May Sarton: A Self-Portrait
By: May Sarton
4.05
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
Presents the distinguished poet talking spontaneously about herself and her work and reading from h…
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1. Straight Man
By: Richard Russo
3.88
Format: 136 pages,
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hila… read more
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2. News of the World
By: Paulette Jiles
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more
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3. Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
By: Thomas Rainer , Claudia West
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
"As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action." --Chicago Tribune Over time, wi… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
5. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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6. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- nonfiction
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
7. Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13)
By: Paul Doiron
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappe… read more
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8. Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
By: Jo Nesbø
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own… read more
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"Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better."-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
"She was upfront like that, a one man woman, and always had been. Even if Markus was far from being a one woman man. Because it wasn’t about what he thought of her, but about what she thought of herse…"-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
"Have you ever thought about how as children we expect unconditional love from our parents, without giving anything in return? But then we grow up and things change completely. When do you think we st…"-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
9. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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10. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
By: Laurie Notaro
3.97
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. L… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
11. Silver Alert
By: Lee Smith
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more
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12. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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13. A Scone to Die For (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries, #1)
By: H.Y. Hanna
4.02
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in Gemma Rose’s quaint Oxf… read more
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14. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- nonfiction
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
15. Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
By: Sharon Blackie
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated new book by the author of the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, empowering w… read more
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- nonfiction
16. The Beauty in Breaking
By: Michele Harper
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
"...this is not a book about romance or a chronicle of loss. It is a story of love rebuilt better; the story of a butterfly birthed from goo; the story of newly grown wings that beat to a higher vibra…"-Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking
17. Life in the Garden
By: Penelope Lively
3.58
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
The two central activities in my life - alongside writing - have been reading and gardening. Pen… read more
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"So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulo…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
"Anthropomorphism is unavoidable, I am finding, in writing about gardening: weeds don't just grow, they grow with intent, they grow aggressively. Well, they do, as any gardener knows. They sneak in an…"-Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden
18. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.32
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more
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"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
19. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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20. May Sarton: A Self-Portrait
By: May Sarton
4.05
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
Presents the distinguished poet talking spontaneously about herself and her work and reading from h… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- autobiography
21. From May Sarton's Well: Writings of May Sarton
By: Edith Royce Schade
4.34
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Like many other women, Connecticut photographer Edith Royce Schade first discovered May Sarton's wr… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
