A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home
By: Jerry Dennis
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown
4.25
Format: 509 pages, Paperback
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more
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"It is too often the case,"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more
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- nonfiction
"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
3. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
By: Greg McKeown
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more
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- nonfiction
4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
6. Lonesome Dove
By: Larry McMurtry
4.00
Format: 117 pages,
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more
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7. Angle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
3.56
Format: None pages,
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more
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8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
By: Robert M. Pirsig
3.78
Format: 540 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a medi… read more
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"This forest silence improves anyone."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"The more you read, the more you calm down."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. "-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."-Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
9. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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10. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
11. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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- nonfiction
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
12. Just Before Dark
By: Jim Harrison
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jim Harrison's essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues a… read more
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13. Men and Style: Essays, Interviews, and Considerations
By: David Coggins
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller Men and Stylereaches beyond standard "what to wear" advice: It is equal pa… read more
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14. The Royal Wulff Murders (Sean Stranahan, #1)
By: Keith McCafferty
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A clever and fast-paced murder mystery full of wit, suspense, and fly fishing. When a fishing guid… read more
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15. Silverview
By: John Le Carré
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more
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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."-John Le Carré, Silverview
"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"-John Le Carré, Silverview
16. 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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- nature
"[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
17. The Last Ranger
By:
None
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more
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- nature
18. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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- nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
19. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
20. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nature
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
21. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nature
22. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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- nonfiction
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
24. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- nonfiction
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
25. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more
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26. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- nonfiction
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
27. The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life
By: David Coggins
4.38
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An “excellent” ( The New York Times ) modern tribute to an ageless pastime, and a practical guide t… read more
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- nature
28. 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
- nature
"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
29. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
By: Dan Egan
4.34
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more
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- nature
"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
30. Trout Water, A Year on the Au Sable
By: Josh Greenberg
4.07
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
At the beginning of trout fishing season, Josh Greenberg — proprietor of one of the nation’s most f… read more
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- nature
31. A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on Home
By: Jerry Dennis
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
More than a collection of fishing stories, A Place on the Water is a passionate and eloquent explor… read more
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