Drinking with Miss Dutchie: A Memoir
10 best books like Drinking with Miss Dutchie: A Memoir (Ed Breslin): Y Is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis & Clark, Playdate, Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die, The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives, The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait, Back to the Best Books, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
Y Is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups
| Author | Jennifer Adams |
| ISBN | 1423607546 |
The perfect gift for Shakespeare fans, Y Is for Yorick is full of witty references to the Bard's unforgettable plots and characters. Readers will love perusing the cheeky illustrations and reading such entries as "J is for Juliet. Juliet teaches all young girls that if you truly love someone, wholly...
| Author | Mireya Mayor |
| ISBN | 1426207212 |
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
| Author | Sarah Greenough |
| ISBN | 0300166303 |
There are few couples in the history of 20th-century American art and culture more prominent than Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946). Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, and 1946, when Stieglitz died, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz exchanged over...
| Author | Nick Bertozzi |
| ISBN | 1596434503 |
Two of America's greatest explorers embark on the adventure that made their names—and sealed their fates.
In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark departed St. Louis, Missouri, for one of the greatest adventures this nation has ever known. Appointed and funded by President Jefferson...
| Author | Thelma Adams |
| ISBN | 0312656661 |
“Adams is that rare writer who sends out every laugh with a sting in its tail. Most novels fade from the memory. This one sticks.”—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Inside their picture-perfect homes, the residents of this quiet California suburb are not at all what they seem.
Lance...
| Author | Jon Katz |
| ISBN | 0345502698 |
In Soul of a Dog, Izzy & Lenore, A Good Dog, and other acclaimed works, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz has written meaningfully about the cherished bond between humans and animals—especially our intense connection to our pets. Now, in this moving and thoughtful book, Katz addresses...
| Author | Jessica Pierce |
| ISBN | 0226668460 |
From the moment when we first open our homes—and our hearts—to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most of us deal with it by simply ignoring its inevitability.
With...
| Author | Daniel Mark Epstein |
Through the lens of four seminal concerts, acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein offers an intimate, nuanced look at Bob Dylan: a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artistsof the twentieth century, from his birth to the Never Ending Tour.
Beginning with...
| Author | Marilyn Green Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1453508104 |
Improve your reading Improve your life.
Are you bored by bestsellers you can t remember a week later? Is your book group ready for more meaningful discussions? Have TV and movies got your brain on autopilot? Back to the Best Books explores 36 great works of literature, some that you know (Twain,...
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| ISBN | 0887765408 |
Just 50,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors ventured off the African savannah and into the wider world. Now, our technology reaches far out into the cosmos. How did we get to where we are today?
With lively text and colorful illustrations, From Then to Now explains how individual...
My Mind Is Not Always My Friend, a Guide for How to Not Get in Your Own Way
| Author | Steven Jay Fogel |
| ISBN | 1936051508 |
Your Mind: Friend or Foe? Your computer and your cell phone know what day it is. So why should your mind be living in the past? The greatest challenge we face is to rule our minds, lest they rule us without our even being aware of it. How do you become a conscious observer of your thoughts and stop past-based,...
Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans
| Author | Keith Olbermann |
| ISBN | 0470614471 |
An irresistible new collection from the New York Times bestselling author and host of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith OlbermannIn his particular wit and style, Keith Olbermann skewers politicians, celebrities, and people behaving badly every weeknight on MSNBC's increasingly popular Countdown...
All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge
| Author | Kee Malesky |
| ISBN | 0470559659 |
For the bestselling miscellany market, an NPR librarian's compendium of fascinating facts on history, science, and the arts
How much water do the Great Lakes contain? Who were the first and last men killed in the Civil War? How long is a New York minute? What are the lost plays of Shakespeare?...
| Author | Arnold Weinstein |
| ISBN | 1400065860 |
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein’s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon,...
In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0977161404 |
Sail to the exotic Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick." Let History and Legend, Fiction and Fact, Myth and Mystery swirl around you as you enter "The Encantadas," a unique island world stretching along our planet's Equator. Discover teeming seabird rookeries, stark volcanic...
Struck by Living: From Depression to Hope
Awarded the Mental Health America Ruth Altschuler Community Advocate Prism Award and selected as one of the 2010 Distinguished Women by Northwood University, Julie Hersh is an outspoken advocate for mental health. "Despite medical advances," Julie says, "too many people die by suicide because...
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
| Author | Deb Olin Unferth |
| ISBN | 0805093230 |
Rising literary star Deb Olin Unferth offers a new twist on the coming-of-age memoir in this utterly unique and captivating story of the year she ran away from college with her Christian boyfriend and followed him to Nicaragua to join the Sandinistas.
Despite their earnest commitment to a...
Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
| Author | Anne Roiphe |
| ISBN | 0385531648 |
Luminous and intensely personal, Art and Madness recounts the lost years of Anne Roiphe’s twenties, when the soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed author put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote herself to the magnetic but coercive male artists of the period.
Coming of age in...
The Shakespeare Manuscript
Not one of Shakespeare’s plays exists in manuscript form until a failing bookseller discovers a long-lost, early version of HAMLET. In an attempt to trace the puzzling manuscript's origins, its new owner finds he can’t trust the identity of play’s author and soon has doubts about his own. But...
Stepdog is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of a woman who has finally met the man of her dreams—and the dog of her nightmares.
Winner of the June 2015 Elle Readers Prize
Lots of dogs eat shoes, bite people, destroy furniture . . . but Eddie tried to destroy a marriage.
After...
The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
| Author | Neal Bascomb |
| ISBN | 0307588890 |
That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool”...
Grace of Giving: Turning the Key to Enter and Experience Fullness of Life
| Author | Marja Verschoor-Meijers |
It is one thing to claim we do not steal, but the logical next question would be, what do we do? How do we go from merely obeying such a command to fulfilling it in our daily lives? Is it truly possible to become a cheerful giver?
In Grace of Giving, the fourth book in this series, Marja Meijers answers...
We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess
| Author | Daniel Akst |
| ISBN | 1594202818 |
We Have Met the Enemy is a rather in-depth analysis of the excesses in our modern society and how we got to this point. I was intrigued by this book as soon as I heard about it. For the most part, this was an interesting book, but it was a little dry at times. The in-depth study of our excessive lifestyle was much...
| Author | John Herrick |
| ISBN | 0982147015 |
When Jesse Barlow escaped to Hollywood at age eighteen, he hungered for freedom, fame, and fortune. Eleven years later, his track record of failure results in a drug-induced suicide attempt. Revived at death’s doorstep, Jesse returns to his Ohio hometown to make amends with his preacher father,...
Not Easily Washed Away: Memoirs of a Muslim's Daughter
From the Editor: Not Easily Washed Away is a heart-wrenching tale told in the first person by Laila, the female Pakistani victim of her father's sexual abuse over a span of fifteen years. Because it is in first person, the reader directly sees the psychological impact of the abuse and comes to understand...
