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10 best books like The Book of Stillmeadow (Gladys Taber): The Pink Refrigerator, The House by the Sea, Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover, The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice, Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life, Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy, Worry, Katz on Dogs: A Commonsense Guide to Training and Living with Dogs, Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City, Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas

The Pink Refrigerator
AuthorTim Egan
ISBN0618631542
“Try to do as little as possible.” This was Dodsworth’s motto. One morning, on his daily trip to the junkyard, he discovers a pink refrigerator.

There’s not much to say about a pink refrigerator, except this one had a note on it. The note said, “Paint pictures.” And so Dodsworth...
The House by the Sea
AuthorMay Sarton
ISBN0393313905
This is the sixth of Sarton’s journals I’ve read. It covers 1975–6, when she was 63–4 and in her second year in Maine. Her health is not yet a worry, at least as compared to later journals, but there is a faint sense of diminished abilities and an awareness of death’s approach. Poetry has run dry...
Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
AuthorRalph Moody
ISBN0803282176
I highly recommend all 8 of the Ralph Moody "Little Britches" books. There are some that I enjoyed more than others, but that is only the difference between 4 and 5 stars in this case.

Moody teaches us the value of hard work and honest dealing. These principles are contrasted very well by showing...
The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice
AuthorSusan Gordon Lydon
ISBN0767916336
Available for the first time in paperback, The Knitting Sutra reveals how women can learn to knit their way to nirvana.

When Susan Gordon Lydon was coping with a broken arm, her craft took on new significance. While knitting was essential to strengthening her hands, it also provided her with...
Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life
AuthorJudith Viorst

From the bestselling author of Forever Fifty comes a new collection of poems that tickle, console, and offer the pleasure of instant recognition -- the perfect book for any woman anywhere in the vicinity of sixty. Judith Viorst's "decade" books of verse -- including It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty,...
Mrs. Sharp's Traditions: Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy
AuthorSarah Ban Breathnach
This is one of my favorite books. I am not naturally creative in the parenting department and this has given me lots of unique, entertaining ideas for things to do with my family. Even before I had kids, my husband and I used this book's idea for dying Easter Eggs with natural dyes (berries, turmeric, spinach,...
Worry
AuthorEdward M. Hallowell
Here is the first book to explore every facet of the most common and debilitating emotional state: worry. While a healthy level of worry can help us perform efficiently at work, anticipate dangers, and learn from past errors, in its extreme forms worry can become "toxic"--poisoning our pleasures,...
Katz on Dogs: A Commonsense Guide to Training and Living with Dogs
AuthorJon Katz
ISBN0812974344
In a nation where our love of dogs keeps growing and dog ownership has reached an all-time high, confusion about dogs and their behavioral problems is skyrocketing. Many dogs are out of control, untrained, chewing up furniture, taking medication for anxiety, and biting millions of people a year.

Now,...
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
AuthorEric Toensmeier
ISBN1603583998
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban...
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
AuthorCheryl Bardoe
ISBN0810954753
The only picture book available about the father of genetics and his pea plants!

How do mothers and fathers—whether they are apple trees, sheep, or humans—pass down traits to their children? This question fascinated Gregor Mendel throughout his life. Regarded as the world’s first...
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
AuthorKatie Smith Milway
ISBN1554534887
Eleven-year-old María Luz and her family live on a small farm. This year their crop is poor, and they may not have enough to eat or to sell for other essentials, such as health care, school uniforms and books.

When María's father must leave home to find work, she is left in charge of their garden....
Strongheart: The World's First Movie Star Dog
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0805094482
Strongheart may have been a movie star, but he wasn't always famous. He started out as a police dog who could sniff out criminals and march like a soldier, but he didn't know how to have fun. Larry Trimble was a Hollywood director who wanted to put Strongheart in his movies—not just as a pet but as the lead...
First Book of Modern Lace Knitting
AuthorMarianne Kinzel
ISBN0486229041
Even the average knitter can now begin to knit in modern lace patterns — "Celandine," "Mosaic," "Rose Leaf," "Candlelight," "Coronet," "Valentine," "Azalea," "Primula," "Sun Ray," "English Crystal," "Springtime," "Three of Hearts" — all by well-known modern lace designer Marianne Kinzel....
The Celtic Collection: Twenty-Five Knitwear Designs for Men and Women
AuthorAlice Starmore
ISBN1570760055
Alice Starmore. What can I say???!!! If you like "that sort of thing", then you know she's one of the very, very best at it - complex designs, absolutely scrumptous color usage, beautiful photography and entertaining writing. What's not to love?

Well, the sizes available for the designs, for...
The Virgin of Bennington
AuthorKathleen Norris
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s—and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education...
First Person Rural
AuthorNoel Perrin
The subtitle of this book is "Essays of a Sometime Farmer" but it seems to me that Perrin has done enough work to call himself a full-time farmer.

Perrin's writing is somewhat inconsistent but the essays are overall enjoyable. Particularly the aspects of maple sugaring and his "recipe" for...
The Flower Farmer's Year: How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit
AuthorGeorgie Newbery
ISBN0857842331
The Flower Farmer’s Year is a light, entertaining look at how to plant, maintain, and keep evolving a productive cut-flower garden. Whether you want to devote a corner of your garden to a stand of sweet peas and some cosmos, take up flower production for gate sales, or make a livelihood from cut flowers,...
The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese
AuthorMargaret Hathaway
ISBN1599210215
This meets the "road trip" task for the GoodReads Summer 2018 Reading Challenge.

I picked up "The Year of the Goat" over 6 years ago while on a weekend getaway in Portland, ME. There is a great little bookstore there called Rabelais which focus on food and drink related books.

The Year...
A New Season: A Robertson Family Love Story of Brokenness and Redemption
AuthorAlan Robertson
ISBN1442372958
Alan and Lisa Robertson, members of America’s favorite back woods family and the Duck Commander Clan, take on the topic of relationships as they share the secrets that saved their marriage.

Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame. Unfortunately, these are recurring themes in many of...
Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind
AuthorGene Logsdon
In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure—worth...
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
AuthorMark Lamster
ISBN0385523793
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn....
Advice to a Young Wife from An Old Mistress
AuthorMichael Drury
ISBN0380727188
In an age bent on gratuitously parading around the explicit facts of sex, and at a time when marriage vows are discarded like old socks, Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress whispers subtler facts - the unspoken dynamics of relationships, the emotional capacities of our partners and the understated...
A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside
AuthorSusan Branch
ISBN0984913661
A thrilling ocean voyage on the Queen Mary 2 from New York City to Southampton culminating in a two-month ramble through the charming backroads and small villages of the pastoral English countryside in the spring of last year is the subject of this delicious travel journal that Susan has painstakingly...
James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited
AuthorJames Herriot
ISBN0312206291
James Herriot lived and worked in North Yorkshire, England, for over fifty years, first and foremost as a vet, but in his later years as one of the world's most successful authors. Twenty years ago, the bestselling book, James Herriot's Yorkshire combined hundreds of color photos with a moving essay...
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