6 Top nonfiction books like The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering by May Sarton

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The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

By: May Sarton

4.36

Format: 666 pages, Kindle Edition

Now in one Three exquisite meditations on nature, healing, and the pleasures of the solitary life …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering by May Sarton , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden

By: Alain Baraton , Christopher Brent Murray

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a lov… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

By: Henry Beston , Robert Finch

4.00

Format: 176 pages,

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity,… read more

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3. Dans les forêts de Sibérie

By: Sylvain Tesson

3.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Sylvain Tesson, pour rassasier son besoin de liberte, a trouve une solution radicale et vieille com… read more

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4. One Man's Meat

By: E.B. White , Roger Angell

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubt… read more

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5. The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

By: Catherine Grace Katz

4.10

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fa… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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7. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

By: Louise Penny

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more

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"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

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8. The Library

By: Bella Osborne

4.35

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two different generations. Two unusual people. Thrown together to save their local library. Tom is… read more

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"Dog are awesome. They don't care if you're clever or not; they just like to hang out with you"

-Bella Osborne, The Library

"If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all…"

-Bella Osborne, The Library

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9. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

By: Helen Rappaport

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more

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  • nonfiction
"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

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10. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

By: Louise Aronson

3.97

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's E… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

By: May Sarton

4.36

Format: 666 pages, Kindle Edition

Now in one Three exquisite meditations on nature, healing, and the pleasures of the solitary life … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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