“The Colorado River speaks,” Will Falk insists in How Dams Fall. Written while Falk was involved in the first-ever American federal lawsuit seeking personhood and rights of nature for a major ecosystem, the Colorado River, this essay, at once lyrical and analytical, explores the American cultural, and his personal, relationship with one of the world’s most famous―and most misunderstood―rivers. Responsible for speaking on the Colorado’s behalf in court, Falk spent weeks traveling with the river asking her who she is and what she needs. With brutal honesty and an unflinching commitment to witnessing the river’s wounds in all their painful detail, How Dams Fall is an intimate conversation between a human and a river. In a time when the Colorado River is at record low levels and water shortages look inevitable, this essay is a must-read for outdoor enthusiasts, naturalists, water advocates, and anyone who has ever fallen in love with the natural world.

How Dams Fall (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Falk, Will

Professionals & Academics

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Between the years of 1996-1999, Gint Aras lived a hapless bohemian’s life in Linz, Austria. Decades later, a random conversation with a Polish immigrant in a Chicago coffeehouse provokes a question: why didn’t Aras ever visit Mauthausen, or any of the other holocaust sites close to his former home? The answer compels him to visit the concentration camp in the winter of 2017, bringing with him the baggage of a childhood shaped by his family of Lithuanian WWII refugees. The result is this meditative inquiry, at once lyrical and piercing, on the nature of ethnic identity, the constructs of race and nation, and the lasting consequences of collective trauma.

Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Aras, Gint

Religion & Spirituality

Falling Up is a moving personal essay about the struggle to become an authentic, vulnerable, purpose-driven man in the 21st century and, ultimately, about making one’s dream a reality. Along the way, award-winning poet, Scott Edward Anderson learns to see the world anew through the eyes of his children, through a deep engagement with the natural world, and through learning―and teaching others―to tell stories in a more personal way. Falling Up is a late bloomer’s coming-of-age story as much as it is a book about choice, intention, and commitment.

Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Anderson, Scott Edward

Parenting & Relationships

Here, Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, the priest fictionalized in some of Marilyn Nelson’s poems as the hermit monk “Abba Jacob,” combines his own voice with that of his fictional self to write about how he learned to meditate from a baobab tree which was his boyhood’s “best silence teacher.” Observing the baobab and the creatures who lived in its trunk and branches taught him about beauty, friendship, generosity, vulnerability, compassion, and the community of living things: lessons he tells us we can learn ourselves, without having a nearby baobab tree, by going inward in meditation. Listening to silence may help us to see the connection between the natural world and faith. Some of the oldest baobab trees, between 1,000 and 2,500 years old, have died in the last decade. The giant redwoods and sequoias, some over 3,000 years old, are dying off. It’s time to listen to the trees.

Baobab Room

Children's Books

Nelson, Marilyn

de Foïard-Brown, Père Jacques

Biographies

Learn to nurture yourself as you nurture others, develop greater compassion and self-confidence, and strike the perfect balance between caring for yourself and caring for your world. The companion to the best selling The Rhythm of Compassion, this pocketsize book of meditations is divided into four parts that provide practical exercises and affirmations to help you find balance in your life. These four sections include: • Learning to Follow Your Rhythm of Compassion • The In-Breath: Caring for Self • The Out-Breath: Caring for the World • Harmony with Your Rhythm of Compassion.

Circle of Compassion: Meditations for Caring for the Self and the World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Straub, Gail

Alternative Medicine

Sometimes memories return like small caresses, or little feather touches from the past. We smile, remember, savor and perhaps even wince a bit. Then the memories fade and are forgotten. But if the feather touches persist, there is a story that wants to take wing. The recollections accumulate and gather substance. Slowly a time that was touched by blessing and meaning is brought to life again. It has a wingspan and wants to be shared.

Touched by Blessing

Norris, Gunilla

Imagine being haunted by doubles. Picture yourself repeatedly mistaken for others, both celebrities and unknowns. A double infiltrates your family life altering close relationships. Another brings your reputation and career into question. Shadowed or second selves have long blossomed in legend and stories, but in David K. Leff’s world they leap to life, intruding in unexpected ways. If you’ve never been scarred by a doppelganger, but especially if you have, you will want to join Leff as he struggles to maintain his equanimity in a realm of mirrored selves.

Doppelganger: A Memoir of Mirrored Selves (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Leff, David

I can hear you asking, "What's the point of this letter, Dad?" Maybe the letter is just an experiment in time travel, an opportunity for you to reach back across the decades to know your father's heart and mind at a specific moment during your childhood. Or maybe it's about our collective identity: Who am I with you? Who am I apart from you? If I get lucky and die at a reasonable old age, you will be approximately the same age I am now when you finally read this. I like the symmetry of that possibility, especially if you have children, and you're in the throes of trying to be a not-so-terrible parent yourself.

Boy of Mine: An Experiment in Time Travel (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Self-Help

Kaplan, Moss

Personal Transformation

When Yi Shun Lai was old enough, her mother bought her a subscription to 'Teen magazine, in the hopes that she'd shed her tomboy skin to reveal a polished young lady. But Lai cut out all the wrong articles--girls on BMX bikes, girls on the gridiron, girls on the ski slopes and in the ocean--and these women became her role models. Pin Ups is the story of Lai's quest to join these women in their ranks.

Pin Ups (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Lai, Yi Shun

Community & Culture

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How Dams Fall (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Baobab Room

Circle of Compassion: Meditations for Caring for the Self and the World

Touched by Blessing

Baobab Room

Doppelganger: A Memoir of Mirrored Selves (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Boy of Mine: An Experiment in Time Travel (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Pin Ups (Little Bound Books Essay Series)