Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards

8 best books like Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards (Sara Bonnett Stein): Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, The Book Charmer, Permanent Record, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, Belle Prater's Boy, The Orphans of Race Point, A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Author	Scott Jurek
ISBN	0547569653

For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. Until recently he held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run.

In Eat and Run, Jurek opens...

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...

The Book Charmer

Author	Karen Hawkins
ISBN	1982105542

The New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular MacLean Curse series crafts a charming and evocative story about a picturesque Southern town, two fiercely independent women, and a magical friendship that will change their lives forever.

The residents of Dove Pond, North Carolina,...

Permanent Record

Author	Edward Snowden
ISBN	1250237238

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

Author	Joyce Sidman
ISBN	0544717139

Robert F. Sibert Medal winner

Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.”  Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them?

One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was...

Belle Prater's Boy

Author	Ruth White
ISBN	0440413729

An alternate cover edition can be found here.

When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodrow can accept...

The Orphans of Race Point

Author	Patry Francis
ISBN	0062281305

Set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a suspenseful page-turning saga of love, murder, and the true meaning of faith from the author of the acclaimed The Liar’s Diary.

Set in the close-knit Portuguese community of Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Orphans of Race Point traces the relationship...

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Author

Neil Gorsuch

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on his journey to the Supreme Court, the role of the judge under our Constitution, and the vital responsibility of each American to keep our republic strong.
 
As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was reportedly...