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


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  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • Rural Free


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • The Snowy Day


  • Near to the Wild Heart


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


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  • Cinder


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Jane Eyre


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • The King's Stilts


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Through a Life


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


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  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


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  • The Far Field


  • Ulysses


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • The Wild Robot


  • In Full Color


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Word Is Murder


  • Dealing with Dragons


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


  • The Go-Between


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


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  • The Ghost Clause


  • Dietland


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Warrior of the Wild


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


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • The Blue Sword


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • True Grit


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Birdie and Me


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • Wolf Hall


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • The Library


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • The Color Monster


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • The Luster of Lost Things


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


  • The Last Wish


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  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Watchmen


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Fog Island


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • The Silmarillion


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


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


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Travels With Charley


  • Oreo


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • The Lost Coast


  • Wild Beauty


  • Copper Beach


  • Patriot Games


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Dragon Bound


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


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  • Three Things About Elsie


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  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


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  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


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  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


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  • The Shell Seekers


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Growth of the Soil


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Raintree County


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • The Index Card


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • Lost Horizon


  • East of Eden


  • Life


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Suttree


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • What is the What


  • War and Peace


  • Figuring


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


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • X'ed Out


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Little Bear


  • Dune Messiah


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • Hopscotch


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Dark of the Moon


  • Running with Sherman


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • Dune


  • The Goldfinch


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


  • A Little Princess


  • Dawn


  • Strange Planet


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • The Woman in White


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  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Unterzakhn


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • On A Sunbeam


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • Wired


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


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


  • Parable of the Sower


  • The Snow Child


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • Cannery Row


  • The Stardust Road


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • Big Sur


  • The House at Pooh Corner


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  • Clear and Present Danger


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