Easter Everywhere
10 best books like Easter Everywhere (Darcey Steinke): Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories, Warhorses, A Matter of Life, The Possibility of Everything, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, Corked, The Source of All Things: A Memoir, How I Grew, Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments, Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan
Travel books bring us to places. War books bring us to tragedy. This book brings us to one woman’s travels in war zones: the locals she met, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.
Peace Meals is a true story about conflict and food. It illustrates the most important...
| Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| ISBN | 0374286434 |
This powerful new collection of Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry delves into an age of war and conflict, both global and internal, racial and sexual. "Sweetheart, was I talking war in my sleep / again?" he asks, and the question is hardly moot: "Sometimes I hold you like Achilles' / shield," and indeed all relationships,...
| Author | Jeffrey Brown |
| ISBN | 1603092668 |
After the acclaimed indie film Save the Date and the bestselling all-ages humor book Darth Vader and Son, graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy, Unlikely) returns to the autobiographical work that first made his reputation. In A Matter of Life, Jeffrey Brown draws upon memories of three generations...
| Author | Hope Edelman |
| ISBN | 0345506502 |
From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.
In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift,...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0679775498 |
"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the center of her being."--The Boston Globe
It started with an occasional Sunday, a "tourist's" visit to a local church. Eventually Nora Gallagher...
| Author | Kathryn Borel |
| ISBN | 0446409502 |
Meet Kathryn Borel, bon vivant and undutiful daughter. Now meet her father, Philippe, former chef, eccentric genius, and wine aficionado extraordinaire. Kathryn is like her father in every way but one: she's totally ignorant when it comes to wine. And although Philippe has devoted untold parenting...
| Author | Tracy Ross |
| ISBN | 1439172978 |
Tracy Ross never knew her biological father, who died after a brain aneurysm when she was still an infant. So when her mother married Donnie, a gregarious man with an all-wheel-drive jeep and a love of hiking, four-year-old Tracy was ecstatic to have a father figure in her life. A loving and devoted step-father,...
| Author | Mary McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0156421852 |
I picked this up at the transfer station and though not a fan of memoir I'll give it a shot starting this evening. Read "The Group" many years ago and saw the so-so movie. Which one was the author? Shirley Knight(Hopkins) I think... MM was born the same year as my father and lost both her parents to a flu epidemic....
Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments
| Author | Robin Hemley |
| ISBN | 0316020605 |
Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do...
Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan
| Author | David Chadwick |
| ISBN | 1590304705 |
David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts...
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs & Israelis 1956-78
| Author | Kai Bird |
| ISBN | 1416544402 |
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous,...
Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir
| Author | Dan Mathews |
| ISBN | 0743291875 |
"Committed" is a bold, offbeat, globe-trotting memoir that shows how the most ridiculed punching bag in high school became an internationally renowned crusader for the most downtrodden individuals of all -- animals. This irresistibly entertaining book recounts the random incidents and soul-searching...
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers
| Author | Marcella Hazan |
| ISBN | 1592403883 |
The food publishing event of the season: Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia- Romagna became America’s godmother of Italian cooking.
Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world,...
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
| Author | Jeni Stepanek |
| ISBN | 0525951423 |
Oprah Winfrey has called him "an inspiration," Maya Angelou saw him as a kindred spirit and fellow poet, and Jimmy Carter described Mattie Stepanek as "the most remarkable person I have ever known." When Jerry Lewis received his lifetime achievement award at the Oscars, footage of Mattie played behind...
Things I Learned About My Dad in Therapy
| Author | Heather B. Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0758216599 |
Some of these essays literally forced me to turn off my book player because I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear the text. Not all of them were that funny, but one or two of them certainly were. Sarah Brown's essay on admitting she simply loved her dad and got along extremely well with him was a nice change...
Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being
| Author | Marc David |
| ISBN | 0517881292 |
I would give it 3.5 stars if I could. The first part of the book was a turn-off. Apparently, David thinks that the missing element from eating is our relationship with God and our recognition of ourselves as manifestations of the divine.
Yeah. So helpful. Thanks.
Anyway, he does have...
| Author | Conrad N. Hilton |
| ISBN | 0130715980 |
With the theme song "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast ringing in my ears, I skimmed Be My Guest as rapidly as possible. My hopes were low, and they were met. My curiosity about this patriarch of a herd of badly-behaved socialites, sex-tape entrepreneurs, and other frivolous descendants had...
| Author | Nick Schuyler |
| ISBN | 0061993999 |
While I definitely feel for the families involved in this tragedy - I did not like this book at all. The book was poorly written and the author (Nick Schuyler) came across as somewhat concieted and shallow. For example: he's just lost 3 friends and looks down at his ab muscles after he's been rescued and...
Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti’s Hotel Montana
| Author | Dan Woolley |
| ISBN | 0310330971 |
Dan Woolley—who spent 65 hrs trapped beneath the rubble of Haiti’s Hotel Montana—recounts his experience living through the 7.0 Haiti earthquake in Unshaken: Rising from the rubble of Haiti’s Hotel Montana. After a last-minute hotel switch, no one, not even Dan’s wife, knew where he was...
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor
| Author | Tad Friend |
| ISBN | 0316003174 |
Tad Friend's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second in a poetry contest judged by W.H. Auden--to Sylvia Plath. For centuries, Wasps like his ancestors dominated American life. But then, in the '60s, their fortunes...
Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
| Author | Rita Nakashima Brock |
| ISBN | 0807067504 |
When Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker began traveling the Mediterranean world in search of art depicting the dead, crucified Jesus, they discovered something that traditional histories of Christianity and Christian art had underplayed or sought to explain away: it took Jesus Christ a thousand years...
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A.
| Author | Anne Thomas Soffee |
| ISBN | 1556525869 |
After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy metal flack. This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail—a backstage pass. A taste for...
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
| Author | Lisa Alther |
| ISBN | 1559708328 |
In this dazzling, hilarious memoir, best-selling author of Kinflicks Lisa Alther chronicles her search for the missing--often mysterious--branches of her family tree. Most of us grow up thinking we know who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia,...
The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
| Author | Michael Lerner |
| ISBN | 0060842474 |
I was really, really inspired by this book. It was a deeply affirming read. I basically share Rabbi Lerner's vision of a politics of meaning based on love and hope. In the second half of the book Lerner details various policy proposals for a spiritual progressive movement.
This is the sort of...
Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom
| Author | Kristin van Ogtrop |
| ISBN | 0316068284 |
My book group is reading this book, and I was expecting to find it trivial, possibly even annoying. I read "Didn't I Feed You Yesterday?" not too long ago, and I was pained by the author's attitude in that book, so I feared the same from this one. I was pleasantly surprised. The book is indeed a light read,...
