Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer
305.597 Kim

Explains how developing a wider ecological consciousness can foster an increased understanding of both nature's generosity and the reciprocal relationship humans have with the natural world.—Baker & Taylor



"It reminds people about our interconnection with and dependency on the natural world and suggests how to live fully and well in our place."—Submitted by Morning W., Community Engagement Librarian


Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • Spoon River Anthology


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • Oreo


  • Robin


  • Birdie and Me


  • The Friend


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • War and Peace


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Watchmen


  • Suttree


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


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  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Fog Island


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • Dawn


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • Wolf Hall


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • The Wild Robot


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Lost Horizon


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  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • The Stand


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Cinder


  • The Lost Coast


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • The Ghost Clause


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • Unterzakhn


  • Parable of the Sower


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • The Room : A Novel


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • The Last Wish


  • Persepolis


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • The Snowy Day


  • Rural Free


  • Dune Messiah


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • The Jordan Rules


  • The King's Stilts


  • The Music Lesson


  • The Silmarillion


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • Providence


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • The Woman in White


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


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  • In Full Color


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  • The Index Card


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  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Dietland


  • Giver of Stars


  • Siddhartha


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Dragon Bound


  • Little Bear


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  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • On A Sunbeam


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • Tropic of Cancer


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  • Six Seasons


  • Naked Lunch


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  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


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  • Jane Eyre


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Cannery Row


  • Running with Sherman


  • The Library


  • Travels With Charley


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • The Go-Between


  • The Stardust Road


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • Wired


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  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • Catch 22


  • Gilead


  • Raintree County


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Dune


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • The Shipping News


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • X'ed Out


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Figuring


  • The Blue Sword


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • The Goldfinch


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • Wild Beauty


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Shell Seekers


  • East of Eden


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • Life


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Oleanna


  • Strange Planet


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • The Far Field


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • Station Eleven


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Sunny


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • Riddley Walker


  • Growth of the Soil


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Dark of the Moon


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • VALIS


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Little Prince


  • Copper Beach


  • Hopscotch


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Foundryside


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Big Sur


  • The Pirate Coast


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • What is the What


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • Through a Life


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook