Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
7 best books like Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China (Aminta Arrington): The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, Northfield, A Death of No Importance, If Only They Could Talk, Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption, America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Author | Susan Page |
ISBN | 1549170015 |
A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.
Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country’s most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told.
THE MATRIARCH tells...
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
ISBN | 0824519868 |
While I love Nouwen, I was disappointed by this work. I found it to be a beautiful depiction of the Gospel message with one vital omission: Christ. He speaks of us as being (like the bread of the Eucharist) taken, blessed, broken, and given. It is a wonderful way of presenting the role we play in this world,...
Author | Johnny D. Boggs |
ISBN | 0843961031 |
Really enjoyed this book, apparently as this is my second reading of it. Author Johnny Boggs does an excellent job of telling the story of the famous James/Younger gang robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota. These boys headed north to rob them some Union money. Never having ventured this far north...
Author | Mariah Fredericks |
ISBN | 1250152976 |
Mariah Fredericks’ compelling adult debut novel follows Jane Prescott, a ladies’ maid in an upper-crust 1910 NYC household, after her mistress’s playboy fiancé is gruesomely murdered.
Jane Prescott has perfected the art of serving as a ladies’ maid in the upper-most echelons...
Author | James Herriot |
ISBN | 0330237837 |
When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs...
Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption
Author | Ed Levine |
ISBN | 0525533540 |
"A hilarious and moving story of unconventional entrepreneurialism, passion, and guts." --Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder of Shake Shack; Author of Setting the Table
Original recipes by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of The Food Lab and Stella Parks of BraveTart
James...
America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon.
Through the lens of their decades-long friendship...