My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
10 best books like My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness (Patricia Raybon): We Learn Nothing, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Mr. Churchill's Secretary, Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, Smaller and Smaller Circles, What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, The SheepOver
| Author | Tim Kreider |
| ISBN | 1439198705 |
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn’t change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don’t even...
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1524732710 |
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...
Mr. Churchill's Secretary
| Author | Susan Elia MacNeal |
| ISBN | 0553593617 |
For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it.
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat...
Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South
| Author | Vivian Howard |
| ISBN | 0316381101 |
Vivian Howard, star of PBS's A CHEF'S LIFE, celebrates the flavors of North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories.
This new classic of American country cooking proves that the food of Deep Run, North Carolina--Vivian's home--is as rich as any culinary tradition in...
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...
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
| Author | Emily Bernard |
| ISBN | 0451493028 |
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing...
| Author | F.H. Batacan |
| ISBN | 9715423647 |
Smaller and Smaller Circles is unique in the Philippine literary scene - a Pinoy detective novel, both fast-paced and intelligent, with a Jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for the English Novel in 1999, it proved that...
| Author | Merrill Markoe |
| ISBN | 0812974506 |
Award-winning comedy writer Merrill Markoe, the slightly warped mind behind Stupid Pet Tricks, is an old hand with dogs. She knows who’s boss (they are) and the myriad ways a loving pet can make you feel guilty twenty-four hours a day. This new edition of Merrill Markoe’s classic collection of humorous...
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
| Author | Rosaria Champagne Butterfield |
The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
About The Gospel Comes with a House Key
The word hospitality often invokes a scene of a gracious, impeccably fashioned host welcoming guests into a beautifully appointed home...
| Author | John Churchman |
| ISBN | 0316273562 |
Meet the adorable orphan lamb Sweet Pea and discover why her true story has become a picture book phenomenon and enchanted readers of all ages!
One cold winter night, Sweet Pea the orphan lamb becomes very sick. Everyone in the farmyard is worried about her! Under the watchful care of Farmer...
Structured for Mission: Renewing the Culture of the Church
| Author | Alan J. Roxburgh |
| ISBN | 0830844244 |
The church is living in a time of massive, unprecedented change. Traditional institutions and structures are unraveling in response to rapid social, demographic and economic developments. The existing ways of being the church are no longer meaningful to many. How should the church respond? Many...
I wish I could rate this higher than five stars - honestly, I really do. This book has inspired me endlessly! As a graphic design enthusiast (and budding graphic designer), this was a huge amount of motivation and it has inspired me to start collecting my own data sets and illustrating them in quirky ways....
| Author | Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| ISBN | 1250137748 |
A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.
Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly...
Native Plants of the Southeast: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 460 Species for the Garden
| Author | Larry Mellichamp |
| ISBN | 1604693231 |
Using native plants in a garden has many benefits. They attract beneficial wildlife and insects, they allow a gardener to create a garden that reflects the native beauty of the region, and they make a garden more sustainable. Because of all this, they are an increasingly popular plant choice for home...
Sheet Pan Suppers: 120 Recipes for Simple, Surprising, Hands-Off Meals Straight from the Oven
| Author | Molly Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0761178422 |
It’s the one-pot meal reinvented, and what is sure to become every busy cook’s new favorite way of getting dinner on the table. It’s Sheet Pan Suppers—a breakthrough full-color cookbook with more than 120 recipes for complete meals, snacks, brunch, and even dessert, that require nothing...
The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
| Author | Alex Korb |
| ISBN | 1626251207 |
Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you down into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. Based in the latest research in neuroscience, this audiobook offers dozens of little things you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life.
Depression...
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
| Author | Damon Young |
| ISBN | 0062898221 |
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.
For Damon Young, existing while...
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
