Nonfiction

On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation (Paperback)

By Alexandra Horowitz

$17.00

ISBN: 9781439191262

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Published: Scribner - April 15th, 2014

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Horowitz takes a series of walks around her neighborhood accompanied by various experts: bug knowers, typeface designers, rockhounds; connoisseurs of sounds, spines, couches, crowds. How much can you learn about the world around you just by learning how to notice things?

Piera

Ritual: An Essential Grimoire (Hardcover)

By Damien Echols, Lorri Davis

$26.99

ISBN: 9781683648208

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Published: Sounds True - April 26th, 2022

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If you want one witchy book for your shelf, pick this one. If you have a shelf of witchy books, then this is the perfect addition. Unlike other magical reference books, Damien & Lorri stay grounded, and a big section of this book is dedicated breathing and grounding exercises! Great for newbies, experts, and curious kids alike.

Murphy

Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes (Paperback)

By Bernadette Banner

$21.99

ISBN: 9781645674863

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Published: Page Street Publishing - May 17th, 2022

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When you're almost 6 1/2 feet tall, you find out that 32x36 pants aren't exacly growing on trees. Anything you can learn to make them last longer is well worth the effort.

John

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness (Paperback)

By Anne Harrington

$17.95

ISBN: 9780393358063

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 16th, 2020

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An especially fascinating and thorough story of the reflections of societal beliefs in the mental health field over the years. From the horrific eugenics movement to our current world, Mind Fixers is a great read for anyone even moderately interested in the often chilling and intersectional history of how psychology/psychiatry came to be what they are, and how that morbid history still informs us today, despite all the progress made.

Seamus

Girlhood (Paperback)

By Melissa Febos

$18.00

ISBN: 9781635579314

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 24th, 2022

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For devotees of Machado's In the Dream House and Nelson's The Argonauts, Febos's coming-of-age memoir is also an interpolation of myth, psychoanalysis, and other women's stories. Focusing on the aggressions (against herself and others) that all too often lead to internalized patriarchal values, shame, and learned passivity, she also tells a story of empowerment as she finds herself as a queer woman, dominatrix, and fierce defender of her own sense of agency.

Rachael

The Way of the Hive: A Honey Bee's Story (Paperback)

By Jay Hosler, Jay Hosler (Illustrator)

$13.99

ISBN: 9780063007352

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Published: HarperAlley - April 20th, 2021

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I read this in its original iteration, Clan Apis, in probably 2006 when I was 10 and Very Scared Of Bees. I am not exaggerating when I say it changed my relationship to bees entirely - I went from fear and mistrust to awe, appreciation, and curiosity. Jay Hosler's approach to what is essentially an explanation of What Bees Are is funny, interesting, and moving, and his artwork is top-tier.

Piera

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution (Hardcover)

By Eric Jay Dolin

$32.50

ISBN: 9781631498251

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Published: Liveright - May 31st, 2022

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For Liberty, for Independence, and because it pays better than the navy.

John

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Hardcover)

By Kelly Lytle Hernández

$30.00

ISBN: 9781324004370

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 10th, 2022

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Mexico's 1910 revolution involved -- among other conspirators -- a group of dissident journalists who launched attacks from the US while also fighting US imperialism in Mexico.

Sarah

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil (Hardcover)

By Tina Brown

$35.00

ISBN: 9780593138090

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Published: Crown - April 26th, 2022

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Author and editor extraordinary Tina Brown (The Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker) takes on the British Royal Family in this absorbing chronicle of life at the palace. Well-researched and filled with insider knowledge, with great skill Brown tells this captivating story with all its glorious traditions (think QE2), and shocking scandals (think Prince Andrew).

Nathan

A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion (Hardcover)

By Mara Rockliff, Juana Martinez-Neal (Illustrator)

$17.99

ISBN: 9780358125433

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Published: Clarion Books - April 12th, 2022

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It's easy to forget sometimes that there was a real person behind a name. Thankfully, there are picture books like this one to tell the stories of amazing people who struggled and persevered like Lena Bryant. An absolute beauty of a book that is a perfect fit for the subject matter, with such a great message for those of us who always feel like we're sewing without a pattern.
Stacey