My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
10 best books like My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging (Rachel Naomi Remen): Mexico Set, Gingerbread Baby, Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?, The Three Snow Bears, The Hat, Hedgie's Surprise, Bella Tuscany, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
| Author | Len Deighton |
| ISBN | 0345314999 |
Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step -- and defect.
But the price of one Russian's freedom must be paid in blood -- blood that Samson unexpectedly...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399234446 |
Remember how the Gingerbread Boy is eaten by the fox? Well, not this Gingerbread Baby in a delicious twist to a favorite old tale.It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Bay. He leads Matti's mother and father, the dog and the cat. And a whole colorful cast...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399238735 |
Every year, trolls knock down Kyri's door and gobble up her Christmas feast. But this year, the trolls are in for a surprise: a boy and his pet ice bear on their way to Oslo have come in from the cold. And once the ice bear is finished with the trolls, you can bet they won't come knocking next Christmas Eve!
Once...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399247920 |
Aloo-ki glances up from fishing and sees her sled dogs floating off on an ice floe. She races after them and comes upon an igloo. Being a curious girl, she goes inside only to find no one home. That's because the polar bear family who lives there is out walking while their breakfast cools off. Aloo-ki eats...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0750026049 |
In Jan Brett's well-loved book, The Hat, Hedgie the hedgehog discovers the wisdom of the adage "Don't go poking your nose where it doesn't belong" only after curiosity gets this prickly fellow in a pickle. When Lisa's red-and-white woolen stocking blows off the clothesline, Hedgie finds it and sticks...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399234772 |
Jan Brett's beloved character Hedgie stars in this charming story about a little Tomten who gets tired of porridge for breakfast and starts stealing Henny's eggs. But Henny wants a brood of chicks and she needs her eggs. With the help of clever Hedgie, she substitutes an acorn, a strawberry, a mushroom...
Frances Mayes invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food there and throughout Italy.
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of...
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
| Author | Jeff Guinn |
| ISBN | 1416557067 |
Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Previous books and films, including the brilliant 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology....
Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD]
| Author | Nguyen Anh-Huong |
| ISBN | 1591794730 |
What if every step you took deepened your connection with all of life and imprinted peace, joy, and serenity on the earth? With Walking Meditation, listeners enjoy the first comprehensive instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help them walk with presence and peace of mind whether...
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
The New York Times Best Seller
For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charmingly illustrated treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults...
| Author | Paul Brickhill |
| ISBN | 0304356875 |
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked...
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
| Author | Victoria Sweet |
| ISBN | 1594488436 |
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended...
| Author | Len Deighton |
| ISBN | 0345332687 |
With treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and each falls helplessly into Moscow Centre's brilliant, complex trap. As LONDON MATCH rushes toward its amazing climax, the ultimate, decisive confrontation is about to take place--between Samson and...
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
| Author | Peter Mayle |
| ISBN | 0375705619 |
A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.
The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be....
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1573229377 |
It was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing, obsessive desire, and anger. All are difficult, but in one instant of anger—one of the most powerful emotions—lives can...
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1501155466 |
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long—and sometimes miraculous—road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God.
Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular...
| Author | Jack Canfield |
| ISBN | 1558749705 |
Whether your idea of travel at its finest is trekking through Europe with a backpack, a map and a foreign-language dictionary; road-tripping across America in a fully loaded RV; or cruising the Caribbean aboard a luxury liner, Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul celebrates the people you'll meet,...
| Author | Lauren Belfer |
| ISBN | 0061252514 |
“An engrossing and ambitious novel that vividly portrays a critical time in American history.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Enthralling. A Fierce Radiance shines with fascinating detail.... Belfer’s powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle makes...
The Barnes & Noble Review
Legendary author and illustrator Jan Brett transforms Scandinavian illustrations and stories to explore the beauty and color of China. Inspired by a favorite childhood story, The Story of Ping, Brett writes of six hens in China. Cared for by the young Mei Mei, the...
Annie and the Wild Animals
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0395510066 |
Well... This time I actually thought Brett did a good job with illustrating cute little Annie. And, of course, the animals are great. I just thought the story was really boring and just really unbelievable. The mother cat leaves her warm home to go outside (in the snow! In a hollow tree!) to have her kittens?...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1888375000 |
Relationships are always complex and challenging, but never more so than in today’s hectic, stressful world. Weaving together traditional stories, personal experiences, and a deep understanding of the Buddha's way of mindful living, Thich Nhat Hanh's Teachings on Love provides step-by-step...
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
| Author | C.J. Hauser |
| ISBN | 0385544626 |
When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's Island, he calls on Elsa, his estranged, older half-sister, to help pick up the pieces. This, despite the fact that it was he and Elsa who broke the family in the first place. The Greys have been avoiding...
The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life
| Author | Pat Conroy |
| ISBN | 0385514131 |
"This book is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that I found when writing The Lords of Discipline. There are meals I ate in Rome while writing The...
| Author | Jan Brett |
| ISBN | 0399246215 |
Sometimes I really appreciate Brett's artwork and sometimes it really leaves me unmoved. I'm afraid this book falls into the latter category. Despite my ardent affection for hedgehogs, I could not warm up to the space-bound Hedgie and the doggie scientists just seemed so odd to me. It is neat that Brett...
Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
| Author | Ina Garten |
| ISBN | 0804187037 |
For America’s bestselling cookbook author Ina Garten there is no greater pleasure than cooking for the people she loves—and particularly for her husband, Jeffrey. She has been cooking for him ever since they were married forty-eight years ago, and the comforting, delicious meals they shared...
A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter
| Author | Rachael Herron |
| ISBN | 1452100535 |
In these 20 heartfelt essays, Rachael Herron celebrated romance novelist by day, 911 dispatcher by night, and founder of the hugely popular blog Yarnagogo.com shows how when life unravels there s always a way to knit it back together again, many times into something even better. Honest, funny, and...
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help
From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.
Jessie is nine years old and looks like the perfect little girl,...
This selection from Thich Nhat Hanhs bestselling The Art of Power illuminates the core Buddhist concept of mindfulness for the Western reader
In The Art of Mindfulness, one of the most revered Buddhist teachers in the world, Thich Nhat Hanh delivers a life changing practice...
| Author | Frederick Buechner |
| ISBN | 0060609362 |
I love Buechner's work, period. While reading his books, I'm frequently struck with an odd sense of familiarity, realizing only after considering that he just essentially said (in a much more eloquent manner) something that I've been wrestling with, thinking about, praying through, and more. He's...
