6 Best nonfiction books like Riding the Edge: A Love Song to Deborah by Michael S. Tobin

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Riding the Edge: A Love Song to Deborah

By: Michael S. Tobin

3.73

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Non Fiction Book Award Winner: Silver Two soulmates embark on an around-the-world journey, leavi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Riding the Edge: A Love Song to Deborah by Michael S. Tobin , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Japanese Lover

By: Isabel Allende , Nick Caistor , Amanda Hopkinson

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away … read more

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2. Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

By: Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"

-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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3. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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4. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

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5. Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection)

By: Marie Benedict

3.62

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

For pilot Ruth Nichols, a soaring rivalry with Amelia Earhart becomes a deep friendship in a short … read more

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6. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

By: Kevin Maurer

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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8. Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more

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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

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9. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

By: Jamie Ford

3.87

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how sh… read more

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"Don't change. Instead change the world."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost. That which was never allowed to be."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what's inside, to unpack the things you do not need. Karma is the climate of the past which shapes how much leeway we …"

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

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10. Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

By: Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

3.80

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Sleepless

By: Romy Hausmann

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released from prison,… read more

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12. When We Had Wings

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses station… read more

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  • romance
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13. The Essence of Nathan Biddle

By: J. William Lewis

3.60

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Protagonist Kit Biddle is a rising prep school senior who finds himself tangled in a web of spiritu… read more

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14. Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more

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15. The Madwomen of Paris

By: Jennifer Cody Epstein

3.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris’s notorious wome… read more

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16. Up With the Sun

By: Thomas Mallon

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York C… read more

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17. The Secret Keeper of Main Street

By: Trisha R. Thomas

3.77

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition. In 1950s … read more

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18. Lucy Checks In

By: Dee Ernst

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Dee Ernst's Lucy Checks In is a delightful work of romantic comedy about a disgraced hotel manager … read more

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  • romance
  • travel
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19. RED HERRING'S: Mirth, Murder and Martinis

By: Bing Smith

3.65

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Mullet McGuffin is the longstanding, longsuffering barman at Boston’s Red Herring tavern. He has sh… read more

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20. Into the Vortex

By: John Poidevant

3.68

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

The scene was chaotic on the shore of the Opa River. A young woman darted from her kayak and raced … read more

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21. Riding the Edge: A Love Song to Deborah

By: Michael S. Tobin

3.73

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Non Fiction Book Award Winner: Silver Two soulmates embark on an around-the-world journey, leavi… read more

Similar categories in Michael S. Tobin's Riding the Edge: A Love Song to Deborah book and Michael S. Tobin's Riding the Edge: A Love Song to Deborah

  • romance
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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