Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life
10 best books like Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life (Margaret Kim Peterson): Parnassus on Wheels, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, The Girl with No Shadow, The Red Queen, Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Treats, Orthodoxy, Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South, Farthest North, The White Princess
| Author | Christopher Morley |
| ISBN | 1414270658 |
This is a pilot for a new feel-good tv series:
Opening Credits:
It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years...
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
| Author | Anne Bogel |
| ISBN | 0801072921 |
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.
I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary...
| Author | Edith Holden |
| ISBN | 1846660157 |
Holden, Edith s The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, and The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady have been a marketing sensation in Europe persisting throughout the years as a perennial bestseller in the gift and book markets in the form of stationery, address books, craft books, and calendars. We are...
| Author | Joanne Harris |
| ISBN | 0061431621 |
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind...
| Author | Philippa Gregory |
| ISBN | 1416563725 |
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins' War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes centre stage in the bitter struggle of The War of the Roses.
The Red Queen...
Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Treats
| Author | James Wong |
| ISBN | 0007307136 |
Whether you're struggling with insomnia, the kids have eczema, or your partner is feeling under the weather, this book could have the answer. With easy recipes ethnobotanist James Wong shows how to make simple creams, salves, teas and much, much more from the stuff growing in your window box, the local...
This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the...
Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South
| Author | Vivian Howard |
| ISBN | 0316381101 |
Vivian Howard, star of PBS's A CHEF'S LIFE, celebrates the flavors of North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories.
This new classic of American country cooking proves that the food of Deep Run, North Carolina--Vivian's home--is as rich as any culinary tradition in...
| Author | Fridtjof Nansen |
| ISBN | 0375754725 |
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount...
Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white.
When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house—Elizabeth of York—to unify a country divided by war for nearly...
| Author | Philippa Gregory |
| ISBN | 1471132978 |
Why would a woman marry a serial killer?
Because she cannot refuse...
Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives – King Henry VIII – commands her to marry him.
Kateryn...
The Romance of the Forest
| Author | Ann Radcliffe |
| ISBN | 0543930130 |
Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past...
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf— written in 1942 during wartime shortages—An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating.
Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks....
| Author | Margery Fish |
| ISBN | 0375759476 |
First published in Britain in 1956 and never before available in America, We Made a Garden is the classic story of a unique and enduring English country garden. One of Britain’s most esteemed gardening writers recounts how she and her husband set about creating an exemplary cottage garden from unpromising...
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0830822577 |
As a society, we are no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same--a long obedience...
The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
| Author | Christopher L. Heuertz |
| ISBN | 0310348277 |
For all the ways we live unawakened lives, the enneagram is here to help.
The Sacred Enneagram is a trustworthy, richly insightful guide to finding yourself in the enneagram’s 9-type profiles, and applying this practical wisdom for a life transformed. Far more than a personality test,...
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
| Author | Ann McElhinney |
| ISBN | 1621574555 |
He is America’s most prolific serial killer. And yet Kermit Gosnell was no obvious criminal. The abortion doctor was a pillar of his community, an advocate for women’s “reproductive health,” and a respected member of Philadelphia’s professional elite. His Women’s Medical Society...
Mom Enough: The Fearless Mother's Heart and Hope
| Author | Tony Reinke |
| ISBN | 0991277600 |
Are you mom enough? The cover of a popular magazine asked this haunting question in bold red letters that hung over the startling image of a young mother nursing her four-year-old. When the issue hit newsstands, it re-ignited a longstanding mommy war in American culture. But it turns out this was the...
Raising Men, Not Boys: Shepherding Your Sons to be Men of God
| Author | Mike Fabarez |
| ISBN | 0802416578 |
How to raise a godly man in a godless world
Perhaps there has never been a more challenging time to raise children than in today’s culture. Parents are having to address challenges that their parents never had to with them. And while the core elements to raising children are the same, parents...
Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
| Author | Jen Wilkin |
| ISBN | 1433541769 |
Many Christian women find great encouragement and joy in and through women's Bible studies. However, popular Bible teacher Jen Wilkin is concerned that sometimes we let our emotions rule our study of Scripture and forget that the Bible is primarily about God, not us. Challenging hungry women to go...
The New Strong-Willed Child
| Author | James C. Dobson |
| ISBN | 1414313632 |
2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist! Dr. James Dobson has completely rewritten, updated, and expanded his classic best seller "The Strong-Willed Child" for a new generation of parents and teachers. The New Strong-Willed Child follows on the heels of Dr. Dobson's phenomenal best seller "Bringing...
Louise Parker: The 6 Week Programme
'Louise Parker's programmes have helped Oscar-nominated film stars, royals and other movers and shakers.' - Mail on Sunday'Louise Parker has worked her magic on actors, athletes, pop stars, politicians and princesses and believes absolutely anyone can have a sensational body.' - Glamour
'Louise...
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 0691160597 |
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their "Children's and Household Tales" in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the...
| Author | Pam Corbin |
| ISBN | 0747595321 |
This is exactly what I thought it would be except Americanized. I loved the River Cottage TV series which started off as a guy trying to downshift his life and basically grow or raise all his food.
It turned into a much larger franchise, that appears to be much more work than he originally signed...
The Ballad of Curly Oswald
Born in a woodland pond and raised in a hippie commune, Curly Oswald is the ultimate outsider, unhindered by conventional schooling or any administrative ties with the wicked System.
Now, confined to hospital following a near-fatal accident, he tells the story of his younger self and extended...
| Author | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall |
| ISBN | 0340828218 |
In this, the follow-up to his bestselling River Cottage Cookbook, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall writes about the year on his Dorset smallholding. He recalls, month by month, the highs and lows of the past years, and anticipates the 12 months ahead - what'll be in season when, and when'll be the best months...
The River Cottage Mushroom Handbook
| Author | John Wright |
| ISBN | 0747589321 |
Taking us through the 72 species we are most likely to come across during forays in Britain's forests and clearings, this guide covers such old friends as the Chanterelle and Cep, as well as a whole colorful host of more unfamiliar names--edible species including the Velvet Shank, the Horn of Plenty,...
