One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft
10 best books like One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft (Susan M. Tiberghien): A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, The Winter People, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest, Plain Truth, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within, The Boy on the Wooden Box, Zombie, Ohio
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0307279464 |
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll...
| Author | Jennifer McMahon |
| ISBN | 0385538499 |
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It...
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
| Author | Hannah Nordhaus |
| ISBN | 0062249215 |
The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lament attempts to discover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe--in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.
The...
| Author | Jodi Picoult |
| ISBN | 0743275012 |
The small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, is a jewel in Lancaster County - known for its picture-postcard landscapes and bucolic lifestyle. But that peace is shattered by the discovery of a dead infant in the barn of an Amish farmer. A police investigation quickly leads to two startling disclosures:...
| Author | Suzanne Roberts |
| ISBN | 0803240120 |
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never...
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.
In...
Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within
| Author | Janet Conner |
| ISBN | 1573243566 |
You could pray, or meditate, or dream, or visit a shaman, or a minister, or a hypnotherapist. With so many routes into inner consciousness, why write? Of all the ways to get in touch with God, as you understand God... to hear the small, still voice pointing you in the right direction... why take the time...
The Boy on the Wooden Box
| Author | Leon Leyson |
| ISBN | 1442497831 |
Even in the darkest of times—especially in the darkest of times—there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list.
Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the...
| Author | Scott Kenemore |
| ISBN | 1616082062 |
When rural Ohio college professor Peter Mellor dies in an automobile accident during a zombie outbreak, he is reborn as a highly intelligent (yet somewhat amnesiac) member of the living dead. With society crumbling around him and violence escalating into daily life, Peter quickly learns that being...
