The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir
10 best books like The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir (Katrina Kenison): The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Wait Till Next Year, The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back, Here If You Need Me, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, A Year by the Sea, Rush Revere and the Presidency, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
| Author | Martha N. Beck |
| ISBN | 0609609904 |
Discover a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day's journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence.
Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a "crash Joy Diet"...
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385496095 |
Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier...
| Author | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| ISBN | 0684847957 |
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store...
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
| Author | Charles Pellegrino |
| ISBN | 0805087966 |
Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever
Last Train from Hiroshima offers readers a stunning “you...
| Author | Kate Braestrup |
| ISBN | 0316066303 |
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." (James Clear, author of Atomic Habits)
You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a...
| Author | Joan Anderson |
| ISBN | 0767905938 |
Now available in paperback, the entrancing story of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.
Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive...
Rush Revere and the Presidency
Join Rush Revere on another action-packed journey! Rush and his friends head back in time to the early days of our independent nation to watch the early American presidents George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson in action!Hey there, young readers! Rush Revere here. I can't wait to rush,...
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
| Author | Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| ISBN | 1627791779 |
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood
In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers,...
| Author | Patti Digh |
| ISBN | 1599212951 |
In October 2003, Patti Digh's stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died 37 days later. The timeframe made an impression on her. What emerged was a commitment to ask herself every morning: What would I be doing today if I had only 37 days left to live? The answers changed her life and led to this new...
| Author | Noelle Oxenhandler |
| ISBN | 1400064856 |
One New Year’s Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental and separated from the spiritual community that once had sustained her. With little left to lose, she launched a year’s experiment in desire,...
| Author | Kelly Corrigan |
| ISBN | 1401341241 |
No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us.
Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves...
| Author | Alice Eve Cohen |
| ISBN | 0670020958 |
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible
At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming....
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
| Author | Matt Kepnes |
| ISBN | 0399159673 |
No money? No problem. You can start packing your bags for that trip you’ve been dreaming a lifetime about.
For more than half a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has been showing readers of his enormously popular travel blog that traveling isn’t expensive and that it’s affordable...
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 1594489424 |
In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.
In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Lamott examines the ways we're...
Walking with Peety: The Dog Who Saved My Life
| Author | Eric O'Grey |
| ISBN | 1478971169 |
Eric was 150 pounds overweight, depressed, and sick. After a lifetime of failed diet attempts, and the onset of type 2 diabetes due to his weight, Eric went to a new doctor, who surprisingly prescribed a shelter dog. And that's when Eric met Peety: an overweight, middle-aged, and forgotten dog who, like...
| Author | Nicole Krauss |
| ISBN | 0385721919 |
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as one of America"s best young writers.
Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home,...
| Author | Tim O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0618039708 |
Best-selling author Tim O’Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
“We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another,...
One Church, Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church
| Author | Gary L. McIntosh |
| ISBN | 0801091373 |
The challenge facing today's church is simultaneous and effective ministry to people of four widely divergent generations. More than at any time in history, pastors must plan programs that will appeal to a mosaic of groups and subgroups. This updated edition of Three Generations: Riding the Waves...
As For Me And My House: Crafting Your Marriage To Last
| Author | Walter Wangerin Jr. |
| ISBN | 0785266712 |
I'm not a bit "advice book" reader, and marriage/relationship books are the worst of the worst. So many, especially those written "from a Christian perspective," so emphasize gender differences/roles/complementarity that my stubbornly tomboyish self just can't take it. Not just because they're...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 1101980303 |
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
| Author | Rachel Renée Russell |
From #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries author Rachel Renee Russell comes the second book in an all-new series about Max Crumbly and his daily ups and downs in middle school.
When we last left our hero, Max Crumbly, he had crash-landed on top of a Mighty Meat Monster pizza after taking...
The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity
| Author | Catherine A. Sanderson |
| ISBN | 1946885444 |
It’s the reason why spending time on Facebook makes us feel sad and lonely. Why expensive name-brand medicines provide better pain relief than the generic stuff, even if they share the same ingredients. And why a hospital room with a good view speeds up recovery from surgery.
The truth is,...
The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith Through Feasting, One Meal at a Time
| Author | Sally Clarkson |
| ISBN | 1496414209 |
Make your table a place where your family and friends long to be--where they will find rest, renewal, and a welcome full of love.
Beloved author Sally Clarkson (The Lifegiving Home, Own Your Life, Desperate) believes that meals lovingly served at home--and the time spent gathered together...
Walking: The Ultimate Exercise for Optimum Health
| Author | Andrew Weil |
| ISBN | 1591794099 |
Most of us enjoy walking, but not everyone knows how to turn this simple exercise into one of the most powerful self-healing tools known to medicine. On Walking: The Ultimate Exercise for Optimum Health, Dr. Andrew Weil joins Mark Fenton, the nation's foremost expert on walking, for an invigorating...
Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game
| Author | Chris Grabenstein |
| ISBN | 0525646442 |
Mr. Lemoncello is going LIVE ACROSS THE NATION in his brand new televised BREAKOUT game! Discover what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in the fourth puzzle-packed adventure in Chris Grabenstein's
New York Times
bestselling MR. LEMONCELLO series!
Greetings...
Tandi Reese and her sister, Gina, have always been bound by complicated ties. Amid the rubble of a difficult childhood lie memories of huddling beneath beds and behind sofas while parental wars raged. Sisterhood was safety . . . once. But now? Faced with legal papers for a fraud she didn't commit, Tandi...
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
| Author | Dave Isay |
| ISBN | 1594201404 |
From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps-the largest oral history project in the nation's history-presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love.
StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And...
Fully Human: 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life
| Author | Susan Packard |
| ISBN | 0143132741 |
HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ), and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity--in work and life--via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness.
Emotions can sink us, or they can power us like fuel to succeed....
