Donna

Myopic from birth, Donna revels in taking a closer look. Her work at VB includes helping to keep the website up to date, and buying used books. Reading tastes and personal interests tend towards art/craft, psychology/philosophy, biography/memoir, ecology/sustainability, and all sorts of concepts that are way over her head.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (Hardcover)

By David Abram

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780375421716
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Published: Pantheon, 8/2010

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A self described magician, Abrams leaps from nature writing and autobiographical reflection to anthropology and mysticism with an agility that's amazing. His vivid and dazzling prose turns philosophy into adventure!

Gilead (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780312424404
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Published: Picador, 1/2006

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Lyrical, contemplative and thoroughly uplifting, this beautiful novel is slow food for the harried mind. Tracing the experiences of an aging man looking back on his experiences of family, it is a richly conceived reflection on forgiveness and love.

Mink River (Paperback)

By Brian Doyle

$18.95

ISBN-13: 9780870715853
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Published: Oregon State University Press, 10/2010

State of Wonder (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett

$15.99

ISBN-13: 9780062049810
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Published: Harper Perennial, 5/2012

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The Buddha in the Attic (Paperback)

By Julie Otsuka

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780307744425
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Published: Anchor, 6/2012

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A haunting collection of impressionist prose paintings that beautifully capture the immigrant experience in all of its subjective complexity.

Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers (Paperback)

By Peter Reinhart

$19.99

ISBN-13: 9781580088022
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Published: Ten Speed Press, 9/2006

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Just a day after I took a vow of "NO More Cookbooks!", I decided this one is indispensable. A new year's resolution that lasted less then 24 hours...

The Informed Gardener (Paperback)

By Linda Chalker-Scott

$18.95

ISBN-13: 9780295987903
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Published: University of Washington Press, 3/2008

This book challenges a lot of the most fervently held beliefs we've been hearing all our lives. I may be reading it every year, until I get all those outdated notions interplanted with some new ones....