So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World

10 best books like So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World (Margaret J. Wheatley): Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Waiting for Eden, The Price of Time, Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Oracle of Stamboul, Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, Happiness for Beginners, American Primitive, Rising Strong, How to Skimm Your Life

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Author

Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down's syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities;...

Waiting for Eden

Author

Elliot Ackerman

Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But...

The Price of Time

Author

Tim Tigner

Would your character change ...
if you had all the money in the world?
And all the time?
Would you become a better person?
Or worse?

Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller.
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There’s...

Outer Order, Inner Calm

Author

Gretchen Rubin

Bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. In a new book packed with more than one hundred concrete ideas, she helps us create the order and organization...

The Oracle of Stamboul

Author	Michael David Lukas
ISBN	0062012096

An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes the course of an empire's history Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea,...

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

Author	Gretchen Rubin
ISBN	0385348614

New York Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
 
The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change? 
 
Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits...

Happiness for Beginners

Author	Katherine Center
ISBN	1250047307

A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best...

American Primitive

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0316650048

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.

"American Primitive enchants me with the purity...

Rising Strong

Author	Brené Brown
ISBN	0812995821

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending....

How to Skimm Your Life

Author

The Skimm Inc.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • It might seem like everyone you know took secret classes on budgeting, owning their career, and choosing the right wine—and you were sick that day. Enter: How to Skimm Your Life.

With theSkimm’s trademark mix of real talk, humor, and inspirational messaging, this...