The World Is Our Classroom: How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education
By: Cindy Ross
3.89
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Bronze Medal, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, Society of American Travel Writers "Cin…
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1. Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
By: Erica Komisar
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Audio CD
Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health and well-being of children as well… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- education
"I may be child-centric, but that doesn't make me anti-feminist. In an interview with Garage Magazine, Beyoncé (Queen Bae), who I can safely say is at the top of her profession as a singer and enterta…"-Erica Komisar, Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
2. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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- nonfiction
"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
3. At Home in the World
By: Tsh Oxenreider
4.33
Format: None pages,
As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the w… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
4. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
By: Kate Moore
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger. The Curies' newly discov… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Messenger (The Giver, #3)
By: Lois Lowry
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Messengeris the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestsell… read more
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6. Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
By: Lois Lowry
3.80
Format: 245 pages,
In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future worl… read more
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7. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By: Ben Montgomery
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
9. All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
By: James Herriot
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
The classic multimillion copy bestseller Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herri… read more
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- nonfiction
10. The Other Einstein
By: Marie Benedict
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the … read more
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11. Fish in a Tree
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more
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12. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By: Richard Louv
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourt… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- education
"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lo…"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
13. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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- nonfiction
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
14. The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)
By: Peter Brown
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild… read more
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15. The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, #2)
By: Peter Brown
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown. S… read more
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16. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
By: David von Drehle
4.00
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more
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- nonfiction
17. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
By: Becky Kennedy
4.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
18. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
By: Emily P. Freeman
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more
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- nonfiction
19. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
20. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
By: Nina Totenberg
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal succes… read more
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- nonfiction
21. The Librarian of Burned Books
By: Brianna Labuskes
3.93
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWI… read more
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"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
"p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?"-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
"The men who sough violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
"The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books
22. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
23. Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition
By: Lily Nichols
4.51
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you’ve been given about what to eat (or wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
24. The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
By: Julie Bogart
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and m… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- education
"A lifestyle of learning begins at home - with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement."-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
"If you send a child to therapy before you've been for yourself, the child rightly discerns that you consider the child the problem. If, however, you've used therapy in your life before asking your ch…"-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
"On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, a…"-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
25. The Collected Regrets of Clover
By: Mikki Brammer
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more
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"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
26. The Huntress
By: Kate Quinn
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted… Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always d… read more
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"Maybe,"-Kate Quinn, The Huntress
"Cameras didn't lie, but they could certainly mislead."-Kate Quinn, The Huntress
"Because we can keep on. Others, they try keeping on, they just..."-Kate Quinn, The Huntress
"If she had a camera, she didn't need to tell stories; she could tell the truth."-Kate Quinn, The Huntress
27. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
By: Caroline Van Hemert
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Paci… read more
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- nonfiction
"In life, we're always closer to the edge than we like to admit, never guaranteed our next breath, never sure of what will follow this moment. We're human. We're vulnerable. With love comes the risk o…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
"About Northern Wheatears: ...birds from Alaska flew nine thousand miles to Kenya; those from Canada crossed the Atlantic to spend the winter in Mauritania. For young birds, just a few weeks old, this…"-Caroline Van Hemert, The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
28. Flat Broke with Two Goats
By: Jennifer McGaha
3.26
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more
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- nonfiction
"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
29. The Whole and Healthy Family: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Mind, Body, and Spirit
By: Jodi Mockabee
4.07
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
All parents want their children to thrive, but what does that actually look like? And what does it … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
30. Why Didn't You Tell Me?
By: Carmen Rita Wong
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her ident… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The World Is Our Classroom: How One Family Used Nature and Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education
By: Cindy Ross
3.89
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Bronze Medal, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, Society of American Travel Writers "Cin… read more
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- parenting
- education
