The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters
By: Barbara Burman
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, …
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1. The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.86
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new… read more
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2. Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
By: Nevada Barr
3.83
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Anna Pigeon has fled New York and her memories to find work as a ranger in the country’s national p… read more
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"Bureaucrats -- monkeys who hear no evil and see no evil -- are first in line for promotion."-Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
"...she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days."-Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
"Trying to second-guess lunatics, drunks, or the Office of Personnel Management was an exercise in frustration. The logic totally eluded her."-Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
"From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was."-Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
3. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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5. A Lesson In Dying (Inspector Ramsey, #1)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - unti… read more
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6. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
8. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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9. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
By: Alden Wicker
4.32
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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11. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.11
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more
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12. The Invisible Hour
By: Alice Hoffman
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more
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"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
13. 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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- history
- nonfiction
"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
14. 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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- history
- nonfiction
"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
15. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
16. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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- crafts
- history
- nonfiction
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
17. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By: Pooja Lakshmin
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a … read more
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- nonfiction
18. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
By: Melinda Taub
3.81
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more
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19. The Night in Question
By: Susan Fletcher
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more
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"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question
20. The Christmas Boutique (Elm Creek Quilts #21)
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Bo… read more
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21. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
22. The Jane Austen Remedy
By: Ruth Wilson
3.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re… read more
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- nonfiction
"These conversations were exhilarating. They alerted me to the way shared reading could be a source of light in a dark world, forging friendships and creating like-minded communities."-Ruth Wilson, The Jane Austen Remedy
23. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
24. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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25. The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)
By: Katy Watson
3.77
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them fam… read more
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"It's not for us to say what is motive enough for a person. what might be a minor annoyance to us could mean murder to someone else..."-Katy Watson, The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)
26. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
27. This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
By: Esther Rutter
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter—who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spi… read more
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- history
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28. Coming to Find You
By: Jane Corry
3.66
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Nancy's mother and stepfather have been brutally killed, and after a trial that gripped the nation,… read more
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29. Raising Hare: A Memoir
By: Chloe Dalton
4.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural … read more
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- nonfiction
30. Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live
By: Melanie Falick
4.15
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautif… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters
By: Barbara Burman
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, … read more
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