Mariner Books, June 2007. Trade Paperback. CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Winner of the Stonewall Book Award - Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award - Nominated for the GLAAD Media Award Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling..... More
AK Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls..... More
adrienne maree brown is a thought leader of this moment, reminding us that coming home to our bodies--learning to love ourselves and others in bigger and better ways--is an essential step in radical, societal transformation.
University of Pittsburgh Press, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away--loved..... More
Ross Gay is a delight. Keep this one close at hand.
Dutton Books, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People "The Anthropocene Reviewed is essential to the human conversation."..... More
This book got me. Part cultural critique, part personal reflection, John Green hits the spot in the satisfying manner of a Gladwell, Sedaris, or Klosterman. He writes with heart, humor and precision, balancing perfectly the contradictory experience of loving humanity and mourning for all that we've cost the world. Even more impressive in that he writes from the vantage point of 2020-21, and yet his reflections on the pandemic don't feel trite, dated or "too soon," but perfectly placed within his theme of exploring the era in which humans find themselves, poised at the precipice of an unknown future built by our own foolish excess. I give "The Anthropocene, Reviewed" 5 stars.
Vintage, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on..... More
Couldn't put it down. Essential reading for all Americans.
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the..... More
Kimmerer gives voice to all that I've felt as I've fallen in love with plants, making clear and crisp their language, and the reasons for humans to listen. It is only through reciprocity that we can live sustainably, it is only by receiving and returning the gift the land gives us that we evolve as we are meant to.
Oxford University Press, May 2020. Paper Back. Few books have had a greater impact than A Sand County Almanac, which many credit with launching a revolution in land management. Written as a series of sketches based principally upon the flora and fauna in a rural part of Wisconsin, the book..... More
Sketches from Leopold's life and his encounters with wild things. Not a hunter myself, I learn so much from the land ethic he has developed through that practice, am agog at all that he can read about the history of a place in the brush, birds, over- and under-stories. Necessary philosophy for all would-be ecologists and naturalists of all ages and enthusiasms.
Knopf Publishing Group, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "Relentlessly exciting ... My top recommendation for this summer." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator..... More
Captivating. Truly the best novel I've read all year. The trappings of gendered expectations--their queering, and the consequences for those who queer them--are at the heart of this epic. Here, too, you'll find rich queries on freedom, purpose, flight, desire, and the infinite horizon of loneliness. Can't recommend it enough.
Greystone Books, September 2016. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With more than 2 million copies sold worldwide, this beautifully-written book journeys deep into the forest to uncover the fascinating--and surprisingly moving--hidden life of trees. "At once romantic and scientific, [Wohlleben's] view of the forest calls on us all..... More
