Global Mom: Eight Countries, Sixteen Addresses, Five Languages, One Family
10 best books like Global Mom: Eight Countries, Sixteen Addresses, Five Languages, One Family (Melissa Dalton-Bradford): Meet Me in Monaco, Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, Blue Shoes and Happiness, Edenbrooke, First Frost, The Source, Gift from the Sea, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, A Country Year: Living the Questions, The Memory of Us
| Author | Hazel Gaynor |
| ISBN | 0062885375 |
Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel...
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
| Author | Nina Willner |
| ISBN | 0062410334 |
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall...
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1400075718 |
There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals that faulty blood–pressure readings are being recorded there. And Botswana has a new advice columnist, Aunty Emang, whose...
| Author | Julianne Donaldson |
| ISBN | 1609089464 |
Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance. Thinking she'll be able to relax and enjoy her beloved English...
| Author | Sarah Addison Allen |
| ISBN | 1250019834 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves..
It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn,...
| Author | James A. Michener |
| ISBN | 0375760385 |
In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0394724550 |
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
| Author | Kate Clifford Larson |
| ISBN | 0547250258 |
They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference.
Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled...
| Author | Sue Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0395967015 |
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved...
Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a blind-and-deaf brother, institutionalized since birth, the illusion of her perfect...
| Author | Camron Wright |
| ISBN | 1629722243 |
Based on a true story.
Seven-year-old Chellamuthu’s life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents...
Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption
| Author | Vinh Chung |
| ISBN | 0849947561 |
Vinh Chung was born in South Vietnam, just eight months after it fell to the communists in 1975. His family was wealthy, controlling a rice-milling empire worth millions; but within months of the communist takeover, the Chungs lost everything and were reduced to abject poverty.
Knowing that...
| Author | Rand H. Packer |
| ISBN | 1932898735 |
A Return to Palmyra In 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in Palmyra, New York. But within a few short years, persecution had driven the Saints away from the Church’s birthplace. For many decades, northwestern New York was a hostile place for a Mormon. However, in...
Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers
| Author | Sherwin B. Nuland |
| ISBN | 1579127789 |
National Book Award-winner and surgeon Sherwin B. Nuland tells the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine through compelling studies of the great innovators and pioneers. Artfully selected illustrations bring the history of medicine to life as never before.
This brilliant...
| Author | Gene Stratton-Porter |
| ISBN | 0253204577 |
Please don't let my wife read this book - I would never hear the end of it. The reader should remember that David Langston, Porter's Harvester, was, after all, only a fictional character. He never really existed.
Having said that, I was mesmerized by the sweep, intensity and energy of this book....
I Can Choose Joy with God
| Author | Ganel-Lyn Condie |
| ISBN | 1524407429 |
When the trials of life seem too much to bear, joy can feel beyond reach. However, with words of encouragement and hope, author Ganel-Lyn Condie reassures readers that joy is not only possible but also well within our grasp as we choose to turn to the Lord with our burdens. The next in the popular With God...
Little Black Stretchy Pants
| Author | Chip Wilson |
| ISBN | 1948122340 |
The unauthorized story of lululemon. This is a book about ordinary people who took an opportunity to be creative, to be innovative, and to maximize their potential.
Chip Wilson’s part in this story comes from the learnings of thousands of mistakes. He set the culture, business model,...
Born to Change the World: Your Part in Gathering Israel
| Author | Brad Wilcox |
| ISBN | 1629725897 |
My entire understanding of the literal gathering of the House of Israel has been changed by reading this book. I understood it to be a symbolic gathering of people in the last dispensation. And while the symbolic imagery exists, when speaking of the literal gathering of the house of Israel (Jacob), there...
