12 Top nonfiction books like The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life by Sarah Frey

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The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

By: Sarah Frey

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

One tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business-…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life by Sarah Frey , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Who Was Sacagawea?

By: Nancy Harrison , Judith Bloom Fradin , Val Paul Taylor

4.12

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Sacagawea was only sixteen when she made one of the most remarkable journeys in American history, t… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Harrison's Who Was Sacagawea? book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Though Waters Roar

By: Lynn Austin

4.05

Format: 240 pages,

"Thank goodness you're such a plain child. You'll have to rely on your wits." So went the words of … read more

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3. Ever After (Lost Love, #2)

By: Karen Kingsbury

3.32

Format: 344 pages,

Two couples torn apart--one by war between countries, one by war within. In this moving sequel to E… read more

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4. The Secret School

By: Avi

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than anything, Ida Bidson wants to become a teacher. To do that, she must finish eighth grade,… read more

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5. The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

By: Kristin Kimball

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one wit… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Kimball's The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature

6. Peace, Locomotion

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lonnie is finally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he's living a… read more

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7. Monster

By: Steve Jackson

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

On February 13, 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown's battered, bloodied body was treated by emergency roo… read more

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8. Good Husbandry

By: Kristin Kimball

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Kimball's Good Husbandry book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • agriculture
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Farmers are professional hopers."

-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry

"Everything ends. The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can acc…"

-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry

"I suspected that most marriages were more complicated than couples tended to let on. That summer, it seemed like every week brought news of another pair in our community who were splitting up. They w…"

-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry

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9. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Barbara Kingsolver

4.05

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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10. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

By: Jill Winger

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more

Similar categories in Jill Winger's Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • memoir
  • agriculture
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

By: Justin Rhodes

4.31

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becomin… read more

Similar categories in Justin Rhodes's The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future by Ginny Yurich

12. Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future

By: Ginny Yurich

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

It may shock you to learn that we spend an average of 4-7 minutes outside each day--while we spend … read more

Similar categories in Ginny Yurich's Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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13. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Zaleski's Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Cover of The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm by Lana Stenner

14. The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm

By: Lana Stenner

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

These charming snapshots of life on the farm invite readers to incorporate the heart of homesteadin… read more

Similar categories in Lana Stenner's The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • nonfiction
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15. The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's The Stolen Child book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • audiobook
Cover of Getaway With Murder (Mountain Lodge Mystery, #1) by Diane Kelly

16. Getaway With Murder (Mountain Lodge Mystery, #1)

By: Diane Kelly

3.90

Format: 292 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Getaway With Murder is the first in a cozy series from Diane Kelly set in a lodge in the Blue Ridge… read more

Similar categories in Diane Kelly's Getaway With Murder (Mountain Lodge Mystery, #1) book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Flat Broke with Two Goats by Jennifer McGaha

17. Flat Broke with Two Goats

By: Jennifer McGaha

3.26

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McGaha's Flat Broke with Two Goats book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"

-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"

-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats

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18. The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

By: Sarah Frey

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

One tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business-… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • nature
  • biography
  • memoir
  • agriculture
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. Articulated Restraint

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.85

Format: 26 pages, ebook

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And some… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's Articulated Restraint book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • adult
Cover of I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child by Kristina Kuzmic

20. I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child

By: Kristina Kuzmic

4.70

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Hold On, But Don’t Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account o… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Kuzmic's I Can Fix This: And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Scene (A Witch City Mystery) by Carol J. Perry

21. Death Scene (A Witch City Mystery)

By: Carol J. Perry

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It takes a lot for Salem locals to get excited about their historic Massachusetts town being known … read more

Similar categories in Carol J. Perry's Death Scene (A Witch City Mystery) book and Sarah Frey's The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life

  • audiobook

6 Best adult books like The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life by Sarah Frey

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Good Husbandry

Kristin Kimball

4.23

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Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Getaway With Murder (Mountain Lodge Mystery, #1)

Diane Kelly

3.90

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Flat Broke with Two Goats

Jennifer McGaha

3.26

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11 Top nonfiction books like The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

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Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another

Ellen Stimson

3.14

Transform Your Habits

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table

Molly Wizenberg

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet

David Fisher , Jan Pol

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

Novella Carpenter

3.47

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