A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
By: Frances Mayes
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author …
Want to Read $ 12.99"Much about home is imagining home"-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
"I will translate myself into a new language."-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
"The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive."-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
"As much as you own an old house and garden, it owns you. There's a continuum in progress."-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
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1. Maurice, or, The Fisher's Cot: A Tale
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3.56
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. Thi… read more
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2. The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
By: Judith Jones
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing—one of the food world’s most … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
"Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then,…"-Judith Jones, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
3. A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World
By: Janice MacLeod
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you."-Janice MacLeod, A Paris Year: My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World
4. An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
By: Heidi Ardizzone
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905… read more
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5. My Life in France
By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- food
- nonfiction
6. All New People
By: Anne Lamott
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that sh… read more
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7. Paris in Love
By: Eloisa James
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 2009, New York Timesbestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: sh… read more
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8. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
9. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
10. The Paris Novel
By: Ruth Reichl
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more
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- travel
- food
- audiobook
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
12. Taeva tütred
By: Piret Jaaks
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
„See on haruldase sisendusjõu ja psühholoogilise täpsusega kirjutatud missioonilugu, mis pühendub k… read more
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13. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
14. A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
By: Frances Mayes
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author … read more
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- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- audiobook
"Much about home is imagining home"-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
"I will translate myself into a new language."-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
"The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive."-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
"As much as you own an old house and garden, it owns you. There's a continuum in progress."-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home
15. Part lendab edasi
By: Olav Osolin
3.83
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
„Part lendab edasi“ on järg Olav Osolini ülimenukale debüütromaanile „Kus lendab part“. Ootamatult … read more
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16. To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
By: Alice Sari Feiring
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Nominated for a James Beard Award Named a Best Wine Book of 2022 by The New York Times, Forbes, an… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
17. Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
By: Heidi Julavits
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
19. The Love You Save: A Memoir
By: Goldie Taylor
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, … read more
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20. Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History
By: Howell Raines
3.59
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alaba… read more
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21. Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good for the Mind: An Interior Design Book
By: Bobby Berk
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The design expert and Emmy-nominated TV host of Netflix’s Queer Eye shows you how to set up your sp… read more
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