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Small Books, Big Ideas

Sometimes less is more. These nonfiction books are under 200 pages and can be read in a day, but their ideas will stick with you much longer.

Whatcom County Library System

29 items

  • The Serviceberry

    Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall,
    Book, 2024New York : Scribner, 2024. — 581.6309 KIMMERER 2024
  • Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper Influence, [2024] — 700.92 KALMAN 2024
  • Book, 2024New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 155.93 CROSLEY 2024
  • Book, 2024New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] — 153.3 BENJAMIN 2024
  • Book, 2024New York : Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2024. — 956.053 HAMMAD 2024
  • Accordion Eulogies

    a Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

    Álvarez, Noé,
    Book, 2024New York : Catapult, 2024. — 305.8687 ALVAREZ 2024
  • Against Technoableism

    Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    Shew, Ashley, 1983-
    Book, 2023New York : W W Norton, [2023] — 604.87 SHEW 2023
  • How to Say Goodbye

    the Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers

    MacNaughton, Wendy,
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 616.029 MACNAUGH 2023
  • How to Keep House While Drowning

    a Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

    Davis, KC,
    Book, 2022New York : Simon Element, 2022. — 648.5 DAVIS 2022
  • Book, 2018Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, [2018]. — MAILHOT, TERESE MA Mailhot
  • The Cost of Living

    a Working Autobiography

    Levy, Deborah
    Book, 2018New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — LEVY, DEBORAH Levy
  • Book, 2017New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 940.5318 WIESEL 2017
  • A River in Darkness

    One Man's Escape From North Korea

    Ishikawa, Masaji,
    Book, 2017Seattle : AmazonCrossing, 2017. — ISHIKAWA, MASAJI Ishikawa
  • Book, 2017Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017. — 305.2308 LUISELLI 2017