Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.
By: Susan Griffin
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Written in an elegant but warm and contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin distills …
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1. The 50th Law
By: Robert Greene , Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
4.17
Format: 291 pages, Imitation Leather
In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert… read more
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"fear is an emotion we find hard to resist or control"-Robert Greene, The 50th Law
"The source of (50 Cents') power is his utter fearlessness."-Robert Greene, The 50th Law
"You'll be successful as the mother fu*kers you talk to no reason"-Robert Greene, The 50th Law
"50 Cent is a master player at power, a kind of hip-hop Napoleon Bonaparte."-Robert Greene, The 50th Law
2. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
4.28
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemp… read more
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"Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
"Birth is painful and delightful. Death is painful and delightful. Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward."-Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
3. 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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- nonfiction
"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
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
4. 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
- writing
"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
5. Coffin Road
By: Peter May
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides. A man is washed up on a deserted beac… read more
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6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more
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7. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
9. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
10. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
11. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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- nonfiction
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
14. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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- writing
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
15. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
16. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- crafts
- nonfiction
- writing
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
17. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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18. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
19. 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
20. The Electricity of Every Living Thing
By: Katherine May
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more
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"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing
21. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
By: Katherine Morgan Schafler
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Energy management beats time management."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
22. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
23. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
25. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- nonfiction
27. I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt
By: Madeleine Dore
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
How to release productivity guilt and embrace the hidden values in our daily lives. Any given day … read more
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- nonfiction
"We can't be perfectly balanced as we navigate the pendulum swing of our days--we can only wobble toward what we need."-Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt
"There is no end point to our days while we are living in them. Once we arrive at the end of one, we find ourselves at the starting point of another - what happens in the middle is what we call life."-Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt
28. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
By: Elizabeth Rush
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more
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- nonfiction
"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
29. Winter Solstice: An Essay
By: Nina MacLaughlin
4.25
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neigh… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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31. Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.
By: Susan Griffin
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Written in an elegant but warm and contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin distills … read more
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