A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West
10 best books like A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West (R.D. Rosen): Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion, The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming, Fowl Weather, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story, Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, No Dogs in Heaven?: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian, Walking a Literary Labyrinth, The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion
| Author | Judy Corbett |
| ISBN | 0091897319 |
When Judy Corbett caught sight of a great stone mansion in the craggy wilds of north Wales, she had little idea of the adventure on which she was about to embark. She and her husband, Peter, had long dreamed of buying an old ruin and escaping the pace and excesses of modern life. But it was only when they had...
The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming
| Author | Shreve Stockton |
| ISBN | 1416592180 |
Great unknowns were out there to be seen, felt, experienced; this was what life meant to me, this was what life was for.
I loved this book. Loved, loved, loved it. There.
Telling the story of a surviving coyote pup who is adopted by a woman looking for her own life's adventure, this...
| Author | Bob Tarte |
| ISBN | 1565125029 |
In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish duck who challenges...
| Author | P.L. Travers |
| ISBN | 0850307864 |
Years ago, when I was in my own dark wood wandering and could not find my way, serendipity sent What the Bee Knows: Reflections On Myth, Symbol and Story my way. I immersed myself in P.L. Travers feminine-centered retelling of Greek myths, her essays, poems and interviews. Her essay titled, Re-Stroying...
| Author | Thomas DeBaggio |
| ISBN | 0743205669 |
"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind is DeBaggio's extraordinary...
| Author | Celia Lyttelton |
| ISBN | 0593051149 |
When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Robert T. Sharp |
| ISBN | 0786715243 |
For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here's a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great characteristics...
| Author | Nancy M. Malone |
| ISBN | 1573222461 |
Who of us doesn’t have a list of books that changed our life? Reflecting on her own reading life, Nancy Malone examines the influence of reading in how we define ourselves. Throughout, she likens the experience of reading to walking a labyrinth, itself a metaphor for our spiritual journey through...
| Author | Barbara Sjoholm |
| ISBN | 1593761597 |
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.
Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
| Author | Thomas Graboys |
| ISBN | 1402753411 |
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The Cardiology Dream Team” summoned to treat Boston Celtics...
| Author | Connie Rice |
| ISBN | 1416575006 |
From one of the nation’s most influential civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—a noble, hard-hitting memoir chronicling the life of a fiercely powerful woman dedicated to public service.
Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the...
| Author | Julia Fox Garrison |
| ISBN | 0061120618 |
Just an ordinary day . . .
You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone.
When...
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0156671409 |
Until I saw a Smithsonian exhibit a few years ago, I never realized that Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew with her husband on various trips, acting as his radio operator, navigator, & general Jack (or Jill) of all trades.
This is her account of their trip of trying to map new routes to Asia by flying...
| Author | Suzie Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0061563129 |
I think I read this book at exactly the right time. I currently have a tiny seven-inch-long bearded dragon* in my bedroom. Since getting her on June 13th, things have changed around here. I get up at 6am whether I like it or not because that's when her lights come on and she wakes up, climbs out of her hammock**...
| Author | John Bayley |
| ISBN | 0312421117 |
With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral...
| Author | Shoba Narayan |
| ISBN | 0812971078 |
Shoba Narayan's Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture.
Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America,...
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0143039733 |
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all...
| Author | Lucy H. Spelman |
| ISBN | 0385341466 |
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the...
Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World
| Author | Seth Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1594484422 |
An eye-opening and fascinating slow travel journey from an acclaimed writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground.
In this age of globalism and high-speed travel, Seth Stevenson, the witty, thoughtful Slate columnist, takes us back to a time when travel meant putting one...
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America
| Author | Maureen Stanton |
| ISBN | 1594202931 |
One dealer's journey from the populist mayhem of flea markets to the rarefied realm of auctions reveals the rich, often outrageous subculture of antiques and collectibles.
Millions of Americans are drawn to antiques and flea-market culture, whether as participants or as viewers of the...
Them: A Memoir of Parents
| Author | Francine du Plessix Gray |
| ISBN | 0143037196 |
Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambitious son of a prominent Russian Jew, was a gifted magazine editor and aspiring artist. As part of the...
Three Among the Wolves: A Couple and Their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild
| Author | Helen Thayer |
| ISBN | 1570613982 |
Three Among the Wolves is a highly readable true-life adventure tale combined with a fascinating natural history of the wolf. Helen and Bill Thayer, accompanied by their part-wolf, mostly Husky dog, Charlie, set out on foot to live among wild wolf packs — first in the Canadian Yukon and then in the...
The Cat Who'll Live Forever: The Final Adventures of Norton, the Perfect Cat, and His Imperfect Human
| Author | Peter Gethers |
| ISBN | 0767909038 |
The final, poignant chapter in a trilogy of bestselling true stories about a floppy-eared Scottish Fold named Norton
Peter Gethers was a confirmed cat hater until the day he received a six-week-old kitten as a gift. Walking the streets of New York with Norton tucked into his pocket, Gethers...
