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Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life

10 best books like Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life (Kyran Pittman): The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories, The Foremost Good Fortune, Good Eggs, The Possibility of Everything, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life, Bad to the Bone: Memoir of a Rebel Doggie Blogger, Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers, What I Thought I Knew, Down from Cascom Mountain: A Novel, Living Like Ed: One Man's Guide to Living an Environmentally Friendly Life

The King of Pain: A Novel With Stories
AuthorSeth Kaufman
A riotously funny portrait of an out-of-control entertainment mogul and a devastating look at torture and imprisonment, The King of Pain is part George Saunders, part Jennifer Egan, part "Entourage," and 100% marvelous.

Rick Salter expects to be hated; after all, he’s the mind behind...
The Foremost Good Fortune
AuthorSusan Conley
ISBN0307594068
“The Foremost Good Fortune is a beautiful story of womanhood, motherhood, travel and loss, written by an author of rare and radiant grace.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.) In 2007, American writer Susan Conley moves to Beijing with her husband and two young sons. Six months later,...
Good Eggs
AuthorPhoebe Potts
ISBN0061711462
In the tradition of the acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home and Persepolis comes a funny, insightful, and deeply moving book about learning to appreciate what we have when we can't seem to get what we want.

For Phoebe Potts, the path to maternal fulfillment has not been easy. All her friends seem...
The Possibility of Everything
AuthorHope Edelman
ISBN0345506502
From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.

In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift,...
Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
AuthorKaren Maezen Miller
ISBN1577319044
It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are “out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen...
Bad to the Bone: Memoir of a Rebel Doggie Blogger
AuthorBo Hoefinger
ISBN0806531290
Let's get this clear right away: I'm a dog. I'm 1'10" and weigh 63 lbs, and although I'm a mutt on the outside, I'm a purebred on the inside. My good nature comes from the Golden Retriever side of the family, while my stubbornness is clearly from my Chowchow bloodlines. I've got Rastafarian ears, a black...
Inconsolable: How I Threw My Mental Health Out With the Diapers
AuthorMarrit Ingman
ISBN1580051405
Marrit Ingman became a mother on February 27, 2002. She went crazy—also on February 27, 2002. Her journey began with a plate of carne guisada and led to an emergency cesarian, ankyloglossia, colic, gastroesphageal reflux, eczema, Zoloft, Paxil, peanut allergy, suicidal ideation, hepatitis,...
What I Thought I Knew
AuthorAlice Eve Cohen
ISBN0670020958
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible

At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming....
Down from Cascom Mountain: A Novel
AuthorAnn Joslin Williams
ISBN1608193063
Ann Joslin Williams grew up observing the craft of writing: her father, Thomas Williams, was a National Book Award-winning novelist. Many of his stories were set in the fictional town of Leah, New Hampshire, and on nearby Cascom Mountain, locations that closely mirrored the landscape of the Williamses'...
Living Like Ed: One Man's Guide to Living an Environmentally Friendly Life
AuthorEd Begley Jr.
ISBN0307396436
FROM THE PIONEER OF ECO-CONSCIOUS LIVING

A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., has always tried to “live simply so others may simply live.” Now, as more and more of us are looking for ways to reduce our impact on the planet and live a better, greener life,...
Tilt
AuthorElizabeth Burns
ISBN0425195929
Which could also be the same as saying everything's impossible in this family. It's the tightrope I walk between the Irish knowledge that cookies always crumble, and the Midwestern fact that a sunny disposition can get you anywhere... Bridget Fox's life is full of blessings, including her husband...
Practically Perfect in Every Way
AuthorJennifer Niesslein
ISBN0399153918
A wry, perceptive, and witty examination of our relentless need for self-improvement by the admittedly imperfect founding coeditor of the award-winning quarterly Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers.

Jennifer Niesslein-writer, editor, mother, and flawed human being-spent...
Born Wild: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Passion for Africa
AuthorTony Fitzjohn
ISBN0307716031
Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards...
In Spite of Everything: A Memoir
AuthorSusan Gregory Thomas
ISBN1400068827
“For most of my generation—Generation X—there is only one question: ‘When did your parents split?’ Our lives have been framed by the answer. Ask us. We remember everything.”
 
In this powerful, poignant, and often laugh-out-loud-funny memoir, Susan Gregory Thomas reflects...
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
AuthorMelissa Coleman
ISBN0061958328
“Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn’t just tell the story of her family’s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent...
Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist's Journey Through the Hell of Divorce
AuthorStacy Morrison
ISBN1416595562
The emotionally charged story of a divorce that brought the surprising gift of grace

Just when Stacy Morrison thought everything in her life had come together, her husband of ten years announced that he wanted a divorce. She was left alone with a new house that needed a lot of work, a new baby who...
Barefoot in November
AuthorBenjamin J. Carey
ISBN0615450849
Running a marathon is much more than just a metaphor in Benjamin Carey’s powerful memoir Barefoot in November. His inspiring story, beautifully told, encourages us to take charge of our own fate. This book captures his emotional, physical and spiritual journey to the finish line and beyond. Benjamin...
Leon: Naturally Fast Food: Book 2
AuthorHenry Dimbleby
ISBN1840915560
O M G, loved this book! It's the quirkiest little cookbook I've ever seen, lots and lots of pictures, few of them are actually of food, but it's okay. Every recipe calls for ingredients I actually buy and use, most recipes have 4 or 5 short steps, a few of the recipes are classics such as vampire chicken with...
My Family Table: A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking
AuthorJohn Besh
ISBN1449407870
There were lots of recipes that I wanted to try right away. Aside from the roasts, most of the recipes did not take that much time, didn't have too many ingredients, and were not difficult to make. I always appreciate pictures of the food in cookbooks so I know what I'm making and what it's supposed to look...
I'm Having More Fun Than You
AuthorAaron Karo
ISBN0061805211
Aaron Karo sets out to prove that single people have more fun than married people, one scenario at a time. The only thing he ends up proving is that selfish people cannot be in a relationship, um, ever. While it is obvious that Karo is not only smart, and clever, for example, "cross-pollination" (referring...
The Naturally Clean Home: 101 Safe and Easy Herbal Formulas for Nontoxic Cleansers
AuthorKaryn Siegel-Maier
You don't need to pay a fortune for expensive "green" commercial cleaning products. It's easy and inexpensive to mix up effective, nontoxic alternatives using basic kitchen staples — baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs, and borax — plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils. Karyn Siegel-Maier...
Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response
AuthorLynn Powell
ISBN1595585516
Ten years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home in Ohio. The rolls contained photographs of her eight-year-old daughter Nora, including two of the child in the shower—photos that would cause the county prosecutor...
Pretty is What Changes: Tough Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and Learning How to Live in the DNA Age
AuthorJessica Queller
ISBN0385520409
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?

Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results...
Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Start Living Again
AuthorFrank Lipman
ISBN1416549420
From the doctor whose “extraordinary practice is at the vanguard of a revolutionary way to deliver medical care” (O, The Oprah Magazine), an easy program to restore energy and health.

Do you feel unusually exhausted?
Do you have trouble sleeping?
Does your digestion bother...
Spinning Disney's World: Memories of a Magic Kingdom Press Agent
AuthorCharles Ridgway
ISBN1887140670
This memoir is most definitely a must-read for Disney fans. Readers get the opportunity to relive some interesting stories from a true Disney Legend. Ridgway is one of the few that could say that they worked for the Disney Company when Walt was still alive and kept working all the way into the 21st century....
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