Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

6 best books like Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day (Diane Ackerman): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An Equal Music, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature, Love Poems for Married People, For the Time Being, The Maytrees

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0072434171
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
An Equal Music
AuthorVikram Seth
The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier,...
AuthorKathleen Dean Moore
ISBN1590307712
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her...
Love Poems for Married People
AuthorJohn Kenney
ISBN0525540008
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People...
For the Time Being
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0375703470
National Bestseller

"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News

From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling...
The Maytrees
AuthorAnnie Dillard
ISBN0061239534
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle...
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