“Somewhere Towards the End” by Diana Athill
“Promise Ahead: Vision of Hope & Action for Humanity’s Future” by Duane Elgin
“The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World” by Lewis Hyde
“On Kindness” by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
“The Sense of an Ending” by Frank Kermode
“The Immortal Life of Henrietto Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“Same Kind of Different as Me” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
“Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants” by Richard Mabey
“Perplexities of Consciousness” by Eric Schwitzgebel
“Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer” by Tim Stark
“The Book of Imaginary Beings” by Jorge Luis Borges
“Quiet” by Susan Cain
“What the Robin Knows” by Jon Young
“You: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person” Edited by Kim Dana Kupperman with Heather G. Simons and James M. Chesbro
“Shott’s Original Miscellany” by Ben Schott
“Clouds” by Eric M. Wilcox
“Imagine: How Creativity Works” by Jonah Lehrer
“Art and Wonder: An Illustrated Anthology of Visionary Poetry” Selected by Kate Farrell
“The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate” by Piero Ferrucci
“Care of the Soul” by Thomas Moore
“Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation” by Thomas Merton
“The Expanded Quotable Einstein” collected & edited by Alice Calaprice
“Choosing Civility” by P.M. Forni
“Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants” the Brooklyn Botantic Garden
“What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell
“The Tower, The Zoo, And the Tortoise” by Julia Stuart
“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Ill Nature” by Joy Williams
“Barrel Fever” by David Sedaris
“Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” by David Sedaris
A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
What Have You Lost poems selected & edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
Primitive Mentor by Dean Young
The Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye
My House by Nikki Giovanni
American Primitive by Mary Oliver
The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Ballistics by Billy Collins
Shore Ordered Ocean by Dora Malech
Say So by Dora Malech
On The Boulevard by Chris Helvey
St. Clare’s Missalette by Pamela Murray Winters
The City in Which I Love You by Li-Young Lee
The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee