Grandfather

9 best books like Grandfather (Tom Brown Jr.): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, King Rat, Dead as a Doornail, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, The Wandering Earth, The Earthsea Quartet, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology, Shackleton's Boat Journey, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Author	Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN	1571313354

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together...

King Rat

Author	James Clavell
ISBN	0385333765

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses,...

Dead as a Doornail

Author	Charlaine Harris
ISBN	0441013333

Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural—but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time—a transformation...

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	0060595183

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of The Doors of Perception ...

The Wandering Earth

Author

Liu Cixin

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.

I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.

The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash,...

The Earthsea Quartet

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0140154272

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RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018: The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4) by Ursula K. Le Guin



"To light a candle, is to cast a shadow": Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018


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She: Understanding Feminine Psychology

Author	Robert A. Johnson
ISBN	0060963972

What does it mean to be a woman? What is the pathway to mature femininity? And what of the masculine components of a woman's personality? Robert A. Johnson explores these questions in this new edition of She, updated to reflect the growth of his thinking on these subjects.

Many writers and scholars...

Shackleton's Boat Journey

Author	Frank A. Worsley
ISBN	1841580635

This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton...

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Author

John O'Donohue

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for soul friend, the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the...