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Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy

10 best books like Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy (Sarah Ban Breathnach): Seeking Persephone, Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, Murder in the Reading Room, The Book Supremacy, Charlotte Mason Companion, Pocketful Of Pinecones: Nature Study With The Gentle Art Of Learning: A Story For Mother Culture, Ghostly Paws, Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up, For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women

Seeking Persephone
AuthorSarah M. Eden
ISBN1440454299
When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses, and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland...
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
AuthorMark Dunn
ISBN0385722435
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens...
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
AuthorLaurie Colwin
ISBN0060955309
Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as...
Murder in the Reading Room
AuthorEllery Adams
Storyton Hall, Virginia, is a paradise for book lovers who come from all over for literary getaways. But manager Jane Steward is temporarily leaving for another renowned resort—in hopes of solving a twist-filled mystery . . .

Jane’s boyfriend is missing, and she thinks she may find him...
The Book Supremacy
AuthorKate Carlisle
Newlyweds Brooklyn and Derek are enjoying the final days of their honeymoon in Paris. As they're browsing the book stalls along the Seine, Brooklyn finds the perfect gift for Derek, a first edition James Bond novel, The Spy Who Loved Me. When they bump into Ned, an old friend from Derek's spy days, Brooklyn...
Charlotte Mason Companion
AuthorKaren Andreola
ISBN1889209023
This is a thorough chapter-by-chapter overview of the inspiring teaching principles of Christian educator Charlotte Mason from the original Charlotte Mason authority, speaker, and columnist, Karen Andreola. With warmth and humor, Karen provides a wealth of insight, practical advice, and narratives,...
Pocketful Of Pinecones: Nature Study With The Gentle Art Of Learning: A Story For Mother Culture
AuthorKaren Andreola
ISBN1889209031
Karen Andreola's Pocketful of Pinecones This unique book actually has a two-fold purpose. It's a story written especially for moms who get discouraged and feel like giving up on homeschooling, as well as a guide to nature study. It's written as the diary of one mother's year of teaching her children...
Ghostly Paws
AuthorLeighann Dobbs
Middle age can be murder ...

At least that’s how it seems to former crime journalist, Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect ... she sees ghosts.

After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the...
Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
AuthorElizabeth Smart
ISBN1250115523
Elizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, My Story—about being held in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive—with a powerful and inspiring book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one’s life.

Author. Activist....
For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women
AuthorShaunti Feldhahn
ISBN1590525728
Finally--You "Can"Understand Her!
Women: Complicated and impossible to understand? Do you love and want to please the woman in your life, but just can't seem to figure her out? That was before "For Men Only." Now at your fingertips is the tool that will unlock the secret to her mysterious ways. Through...
House of Learning: Getting More from Your Temple Experience
AuthorM. Richard Walker
ISBN1606411012
This book was written by a husband and wife but some reason, her name--Kathleen Walker--is not included as co-author. Kathleen is one of President Gordon B.Hinckley's daughters. Richard and Kathleen both lost their spouses, found and married each other and were then called as President and Matron...
Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson
AuthorSheri Dew
What kind of life preparation does the Lord give the men He will one day call to be prophet? And what are the lessons to be learned from such a life? From being raised in a home without the foundation of the gospel to the early days of his marriage and the stress of medical school to his last open-heart surgery...
Lessons at Blackberry Inn: Adventures with the Gentle Art of Learning
AuthorKaren Andreola
ISBN1889209058
Experience life in a Charlotte Mason-style homeschool and join in the adventures of Carol and her family as they discover what the author calls "The Gentle Art of Learning" (TM) in this heartwarming story. Readers say that Mrs. Andreola s writing style has both a calming and a nurturing effect. Lessons...
Joseph and Emma: A Love Story (Volume II , 2)
AuthorMarsha Newman
ISBN1884312268
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Focusing
AuthorEugene T. Gendlin
ISBN0553278339
The classic guide to a powerful
technique for personal transformation

Based on groundbreaking research conducted at the University of Chicago, the focusing technique has gained widespread popularity and scholarly acclaim. It consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify...
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee: Daily Reflections on the New Testament
AuthorRobert L. Millet
ISBN1570088608
This small book contains an inspirational thought for each day of the year plus a scripture from the New Testament. One entry that stood out to me was:

Matthew 10:34 "'The more you obey your conscience,' C. S. Lewis observed, 'the more your conscience will demand of you. And your natural self,...
Murder under Cover
AuthorKate Carlisle
ISBN0451233514
When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend Robin to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life.
But then Robin's apartment is ransacked, and the great guy she recently met is murdered in her...
One Book in the Grave
AuthorKate Carlisle
ISBN0451236122
There may be grave consequences for bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright as she attempts to solve two murders tied to one book...
Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairy tale come true—until she realizes the book belonged to an old friend of hers. Ten years...
Maud
AuthorMelanie J. Fishbane
Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery—Maud to her friends—has a dream: to go to college and, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott, become a writer. But living with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, she worries that this dream will never come true. Her grandfather has strong opinions...
Peril in Paperback
AuthorKate Carlisle
ISBN0451237625
How to become the life of the party? First, survive the celebration…

Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzie’s aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life...
A Stranger for Christmas
AuthorCarol Lynn Pearson
ISBN0829417621
Sweeeeeet! Another GOOD READ, which has been on my Christmas Shelf for years. Dusted it off this year and had a nice little get-in-the-Spirit-of-Christmas read.

Two seniors of the female persuasion living in a California retirement establishment, Myrna and Florence, discuss whether or...
Cross Creek
AuthorMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings
ISBN0684818795
Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling—in the Florida backcountry.

Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling,...
Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament: An Illustrated Reference for Latter-Day Saints
AuthorRichard Neitzel Holzapfel
ISBN1590384423
This important reference for any home library is the perfect guide to New Testament culture, language, history, and teachings. Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament is richly illustrated with hundreds of images, including original artwork, artifacts, maps, and timelines. Uncover the...
Letters for Emily
AuthorCamron Wright
ISBN0743444485
Life has a strange way of repeating itself, and I want my experience to help you. My hope is that you'll consider my words and remember my heart.... LETTERS FOR EMILY
Harry Whitney is dying. He has Alzheimer's disease, and he knows his "good" time is dwindling. So he compiles a book of poems for his beloved...
The Christmas Candle
AuthorMax Lucado
ISBN1595541470
From New York Times best-selling author Max Lucado comes a timeless message that will warm your heart.

Imagine a Victorian England village in the Cotswolds where very little out of the ordinary ever happens . . . except at Christmas time.

This year, Edward Haddington, a lowly candle...
Once Upon a Spine
AuthorKate Carlisle
ISBN0451477723
Brooklyn's future in-laws are traveling from England to meet her, and if that's not enough to set her on edge, rumors abound that the charming Courtyard Shops across the street may be replaced by high-rise apartments. Their trendy neighborhood will be ruined unless Brooklyn and her fiance, Derek Stone,...
Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
AuthorErin Loechner
ISBN0310345677
You’re here, but you want to be there. 

So you spend your life narrowing this divide, and you call this your race, your journey, your path. You live your days tightening your boot straps, wiping the sweat from your brow, chasing undiscovered happiness just around the bend. Higher! Faster!...
A Cookbook Conspiracy
AuthorKate Carlisle
ISBN0451415965
It’s a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook….

Brooklyn has always been a little obsessed with food, but it was her sister Savannah who became a chef, graduating from the prestigious Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris. She and...
The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
AuthorSally Clarkson
ISBN1496403371
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,...
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