discover an am… read more
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28. The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent
By: Sarah McCartney
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'An authoritative guide from two experts who really know their way around scent' – FUNMI FETTO The… read more
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29. The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance
By: Mandy Aftel
4.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Breathe in the natural and cultural history of scent with this richly illustrated book inspired by … read more
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30. The Essence - Discovering the World of Scent, Perfume & Fragrance
By: Gestalten
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Scents are linked to our most cherished memories. A fleeting smell in the street-a person's perfume… read more
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31. The Big Book of Perfume
By: Le Collectif Nez
4.38
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
The team from Nez, the olfactory magazine invites you on a very special journey to explore perfume … read more
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