Books like Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

After her father’s sudden death, Helen Macdonald turns to falconry, training a fierce goshawk named Mabel as a way to cope with grief and explore human-animal bonds.

John Muir’s first summer in the Sierra Nevada is presented as a biographical and natural‑history account, enriched by photographs from Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by Muir himself.

A thoughtful meditation on Annie Dillard’s creative process, woven from anecdotes and vignettes that illuminate her distinctive prose style.

When the Coverdale family is killed in a brutal, televised act on Valentine’s Day, Detective Vetch must unravel the motives behind the housekeeper’s shocking method and the hidden key to a long‑guarded family secret.

A curated selection of Annie Dillard’s most celebrated essays and short pieces, offering an accessible entry into her distinctive prose.

This book, in a comprehensive manner, provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop or agricultural productivity to meet the demands of a growing population, linking descriptions of physiological, ecological, biochemical and molecular activity in plants with their tolerance and adaptation to natural environments. In the case of plants, a stress is an adverse condition or substance that affects or blocks a plant’s metabolism, growth, or development. The threat to productivity in crops and agriculture due to these stresses cannot be overstated, nor overlooked, especially in light of climate change. The information covered in this book will be helpful in building strategies to counter the impact of stress on plants. The book also provides an overview of the essential disciplines required for sustainable crop and agricultural production for policymakers, scientists, academics, and students of plant science, agricultural science, environmental science, biochemistry, biotechnology, and related areas.

50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth by John Javna is a book that was originally self-published in 1990, and became a #1 bestseller, selling 5 million copies b/t 1990 and 1995, at which point it was taken out of print. It became an early success in the green movement, and inspired many books in the years after its publication.THE NEW 50 SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SAVE THE EARTH is a wholly new edition, using all the new information and techniques for living a green life, condensed into 50 of the most important, and most pragmatic, actions. With the recent resurgence of interest, and cultural focus, on living green, this book seems the perfect answer to those who wish they could be more environmentally conscious, but find themselves intimidated by the glut of information out there.

An exhilarating nonfiction account of explorers who climb California's tallest coast redwoods to reveal a hidden, canopy‑filled world teeming with rare plants and wildlife.

Janet Dailey’s romance Heart of Stone opens her state‑by‑state collection, inviting readers on a romantic tour of the United States—this first installment set in New Hampshire.