Small Wonder
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful exami…
Want to Read $ 14.99"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
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1. Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What good company Mary Oliver is!" the Los Angeles Times has remarked. And never more so than in t… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
2. George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation (Little Books of Wisdom)
By: George Washington
4.08
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
3. The Painted Drum
By: Louise Erdrich
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New … read more
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4. Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting
By: Stu Campbell
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
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5. Even The Stars Look Lonesome
By: Maya Angelou
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her uni… read more
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6. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez , J.S. Bernstein
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the d… read more
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7. Truth and Beauty
By: Ann Patchett
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more
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8. What Now?
By: Ann Patchett
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestsell… read more
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9. LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more
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10. Small Wonder
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful exami… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder book and Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder
- audiobook
- memoir
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- environment
- nature
- science
"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to …"-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
11. The Diviners
By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie,… read more
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12. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
13. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
15. 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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- memoir
- philosophy
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- nature
- audiobook
"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
16. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- audiobook
17. Faith: A Journey For All
By: Jimmy Carter
3.85
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
In this powerful and personal New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how fa… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
By: Margaret Renkl
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art o… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
19. The Art of the Wasted Day
By: Patricia Hampl
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a pi… read more
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- memoir
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"In my reading, I sought a contemporary, someone who lived what I thought of as my “other life,"-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
"what is the foundation of contemplative life? 'Oh, she said, without a pause -- leisure, it's based on leisure."-Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day
20. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- adult
- environment
- nature
21. Like This Afternoon Forever
By: Jaime Manrique
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian governm… read more
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