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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

10 best books like Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs (Wallace Stegner): Desert Solitaire, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Nothing to See Here, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, The Solace of Open Spaces, Recoil

Desert Solitaire
AuthorEdward Abbey
ISBN0345326490
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0679740244
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...
Nothing to See Here
AuthorKevin Wilson
ISBN0062913484
Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....
A River Runs Through it and Other Stories
AuthorNorman Maclean
ISBN0226500667
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0385539304
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0060920084
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to'

And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the...
The Secret Knowledge of Water
AuthorCraig Childs
ISBN0316610690
The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
The Solace of Open Spaces
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0140081135
When I requested this title in NetGalley, I did not realize it was an older book of essays coming up for a reprinting. I actually have another book from the author on my "around the world" shelves at home - This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland. So she was on my vague periphery, but I was very happy to...
Recoil
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316403806
Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary--surely nothing could be worse.

But when an unbelievably Samaritan act...
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