Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
10 best books like Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America (Charles Leerhsen): Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England, Murder in Mesopotamia, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Promise Not to Tell, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life, The Practice of the Presence of God, Ruffian: Burning From the Start, Split Tooth, The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Tom Wessels |
| ISBN | 0881504203 |
An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007113803 |
One of the best rereads I've ever chanced upon. Few books of Agatha Christie's reserves are so unputdownable. The cast of characters in the book are not to be taken lightly. They enhance the story in spicy terms. I loved the easygoing pace of the book.
The victim is so vibrant when pages away from...
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0060837055 |
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the...
| Author | Jennifer McMahon |
| ISBN | 0061143316 |
Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor...
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff is a book that shows you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life. You...
The Practice of the Presence of God
| Author | Brother Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0883681056 |
Brother Lawrence was a man of humble beginnings who discovered the greatest secret of living in the kingdom of God here on earth. It is the art of “practicing the presence of God in one single act that does not end.” He often stated that it is God who paints Himself in the depths of our souls. We must merely...
| Author | Jane Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0345450000 |
During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with both her beauty and her brilliant speed. Then tragedy struck on the afternoon of July 6, 1975. Ruffian...
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
| Author | Robert H. Wiebe |
| ISBN | 0809001047 |
At the end of Reconstruction, the lives of most Americans were still controlled by the values of the village, the conventional 19th-century beliefs in individualism, laissez-faire, progress, and a divinely ordained social system. But in the last decades of the century, the spread of science and...
Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1250191726 |
Jack and Lilly are no strangers to heroics. They’ve befriended dragons, battled giants, and even earned the loyalty of a goblin army. So when they meet Zita the Spacegirl, fresh from her interplanetary travels and seeking their help to face a new threat, they’re more than ready for another adventure.
But...
