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Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

10 best books like Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986 (Anne Morrow Lindbergh): Going Solo, The Family Upstairs, Remarkable Creatures, Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, The Aviator's Wife, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, The Young Hemingway, No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

Going Solo
AuthorRoald Dahl
ISBN0141311428
Superb Stories, Daring Deeds, Fantastic Adventures

Here is the action-packed sequel to Boy, a tale of Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action...
The Family Upstairs
AuthorLisa Jewell
ISBN1501190105
From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and Watching You comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work...
Remarkable Creatures
AuthorTracy Chevalier
ISBN0007178379
In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye.

Remarkable Creatures is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent...
Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir
AuthorKambri Crews
ISBN0345516028
In this powerful, affecting, and unflinching memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to reconcile her present life—in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.

As a child, Kambri...
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
AuthorSandra Cisneros
ISBN0679738568
Last year I read Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and felt an affinity toward her as I discovered that she grew up on the northwest side of Chicago and attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Mostly an autobiographical account, Mango Street detailed the coming of age of a Mexican American...
The Aviator's Wife
AuthorMelanie Benjamin
ISBN0345528670
In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations,...
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
AuthorAnne Stevenson
ISBN0395937604


This book is unfair to Sylvia Plath, seemingly in an attempt to appease those who are still alive and have control over her estate. I take greatest issue not with the glossing over of Ted Hughes' abandonment and infidelity to Sylvia (and leaving her a single mother in the 1960s) but Stevenson's...
The Young Hemingway
AuthorMichael S. Reynolds
ISBN0393317765
Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway...
No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
AuthorReeve Lindbergh
ISBN0743203143
In 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by a series of small strokes that also left...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life
AuthorSusan Hertog
ISBN0385720076
An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea...
The Lemon Sisters
AuthorJill Shalvis
ISBN0062741942
The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California...

Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures—and mistakes—included, something her perfect sister, Mindy, never understood. So when Mindy...
Lindbergh
AuthorA. Scott Berg
ISBN0425170411
This is a most compelling story of a most significant life; the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man.

Awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for...
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