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10 best books like A Year by the Sea (Joan Anderson): Gift from the Sea, When You Wake and Find Me Gone, The Borrowers Aloft, The Borrowers Avenged, Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner, Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, Duck & Goose Find A Pumpkin, Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End, The Silver Shoes: A Novel, The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal

Gift from the Sea
AuthorAnne Morrow Lindbergh
ISBN0394724550
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
When You Wake and Find Me Gone
AuthorMaureen McCarthy
ISBN0143000314
So how did you meet him? I hear you asking.
Was it love at first sight? Was he a fellow teacher? Did you meet in a pub?

This might be hard to believe, but the first time I looked into your father's eyes, he was holding a gun to my head.

But first, let me explain . . .

Everything is...
The Borrowers Aloft
AuthorMary Norton
ISBN1858815940
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock -- the family of tiny Borrowers -- think they have at last found an ideal home. They've moved into a house in a miniature village built as a hobby by a retired railroad man. The village is the perfect size for the Borrowers, and after the hardships they've faced, the Clocks...
The Borrowers Avenged
AuthorMary Norton
I think that Mary Norton just lost it by this point. Great borrower hijinks, fun descriptions and imagery, and then a seriously bonkers literary structure. Ghosts are set up quite deliberately and then never actually enter the plot. Why are there the horrifying ghosts of a murder-suicide in the middle...
Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner
AuthorF.X. Toole
This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid,...
Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
AuthorGreg Bottoms
ISBN0226067645
A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping,...
Duck & Goose Find A Pumpkin
AuthorTad Hills
This Thanksgiving, go on a pumpkin hunt with Duck & Goose!

New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Tad Hills brings our favorite feathered friends out to find a big, beautiful pumpkin in this sturdy board book. Duck & Goose look everywhere for a pumpkin-in the apple tree,...
Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
AuthorTia Powell
The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care .

Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her...
The Silver Shoes: A Novel
AuthorJill G. Hall
In her second novel, Jill G. Hall, author of The Black Velvet Coat, brings readers another dual tale of two dynamic women from two very different eras searching for fulfillment.


San Francisco artist Anne McFarland has been distracted by a cross-country romance with sexy Sergio and has...
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal
AuthorMartha C. Nussbaum
Why can't we all just get along?
Discusses broader community longitudinal, starting with Cicero.
Buddhism has long brought a different idea, the idea of human equality. p . 3
The accident of being born in one country rather than another pervasively shapes the life chances of every child...
Daughters of Fortune
AuthorTara Hyland
ISBN1847376967
A Fashion Dynasty At War

William Melville's daughters are heiresses to the world's most exclusive fashion dynasty. Beautiful and rich, they are envied by all. But behind the glittering facade of their lives, each girl hides a dark secret that threatens to tear their family apart.

Smart,...
Bharathipura
AuthorU.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ
ISBN0198070489
First published in 1973, 'Bharathipura' reveals U.R. Ananthamurthy's (b.1932) lifelong preoccupation with moving beyond caste and class interests in a modern society.
Set in contemporary India, 'Bharathipura' revolves around the life of an 'enlightened' modern Indian, Jagannatha, who...
An Eye for an Eye
AuthorBandula Chandraratna
ISBN0753813564
In An Eye for an Eye, Bandula Chandraratna goes back to the closed desert kingdom where his tragic story of star-crossed lovers unfolded in Mirage. Despite Sayeed's desperate attempts to save her, his beautiful wife Latifa is dead. Sayeed is in debt, stricken with grief and guilt. The only star on his...
Silencer
AuthorJames W. Hall
ISBN0312359594
Earl Hammond, the wealthy patriarch of a family of ranchers, lies dead, shot just as he was to donate his Coquina Ranch to the state to preserve it from developers.  Spearheading the plan to save this environmental treasure was Thorn, a reluctant heir to a secret family fortune, who now finds himself...
Capitol Betrayal
AuthorWilliam Bernhardt
ISBN0345503015
William Bernhardt’s bestselling novels explore politics, power, ambition, crime, and the law. Now he scales new heights of suspense as, in one harrowing day, lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid enters the eye of an international storm, a crisis with consequences beyond calculation.

