A Strong West Wind
10 best books like A Strong West Wind (Gail Caldwell): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Say You're One of Them, Midwives, Hidden Depths, Schroder, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy, How to Bake a Perfect Life, The Most Wanted, A Thousand Roads Home, I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
| Author | Uwem Akpan |
| ISBN | 0316113786 |
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when...
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency...
| Author | Ann Cleeves |
| ISBN | 0330441159 |
I think Vera, I owe you a big apology. For years I have ignored you in favor of your authors Shetlsnd series, which I like very much, but I think I may have come to like you better. You are so relateable, self described as big, clumsy, with little fashion sense, in other words flawed like most of your readers....
| Author | Amity Gaige |
| ISBN | 1455512133 |
Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.
Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years...
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
| Author | Jon Gordon |
| ISBN | 0470100281 |
The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Jon infuses this engaging story with...
How to Bake a Perfect Life
| Author | Barbara O'Neal |
| ISBN | 0553386778 |
In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters—and the healing magic of homemade bread.
Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through...
| Author | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| ISBN | 0670878847 |
A naive teenage girl in south Texas falls in love with her prison pen pal. The object of her affection--a charming, dangerously handsome young felon who romances her through his letters to her. After a love affair that defies all conventions, they marry and have a child while the father is still imprisoned....
Warm, powerful and unforgettable, Irish Times best-selling author Carmel Harrington’s new novel is about second chances, friendship and unlikely heroes.
‘Where is home?’ DJ asked.
‘Wherever the people you love are.’ Ruth replied.
Single mother, Ruth, and her son, DJ, have...
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
| Author | Michael S. Sorensen |
+ 2018 IPA Book Award Winner What if making one tweak to your day-to-day conversations could immediately improve every relationship in your life? In this 3-hour, conversational read, you’ll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable (yet surprisingly little-known) communication...
| Author | Kelli Estes |
| ISBN | 1492664189 |
Seattle, Washington. Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it’s surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest, or riding on a dusty convoy in Afghanistan. But all that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon...
| Author | Kayla Miller |
| ISBN | 1328530825 |
Olive and Willow are happy campers!
Or are they?
Olive is sure she’ll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow – but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows – Olive. It’s...
How much will a young Parisian seamstress sacrifice to make her mark in the male-dominated world of 1940s New York fashion? From the bestselling author of A Kiss From Mr Fitzgerald and Her Mother's Secret.
1940. Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France as the Germans advance....
