Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry
10 best books like Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry (Katrina Kenison): The Grammarians, Gift from the Sea, Outer Order, Inner Calm, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, Marilla of Green Gables, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0394724550 |
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
Bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. In a new book packed with more than one hundred concrete ideas, she helps us create the order and organization...
| Author | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| ISBN | 0446519138 |
With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays - one for every day of your year - written for women who wish to live by their own lights.
In the past a woman's spirituality has been seperated...
| Author | Sarah McCoy |
| ISBN | 0062697730 |
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility...
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0451494482 |
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.
Hourglass is an...
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0156010763 |
Bestselling author and literacy expert Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional and intellectual impact reading aloud to children has on their ability to learn to read.
All parents want and expect their children to learn to read, but few realize they can get their kids on the road to reading...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." (James Clear, author of Atomic Habits)
You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a...
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl...
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
| Author | Julie Bogart |
| ISBN | 0143133225 |
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
| Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
| ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
| Author | Shefali Tsabary |
| ISBN | 1897238452 |
It’s a tremendous privilege to raise children, though for a quite different reason than most of us who are parents imagine.
While we think it’s our responsibility to mold and shape our children’s future, the essential premise of Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s A Call to Conscious Parenting...
| Author | Pam Barnhill |
| ISBN | 0999742108 |
Bring delight back to your homeschool.
Have you fallen into a routine of checking boxes? Do you wonder why you don't have time to focus on building your children's character and love of learning?
That can change.
Better Together teaches you how to design a part of your homeschool...
The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
| Author | Sally Clarkson |
| ISBN | 1496403371 |
How to make home your family's favorite place to be . . . all year long.
Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for "home" to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn't you love it to become a haven of warmth,...
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...
The Complicated Heart: Loving Even When It Hurts
| Author | Sarah Mae |
| ISBN | 1462796982 |
People always ask Sarah how she forgave her alcoholic mother.
How do you forgive someone who wounded you so deeply, who carelessly brushed aside your pain, who caused such destruction? How do you forgive them when your wounds are still open, they show no remorse, and you're so tangled up with...
Swallowed Up: A Story About How My Brother Died. And I Didn't
Fantastic, and relatable.
I've had two losses that hit me hard: my mom, and my second miscarriage. Both required a lot of processing. I recognized a whole lot of the feelings in this book: the hyper-awareness of how near we are to death, the questioning of who God really is and if He can be trusted;...
Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic: Lessons in Everyday Elegance
| Author | Jennifer L. Scott |
| ISBN | 1501118730 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Lessons from Madame Chic and At Home with Madame Chic revives the timeless quality of poise and shows how to cultivate it as a daily practice and a life-long endeavor.
Just step out your door today and you will notice that poise is a rarity in our wired, fast-paced,...
Lies in White Dresses: A Novel
| Author | Sofia Grant |
| ISBN | 0062861875 |
Award winning author Sofia Grant weaves an entrancing tale of female friendship and new beginnings inspired by the true stories of those who “took the Reno cure”. In the 1940s and 50s, women who needed a fast divorce went to Nevada to live on a ranch with other women in the same boat.
“Sofia...
Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
| Author | Rebekah Lyons |
| ISBN | 0310356148 |
Daily struggles with anxiety and stress make it difficult to receive God's peace. Rhythms of Renewal will help you trade your anxiety for the vibrant life you were meant to live through four profound rhythms: rest, restore, connect, and create. With encouraging stories and practical steps, Rebekah...
Crusoe, the Worldly Wiener Dog: Further Adventures with the Celebrity Dachshund
| Author | Ryan Beauchesne |
| ISBN | 1250134722 |
The New York Times bestselling and 2018 Animal Star People's Choice Award-winning popular blogger, internet sensation Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund returns with a beautiful and whimsical book full of heartwarming and goofy photographs of his around the world travels in Crusoe, the Worldly Wiener...
The Tudors: A Very Peculiar History™
| Author | Jim Pipe |
| ISBN | 1907184589 |
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Permission to Fly: A Memoir of Love, Crushing Loss, and Triumph
| Author | Layng Martine Jr |
| ISBN | 1732011737 |
PERMISSION TO FLY tells the true story of boy born into a kind and happy family who grows to realize the executive world his father inhabits may not be his destiny. Thanks to his remarkable mother, Layng is given "permission to fly" early on. Armed with optimism, curiosity, creativity, determination...
Confessions of a Wild Child
Confessions of a Wild Child takes you on trip and navigates the teenage years of a wild child who will eventually rule an empire.
Lucky Santangelo is a powerful and charismatic woman. But how did she become the woman she is today? Many people have asked, and in Confessions of a Wild Child we discover...
How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
| Author | Matt Kepnes |
| ISBN | 0399159673 |
No money? No problem. You can start packing your bags for that trip you’ve been dreaming a lifetime about.
For more than half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has been showing readers of his enormously popular travel blog that traveling isn’t expensive and that it’s affordable...
Risen Motherhood: Gospel Hope for Everyday Moments
| Author | Emily Jensen |
| ISBN | 0736976221 |
Motherhood is hard. In a world of five-step lists and silver-bullet solutions to become perfect parents, mothers are burdened with mixed messages about who they are and what choices they should make. If you feel pulled between high-fives and hard words, with culture’s solutions only raising more...
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
| Author | Linda Åkeson McGurk |
“A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, 21st-century childhood.” —Richard Louv, bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N
Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful...
Abby - Quest for Treasure
| Author | Pamela June Walls |
| ISBN | 0842336273 |
This delightful new series, focusing on the travels of Abby Kendall, is a sure-fire hit for 8- to 12-year-old girls. Lots of surprises will keep them coming back for each new Abby title. Book 2 takes Abby and Luke from the island of Oahu to Lanai in search of hidden treasure in order to save the family ranch....
| Author | Pamela June Walls |
| ISBN | 0842336265 |
This delightful new series, focusing on the travels of Abby Kendall, is a sure-fire hit for 8- to 12-year-old girls. Lots of surprises will keep them coming back for each new Abby title. In Book 1, spunky Abby and her friend Luke are thrown overboard while en route to Hawaii. Pirates, a treasure map, and...
