No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver's Days
10 best books like No Saints Around Here: A Caregiver's Days (Susan Allen Toth): Shiksa Goddess, The Fifth Book Of Peace, Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader, The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes, First Comes Love, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty, Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady, The Mottled Lizard, My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind - And Doubt Freed My Soul
| Author | Wendy Wasserstein |
| ISBN | 0375726039 |
Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she...
| Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| ISBN | 0099466635 |
By the author of the bestselling The Woman Warrior, a magical book: a literature of peace built on the stories of war. Divided into four sections - 'Fire', 'Paper', 'Water' and 'Earth' - this book is neither fiction nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese 'talk-story' in which real...
Letters on an Elk Hunt by a Woman Homesteader
| Author | Elinore Pruitt Stewart |
| ISBN | 0803291124 |
A continuation of Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Letters on an Elk Hunt is set in the same corner of southwestern Wyoming, the time is the fall of 1914, and (despite the title) Mrs. Stewart is far less concerned with elk hunting than with people—old friends and new acquaintances—and with the land...
| Author | Zippora Karz |
| ISBN | 0373892039 |
It started as the perfect story. Zippora Karz was a member of the famed New York City Ballet by the age of eighteen. By twenty she was starring as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, dancing roles created by Jerome Robbins, and traveling the world.
It was the stuff dreams are made of until, at...
| Author | Marion Winik |
| ISBN | 0679765557 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads. For starters, she was straight and he was gay. But Marion and Tony's impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce...
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday she realized...
If she had simply been the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would have been assured. But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her long life. Volume I, THE ROMANTIC YEARS, follows...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
| Author | Sylvia Jukes Morris |
| ISBN | 0375757686 |
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously...
This sequel to THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA continues the story of Elspeth Huxley's childhood in Kenya. British settlers, called to serve in WW I, return to their neglected farms and ranches. For Tilly and Robin it is back to the struggle. For their daughter, now 11, it is back to the ponies, lessons at home,...
My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind - And Doubt Freed My Soul
| Author | Amir Ahmad Nasr |
| ISBN | 1250016797 |
Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind.
Part memoir,...
A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France
| Author | Emilie Carles |
| ISBN | 0140169652 |
I came upon this title from a reference in the book SYLVIA'S FARM. Am I ever glad I followed up. This is the story of a French peasant woman, born in 1900, who became a teacher. She wrested her education from nuns and in the direst of living circumstances, always going back to her father's farm to work on weekends....
| Author | Russell Baker |
| ISBN | 0517126117 |
In this sequel to GROWING UP, Russell Baker relates the striving of his early career and contrasts it to the country's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. Baker rose steadily, from newsboy to college paper, from police reporter to rewrite man, from White House correspondent to Washington...
Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries
| Author | Marianne C. Bohr |
| ISBN | 1631528203 |
For every reader with wanderlust, and Baby Boomers longing to hit the road, "Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries" is a pleasure to read.
"Gap Year Girl" is Marianne Bohr’s travel journal and memoir telling how she and her husband, Joe, retraced their the travels abroad...
| Author | Calvin Trillin |
| ISBN | 0374529744 |
A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s
Remembering Denny is perhaps Calvin Trillin's most inspired and powerful book: a memoir of a friendship, a work of investigative...
Unforgettable: Short Stories
| Author | Paulette Bates Alden |
The nine stories in UNFORGETTABLE: SHORT STORIES are about the presence of the past, the power of memory, and the enduring nature of love. They follow Miriam Batson, the protagonist of Paulette Alden's earlier short story collection, FEEDING THE EAGLES, into middle age, as she navigates the suicide...
Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones
| Author | Elizabeth Drescher |
| ISBN | 0199341222 |
To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America. By 2014, more than twenty percent of adults identified as unaffiliated--up more than seven percent just since 2007. Even more startling, more...
Rick Steves' Postcards from Europe: 25 Years of Travel Tales from America's Favorite Guidebook Writer
| Author | Rick Steves |
| ISBN | 1562613979 |
This guide is an armchair tour of the author's favorite European travel experiences. In a series of personal vignettes, Steves tells of the Swiss schoolteacher who risked Steves's life to show him an edelweiss he couldn't pick, the Seina native who still bears a medieval grudge against Florence, and...
He did not claim that “woman” was incapable of learning and wisdom, but that they did not “become” her: as man’s spiritual superior, she should consent to rule him by letting him please her. But she was not man’s intellectual equal, and needed him to tell her (as Henry Sr. does in this article)...
A Tour of Bones: Facing Fear and Looking for Life
| Author | Denise Inge |
| ISBN | 1472913078 |
A life-enhancing exploration of how to live well in the face of mortality.
Author, academic and adventurer, Denise Inge grew up in a large and rambunctious family on the east coast of America. She has crossed the Sahara, charmed snakes in Marrakech and cycled the Adirondack mountains but her...
The Kennedys: An American Drama
| Author | Peter Collier |
| ISBN | 1893554317 |
The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both...
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game - How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot
| Author | Giles Milton |
| ISBN | 1444737023 |
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II—a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple...
Swimming Across: A Memoir
| Author | Andrew S. Grove |
| ISBN | 0446679704 |
Simple writing.
Andy's childhood was super fun to read about; and I might even say that the story is not that amazing. It felt as though he lived quite a cushy life in Hungary, but when the Soviet way started getting more pronounced, although he kept succeeding, society was crumbling.
His journey...
Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood
| Author | Justin Marozzi |
| ISBN | 1846143136 |
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great...
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
Just a few of the vitally important lessons in caring for your aging parent—and yourself—from Jane Gross in A Bittersweet Season. As painful as the role reversal between parent and child may be for you, assume it is worse for your mother or father, so take care not to demean or humiliate them.
Avoid...
