An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss. "It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended." -Sharon Butala In the tradition of Joan...
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Author:Farrell, MarchelleSummary:What is home? It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for career in psychiatry saw her leave behind the pristine beaches and emerald hills of Trinidad. Until, disillusioned, she uprooted...
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Author:Ackerman, Kenneth D.Summary:Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical...
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Author:Blais, MadeleineSummary:To the New Owners is Madeleine Blais's charming, evocative memoir of a house that holds a special place in her heart, and of Martha's Vineyard itself-from the history of the island and its famous visitors to the ferry, the pie shops,...
- Author:Russell, HelenSummary:
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often...
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Author:Boyle, MarkSummary:Mark Boyle explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.
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Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:A breathtaking mix of observation, prose, natural history, and art. We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on...
- Author:Nicolson, AdamSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019. Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It...
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Author:Ilott, StephenSummary:Open the door to the unique world of professional organizer and declutterer Stephen Ilott. A self-professed domestic archaeologist, Stephen loves digging into others’ lives and helping them look inwards and organize outwards past their...
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
Whitehead lays out the city of New York from the perspective of an inhabitant in 13 parts.
- Author:Marty, SidSummary:
In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer...
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Author:McLean, Maria ColettaSummary:Escape to Italy with this heartwarming memoir. Every summer Maria and her husband, Bob, went to their little house in the Italian village of Supino, and every year it was a new adventure. Only in Supino would you find a pizzeria in a...
- Author:Burroughs, AugustenSummary:
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten...
- Author:Rebanks, JamesSummary:
The Acclaimed International Bestseller * Named "Nature Book of the Year" by the Sunday Times (London) * Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize * Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize"A...
- Author:Solnit, RebeccaSummary:
"An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." -Margaret Atwood. "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker....
- Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:
Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that...
- Author:MacDonald, BettySummary:
Onions in the Stew is the favorite book of the Betty Fans worldwide. Why? She described family life on Vashon Island with husband Don and daughters Anne and Joan in an unique way. They moved to Vashon in the fall, which wasnt too bad,...
- Author:Mayle, PeterSummary:
The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and...
- Author:Durrell, GeraldSummary:
Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Gerald Durrell's much-loved comic gem. My Family and Other Animals is the classic tale of naturalist Gerald Durrell's magical 1930s childhood on pre-war...
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Author:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Summary:Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in...
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