12 Best nonfiction books like Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide by Liv Sisson

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Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide

By: Liv Sisson

4.65

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter and explore the fascinating world of fungi. In this practical and up-to-date guide, forager a…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.98

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655. In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency… read more

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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

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3. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917

By: Ernest Shackleton

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more

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4. The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, #1)

By: Lucinda Riley

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"--a fabulous… read more

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5. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more

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6. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

By: Carlos Castaneda

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more

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7. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

By: Terence McKenna

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

s/t: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human Evolution For the first time in paperback, the crit… read more

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8. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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9. See You In September

By: Charity Norman

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Cassy blew a collective kiss at them. 'See you in September,' she said. A throwaway line. Just word… read more

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10. Daughter of Fortune

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-… read more

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"حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة"

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"Quien se complace en pensar en lo malo, acaba por convocarlo"

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile."

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

"You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell."

-Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

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11. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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12. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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13. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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14. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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15. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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16. Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

By: Rich Roll

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Finding Ultra is an incredible but true a… read more

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"I loved the pain, and the pain loved me back."

-Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

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17. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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18. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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19. To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the h… read more

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"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe."

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act."

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family…"

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"...I took a deep breath and a first step, and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I had imagined. I think every child should have an experience like the f…"

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

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20. Straight Up

By: Ruby Tui

4.38

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more

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"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"

-Ruby Tui, Straight Up

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21. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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22. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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23. The Pōrangi Boy

By: Shilo Kino

4.14

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwh… read more

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24. After the Forest

By: Kell Woods

3.81

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurt… read more

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"And old enough to know that womenfolk have little enough power of their own. That is why they must have their charms and their tricks. Their books and their ink and blood. Their eyes, their smiles, t…"

-Kell Woods, After the Forest

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25. Around the World in 80 Trees

By: Jonathan Drori

4.57

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Trees are one of humanity's most constant yet most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tr… read more

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26. She Is Not Your Rehab: One Man’s Journey to Healing and the Global Anti-Violence Movement He Inspired

By: Matt Brown

4.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

At My Fathers Barbers, Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers men a haircut with a difference… read more

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27. Bookshop Dogs

By: Ruth Shaw

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Heartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the bestselling author of The Bookseller a… read more

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28. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

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29. Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide

By: Liv Sisson

4.65

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter and explore the fascinating world of fungi. In this practical and up-to-date guide, forager a… read more

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30. Kataraina (Auē, #2)

By: Becky Manawatu

4.41

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

In Aue eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm… read more

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31. The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines

By: Pippa Latour

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After decades of silence, the last surviving World War II British spy reveals the real, untold stor… read more

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3.90

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3.84

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