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Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home

10 best books like Cottage for Sale, Must Be Moved: A Woman Moves a House to Make a Home (Kate Whouley): All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House, Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously, The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears, Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, At Seventy: A Journal, A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Lotta Jansdotter's Handmade Living: A Fresh Take on Scandinavian Style, Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home

All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House
AuthorDavid Giffels
ISBN0061362867
Finding the perfect house is never easy. Rebuilding one from a crumbling pile—to say nothing of making it into a home—is even harder.

With their infant son in tow, David Giffels and his wife comb the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of just the right house for their burgeoning family. Running...
Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in House
AuthorSarah Messer
ISBN0670033154
What would it be like to grow up in a home suffused with three hundred years of another family’s history? When Sarah Messer’s parents impulsively purchased Red House from Richard Warren Hatch, the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the original owner, Walter Hatch, they acquired much...
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
AuthorAdrienne Martini
ISBN1416597646
"I knit so I don’t kill people" —bumper sticker spotted at Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival

For Adrienne Martini, and countless others, knitting is the linchpin of sanity. As a working mother of two, Martini wanted a challenge that would make her feel in charge. So she decided to make the...
The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
AuthorNick Jans
ISBN0452287359
With a new introduction on Werner Herzog’s film entitled The Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, self-styled “bear whisperer” dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled in October 2003,...
Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
AuthorJune Wandrey
ISBN0962555509
June Wandry's Bedpan Commando offers the reader a lighthearted look at the life of an Army nurse during WWII. Her narrative focuses on the hardships a woman faced when living with men in a war zone, she rarely mentions the horrors she must have seen. This is due to the fact that the book is a collection of...
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States
AuthorPete Jordan
ISBN0060896426
Dishwasher is the true story of a man on a mission: to clean dirty dishes professionally in every state in America. Part adventure, part parody, and part miraculous journey of self-discovery, it is the unforgettable account of Pete Jordan's transformation from itinerant seeker into "Dishwasher...
At Seventy: A Journal
AuthorMay Sarton
ISBN0393310302
May Sarton—poet, novelist, and chronicler—occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine, she savors “the experience of being alive in this beautiful place,” reflecting on nature,...
A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen
AuthorRichard Jenkyns
ISBN0199276617
Jane Austen's work was a true triumph of the comic spirit--of deep comedy, rising from the heart of human life. In A Fine Brush on Ivory, Richard Jenkyns takes us on an amiable tour of Austen's fictional world, opening a window on some of the great works of world literature.
Focusing largely on Pride...
Lotta Jansdotter's Handmade Living: A Fresh Take on Scandinavian Style
AuthorLotta Jansdotter
ISBN0811865479
Beloved designer Lotta Jansdotter's smart, organic design has earned her international acclaim. Now she shares her recipe for a stylish home: take a whole lot of Scandinavian influence, mix in a dash of flea-market finds, and then top it all off with expressive handmade touches. The result? An entirely...
Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home
AuthorMatthew Batt
ISBN0547634536
An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage

When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set their sights instead on the purchase of a dilapidated...
The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
AuthorNatalie Tyler
ISBN0141001925
Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed passion for her timeless stories of romance, family relations, and foibles of human nature. Today she is more popular than ever. Natalie Tyler captures the essence of this enthusiasm in a book that shuns obscure academic approaches and provides...
Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School
AuthorKatherine Darling
ISBN1416565272
A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes



To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining...
Whiteout: Lost in Aspen
AuthorTed Conover
As someone who grew up in Aspen during the time Conover wrote this, I can't help but love some of the things he said about my hometown. He tells a lot of truths about many things that have not changed but the book felt more like an article from a magazine than worthy of a book format. I read this book after reading...
Apartment Therapy Presents Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Real Design Solutions
AuthorMaxwell Gillingham-Ryan
ISBN0811859827
From the Web site that attracts more than 3 million unique visitors a month, this groundbreaking book features 40 homes decorated by real people. Over 400 photos show details of all sorts of abodesfrom a tiny rental in Brooklyn to a condo in San Diego to a ranch-style in Miami. Each home profile includes...
Downtown Chic: Designing Your Dream Home: From Wreck to Ravishing
AuthorRobert Novogratz
ISBN0847831736
Robert and Cortney Novogratz, starts of the hit Bravo series 9 BY DESIGN, have been renovating and designing unique and hip homes for families for over ten years. Describing their signature style as a sophisticated but bohemian mix of high and low, new and old, they offer their realistic advice on...
The Gentle Art Of Domesticity
AuthorJane Brocket
ISBN0340950986
Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious, and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature, and nature, and expresses her passion through the gentle arts of needlework, cooking, gardening, and homemaking—and now through her writing. In The Gentle...
Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
AuthorMeredith Norton
ISBN0670019283
A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancer

Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents...
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land
AuthorDavid Mas Masumoto
ISBN1416599304
David Mas Masumoto works a family farm, growing organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. When Mas’s father had a stroke on the fields of their 80-acre farm, Mas confronted life’s big questions: what do his and his father’s lives mean? What have they lived and worked for? “A fiercely tender...
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
AuthorGeorge Howe Colt
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

This...
The Self Sufficient-ish Bible: An Eco-living Guide for the 21st Century
AuthorDave Hamilton
In this fun and helpful handbook, “Green Twins” Dave and Andy Hamilton present an approach to eco-conscious living that proves that helping the environment does not require altering an entire lifestyle. This guide is packed with creative ideas for recycling, growing organic vegetables, and...
How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse
AuthorMike Gilbert
ISBN1596985518
You Don't Know the Full Truth About O.J. Simpson and the Murders that Gripped a Nation.

But Mike Gilbert does, and after nearly two decades of being O.J. Simpson's sports agent, business advisor, and trusted confidant, Gilbert is breaking his silence and telling the full story of the man he...
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother
AuthorJana Wolff
ISBN0967214319
While books about adoption proliferate, none of them addresses the subject of open and interracial adoption like Jana Wolff's personal and frank account does in Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother. Often irreverent, always insightful, surprisingly funny and stunningly honest, Secret Thoughts...
Clear Springs: A Family Story
AuthorBobbie Ann Mason
ISBN0060956291
Bobbie Ann Mason's marvelously tactile and textured memoir has the same blunt yet supple prose that distinguishes her novels In Country and Feather Crowns. Examining her roots in rural Kentucky, where she was born in 1940, Mason unravels her family's history and considers its impact on her as a person...
The Finishing School
AuthorGail Godwin
ISBN0345431901
Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the “finishing school,” eccentric, free-spirited Ursula DeVane opened up a world full of...
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