Plant Dreaming Deep
10 best books like Plant Dreaming Deep (May Sarton): The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, Rabbits for Food, Owls in the Family, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life, Improvement, Carry the One, Alys, Always, Turning, Wildlife
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0515056170 |
Farley Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed trees and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered...
| Author | Binnie Kirshenbaum |
| ISBN | 1641290536 |
A heartbreaking, irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny meditation on what it's like to lose your mind from acclaimed novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum.
It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced gaiety, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's...
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0440413613 |
Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman,...
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
| Author | Billie Letts |
| ISBN | 0446675059 |
Caney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma-the "opening soon" part was supposed to be just a removable, painted notice. But a fateful misunderstanding gave Vietnam vet Caney the flashiest joke in the entire state. Twelve years later, the once-busy highway...
Do Your Om Thing: Bending Yoga Tradition to Fit Your Modern Life
| Author | Rebecca Pacheco |
| ISBN | 0062273396 |
Yoga, Meet Life.
Sometimes an hour-long yoga class is the only chance we get to connect meaningfully with our bodies and our minds during a week otherwise full of work, family, and the daily grind. Have you ever wondered how would it feel to bring that experience of awareness and calm out of the...
| Author | Joan Silber |
| ISBN | 1640091130 |
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect,...
| Author | Carol Anshaw |
| ISBN | 1451656939 |
“When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.”
Following a devastating moment in the hours after Carmen’s wedding, three siblings and their friends move through the next twenty-five years under its long shadow. Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood,...
| Author | Harriet Lane |
| ISBN | 0297865013 |
Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's family...
| Author | Jessica J. Lee |
| ISBN | 0349008345 |
Through the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter, Lee traces her journey swimming through 52 lakes in a single year, swimming through fear and heartbreak to find her place in the world
The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0679734473 |
When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing and transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of 'Rock Springs'. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife—first...
Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait
| Author | Kendra Bean |
| ISBN | 0762450991 |
Vivien Leigh’s mystique was a combination of staggering beauty, glamour, romance, and genuine talent which was displayed in her Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. For more than thirty years, her name alone sold out theaters and cinemas the world over,...
"Eg heitte Atle Vilder, var femtito år, og budde i et eldre hus ein stad på Vestlandet. Og staden heitte Gran. Og eg hadde budd i huset i tjueåtte år. Og eg var heime i huset mitt i Gran, eg stod på kjøkenet og såg ut av vindauget. Og på bordet låg eit brev. Det var eit brev frå Lise, kona mi. Eg hadde...
| Author | Tormod Haugland |
| ISBN | 9788249518 |
Romanen "Om dyr og syn" er lagt til ei lita bygd på Vestlandet på 1960-, 70- og 80-tallet. Med gardslivet og bygdekulturen som bakteppe følgjer vi Tormod frå barndommen gjennom ungdomstida, fram til han er ung kunststudent i Bergen. Som liten gut oppdagar Tormod ein slåsshanske i faren sitt skrivebord,...
Autopsie d'une femme plate
«J’aime quelqu’un d’autre.»
Ma tête s’est remplie de sang. Mes yeux, sous la poussée, ont vibré dans leur orbite ; quelques millilitres de plus et ils s’exorbitaient. Ça m’a paru tellement insensé que j’ai jeté un oeil à la télé en souhaitant que les mots viennent...
| Author | James Reese |
| ISBN | 0060561084 |
New York Times bestselling author James Reese has been praised for his lush and evocative prose, his bold exploration of illicit sexuality, his deft handling of historical settings, and his extraordinary rendering of the supernatural. His novels are sumptuous trips back in time to an era filled with...
| Author | Michael Koryta |
| ISBN | 0316122610 |
Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him "one of the best of the best."
Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother...
My Mother, the Psychopath: Growing Up In The Shadow Of A Monster
What do you do when the person you’re meant to trust the most in the world is the one trying to destroy you?
‘When people met her they thought how lovely she was, this attractive woman with a beautiful laugh. But she was one person in public and another behind closed doors. Who would she be today? The...
| Author | G. Willow Wilson |
| ISBN | 1302917358 |
Kamala Khan has vanished! But where has she gone, and why? Jersey City still has a need for heroes, and in the wake of Ms. Marvel's disappearance, dozens have begun stepping up to the plate. The city's newest crimefighter, Red Dagger, and even ordinary citizens attempt to carry on the brave fight in Kamala's...
