Biographical
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A Great Heart: The Story of Mary Breckenridge, Her Midwives/Nurses and the People They Served
$21.95 Add to cartSurvival was their dearest hope…these mountain people. Their children were their greatest asset…but they died one by one, long before they reached the age of six, many times at birth along with th
- Author: Swiesz, Shirley Noe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: February 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1491753250
- Language: English
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Rivers Flow
$19.95 Add to cart“Flow is the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be.” Jake does not understand the meaning of his grandfather Griffin’s words. It is easier to believe that that this thing … [more below]
- Author: Ainsworth, Jim H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0865347573
- Language: English
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God’s Messenger: The Astounding Achievements of Mother Cabrini: A Novel Based on the Life of Mother Frances X. Cabrini
$15.99 Add to cartHer passion became her reality.
Children were her life, and God’s messenger Mother Frances X. Cabrini dedicated her entire life to caring for poor Italian immigrants who sought refuge in the slums of N
- Author: Gregory, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1947431021
- Language: English
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Crusoe’s Daughter
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Old Filth. “[A] wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight” (People).
In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her- Author: Gardam, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1609450698
- Language: English
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Nadirs
$16.95 Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta M?ler’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual t… [more below]
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Muller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282540
- Language: English
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Forever Young: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Adventure
$19.82 Add to cartAs Governia Jewell Rose read article after article and listened to news channels discussing the invisible enemy, she wondered what had happened to love, peace, and happiness. Was this the end of time … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Governia Jewell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1663253986
- Language: English
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Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel: R.H. Blyth’s Life of Zen and Haiku, Bridging East and West
$22.99 Add to cartLovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!
An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place. “In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) bi- Author: Spence, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0804856354
- Language: English
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El Mundo / The World
$19.95 Read more«Qu? habr?a ocurrido si aquel d?a lejano de mi infancia no hubiera regresado al s?tano por el mismo agujero por el que hab?a salido de ?l. Tal vez la vida hubiera mantenido siempre aquel brillo … [more below]
- Author: Mill?s, Juan Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8420463973
- Language: Spanish
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A Través del Bosque / Through the Woods
$19.95 Read moreLa ?ltima novela de la aclamada autora de La casa de los conejos, una historia sobrecogedora basada en hechos reales.
Una fr?a ma?ana de diciembre de 1984, Griselda, argentina exiliada en Francia, se- Author: Alcoba, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 8420467898
- Language: Spanish
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Nellie
$20.95 Add to cartNellie finds herself alone, confused, desperate. A resident of Sycamore Acres memory care unit, life makes no sense anymore. Where are her boys? Why don’t her friends come around? Where are the people… [more below]
- Author: Heyen, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Age of Light
$16.99 Add to cartOne of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle
Journey back to 1930’s Paris with this “startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a wom- Author: Scharer, Whitney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 031652414X
- Language: English
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Rat Six
$22.95 Add to cart“Perchance I suffer only mildly from claustrophobia but when I learned of the horrors and scarcely imaginable dangers of the tunnels of Ku Chi under the Iron Triangle of Vietnam all those years back, … [more below]
- Author: Flowers, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1642141984
- Language: English
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Material de Construcción / Construction Materials
$19.95 Read moreEn la lista de los mejores libros del 2023 de Babelia
«Una prosa inteligente, precisa, sin concesiones . Kirmen Uribe
En esta novela hay veranos, cigarrillos, piscinas, hospitales, caballos, azu- Author: Rodr?guez, Eider
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8439741529
- Language: Spanish
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Gentleman of the Road: A Hitchhiking Memoir of the 1970s
$14.99 Add to cartThis is the story of a young couple who go on a hitchhiking odyssey across the country in the 1970s, hoping to find a new life for themselves. The protagonist is an artist and a self-styled “searcher”
- Author: Erickson, Rollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1958901482
- Language: English
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Little Girl in the Mirror: Cathy’s Story
$25.32 Add to cartEver since she could remember, little Cathy Barron loved living with her grandparents on Cape Breton Island, and every summer she looked forward to the day her mother would step off the train from Ont
- Author: Mondou, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0993799663
- Language: English
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Frangipani
$21.99 Add to cartIn Tahiti, it’s a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all — or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter a… [more below]
- Author: Vaite, Célestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0316114669
- Language: English
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Goose 2: The Early Days
$29.95 Add to cartWilliam Collins Jr. was a curious, fun-loving, adventurous boy who was willing to take on the world. This is his coming of age story as he learned the value of hard work and family first.
Willie moved… [more below]
- Series: Goose #2
- Author: Penney, Frederick W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885810951
- Language: English
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The Ten Loves of Nishino
$16.00 Add to cartWINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who h
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1609455339
- Language: English
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Los Astronautas / The Astronauts
$20.95 Read moreUno de los mejores libros del 2023 seg?n Babelia.
UNA HISTORIA EMOCIONANTE SOBRE LA FAMILIA.
UNA AUTORA CUYA ESCRITURA «ALUMBRA EN LO M?S OSCURO (Juan Tall?n).
«Una novela honda y poderos- Series: Mapa de Las Lenguas
- Author: Ferrero, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 842046127X
- Language: Spanish
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The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet
$17.00 Add to cartIn the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the hig… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Rouff, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760806
- Language: English
