5 best-selling quilting books like Inspiring Improv: Explore Creative Piecing with Curves, Strips, Slabs and More by Nicholas Ball

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Inspiring Improv: Explore Creative Piecing with Curves, Strips, Slabs and More

By: Nicholas Ball

4.31

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

No patterns here, but definitely a plan! Explore the freeing power of improvised piecing with Nicho…

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1. A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

4.37

Format: 603 pages, Paperback

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more

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"Time had changed the magical to mundane"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"Marriage is like death, only happens once."

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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2. The Keeper of Lost Things

By: Ruth Hogan

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveri… read more

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3. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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4. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Make Your Loved Ones’ Lives Easier and Your Own Life More Pleasant

By: Margareta Magnusson

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Funny, wise, and deeply practical, Swedish artist Margareta Magnusson offers advice on how to declu… read more

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5. Tula Pink's City Sampler: 100 Modern Quilt Blocks

By: Tula Pink

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

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6. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

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7. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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8. The Devil and the Dark Water

By: Stuart Turton

3.84

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samu… read more

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"Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"You’re as dense as the mountains you were carved out of."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's the light we find when fear is all there is."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Marriage is an inconvenient convenience. It’s the shackle we accept for our safety."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

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9. We Spread

By: Iain Reid

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more

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"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"

-Iain Reid, We Spread

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10. Sweep of the Heart (Innkeeper Chronicles, #5)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.52

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adv… read more

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11. Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

By: Marie Kondō

3.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her inspirational visual guide to elevatin… read more

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"It's hard to change someone else. But we can change ourselves."

-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

"The true purpose of tidying is not to cut down on your possessions or declutter your space. The ultimate goal is to spark joy every day and lead a joyful life."

-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

"Ultimately, I think the purpose of life is to be happy and fulfilled. I don't mean this in a selfish 'me first' way. When we exude an aura of happiniess, this positive energy spreads to those around …"

-Marie Kondō, Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

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12. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

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13. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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14. The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more

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"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

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15. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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16. Milk Street's Cook What You Have: Make a Meal Out of Almost Anything

By: Christopher Kimball

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Make a meal out of almost anything. Stop shopping and start cooking what you have. Your pantry's p… read more

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17. Improv Quilting

By: Irene Roderick

4.36

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

An original and unique process for designing and constructing improvisational quilts developed by I… read more

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  • quilting
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18. Inspiring Improv: Explore Creative Piecing with Curves, Strips, Slabs and More

By: Nicholas Ball

4.31

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

No patterns here, but definitely a plan! Explore the freeing power of improvised piecing with Nicho… read more

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19. Improv Patchwork: Dynamic Quilts Made with Line & Shape

By: Maria Shell

4.33

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Explore new options in improvisational piecing and empower your creativity! Cut and combine solid-c… read more

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20. Artful Improv: Explore Color Recipes, Building Blocks & Free-Motion Quilting

By: Cindy Grisdela

4.44

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

“Do away with patterns and embrace your creative spirit with this vibrant and fun book.” —Quilting … read more

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21. Use and Ornament: An Exploration of the Improv Quilt

By: Ball Nick

4.25

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Use and The History and Future of Improv Quilting invites crafters to open the door to creative fr… read more

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9 must-read nonfiction books like Inspiring Improv: Explore Creative Piecing with Curves, Strips, Slabs and More by Nicholas Ball

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Julia Cameron

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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Margareta Magnusson

3.59

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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Susan Cain

3.98

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3.62

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

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Gretchen Rubin

3.72

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Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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