An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey
By: Mairi Hedderwick
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In An Eye on the Hebrides , Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from…
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1. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
By: Roger Deakin
4.27
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
2. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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3. Bookman Dead Style (A Dangerous Type Mystery, #2)
By: Paige Shelton
3.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
A movie star is typecast as a killer in the second Dangerous Type Mystery from the New York Times b… read more
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4. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
5. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
6. Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
By: Alistair Moffat
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
While Scotland’s history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there… read more
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- nonfiction
- scotland
7. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- nonfiction
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
8. The Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
3.98
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to The Salt Path. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence
9. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
10. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
11. Two Women Walk into a Bar
By: Cheryl Strayed
4.06
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Unsheltered
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and c… read more
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"Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
"Thatcher wondered what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
"Teaching struck Willa as a saintly calling, especially given the pay. But even saints shouldn't be stuck with intro classes forever."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
"First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival."-Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered
13. A Trip of One’s Own
By: Kate Wills
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A travel story is the best story of them all ... Travel journalist Kate Wills wasn't expecting t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
14. The Instant
By: Amy Liptrot
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Wishing to leave the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- scotland
"In the simplest terms, the internet is made from pulses of light."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
"Hearts and futures can turn on a single afternoon or an accepted invitation - but more often lead to nothing but themselves."-Amy Liptrot, The Instant
15. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- scotland
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
16. Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.02
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Wate… read more
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- nonfiction
- scotland
17. Bothy Tales: Footsteps in the Scottish hills
By: John D. Burns
3.96
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE GREAT OUTDOORS BOOK OF THE YEAR John D Burns is an award winning mount… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- scotland
18. Comic Sans Murder (Dangerous Type Mystery, #3)
By: Paige Shelton
3.83
Format: 279 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Clare Henry's snowy Star City, Utah, oasis turns deadly in the third Dangerous Type Mystery from th… read more
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19. Meet Me at the Lighthouse: Poems
By: Dana Gioia
3.83
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A wondrous new collection by Dana Gioia, “one of America’s premier poets and critics” (Julia Alvare… read more
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20. Retirement Rebel: One woman, one motorhome, one great big adventure
By: Siobhan Daniels
3.72
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG to start living lif… read more
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- nonfiction
21. An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey
By: Mairi Hedderwick
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In An Eye on the Hebrides , Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from… read more
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- nonfiction
- scotland
