Walking to Vermont
7 best books like Walking to Vermont (Christopher S. Wren): Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Rascal, Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life, The Mistress's Daughter, The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer, A Three Dog Life
Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
| Author | Bill Geist |
| ISBN | 1538729806 |
Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation,...
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers...
| Author | Sterling North |
| ISBN | 0140344454 |
Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.
Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood...
| Author | Abigail Thomas |
| ISBN | 0385720556 |
A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman’s life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped...
| Author | A.M. Homes |
| ISBN | 0670038385 |
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when,...
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
| Author | Elizabeth Blackburn |
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease and...
Before reading:
Maybe what happens in this book is difficult, but I have the feeling it will have a hopeful message. I need to read something with dogs. You can rely on dogs being there for you when you need them. After the last book read I am so depressed with people.
On completion:
This...
