The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire
10 best books like The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire (Noelle Oxenhandler): Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, The Same Sky, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant, Being Sloane Jacobs, The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York, Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the World, The Art of Mending, Vegetarian Epicure
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0679740244 |
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...
Jane Austen Ruined My Life
| Author | Beth Pattillo |
| ISBN | 0824947711 |
Before a proper review begins...I must rant about something that really bothered me about this book. It's a tiny flaw, but it really gets to me.
If one says "I love Jane Austen, I will write a book about her life and novels..." then one should ensure that every tiny detail is correct. At one point...
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
| Author | Elizabeth Lesser |
| ISBN | 0375759913 |
In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute - now the world's largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth -Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories,...
| Author | Amanda Eyre Ward |
| ISBN | 0553390503 |
In this heartrending and poignant novel, award-winning author Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she’s trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly...
Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
| Author | Carolyn B. Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0671679902 |
Since its opening in 1973, Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has been synonymous with creative cuisine with a healthful, vegetarian emphasis.
Each Sunday at Moosewood Restaurant, diners experience a new ethnic or regional cuisine, sometimes exotic, sometimes familiar. From...
| Author | Lauren Morrill |
| ISBN | 0385741790 |
Meet Sloane Emily Jacobs: a seriously stressed-out figure-skater from Washington, D.C., who choked during junior nationals and isn’t sure she’s ready for a comeback. What she does know is that she’d give anything to escape the mass of misery that is her life.
Now meet Sloane Devon Jacobs,...
The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
| Author | Mollie Katzen |
| ISBN | 0913668680 |
Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper with it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the...
Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the World
| Author | Madhur Jaffrey |
| ISBN | 0609809237 |
In her most comprehensive volume yet, Madhur Jaffrey draws on more than four decades of culinary adventures, travels, and experimentation for a diverse collection that both intrigues and delights the palate. Dishes from five continents touch on virtually all the world's best loved flavors, for...
It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets—secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg’s moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine...
| Author | Anna Thomas |
| ISBN | 0394717848 |
When I was sixteen, my parents let my sister and I each pick one book to buy for our three-week camping vacation. I picked The Vegetarian Epicure. I read it cover to cover and over and over again that summer. When we got back home, I used it to cook vegetarian meals for my family. They had let me quit eating meat...
| Author | Lindsey Davis |
| ISBN | 1250152704 |
In Rome, ruled by the erratic Emperor Domitian, Flavia Albia is dragged into the worst sort of investigation--a politically charged murder--in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Capitol Death.
A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline...
The Country of the Pointed Firs
First published in 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs was considered by Willa Cather to be one of the three novels most likely to achieve a permanent place in the canon of American literature: “I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely… The young student of American literature...
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees.
I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening.
Sue...
| Author | Katrina Kenison |
| ISBN | 0446409480 |
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace, in a small New England town. It is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in...
Moments of Grace and Beauty: Forty Stories of Kindness, Courage, and Generosity in a Troubled World
| Author | Roland Merullo |
| ISBN | 1732432236 |
ROLAND MERULLO is an awarding-winning author of 24 books including 17 works of fiction: Breakfast with Buddha, a nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, now in its 20th printing; The Talk-Funny Girl, a 2012 ALEX Award Winner and named a "Must Read" by the Massachusetts Library Association...
| Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
| ISBN | 0761128255 |
Introducing a new voice in vegetarian cooking. Packed with 1,000 recipes that are seductive, sexy, and utterly delicious, Passionate Vegetarian covers all the bases of meatless cooking, from east (Stir Fry of Asparagus with Black Bean-Ginger Sauce), west (Talk of the Town Barbecued Tofu), from...
25 Easy Thanksgiving Recipes: Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes Cookbook (Simple and Easy Thanksgiving Recipes)
25 Easy & Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes!
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Are you looking for delicious Thanksgiving recipes to share with your family this holiday season? This simple Thanksgiving cookbook has 25 step-by-step Thanksgiving recipes...
Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home
| Author | Danielle Postel-Vinay |
| ISBN | 0062741705 |
French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practical illustrated lifestyle guide that shows how to enjoy la belle vie—to live like the French every day—transforming your house into a home defined by beauty, family, and accessible elegance.
How...
Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh
Readable from the beginning it drew me in. The author decides that her Welsh language skills will be better improved by total immersion, no fallback to English likely in different countries, where Welsh speakers have language associations and whose other language differs. In one country they might...
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry
In this family history interwoven with recipes, Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing...
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
| Author | Mike Parker |
| ISBN | 1785151932 |
In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ceremony in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. The celebrants were their friends Reg and George, who had moved to deepest rural Wales in 1972, not long after the decriminalisation of homosexuality. When...
This audiobook is actually a 1.5 hour live taped play. I loved it and got to work with tears in my eyes. Of course this play has all the elements of a good cry. A set of parents incapable of conceiving a child. A set of parents so poor that they must consider selling their child in order to give it a good life and...
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone else, that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and...
| Author | Meg Wolitzer |
| ISBN | 0743261801 |
From the bestselling author of The Wife—Meg Wolitzer’s “hilariously moving, sharply written novel” (USA TODAY), hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide, with its “dead-on observations about sex, marriage, and the family ties that strangle and bind” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
Crackling...
The Time Traveler's Christmas
A man’s life can fall apart in an instant…
Tougher than oxhide, Lachlan Wallace can take about anything except a breakup call from his wife two minutes before competing in the Karate Championship of the World. Arriving home with a loss, he agrees to watch his uncle’s cat over the holidays....
| Author | Kelly Corrigan |
| ISBN | 1401303366 |
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Corrigan opens her memoir with these words: "The thing you need to know about me is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter."
She continues with an unabashed tribute to the first man in her life.
George Corrigan emerges as an...
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life, and her extraordinary friendship with the author of Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp—fellow writers, AA members, dog lovers, and...
The Drummond Girls: A Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance
An inspiring and heartfelt memoir about the friendship between eight women forged over two decades.
The eight Drummond Girls first met in 1991 at Peegeo's Food & Spirits in northern Michigan where, at the time, they were all waitresses, bartenders, or regular customers. When one of them...
| Author | Ellery Adams |
| ISBN | 0425251403 |
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. They're having magical effects on the people...
A powerful, poignant and often hilarious play, The Waverly Gallery follows the final years of a grandmother's battle against Alzheimer's disease. The play explores her fight to retain her independence and the subsequent effect of her decline on her family, especially her grandson. Inspired by Lonergan's...
