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Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World

10 best books like Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World (Scott Russell Sanders): Darkdawn, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes, The Hound of Justice, Seven Surrenders, The Brothers K, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life, The Vanished, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind

Darkdawn
AuthorJay Kristoff
A ruthless young assassin's journey for revenge comes to a stunning end in the conclusion of this acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy.

The Republic of Itreya is in chaos. Mia Corvere has assassinated Cardinal Duomo and rumors of Consul Scaeva’s death ripple through the street of Godsgrave like...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
AuthorHenry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN0525559531
The New York Times bestseller.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
AuthorShauna Niequist
ISBN0310328179
This book is a collection of essays about family relationships, friendships, and the meals that bring us together. Written by well-loved writer and blogger, Shauna Niequist, this mix of Girl Meets God and the Food Network is a funny, honest, and vulnerable spiritual memoir. Bread & Wine is a celebration...
The Hound of Justice
AuthorClaire O'Dell
ISBN0062699334
Dr. Janet Watson and former covert agent Sara Holmes, introduced in the acclaimed A Study in Honor, continue their dangerous investigation into the new American Civil War with the help of fresh allies, advanced technology, and brilliant deduction in this superb reimagining of Sherlock Holmes.

It’s...
Seven Surrenders
AuthorAda Palmer
ISBN0765378027
The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all.

In which automation now provides for everybody’s basic needs.
In which nobody living can remember an actual war.
In...
The Brothers K
AuthorDavid James Duncan
Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad....
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
AuthorMarion Roach Smith
ISBN0446584843
A recent study revealed that the Number 1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write a book....about themselves. It's not that every person has lived such a unique or dramatic life, but we inherently understand that writing memoir-whether it's a book, blog, or just a letter to a child-is...
The Vanished
AuthorBill Pronzini
ISBN0881500224

This second book—like the first—in Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series is not extraordinarily memorable. And yet...there is something about it that makes you respect it and keep on reading, even through the slow spots. I think that is because Pronzini. in every line he writes, shows...
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
AuthorDavid George Haskell
"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Trees is a powerful argument against the ways in which humankind has severed the very biological networks that give us our place in the world. Listen as David Haskell takes his stethoscope to the heart of nature - and discover the poetry and music contained...
The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind
AuthorSeth S. Horowitz
ISBN1608198839
Every day, we are beset by millions of sounds-ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more pronounced sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. How do we know which sounds should startle us, which should engage us, and which should turn us off?

Why...
Where Am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes
AuthorKelsey Timmerman
ISBN0470376546
Globalization makes it difficult to know where the things you buy come from. Journalist and travel writer Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, so he traveled from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back. Along the way, he met the people who made his...
The Paul Street Boys
AuthorFerenc Molnár
ISBN9631345343
Also available on the WondrousBooks blog.

I think that my age is above the target group of this book, but that surely did not stop me from enjoying it. To a certain degree. That is, knowing beforehand that it’s a children’s book, I was a bit shocked by the ending.

However, the style...
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