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10 best books like Braided Creek (Jim Harrison): How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018, An American Sunrise: Poems, Nobody Move, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, Splitting an Order, Delights and Shadows, Red Bird, This Great Unknowing: Last Poems, Leavings

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
AuthorJenny Odell
ISBN1612197493
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.

When the technologies we use every day collapse...
So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN1556595387
"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." --Salon

"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." --Margaret Atwood

"There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le...
An American Sunrise: Poems
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN1324003863
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds...
Nobody Move
AuthorPhilip Elliott
ISBN1775381358
Winner: Indie Author Project Ontario • Shortlisted: Millennium Book Award • Shortlisted: Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award • Longlisted: Blue Pencil First Novel Award

"Elliott has a real feel for comedic noir in the Elmore Leonard vein, and his debut novel screams cult classic"...
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
AuthorLawrence S. Ritter
ISBN0688112730
All these were honored in their generation,
And were the glory of their times.
Ecclesiasticus 44:7




Boston Red Sox, spring traing, 1915. Hot Springs Arkansas
Highlighted players, left to right
Smokey Joe Wood
Dutch Leonard
Babe Ruth
Carl Mays
Germany...
Splitting an Order
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN1556594690
One of the "Big Indie Books of Fall 2014"—Publishers Weekly

Paterson Poetry Prize, 2015

"Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda,The Washington Post

“Readers [of Splitting an...
Delights and Shadows
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN1556592019
American author Ted Kooser is a master of metaphor, a poet who deftly connects disparate elements of the world and communicates with absolute precision. Critics call him a "haiku-like imagist" and his poems have been compared to Chekov's short stories. In Delights and Shadows, Kooser draws inspiration...
Red Bird
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068926
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit,...
This Great Unknowing: Last Poems
AuthorDenise Levertov
ISBN0811214583
A CRYPTIC SIGN

August. The woods are silent.
No sway of treetops, no skitter of squirrels,
no startled bird. Sky fragments
in rifts of canopy,
palest silken blue.

AWARE

When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among
themselves...
Leavings
AuthorWendell Berry
ISBN1582435340
No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.

Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters,...
The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN1582436290
Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations—harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world—move...
The Tiny Journalist
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1942683731
Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults. The collection is inspired by the story of Janna Tamimi, the "Youngest Journalist in Palestine," who at age 7 began capturing videos of anti-occupation...
A Rumor of War
AuthorPhilip Caputo
ISBN1250117127
The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers.

In March of 1965, Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed at Danang with the first ground combat unit deployed...
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