Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads Into Street Couture
10 best books like Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads Into Street Couture (Melissa Alvarado): Kiss Number 8, Women Talking, The Nanny, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, Little Fish, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, You've Got a Book in You: A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
| Author | Colleen A.F. Venable |
Amanda can’t figure out what’s so exciting about kissing. It’s just a lot of teeth clanking, germ swapping, closing of eyes so you can’t see that godzilla-sized zit just inches from your own hormonal monstrosity. All of her seven kisses had been horrible in different ways, but nothing compared...
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 1635572584 |
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned...
| Author | Gilly Macmillan |
| ISBN | 0062875574 |
The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another.
When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated....
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 1400069998 |
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she...
| Author | Casey Plett |
| ISBN | 1551527200 |
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across...
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
| Author | Robert Wright |
| ISBN | 1508235406 |
From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...
| Author | Shani Mootoo |
| ISBN | 0385676220 |
Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents, who were raising him in a tree-lined Toronto neighbourhood, separated and his mother, Sid, vanished from his life. It was not until he was a grown man, and a promising writer with two books to his name, that Jonathan finally reconnected with his beloved...
| Author | Elizabeth Sims |
| ISBN | 1599635542 |
Writing a book is fun and easy--yes, FUN AND EASY--but it may not always feel that way. How do you find the time to write? How do you keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims will...
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
| Author | Dr. Gabor Maté |
| ISBN | 0676973124 |
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis...
Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
| Author | Melissa Rannels |
| ISBN | 1561588091 |
Sew Subversive is about making fashion your own, whether it's embellishing or customizing off-the-rack clothing or transforming clothes that have lost that loving feeling. The three twenty-something co-owners of Stitch Lounge, an urban sewing studio in San Francisco, teach you, in plain, fun...
| Author | Katherine Collette |
| ISBN | 1925603601 |
Germaine Johnson may not be all that good with people but she’s great with numbers. Unfortunately, as she discovers after the incident at Wallace Insurance, there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians.
Then her cousin gets her a job at the council. On the Senior Citizens...
| Author | Kate Kingsbury |
| ISBN | 1683310098 |
Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to open a B&B with her. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove...
