Then Came Life: A Memoir of Living with the Same Courage, Spirit, and Humor that Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer
10 best books like Then Came Life: A Memoir of Living with the Same Courage, Spirit, and Humor that Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer (Geralyn Lucas): The Possibility of Everything, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence, North with the Spring: A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000-Mile Journey with the North American Spring, Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning, Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for a Happy (if Disorderly) Life, Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France, Priceless Memories
| Author | Hope Edelman |
| ISBN | 0345506502 |
From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.
In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift,...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
| Author | Anne D. LeClaire |
| ISBN | 0061353353 |
“Listening Below the Noise offers readers the possibility of finding grace and peace in the natural world and in ourselves. Elegant and honest… one of those rare books that finds its way into our hearts, and stays there.” — Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle
A meditation on silence,...
| Author | Edwin Way Teale |
| ISBN | 0312044577 |
For those interested in North American nature studies Edwin Way Teale is an inevitable force to contend with. A reasonable biography is summarized on Wikipedia. He came to my attention via the reference to his Strange Lives of Familiar Insects in Dillard's Pilgrim At Tinker Creek. His four volume "Seasons"...
Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I
| Author | Paula J. Becker |
| ISBN | 0295999373 |
Betty Bard MacDonald (1907-1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington's Olympic...
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
| Author | Julene Bair |
| ISBN | 0670786047 |
A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plains
Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm...
Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for a Happy (if Disorderly) Life
| Author | Suzanne Beecher |
| ISBN | 1439112878 |
Suzanne Beecher's happy, loving voice has brought more than 350,000 people to her online book club at DearReader.com, where her daily column offers her candid, thought-provoking reflections on life, inspiring countless readers to look at their "ordinary" lives in a new way. By turns funny and poignant,...
Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist
| Author | Sylvia Acevedo |
| ISBN | 1328809560 |
The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
A meningitis outbreak in their underprivileged neighborhood left Sylvia Acevedo’s...
Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France
| Author | Thad Carhart |
| ISBN | 0525428801 |
A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s Fontainebleau from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight...
| Author | Bob Barker |
| ISBN | 1599951355 |
My friend mailed the CD-Audio version of this book while he was stationed in grad school in upstate New York but I didn't listen to it until I was driving back down to school in Florida over the summer with my mom. Read by the charming Bob Barker, the seemingly endless audiobook offers everything you could...
True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life
On television, as the star of the popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demi god. He relished living the part and physicians could offer few answers, Sorbo grew increasingly despondent. What happens when your entire identity vanishes?
True Strength...
| Author | Reyna Grande |
| ISBN | 1501171429 |
An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.
A Dream Called Home is the follow up to Reyna...
Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
| Author | Cat Cora |
| ISBN | 1476766142 |
Remarkably candid, compulsively readable, renowned chef Cat Cora’s no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage, and the meals that have shaped her memories.
Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where...
Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil
| Author | Yvette Manessis Corporon |
| ISBN | 1501161113 |
Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants—and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.
Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her...
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
| Author | Yochi Dreazen |
| ISBN | 0385347839 |
An involving, ultimately inspiring story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and devoted their lives to fighting the military’s suicide epidemic.
Major General Mark Graham is a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired...
Table in the Darkness: A Healing Journey Through an Eating Disorder
| Author | Lee Wolfe Blum |
| ISBN | 0830843086 |
"Look who gained the freshman fifteen," a family member teased when I returned home after a few months of college. . . . When I heard the words my mind decoded it like this: You. Are. Fat. Fat was not good. No, fat was bad. I would not be fat. I stood in front of the full-length mirror in my dorm room and inspected...
| Author | Carole Bayer Sager |
| ISBN | 1501153269 |
The New York Times Bestseller
Grammy and Academy Award–winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and darkly funny story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her fascinating (and sometimes calamitous) relationships to her collaborations with some...
Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist
Born to Love — Taught to Loathe
In this powerful and controversial debut book, author Baye McNeil (a.k.a. Loco of the influential blog "Loco in Yokohama) vividly illustrates with unflinching introspection and candor, the birth and evolution of a racist, and in doing so makes the persuasive...
Chinatown, New York - The butchered body of a transvestite is found in a dumpster. Nothing out of the ordinary for NYPD, except the victim just so happens to be the brother of Detective Phee Freeman. At first the slaying looks like the random act of a vicious killer, but when it is discovered that there are...
Get It Girls: A Harlem Girl Lost Novel
| Author | Treasure Blue |
| ISBN | 1936399245 |
One of the most loved urban storytellers, Treasure Blue, delivers the second installment in the acclaimed Harlem Girl Lost series. Get It Girls is a gritty urban drama packed with the consequences of revenge and the hope that has the power to save us.
Jessica Jones never thought living her teenage...
This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley
| Author | Laura Archera Huxley |
| ISBN | 0890879680 |
Long before "turn on, tune in, drop out" became the credo of the American counterculture, Aldous Huxley was using mescaline and LSD in controlled, carefully documented experiments. Accounts of those psychedelic experiences, along with his interest in Eastern mystical religions, accompany the...
The Healthy Mind Cookbook: Big-Flavor Recipes to Enhance Brain Function, Mood, Memory, and Mental Clarity
| Author | Rebecca Katz |
| ISBN | 1607742985 |
A collection of more than 120 recipes formulated to optimize brain health, boost memory, improve mood, sharpen the central nervous system, and more.
Feed your mind.
Depression, ADHD, memory loss, agitation: These may seem like inevitable byproducts of modern lives spent multitasking,...
A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory
| Author | Sara Midda |
| ISBN | 0761145265 |
From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine gift books—a book...
Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
Discovered by Michael Ondaatje, Davies’ dazzling literary memoir has shades of Mary Karr, Anne Lamott, and Jenny Lawson.
Some women are born mothers, some achieve motherhood, others have motherhood thrust upon them. Dawn Davies is in the third category. A six-foot-tall divorcee, she...
