17 Top reference books like Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts by Nina Montenegro

Cover of Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts by Nina Montenegro

Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

By: Nina Montenegro

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the cloth…

"A mended garment is a little piece of artwork that you wear around all day, on display like a living gallery wall, eliciting comments, starting conversations, an opening sentence to a good story."

-Nina Montenegro, Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

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Cover of Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment by Linda Dillow

1. Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment

By: Linda Dillow

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

If you feel like worry is ruling your life or you only trust God when things go right, this twelve-… read more

Similar categories in Linda Dillow's Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Sewing Happiness: A Year of Simple Projects for Living Well by Sanae Ishida

2. Sewing Happiness: A Year of Simple Projects for Living Well

By: Sanae Ishida

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

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  • sewing
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • crafts
  • self help
Cover of The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe by Anuschka Rees

3. The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe

By: Anuschka Rees

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

A brilliant and inspirational roadmap for discovering and cultivating a strong sense of personal st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
  • reference
  • self help
Cover of Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

4. Miss Rumphius

By: Barbara Cooney

4.45

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Alice made a promise to make the world a more beautiful place, then a seed of an idea is planted an… read more

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5. Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Encouraging readers to be intelligent and skillful in their practice, this new collection by Thich … read more

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Cover of The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen

6. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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Cover of Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts by Nina Montenegro

7. Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

By: Nina Montenegro

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the cloth… read more

Similar categories in Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • art
  • home economics
  • crafts
  • sewing
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • fashion
  • how to
  • self help
"A mended garment is a little piece of artwork that you wear around all day, on display like a living gallery wall, eliciting comments, starting conversations, an opening sentence to a good story."

-Nina Montenegro, Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

Cover of A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon

8. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
Cover of Modern Mending by Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald

9. Modern Mending

By: Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald

4.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Second Edition: Now with even more clever mending hacks! Bring new life to your old clothes and … read more

Similar categories in Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald's Modern Mending book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
  • reference
Cover of The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good by Elizabeth L. Cline

10. The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

By: Elizabeth L. Cline

4.01

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth L. Cline's The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
  • reference
  • self help
Cover of Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden

11. Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

By: Blaine Harden

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award “Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Blaine Harden's Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
Cover of Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto by Kate Sekules

12. Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto

By: Kate Sekules

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A hands-on manual and a history and celebration of clothes tending--and its remarkable resurgence a… read more

Similar categories in Kate Sekules's Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • art
  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
  • reference
Cover of Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye &  Love Your Wardrobe by Katrina Rodabaugh

13. Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe

By: Katrina Rodabaugh

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Slow fashion expert Katrina Rodabaugh, bestselling author of Mending Matters, teaches readers how t… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Rodabaugh's Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • crafts
  • how to
Cover of Creative Mending: Beautiful Darning, Patching and Stitching Techniques (Over 300 color photos) by Hikaru Noguchi

14. Creative Mending: Beautiful Darning, Patching and Stitching Techniques (Over 300 color photos)

By: Hikaru Noguchi

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Mend, rethink, transform, recreate! Mending your favorite fabric items--from jeans to sweaters to … read more

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  • art
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • crafts
  • reference
Cover of Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things by Noriko Misumi

15. Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things

By: Noriko Misumi

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Mend, rethink, transform, recreate! Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patchin… read more

Similar categories in Noriko Misumi's Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • crafts
  • reference
Cover of My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

16. My Squirrel Days

By: Ellie Kemper

3.37

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, re… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Kemper's My Squirrel Days book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"... Being a Mom is hard, but trying to remain rational while hungry is even harder."

-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days

"Some people think they can barge in and give you their opinion even though you didn't ask for it."

-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days

"I knew that I needed to quiet my mind; lucky for me, there is no place to quiet your mind like the northernmost edge of Manhattan's Times Square."

-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days

"One of my great hobbies in life is feeling sorry for myself. Nothing makes me feel more alive than when I suspect I have been wronged. Oh, the energy!"

