Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
10 best books like Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage (Sophia Raday): All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia, Everyone She Loved, The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Novel, Exclusively Chloe, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style, Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story, The Village of Waiting, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, A Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically
All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House
| Author | David Giffels |
| ISBN | 0061362867 |
Finding the perfect house is never easy. Rebuilding one from a crumbling pile—to say nothing of making it into a home—is even harder.
With their infant son in tow, David Giffels and his wife comb the environs of Akron, Ohio, in search of just the right house for their burgeoning family. Running...
Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
| Author | Mark Salzman |
| ISBN | 0679767789 |
From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the...
| Author | Sheila Curran |
| ISBN | 1416590668 |
A wise and triumphant novel about four women who've come of age together only to discover that -- when it comes to the essentials -- life's little instruction book will always need revising. Penelope Cameron, loving mother, devoted wife and generous philanthropist, has convinced her husband and four...
The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Novel
Who was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? She was a wife, mother, artist, editor, and world traveler. A bright young woman who rose to unparalleled celebrity. One of the world's most inspiring and influential women of her day, she has become arguably the most important female icon of all time. Yet she also...
| Author | Jon Yang |
| ISBN | 0142412260 |
Chloe-Grace can't help it—she's spectacular. How could she not be with celebrity parents who have been the queen and king of Hollywood for years? And Chloe is a celebrity all unto herself as well— she's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood. But now Chloe's sixteen, and she is tired of every...
| Author | Dinty W. Moore |
| ISBN | 0385492677 |
The Accidental Buddhist is the funny, provocative story of how Dinty Moore went looking for the faith he'd lost in what might seem the most unlikely of places: the ancient Eastern tradition of Buddhism. Moore demystifies and explains the contradictions and concepts of this most mystic-seeming of...
| Author | Said Hyder Akbar |
| ISBN | 1582345201 |
The intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on This American Life, Hyder Akbar tells how his ordinary suburban California life was turned upside-down...
| Author | George Packer |
| ISBN | 0374527806 |
Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped...
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir
| Author | Sonya Huber |
| ISBN | 0803226233 |
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation,...
A Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically
| Author | Leo Hickman |
| ISBN | 1903919614 |
How often in life does convenience triumph over 'doing the right thing? And what is 'ethical living' anyway? When it comes down to it, most people fight shy of giving up their cars, or their toxic household products, their cheap washing machines, or dodgy, unethical bank accounts in order to make the...
Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling
| Author | Martha Frankel |
| ISBN | 1585425583 |
A gloriously written memoir of growing up in a family of hard- core gamblers-Martha Frankel thought the gambling gene had passed her by, until she found herself addicted to online poker and knee-deep in debt.
Most weekends when Martha Frankel was a kid, her mother had a mah-jongg game going...
| Author | Brennan Manning |
| ISBN | 1600068677 |
The most reliable guides of spiritual formation pinpoint solitude and silence as central to the spiritual life. Now Brennan Manning—in his honest, original, and winning way—shares from his own experiences to prompt you into the riches of spending time alone with God at rest in His presence.
Souvenirs...
| Author | Masha Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1932961836 |
A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother’s blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn’t know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won’t answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in...
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
| Author | Tom Jokinen |
| ISBN | 0306818914 |
At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped...
| Author | Angela Balcita |
| ISBN | 0061537314 |
“Angela Balcita's love story takes a couple of artsy wanderers off the road and into the bright, scary world of transplants, dialysis, and neonatal intensive care.” —Marion Winik, author of The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
From the pages of the New York Times’ Modern Love column comes...
Kaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid
| Author | Mark Mathabane |
| ISBN | 0020345305 |
I liked this book better than the first (meaning, I didn’t hate the other book, I just thought this was better). In this book, he’s more humble and authentic. While he described his economic/civic struggles in the first book, he detailed his personal/spiritual struggles in this one. In Kaffir Boy...
The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans
| Author | Hala Jaber |
| ISBN | 1594488673 |
The inspiring true story of a prizewinning foreign correspondent longing for a child, two small Iraqi children in need of a mother, and what love and grief can teach us about family and hope.
Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad...
| Author | Teri Coyne |
| ISBN | 0345507312 |
For ten years, Alexandra “Cat” Rucker has been on the run from her past. With an endless supply of bourbon and a series of meaningless jobs, Cat is struggling to forget her Ohio hometown and the rural farmhouse she once called home. But a sudden call from an old neighbor forces Cat to return to the home...
On a Dollar a Day: One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America
| Author | Christopher Greenslate |
| ISBN | 1401310184 |
What happens when two high school teachers get fed up with their soaring grocery bills and decide to try to feed themselves on one dollar each, per day? Authors Kerri Leonard and Christopher Greenslate describe how they did it--and also include sections about eating on a little more than $4 a day, as well...
The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah
| Author | Joel Chasnoff |
| ISBN | 1416549323 |
Look at me. Do you see me? Do you see me in my olive-green uniform, beret, and shiny black boots? Do you see the assault rifle slung across my chest? Finally! I am the badass Israeli soldier at the side of the road, in sunglasses, forearms like bricks. And honestly - have you ever seen anything quite like me?...
Seams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing
| Author | Anna Maria Horner |
| ISBN | 0470259264 |
wiley publishing seams to me. this book features twenty four new reasons to love sewing this book offers practical advice on everything from fabric selection to color choices and buying a sewing machine. simple step by step instructions show you how to turn designs into fanciful creations sideways...
| Author | Christine Coppa |
| ISBN | 0767930827 |
Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn—and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine’s life was going as planned—great friends, a promising job as a...
31 Days of Living Well and Spending Zero: Freeze Your Spending. Change Your Life.
Practical Advice for Getting Ahead
Ever feel like your budget has gone off track, or make it to the end of the month and wonder where your money actually went? A month of no-spending is the perfect way to reset your spending habits, but doing it alone can seem downright scary.
What if there...
Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
| Author | Gina Trapani |
| ISBN | 0470050659 |
Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" -- clever shortcuts and lesser-known, faster ways to complete a task -- in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com's online...
Have You No Shame?: And Other Regrettable Stories
| Author | Rachel Shukert |
| ISBN | 0345498615 |
Growing up in white-bread Omaha, Nebraska, Rachel Shukert was one of thirty-seven students (circa 1990) in Nebraska’s only Jewish elementary school. She spent her days dreaming of a fantasy Aryan boyfriend named Chris McPresbyterian, a tall blond god whose family spoke softly in public and did...
