Elle & Coach: Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter's Life, and the Dog Who Changed Everything

9 best books like Elle & Coach: Diabetes, the Fight for My Daughter's Life, and the Dog Who Changed Everything (Stefany Shaheen): Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness, Tortured for Christ, Fudge-a-Mania, Summer of the Gypsy Moths, How I Discovered Poetry, Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs, The Garden of Letters, Like Dandelion Dust, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness

Author

John M. Hull

With a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its...

Tortured for Christ

Author	Richard Wurmbrand
ISBN	0340863684

One Man Who Dared to Stand Up

Months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty--these are the experiences of a Romanian pastor during his 14 years in Communist prisons.

His...

Fudge-a-Mania

Author	Judy Blume
ISBN	0425193829

Fudge is back—and driving his brother Peter crazy, as usual. This five-year-old human hurricane is more trouble than ever. His latest plan is to marry Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman (how disgusting!).But Peter’s problems are about to get worse. His parents have decided to share a summer...

Summer of the Gypsy Moths

Author	Sara Pennypacker
ISBN	0061964204

Stella loves living with Great-aunt Louise in her big old house near the water on Cape Cod for many reasons, but mostly because Louise likes routine as much as she does, something Stella appreciates since her mom is, well, kind of unreliable. So while Mom "finds herself," Stella fantasizes that someday...

How I Discovered Poetry

Author	Marilyn Nelson
ISBN	0803733046

A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.
 
Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through...

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...

The Garden of Letters

Author	Alyson Richman
ISBN	0425266257

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LOST WIFE

Set against the rich backdrop of World War II Italy, Garden of Letters  captures the hope, suspense, and romance of an uncertain era, in an epic intertwining story of first love, great tragedy, and spectacular bravery.

Portofino, Italy,...

Like Dandelion Dust

Author	Karen Kingsbury
ISBN	1931722854

This novel had come highly recommended from a friend who had recommend quite a few great novels to me before and the synopsis of the novel sounded good so I was expecting good things from Like Dandelion Dust. I had also seen an advert for the movie on TV and it looked interesting so I went ahead and brought...

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

Author	James R. Hansen
ISBN	0743257510

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. In a penetrating...