Biography & Memoir

Explores Lopez’s writing about the natural world in the context of current concerns about the planet’s future and shares stories of Lopez’s travels, inspirations, and friendships. Edited by Kurt Caswell and James Perrin Warren. Read more

Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. Read more

By Terese Marie Mailhot. A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest. Read more

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. .. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils emerges this unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Read more

Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally. Read more

Native Hawaiian and cultural expert Kainoa Daines has spent many years teaching visitors to the islands about this time-honored wisdom, and now he has teamed up with journalist Annie Daly to share that knowledge with you.  Read more

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice―and what it takes to find shelter. Read more

Madder, matter, mater—a weed, a state of mind, a material, a meaning, a mother. Essayist and horticulturist Marco Wilkinson searches for the roots of his own selfhood among family myths and memories. Read more

An ambitious feminist anthology chronicling Indigenous rebellions around the world compiled by Sonja Eismann. Read more

An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. Read more

Pack Light follows Shilletha Curtis's journey changing the narrative of Hiking While Black—because the Great Outdoors belongs to everyone. Read more

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations. By Gregory Smithers. Read more

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is an Indigenous artist who blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power while searching for a permanent home. Read more

By Marc Hamer. From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of gardens. Read more

A breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five-year expedition in South America—by Andrea Wulf (Author), Lillian Melcher (Illustrator). Read more

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley Read more