Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft
10 best books like Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft (Jane Yolen): Hollow Kingdom, The World That We Knew, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Escape from Warsaw, Riders of the Purple Sage, When I Arrived at the Castle, Dreaming in Cuban, Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook, The Phenomenon of Man, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Hollow Kingdom
| Author | Kira Jane Buxton |
| ISBN | 1538745828 |
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying...
The World That We Knew
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1501137573 |
In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows...
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
| Author | Dorothy Gilman |
| ISBN | 0449208281 |
| Author | Ian Serraillier |
| ISBN | 0590437151 |
On a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942, the Balicki children watch in horror as Nazi Storm Troopers arrest their mother. Now they are alone. With the war raging around them, food and shelter are hard to come by. They live in constant fear.
Finally, they get word that their...
| Author | Zane Grey |
| ISBN | 0812966120 |
When I Arrived at the Castle
| Author | Emily Carroll |
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
Dreaming in Cuban
| Author | Cristina García |
Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook
| Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
Since 1981, Crescent Dragonwagon-noted children's book author, cookbook...
The Phenomenon of Man
| Author | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
| Author | Pam Houston |
Emergency Skin
| Author | N.K. Jemisin |
An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others...
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
| Author | Lee Israel |
| ISBN | 1416588671 |
Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
| Author | Kieron Gillen |
| ISBN | 1534312706 |
The Volunteer Traveler's Handbook
| Author | Shannon O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0987706144 |
The Rowan Tree
| Author | Robert W. Fuller |
| ISBN | 1481810308 |
Rowan Ellway is a young college president; Easter Blue, an impassioned student leader. Upon graduation, she takes a fellowship to Africa, and they lose touch. When, decades later, they meet again, they...
Quand sort la recluse
| Author | Fred Vargas |
— Ce qu’il serait bon de vérifier, dit Adamsberg. J’ai donc rendez-vous demain au Muséum d’Histoire naturelle....
The Carousel Carver: A Novel
| Author | Perdita Buchan |
In 1939, with war looming and few new carousels being built,...
The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills
| Author | Tristan Gooley |
| ISBN | 1615192417 |
When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand dune reveals prevailing...