Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism
10 best books like Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism (Martha Grimes): Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, Out of Africa, Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Singapore Sapphire, My Friend Anna, All Over But the Shoutin', Elegy for Eddie, Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be, Leaving Everything Most Loved
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
| Author | Jessica Pan |
| ISBN | 0857526154 |
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.
When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
| Author | Maxwell King |
| ISBN | 1419727729 |
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children...
| Author | Isak Dinesen |
| ISBN | 0679600213 |
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover,...
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 0143036610 |
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town...
Harriet Gordon stumbles into a murderous web of stolen gems and cutthroat thieves as she runs from her tragic past in an enthralling new historical mystery series set in early twentieth century Singapore.
Singapore 1910--Desperate for a fresh start and to distance herself from her tragic...
| Author | Rachel DeLoache Williams |
| ISBN | 1982114096 |
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams is a 2019 Gallery Books publication.
Several weeks ago, this book popped up on my radar by way of Book Riot. I seem to be on a true crime kick lately, so I checked the book out from the cloud library. Although it hardly lives up to the gushing hype, the story...
All Over But the Shoutin'
| Author | Rick Bragg |
| ISBN | 0679774025 |
The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her three sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had tainted her own life.
The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for storytelling...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062049577 |
Early April, 1933.
Maisie’s newest clients are the costermongers of Covent Garden, men who sell fruit and vegetables from horse-drawn carts on the streets of London. To the costers, Eddie Pettit was simply a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses, and when he is killed...
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be
| Author | Marshall Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0804141231 |
Bestselling author and one of the world’s foremost executive coaches, Marshall Goldsmith examines the emotional and psychological triggers that cause us to react and behave in certain preset, often inappropriate ways at work and in life. Triggers shows us how to break that cycle and enact meaningful...
Leaving Everything Most Loved
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062049607 |
In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London.
The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062220551 |
Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads the investigator into a web of lies, deceit and danger
Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love,...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 0375500723 |
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters...
| Author | Andie Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0770433243 |
A young food blogger shares her inspiring story of incredible weight loss--a journey from nearly 300 pounds to losing more than half her size--and establishing a healthy and confident relationship with food.
On her twentieth birthday, Andie Mitchell stepped on the scale and discovered...
In this game, even winning can be deadly...
Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it—teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted...
| Author | Jacqueline Winspear |
| ISBN | 0062220624 |
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street...
