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Laura
Ducks: Two Years in the Oils Sands
Kate Beaton
This is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.
- Laura
Crisanne
How We Live Is How We Die
Pema Chödrön
Understand the many changes in our lives to find more freedom and less fear. We might try to resist, but endings happen in every moment: the end of a relationship, the end of a day, the end of life.
- Crisanne
Jeanne
The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
Danna Staaf
Jeanne Villepreux-Power, to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, had to invent a contraption to hold them―the aquarium
- Jeanne
Carli
The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
Samantha Hunt
This book revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence. And at its heart is the immense weight of love.
- Carli
Dennis
Underland
Robert Macfarlane
An epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.
- Dennis
Gloria
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel Van der Kolk
This book transforms our understanding of traumatic stress and offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives.
- Gloria
Joanna
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
This explores women and the costs to women (the violence against women) inherent in shifts to capitalism.
- Joanna
Joanna
Surfacing
Kathleen Jamie
A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world
- Joanna
Melissa
Burn The Place
Iliana Regan
Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to running her Michelin-starred restaurant.
- Melissa
Sarah
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
Hugh Eakin
The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World WarII.
- Sarah
Crisanne
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Patty Krawec
This is a gentle approach on encouraging and a new perspective and relationship with land and the people who were here first.
- Crisanne
Joanna
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
Eric Garcia
This explores how autistic people wrestle with systems that were not built with them in mind. The author explains that autism is a part of their identity; they don't need to be fixed.
- Joanna
Joanna
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Nancy Marie Brown
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past the edge of the known world. This reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world.
- Joanna
Crisanne
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)
Peter Wohlleben
The author shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland.
- Crisanne
Joanna
Becoming kin: an indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future
Patty Krawec
Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, this crafts a stunning, forceful call to 'unforget' our history.
- Joanna
Gloria
Harvard Business Review
Hoopla
Subjects ranging from Communication skills, Purpose Meaning and Passion, Smart Networking, Being a Great Boss and many more topics.
- Gloria
Chris
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
Craig Childs
A fresh perspective on viewing rock art. As always, the author shares his personal journey with amusing anecdotes and humility.
- Chris
Dennis
Born to be Hanged: the Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
Keith Thomsom
Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England."
- Dennis
Crisanne
Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication.
- Crisanne
Rachael
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall
The book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action?
- Rachael
Jeanne
Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?
Henry Alford
By tackling etiquette questions of our age, he presents a seriously entertaining book about grace, civility, and how we can simply treat each other better.
- Jeanne
Jeanne
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World
Andrea Wulf
This book describes his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents.
- Jeanne
Matt
Wonder: the Art and Practice of Beatrice Blue
Beatrice Blue
This is the perfect book to carry with you on all your exciting adventures, providing you with a portal to a colorful and deeply magical world.
- Matt
Laura
Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World
Traci Baxley
This book helps readers take inventory of their actions and beliefs, develop self-awareness and accountability, and become role models for their children.
- Laura
Claudia
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
This intricately presents its flawed characters working through the meaning of cultural identity, family secrets, grief, and self-preservation
- Claudia
Claudia
You Sound Like a White Girl: the Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Julissa Arce
This calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. This tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging.
- Claudia
Dennis
The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found
Gary Fuller
Both enjoyable and enlightening, this book challenges today's global generation to truly get to know their world.
- Dennis
Joanna
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
Julian Rubinstein
A multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matte
- Joanna
Joanna
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
This book fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society."-
- Joanna
Gloria
Tao Te Ching
Lau Tzu
Lao- tzu both clarifies and deepens those central religious mysteries around which our life on earth revolves.
- Gloria
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