Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home
By: John Messick
4.29
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
In essays that traverse latitudes and continents, John Messick's Compass Lines explores the paths w…
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1. Alas, Babylon
By: Pat Frank
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more
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2. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
By: Sy Montgomery
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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- nonfiction
4. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes"-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
5. The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun #2)
By: Gene Wolfe
3.78
Format: 416 pages,
Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic… read more
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6. Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska
By: Hank Lentfer
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Faith of Cranes weaves together three parallel narratives: the plight and beauty of sandhill cranes… read more
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7. Taproot
By: Keezy Young
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, H… read more
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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)
By: Rebecca Thorne
3.82
Format: 388 pages, ebook
All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more
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10. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
11. 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
12. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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13. Your Shadow Half Remains
By: Sunny Moraine
3.38
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more
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14. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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15. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
16. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
17. Small Game
By: Blair Braverman
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping debut novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers s… read more
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18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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19. 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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20. The Fiancée Farce
By: Alexandria Bellefleur
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a s… read more
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21. Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
By: Kieron Gillen
4.01
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv,… read more
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"This isn't a conversation. This is the sort of monologue you run in your head with lovers you'll never speak to again. This is what happens when thoughts curdle."-Kieron Gillen, Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
22. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
By: L.M. Sagas
3.92
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more
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23. The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more
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24. The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women, #4)
By: Evie Dunmore
3.66
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer's block, a tense ti… read more
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"I rolled my eyes. "You're such a pessimist." "Realist," he corrected. "A glass-half-empty sort of guy." "No, I'm a the-liquid-could-be-poisoned sort of guy."-Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women, #4)
"You seem amused, Mr. Khoury--I assure you I took learning the language quite seriously." His smile widened. "I just wondered," he said, "is it very lonely, being so clever?"-Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women, #4)
"We will not do this again," he said. They took measure of each other's damp faces and turbulent eyes, and without any more words being exchanged they both knew that they would absolutely do this agai…"-Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women, #4)
25. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
26. The Cold Millions
By: Jess Walter
3.96
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another “literary miracle” … read more
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27. 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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"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
28. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
By: Tiya Miles
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more
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29. Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home
By: John Messick
4.29
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
In essays that traverse latitudes and continents, John Messick's Compass Lines explores the paths w… read more
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30. Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace
By: Iman Vellani
3.60
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Ms. Marvel continues her adventures as an X-Man, fighting to protect a neighborhood that hates and … read more
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31. On the Plus Side
By: Ashley Cowger
5.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
"'What happened next?' That's what everyone always asks. 'Did you break up or what? Did you have th… read more
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