Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
10 best books like Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (Rubén Martínez): Kon-Tiki, Skipping Christmas, This Is How You Lose Her, Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Stepping Heavenward, A Light in the Window, An Italian Affair, West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story, The Summer of My Greek Taverna
| Author | Thor Heyerdahl |
| ISBN | 0671726528 |
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical...
| Author | John Grisham |
| ISBN | 0099481685 |
Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop...
| Author | Junot Díaz |
| ISBN | 1594487367 |
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the...
| Author | Dan Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1400032571 |
“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.”
Treating other...
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
| Author | Caroline Alexander |
| ISBN | 0006532462 |
The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the...
| Author | Elizabeth Payson Prentiss |
| ISBN | 1577483421 |
"Stepping Heavenward" is the fictional coming of age story of a young Christian girl named Katherine. The story follows her life from when she is sixteen, though courtship, engagement, marriage, having children, and the many challenges that she confronts in her adult life. This classic Christian...
| Author | Jan Karon |
| ISBN | 1589190637 |
While I have no doubt that I am not going to read the whole series, I picked up two when I was at the library and the second dutifully begins where the first leaves off. Someone commented that these are the types of books which little old ladies read when they feel like they can put their collective noses into...
| Author | Laura Fraser |
| ISBN | 0375724850 |
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual...
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
| Author | Tamim Ansary |
| ISBN | 0312421516 |
A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an...
The Summer of My Greek Taverna
The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream.
Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he decided to stay a little longer.
Seven idyllic years...
The Messies Manual: The Procrastinator's Guide to Good Housekeeping
| Author | Sandra Felton |
| ISBN | 0800751337 |
An amazing book that opened my eyes to a lot of things I didn't seem to see while having it staring at my face. The author practically described my personality in great detail, I was convinced that she was spying on me and somehow wrote the book according to my life.. but how could she know what I was thinking...
And Then I Had Teenagers: Encouragement for Parents of Teens and Preteens
| Author | Susan Alexander Yates |
| ISBN | 0801063663 |
This book is for the parents of both preteens AND teens. I spent so much time reading books when my kids were young that I began to coast these last few years. With my preteen becoming moodier and peer issues coming into our lives more than before, I read this book. Recommended by a wise & wonderful friend....
| Author | Mary Hunt |
| ISBN | 0976079143 |
What grade would you give your parents for how well they prepared you to manage your finances? What grade will your kids give you someday? At best you have 18 years to teach your kids how to manage money skillfully. So how do you accomplish this overwhelming challenge? Don't panic! Everything you need...
| Author | John D. Freyer |
| ISBN | 1582342512 |
The classic American passion for the road meets the current obsession with internet consumption in one of the most original illustrated books to come along in years.
One day, John Freyer decided to sell everything he owned on the internet. He invited his friends over to tag all the possessions...
My Boyfriend's Back: Fifty True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love
| Author | Donna Hanover |
| ISBN | 0452286026 |
Poignant and funny, My Boyfriend’s Back captures the love story of former high school sweethearts Ed Oster and Donna Hanover—journalist, actress, and First Lady of New York City from 1994 to 2001—who, more than thirty years after their breakup, reconnected and married, becoming part of a twenty-first-century...
The Insomnia Answer: A Personalized Program for Identifying and Overcoming the Three Types of Insomnia
| Author | Paul Glovinsky |
| ISBN | 0399532978 |
The 50 million Americans who suffer from insomnia need - and want - this answer now.There is no "one size fits all" solution to insomnia because, as this revolutionary book illustrates, there are three types that affect those who suffer from it: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep,...
| Author | Karen Burton Mains |
| ISBN | 1562332538 |
I feel as though I have been chasing the idea of a restful sabbath since college. Last year I read Breathe by Keri Wyatt Kent, and I was reminded afresh and the gift of the Sabbath Rest. It is easy for me to get caught up in rules--you can do this this and this, but not that, and lose the spirit and purpose of the...
