Walden and Other Writings
By: Peter Matthiessen , Henry David Thoreau
4.26
Format: None pages,
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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- classics
- memoir
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
3. Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)
By: Janet Evanovich
3.82
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Whether it’s monkey business, funny business or getting down to business, Janet Evanovich's Lizzy a… read more
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"The only normal people are people you don't know very well." Diesel "That's a quote from a famous person," I told him. Lizzy Tucker"-Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)
"If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about traffic. Harry Potter didn't have to worry about traffic. You relize Harry Potter isn't real, righ…"-Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)
"Pbbtlt. "It smells like ham, Glo said. It must be Hatchet" Hatchet moved out of the shadows. "My intent was to capture and torture for information, but you have made my job easy. I now know the clue …"-Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)
4. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
By: Rob Bell
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
By: Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridle… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
"We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
"Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods."-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
6. Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 Pain and Passion
By: Andrea Kettenmann
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Un retrato de una artista, sobre todo una artista.(Portrait of an artist, always an artist, above a… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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- literature
- classics
- nature
"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
8. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
By: Ernest Hemingway
4.29
Format: 650 pages, Paperback
THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of E… read more
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- classics
"My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
9. Collected Poems
By: Dylan Thomas
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomascontains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented h… read more
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- literature
- classics
10. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
11. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker
4.21
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Waves are the practice of the water."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
12. Selected Stories
By: Anton Chekhov , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Z… read more
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- literature
- classics
13. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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- literature
- classics
14. The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
By: Justin Sonnenburg , Erica Sonnenburg , Andrew Weil
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking science behind the surprising source of good health Stanford University's Justin… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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- nonfiction
16. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
By: John O'Donohue
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
17. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- memoir
18. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Alfred Kazin , Alfred R. Ferguson , Jean Ferguson Carr
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, was a great writer who turned the essay into a … read more
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- essays
19. Walden and Other Writings
By: Peter Matthiessen , Henry David Thoreau
4.26
Format: None pages,
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- nature
20. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Mary Oliver , Brooks Atkinson
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell… read more
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- essays
21. The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation
By: Shinzen Young
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Audio CD
What is enlightenment? Is it a myth or is it real? On The Science of Enlightenment, you will learn … read more
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22. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
By: Douglas Coupland
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brough… read more
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23. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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24. The Expendable Man
By: Dorothy B. Hughes
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more
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25. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
By: Bartolomé de las Casas , Anthony Pagden , None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. A… read more
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26. Nature and Selected Essays
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Larzer Ziff
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young count… read more
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27. Henry David Thoreau: A Life
By: None
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and th… read more
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28. Self-Reliance and Other Essays
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental ideali… read more
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29. Be Here Now
By: Ram Dass
4.33
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more
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"Be here now."-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"Be here, now!"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"-Ram Dass, Be Here Now
30. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By: Sogyal Rinpoche
4.21
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan … read more
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- classics
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"Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent."-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feel…"-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this un…"-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote…"-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
31. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- nature