Kincaid...
Capitol Threat
AuthorWilliam Bernhardt
ISBN0345470176
When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C., to defend a senator caught in a red-hot sex scandal turned murder case, he never dreamed he’d end up trading the courtroom for the senate chamber. And after his not-so-distinguished client stepped down, Ben found himself appointed to...
Book Towns: Forty Five Paradises of the Printed Word
AuthorAlex Johnson
ISBN0711238936
The so-called “Book Towns” of the world are dedicated havens of literature, and the ultimate dream of book lovers everywhere. Book Towns takes readers on a richly illustrated tour of the 40 semi-officially recognized literary towns around the world and outlines the history and development of...
Escape from the Ordinary
AuthorJULIE BRADLEY
When you arrive at foreign shores by sailboat, it’s not such a small world after all.
Come along with Glen and Julie as they sail around the world and discover that reality is even bigger than the Escape they imagined. This breathtakingly personal true story will thrill those wanting to sail...
Posh Boys
AuthorRobert Verkaik
ISBN1786073838
Imagine a world where leaders are able to pass power directly to their children. These children are plucked from their nurseries and sent to beautiful compounds far away from all the other children. They are provided with all the teachers they need, the best facilities, doctors and food. Every day they...
By The Tungabhadra
AuthorSharadindu Bandyopadhyay
ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যাস হলেও ইতিহাসের কচকচানি কম। বরংচ গল্পটাই বেশী। রাজা দেবরায় একজন বিচক্ষণ রাজা যে কিনা...
Take Control of Your Life
AuthorMel Robins
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Robert Adams: Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
AuthorRobert Adams
ISBN0893813680
"It is this great restriction upon photography – that it can go nowhere without first paying worshipful attention to the concrete – that makes me know that photographers do not need to worry. Photography can always be new, because the surface of life keeps changing. Yes, photography like all the...
The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Collection: The Four Agreements/The Mastery of Love/The Voice of Knowledge
AuthorMiguel Ruiz
ISBN1878424580
The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Trilogy Collection is truly profound. I had purchased all three of these books and the collection was given to me as a gift. These are amazing books by a widely acclaimed author who inspired me on my journey to transformation and change. The collection offers insights...
Remembering Blue
AuthorConnie May Fowler
ISBN0345439244
Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness...
Ordinary Hazards
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN1629798819
"This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout

"[A] testimony and a triumph."--Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down

In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes...
Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape
AuthorDiane Winger
You're never too old to run away from home

Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in threes, and not just garden-variety, oh-well bad luck. How many people have to flee not one, but two natural disasters? And in between the wildfire and the hurricane, her husband of nearly forty years suddenly...
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
AuthorLyndsy Spence
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll’s life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the only child of a Scottish self-made millionaire and a beautiful high-society woman, her childhood was rich and splendid – but empty. She was a daddy’s girl with an absent father, living...
In Search of the Mount Cleveland Five
AuthorTerry G Kennedy
ISBN0998250902
Two days after Christmas in 1969, five young, forward-thinking mountaineers set out to climb Mount Cleveland, the highest peak in Glacier National Park. They were never seen alive again. The Mount Cleveland tragedy will remain one of the most enigmatic mountaineering accidents in the United States....
So Far from Heaven
AuthorRichard Bradford
ISBN0397008538
SO FAR FROM HEAVEN is the story of the Tafoya clan, a Chicano family with a flair for misadventure. The Tafoyas include a physician philosopher, a radical daughter with a degree from Bryn Mawr, a clumsy, stupid son, and a governor of New Mexico. From these elements Bradford creates a story as funny and...
Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping
AuthorDan White
ISBN1627791957
An irreverent history of American camping

From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s playground into a source of adventure, relaxation,...
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