Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home
10 best books like Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home (Caitlin Shetterly): As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey, The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe, To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, The Foremost Good Fortune, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation, Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around, The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure, River House
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to...
The Sinner's Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of Europe
| Author | Tony Perrottet |
| ISBN | 0307592189 |
Sex and travel have always been intertwined, and never more so than on the classic Grand Tour of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the Continent is still littered with salacious remnants of that golden age, where secret boudoirs, notorious dungeons, and forbidden artifacts...
To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story
| Author | Steven Weinberg |
| ISBN | 1596435275 |
Casey and Steven were college students at opposite ends of the country, one in California and one in Maine. Yet, they happened to meet in Morocco during a study abroad trip. And they decided to keep in touch...and then they decided to move to China and teach English and then head out across the world together....
| Author | Michael Levy |
| ISBN | 0805091963 |
An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux
In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of...
| Author | Susan Conley |
| ISBN | 0307594068 |
“The Foremost Good Fortune is a beautiful story of womanhood, motherhood, travel and loss, written by an author of rare and radiant grace.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.) In 2007, American writer Susan Conley moves to Beijing with her husband and two young sons. Six months later,...
| Author | Miranda Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1400067863 |
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...
Like A Year of Magical Thinking, this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss.
The phone rang. It was my husband Arron telling me that he was at Windows of the World in the World Trade Center. “There’s been a...
| Author | Cheryl Wagner |
| ISBN | 0806531037 |
Print and public-radio journalist Wagner describes rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina...Despite Kafkaesque experiences with the infamous bureaucratic mess that threatened to undo New Orleans once and for all, the couple held on to their optimism for the city and their little piece of it. Wagner...
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely...
| Author | Sarahlee Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0982569130 |
An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is the story of a young woman returning home to her family’s ranch and building a log house with the help of her father. An avid river rafter, Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and, by the age of twenty-one, had rafted some of...
| Author | Mary Sheedy Kurcinka |
Does your child refuse to cooperate in the morning? Get into trouble for not listening? "Lose it" over seemingly insignificant issues? Seem to resist sleep?
An estimated 69 percent of American infants, children, and teens are sleep deprived. Studies have shown that sleep deficits can contribute...
| Author | David Giffels |
| ISBN | 1501105949 |
“A lifetime’s worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son” (Kirkus Reviews)—the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking project—constructing,...
| Author | Christopher Nolan |
| ISBN | 0330303163 |
A remarkable work by several measures, Under the Eye of the Clock is the autobiography--told slyly through a third person alter-ego--of Christopher Nolan, struck at birth with brain damage and left paralyzed, spastic and mute. His first book, Dam-Burst of Dreams, written when he was a teen, was a collection...
| Author | Carl Safina |
| ISBN | 0805090401 |
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl Safina
Beginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's "The View from Lazy Point" takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south...
The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening The Heart And Mind Of A Child Threatened With Autism
This enthralling memoir is the day-by-day story of how one little boy was saved from a path leading to autistic isolation. It is also a first-hand account of the new model of research and treatment pioneered by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. that makes this recovery possible for others.
Walker, whom...
Making Peace with Autism: One Family's Story of Struggle, Discovery, and Unexpected Gifts
| Author | Susan Senator |
| ISBN | 1590303822 |
Receiving a diagnosis of autism is a major crisis for parents and families, who often feel as if their world has come to an end. In this insightful narrative, a courageous and inspiring mother explains why a diagnosis of autism doesn't have to shatter a family's dreams of happiness. Senator offers the...
My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara
| Author | Jeroen van Bergeijk |
| ISBN | 0767928695 |
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
—Janis Joplin
A journalist’s intrepid endeavor to sell his used car abroad results in a high-spirited and revealing look at West Africa.
“Look, there’s my car,” I say, pointing at my Mercedes in the parking lot.
“Where?”...
You've Gone Too Far This Time
| Author | Danny Bent |
| ISBN | 1456550306 |
Have you ever woken up in the sultry heat of the morning, your hair and beard teeming with maggots? Have you ever felt the cold barrel of a semi automatic gun against your forehead? When Danny Bent cycled 15,000 kilometres from the UK to India to raise money for ActionAid, it was a decision that took twenty...
Seven Seasons in Siena: My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People
| Author | Robert Rodi |
| ISBN | 0345521056 |
Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular...
Crossing the Moon: A Memoir
| Author | Paulette Bates Alden |
| ISBN | 0140272097 |
At the age of 39, Paulette Bates Alden realized that she had become the person she always wanted to be -- a woman writing at her desk. On the way to achieving her most important goal, she had always considered motherhood but as she neared the end of her fertile years, with a wonderful husband and aging, obstinate,...
1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
| Author | Anne Roiphe |
| ISBN | 0684857324 |
From National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes this moving memoir of growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, status, culture -- everything but happiness.
While the nation was at war abroad, Roiphe, who was coming of age in 1940s New York City, saw her parents at war in their...
Worlds Apart: 2 friends, 2 journeys, and 10 life lessons - a true story
| Author | Dorothee Lang |
| ISBN | 1610191021 |
WOR(L)DS APART is a book about a friendship across cultures, and the insights it evokes.
While Smitha Murthy is in a foreign country for the first time – teaching English at a Chinese school – she chances upon a fellow traveller in the web: Dorothee Lang, who has just returned to Europe from...
Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family
| Author | Susan Weissman |
| ISBN | 1402781229 |
Imagine rushing your child to the hospital, terrified for his life…just because he took a mouthful of the wrong food or a few drops of milk touched his skin. Susan Weissman knows how that feels. From birth, her son Eden suffered from allergies so intense that an errant bite could be deadly: Dairy, eggs,...
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
Once, on a street in New York City, author Lori Jakiela stopped on a whim to visit a palm reader. She told Lori, “We all have two lives and we carry the maps of those lives with us. Our left hands mark the lives we’re born with. Our right hands mark the lives we make for ourselves.”
Belief Is Its...
Criminal That I Am: A Memoir
| Author | Jennifer Ridha |
| ISBN | 1476785724 |
A candid memoir from a talented young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with the convicted drug felon she represents—Cameron Douglas, son of film actor Michael Douglas—and who soon makes the mistake of her life. Or does she?
Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney’s account...
