A Book Of Silence
10 best books like A Book Of Silence (Sara Maitland): The Dutch House, Beaches, Marilou is Everywhere, Each Peach Pear Plum, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, The Saturday Night Supper Club, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Paradise Lodge, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0062963678 |
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
| Author | Iris Rainer Dart |
| ISBN | 0060594772 |
Loudmouthed, redheaded Cee Cee Bloom has her sights set on Hollywood. Bertie White, quiet and conservative, dreams of getting married and having children. In 1951, their childhood worlds collide in Atlantic City. Keeping in touch as pen pals, they reunite over the years ... always near the ocean.
Powerful...
| Author | Sarah Elaine Smith |
| ISBN | 0525535241 |
Consumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into another -- replacing a girl whose own sudden disappearance still haunts the town.
Fourteen-year-old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity,...
'Each Peach Pear Plum' - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
The Saturday Night Supper Club
| Author | Carla Laureano |
| ISBN | 1496420241 |
Denver chef Rachel Bishop has accomplished everything she’s dreamed and some things she never dared hope, like winning a James Beard award and heading up her own fine-dining restaurant. But when a targeted smear campaign causes her to be pushed out of the business by her partners, she vows to do whatever...
| Author | Roger Deakin |
| ISBN | 0241141842 |
Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element"as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls the reader accompanies...
| Author | Janet Geringer Woititz |
| ISBN | 1558741127 |
In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics....
| Author | Nina Stibbe |
| ISBN | 0241974925 |
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to...
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
| Author | Bea Johnson |
| ISBN | 1451697686 |
Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their footprint...
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
| Author | Marina Abramović |
| ISBN | 1101905042 |
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance...
| Author | Karel Čapek |
| ISBN | 0826486258 |
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's...
| Author | Elizabeth von Arnim |
| ISBN | 1853815535 |
This delightful companion to the famous Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a witty, lyrical account of a rejuvenating summer. Descriptions of magnificent larkspurs and burning nasturtiums give way to those of cooling forest walks, and of clambering up the mud bank when the miller is not in view. Rainy...
The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
| Author | Robert Sarah |
| ISBN | 1621641910 |
In a time when there is more and more noise, and technology and materialism continue to exert their hold on us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The world generates so much noise that seeking moments of silence only becomes more necessary. For Cardinal Sarah,...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0374513252 |
Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who...
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| Author | Thomas King |
| ISBN | 1443455156 |
Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he’s living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn’t great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he’s got his cat and a halfway decent...
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives
| Author | Jane Brox |
| ISBN | 0544702484 |
From the author of the “dazzling epic”* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind—in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives
Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox...
| Author | Glyn Maxwell |
| ISBN | 1786820862 |
A bestseller in hardback, this critically acclaimed collection of short essays and reflections on poetry is now available in paperback. llustrating Maxwell’s poetic philosophy with examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful, accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms...
Hinch Yourself Happy: All the Best Cleaning Tips to Shine Your Sink and Soothe Your Soul
Transform your home -- and your life -- with cleaning, tidying, and decluttering tips from British housekeeping sensation Mrs. Hinch.
Cleaning (aka "hinching") doesn't have to be a dreaded chore -- not when Mrs Hinch is here to show you her sparkly ways!
Often called the "British Marie...
| Author | Jez Alborough |
| ISBN | 0007106246 |
Text-to-Self-Connection
Every time Fix it Duck sets out to help his friends with minor repairs one simple project turns into another then another. This colorful picture book uses rhyming words as Duck encounters one problem after the other until he realizes the real source of the problem....
Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery
An intimate, urgent account of doctor burnout and life as a psychiatrist from bestselling author Joanna Cannon
"A few years ago, I found myself in A&E.
I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my...
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
| Author | Kathryn Mannix |
| ISBN | 0316504483 |
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the...
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Puchner introduces us to numerous visionaries as he explores sixteen foundational texts...
My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
| Author | Rick Bragg |
| ISBN | 0848746392 |
From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south.
Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about...
LONDON, 1930
Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths – the details too foul to print – has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake – the enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge...
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.
Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature...
An Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age
| Author | Marrie Walsh |
| ISBN | 0312151535 |
The Ireland of Marrie Walsh's entrancing memoir is a place of magic indeed. Born Mary Kate Ferguson in the mountain community of County Mayo, young Marrie grew up in a world lost to us today - a world of spring wells, of peat fires, and of fairies riding on the backs of hares. Her family were farming people,...
| Author | Sue Armstrong-Brown |
| ISBN | 0091882842 |
Based on a programme developed by a leading team of dermatologists and psychologists at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, The Eczema Solution is the essential book for eczema sufferers. Each chapter represents an 'appointment' and takes you through the stages of first learning about eczema,...
Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction
| Author | Jack Trimpey |
| ISBN | 0671528580 |
Social worker Jack Trimpey’s major breakthrough in recovering from substance addiction is an unprecedented process that is fully explained in Rational Recovery, your first step towards freedom.
For those who are looking to make an extreme change in their lives, Rational Recovery is...
