The Heart of the Family

8 best books like The Heart of the Family (Elizabeth Goudge): The Long Call, Miss Buncle's Book, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction, Miss Buncle Married, Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy, How the Dead Speak, Ring the Hill

The Long Call

Author	Ann Cleeves
ISBN	1250204445

For the first time in 20 years, Ann Cleeves—international bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—embarks on a gripping new series.
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside...

Miss Buncle's Book

Author	D.E. Stevenson
ISBN	0708908349

Barbara Buncle is in a bind. Times are harsh, and Barbara's bank account has seen better days. Stumped for ideas, Barbara draws inspiration from fellow residents of her quaint English village, writing a revealing novel that features the townsfolk as characters. The smashing bestseller is published...

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

Author	Joyce Sidman
ISBN	0544717139

Robert F. Sibert Medal winner

Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.”  Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them?

One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was...

The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction

Author	Meghan Cox Gurdon
ISBN	0062562835

A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.

A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...

Miss Buncle Married

Author

D.E. Stevenson

In this charming follow-up to Miss Buncle's Book, readers will follow Barbara Buncle's journey into married life in a new town filled with fascinating neighbors...who may become the subjects of Barbara's next novel! Miss Buncle may have settled down, but she's already discovered that married life...

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 the Dead Speak

Author	Val McDermid
ISBN	1408712253

Synopsis

'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game' Independent 'No one can tell a story like she can' Daily Express 'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review 'We are all creatures of habit. Even murderers . . .'

When human remains are discovered in the...

Ring the Hill

Author

Tom Cox

Ring the Hill is a book written around, and about, hills: it includes a northern hill, a European hill, some hills from East Anglia that can barely be called hills at all. Each chapter takes a type of hill – whether it be knoll, cap, cliff, tor, bump or even mere hillock – as a starting point.

These...