Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another
10 best books like Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another (Lauren Slater): The Empathy Exams, The Bridges of Madison County, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Girl, Interrupted, Acheron, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, The Persian Boy, The River King, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven
| Author | Leslie Jamison |
| ISBN | 1555976719 |
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and...
The Bridges of Madison County
| Author | Robert James Waller |
| ISBN | 0446364495 |
The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385480016 |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
| Author | Susanna Kaysen |
| ISBN | 0679746048 |
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert...
| Author | Sherrilyn Kenyon |
| ISBN | 0312362153 |
Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron spent a lifetime of shame. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, he became the sole defender of mankind.
Only it was never that simple. For centuries,...
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0679763309 |
i was reading some reviews of the book written by people that disliked this.
i just want to say, that for a person suffering from mental illness, the fact that you know jamieson's full CV and her academic struggles is important. it's more of a - look, she was wildly successful, and dealing with...
| Author | Mary Renault |
| ISBN | 0394751019 |
“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic Monthly
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0425179672 |
From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).
People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals....
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0060921145 |
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach....
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0571171788 |
Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.
Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has...
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385496095 |
Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0316154385 |
From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0345455916 |
Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date—three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.
Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0143036696 |
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Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent...
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
| Author | Angela Garbes |
| ISBN | 0062662961 |
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.
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| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0425168700 |
This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, has lost her own daughter more than a quarter of a century earlier in New York. When these two women meet...
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
| Author | Stephen Grosz |
| ISBN | 0393349322 |
Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary...
Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Scotia and creates a rich tableau of characters to tell the story of childbirth from its most secretive early practices to modern maternity as we know it. Epic and enchanting, 'The Birth House' is a gripping...
