Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
10 best books like Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother (Eve LaPlante): Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years, The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Louisa May Alcott, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir, Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy, An American Childhood, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution
Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative...
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
| Author | Cathy Guisewite |
| ISBN | 0735218420 |
From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."
As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more...
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up...
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
| Author | Geraldine Brooks |
| ISBN | 0385483732 |
As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an...
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
| Author | Sabrina Strings |
| ISBN | 1479886750 |
How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years
There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black...
Louisa May Alcott never intended to write "Little Women." She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which turned out very differently from that of her beloved heroine Jo March....
| Author | Katrina Kenison |
| ISBN | 0446409480 |
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace, in a small New England town. It is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in...
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...
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 1101980303 |
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity
| Author | Catherine A. Sanderson |
| ISBN | 1946885444 |
It’s the reason why spending time on Facebook makes us feel sad and lonely. Why expensive name-brand medicines provide better pain relief than the generic stuff, even if they share the same ingredients. And why a hospital room with a good view speeds up recovery from surgery.
The truth is,...
