Three Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson Jr.
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
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1. Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
By: Peter Singer
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential philosopher. He is also one of its … read more
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"If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate ch…"-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
"We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are insufficient to outweigh these prolonged negative states. If we think tha…"-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
2. The Varieties of Religious Experience
By: William James
3.56
Format: 304 pages,
Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered in Edinburgh 1901/2 "I am neither a theolo… read more
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3. The View from Castle Rock
By: Alice Munro
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories th… read more
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4. Thoreau: A Sublime Life
By: Maximilien Le Roy , A. Dan
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to l… read more
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5. Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
By: Chögyam Trungpa , Carolyn Rose Gimian , Pema Chödrön
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fear… read more
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6. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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7. 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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- nature
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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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- nature
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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. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more
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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
10. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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11. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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12. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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13. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
By: Ada Calhoun
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relation… read more
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14. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- biography
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
15. Three Roads Back
By: Robert D. Richardson Jr.
3.67
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William Jam… read more
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16. Shanghai
By: Joseph Kanon
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more
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17. Peace Of Wild Things
By: Wendell Berry
4.41
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come int… read more
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18. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more
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19. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- biography
- death
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
20. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
By: Geoff Dyer
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more
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21. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
22. American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
By: Neil King Jr.
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C. to New York City—an unfor… read more
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- nature
23. Tell
By: Jonathan Buckley
3.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more
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24. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
By: Anne Boyd Rioux
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”―Wendy Smith, Boston Globe In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy , Anne … read more
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- history
- biography
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"And if boys enjoy books about aliens, which they certainly do, why not also books about girls?"-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
"As girls gravitate to more contemporary fare and away from Little Women , they are missing a lot. Today’s successors to Little Women seem to have overlooked two of the most important themes of Alcott…"-Anne Boyd Rioux, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
25. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
By: Andre Dubus III
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Essays from the literary master and bestselling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradic… read more
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26. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
By: Pico Iyer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more
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- essays
27. Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: James Marcus
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More… read more
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- biography
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28. Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
By: Kay Redfield Jamison
3.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind considers the age-old … read more
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- history
29. The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
By: Leo Damrosch
3.92
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathe… read more
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30. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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31. Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
By: Lissa Soep
4.33
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
What if the great love of your life is friendship? In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend … read more
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