Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life
10 best books like Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life (Kent Nerburn): The Bookman’s Tale, Keys to the Demon Prison, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, Before We Visit the Goddess, Grip of the Shadow Plague, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, What I Learned in Narnia, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words, Saker min son behöver veta om världen
| Author | Charlie Lovett |
| ISBN | 0670026476 |
"What about the most valuable relic in the history of English literature—would that be worth killing for?"
Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young...
| Author | Brandon Mull |
| ISBN | 1606412388 |
After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx—leader of the Society of the Evening Star—is after the final artifacts needed to open the great demon prison, Zzyxx. If the legendary prison is opened, a tide of evil is certain to usurp control of the world.
In an effort to intercept the final artifacts,...
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
| Author | Jennifer Pastiloff |
| ISBN | 1524743569 |
An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff’s years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.
Centered around...
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 1476792003 |
A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another—a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and...
Grip of the Shadow Plague
| Author | Brandon Mull |
| ISBN | 1590388984 |
Strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem in its infancy, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long.
In...
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374527229 |
Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...
| Author | Douglas Wilson |
| ISBN | 1591284384 |
Douglas Wilson begins this series of meditations on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia with the observation, I have learned far more in Narnia than I can even begin to tell you. I hope you will read these books over and over for the rest of your life. In these talks before a youthful audience, Wilson highlights...
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
| Author | Kamal Ravikant |
| ISBN | 1478121734 |
In December of 2011, I gave a talk to an audience of scientists, Pentagon officials, politicians, and CEO's on the secret of life and how I'd figured it out the previous summer.
Afterwards, people came up individually and told me how much what I'd shared meant to them. This book is based on the...
Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
| Author | Anthony de Mello |
| ISBN | 0385249373 |
The heart of Anthony de Mello's bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello's words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis.
In short chapters for reading...
Saker min son behöver veta om världen
| Author | Fredrik Backman |
| ISBN | 9137138669 |
English title: "Things my son needs to know about the world".
"Till min son. Jag ber om din förlåtelse redan nu. För alla gånger jag kommer skämma ut dig. För charterresorna. Cowboyhatten. 'Riktiga män väger över 90 kilo'-t-shirten. För att jag gör min pappa-hade-rätt-och-mamma-hade-fel-dans...
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
| Author | Bill O'Reilly |
| ISBN | 1250165547 |
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including...
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0451493931 |
From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.
For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...
