The Forgotten Pollinators

10 best books like The Forgotten Pollinators (Stephen L. Buchmann): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Stormwarden, Song for the Unraveling of the World, The Open Curtain, Gabriel's Story, Mistress of the Empire, Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West, Shadowfane, This Is the Way the World Ends, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Author	Aldo Leopold
ISBN	0195007778

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...

Stormwarden

Author	Janny Wurts
ISBN	0061054623

“The waters of the world are deep. Chart your course with care.”

Wizards, demons and coming of age story with a twist. All in a classic epic fantasy setting of the noble good against the hideous evil.

Stormwarden! What a great title, no? Yet, be warned that the wizard of wind and wave,...

Song for the Unraveling of the World

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	1566895480

A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia,...

The Open Curtain

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	1566891884

When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 New York Times chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Delving deeply into the Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice used in the murders, Rudd, along with his...

Gabriel's Story

Author	David Anthony Durham
ISBN	0385720335

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with...

Mistress of the Empire

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0553561189

The world on the other side of the rift:  Kelewan, a land seething with political intrigue and deadly conspiracies.  Following the opulent panoply of Daughter Of The Empire and the dazzling pageantry of Servant Of The Empire comes the resounding conclusion to the Empire trilogy.



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Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West

Author	Beatrice Hohenegger
ISBN	0312333285

Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, culture, and religion. Behind this most serene of beverages, idolized by poets and revered in spiritual practices, lie stories of treachery, violence, smuggling,...

Shadowfane

Author	Janny Wurts
ISBN	0061054704

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Shadowfane, the concluding volume of Janny Wurts’ Cycle of Fire trilogy is an action-packed and exciting finale. As humankind is being destroyed by demons (who we now know are aliens) Jaric has realized that he has no choice but to brave the Cycle...

This Is the Way the World Ends

Author	James K. Morrow
ISBN	0156002086

I think that for all of us who read regularly to the point where we can't imagine a life without doing it, there are one or two books that feel like they're Ours. Things we found without prompting, discoveries we made ourselves with no help or guidance from anyone or anything, but which change us in a way and...

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Author

Bart D. Ehrman

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.

The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...