The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family (Paperback)

By Darryl Cheng, Darryl Cheng (By (photographer))

$24.99

No need to come up with something, I have your perfect gift: book and houseplant combo! Get a cute pot, an adorable pilea or snake plant (take into consideration the recipients thumb-hue), and this fantastic book! The knowledge in here will be helpful for newbies and masters alike, and has beautiful photos and helpful illustrations on nearly every aspect of plant-parenthood.

Rusty Brown (Pantheon Graphic Library) (Hardcover)

By Chris Ware

$35.00

You can feel the twelve years it took to create this intricate and ingenious contrivance of a comic, in which Chris Ware mines familiar themes of alienation, longing, and being a poorly socialized misfit that gets beaten up by jocks using an extraordinarily sophisticated comics syntax that rewards multiple rereadings.

Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs (Hardcover)

By Richard Louv

$27.95

I love this book because Louv doesn’t lecture the reader. The focus is not on what we might be doing wrong, but on all the ways humans and other animals have done well together—and why. It covers childhood pets, wild encounters, studies of our mutual makeup, ways of communicating, and more! If anything, this combination of diverse anecdotes and research encourages awe  and open observation when we connect with nature, and an acknowledgement of the benefits therein. 

A Winter's Promise: Book One of the Mirror Visitor Quartet (Hardcover)

By Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle (Translator)

$19.95

I absolutely lose my mind over an immersive YA fantasy and A Winter's Promise is simply the most breathtaking, cozy, sweeping fantasy novel I've ever come across. Think the Golden Compass meets Pride and Prejudice meets Harry Potter. It's an obvious yes for the whimsical, young adult reader in your life.