-Ellie Kemper, My Squirrel Days

Cover of Joyful Mending: Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love! by Noriko Misumi

17. Joyful Mending: Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love!

By: Noriko Misumi

3.83

Format: 88 pages, paperback

Joyful Mending shows you how to fix old items of clothing, linens and household objects by turning … read more

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  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
  • reference
Cover of Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes by Bernadette Banner

18. Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

By: Bernadette Banner

4.49

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

New York Times Bestseller Learn the Historically Proven Stitches Every Seamster Needs with Beloved… read more

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  • art
  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • fashion
  • how to
Cover of Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks and Messy Kitchens by Ruby Tandoh

19. Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks and Messy Kitchens

By: Ruby Tandoh

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Ruby Tandoh wants us all to cook, and this is her cookbook for all of us - the real home cooks, jug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse the Clothes You Love by Arounna Khounnoraj

20. Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse the Clothes You Love

By: Arounna Khounnoraj

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

We all have that favorite pair of jeans – no matter how baggy or worn they might become. In the mov… read more

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  • art
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • crafts
Cover of Dog Flowers: A Memoir by Danielle Geller

21. Dog Flowers: A Memoir

By: Danielle Geller

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family's troubled history and ret… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Geller's Dog Flowers: A Memoir book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The argument shifted, and she told me I was stupid to marry a man I had just met. It wasn't possible for me to know him. And when I tried to tell her what I loved about him—our shared worldview, the …"

-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir

"After my mother's pastor left her room, I stood there berating myself for agreeing to let him pray. If I were more like Eileen, I could channel my rage and do some real damage. I would be better equi…"

-Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers: A Memoir

Cover of The Power of Knitting by Loretta Napoleoni

22. The Power of Knitting

By: Loretta Napoleoni

3.38

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Purl and stitch: Empowering, healing, and reconnecting us to each other and ourselves In a fract… read more

Similar categories in Loretta Napoleoni's The Power of Knitting book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley

23. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More by Katrina Rodabaugh

24. Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

By: Katrina Rodabaugh

3.94

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

This guide explores visible mending techniques in both hands-on projects and thoughtful insight abo… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Rodabaugh's Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More book and Nina Montenegro's Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

  • art
  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • fashion
  • how to
Cover of The Sock Project: Colorful, Cool Socks to Knit and Show Off by Summer    Lee

25. The Sock Project: Colorful, Cool Socks to Knit and Show Off

By: Summer Lee

4.76

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Oklahoma native and proud member of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, Summer Lee shares her knitting secre… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
Cover of Paint with Thread: A step-by-step guide to embroidery through the seasons by Emillie Ferris

26. Paint with Thread: A step-by-step guide to embroidery through the seasons

By: Emillie Ferris

4.59

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Slow down and embroider your way through the changing seasons with the beautiful debut book from em… read more

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  • crafts
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of Shitty Craft Club: A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things by Sam  Reece

27. Shitty Craft Club: A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things

By: Sam Reece

3.81

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Shitty Craft Club is a uniquely empowering guide that allows burnt-out, pressured people to accept … read more

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  • crafts
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Mend It, Wear It, Love It!: Stitch Your Way to a Sustainable Wardrobe by Zoe Edwards

28. Mend It, Wear It, Love It!: Stitch Your Way to a Sustainable Wardrobe

By: Zoe Edwards

3.76

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to use simple sewing and mending techniques to extend the life of the clothes you love. … read more

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  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
  • reference
Cover of Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes by Lily Fulop

29. Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

By: Lily Fulop

3.76

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Repair your favorite socks with style, add flair with personalized patches, and turn ripped jeans i… read more

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  • art
  • crafts
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • fashion
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Cover of Zen Wisdom for the Anxious: Simple Advice from a Zen Buddhist Monk by Shinsuke Hosokawa

30. Zen Wisdom for the Anxious: Simple Advice from a Zen Buddhist Monk

By: Shinsuke Hosokawa

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

By dipping into this little book of simple Zen Buddhist sayings, you can calm your anxiety and retu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of This Long Thread by Jen Hewett

31. This Long Thread

By: Jen Hewett

4.55

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores th… read more

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  • art
  • sewing
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crafts

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