Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp…
Want to Read $ 12.99"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
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1. Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
By: Clara Parkes
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this insp… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- knitting
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
"Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and ar…"-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
"A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. .…"-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
2. Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting
By: Ann Hood
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
In Knitting Pearls, two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting… read more
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- crafts
- nonfiction
- memoir
- knitting
3. The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting
By: Clara Parkes
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
4. A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
By: Clara Parkes
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From New York Timesbestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes, comes a new collection of essays and s… read more
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- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
5. A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter
By: Rachael Herron (RH Herron)
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In these 20 heartfelt essays, Rachael Herron celebrated romance novelist by day, 911 dispatcher by … read more
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6. The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn
By: Clara Parkes
4.09
Format: 372 pages,
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7. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
8. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
9. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
10. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
12. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
13. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- adult
- nature
- audiobook
14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
15. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
By: Melissa L. Sevigny
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- nature
- audiobook
16. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
17. No Two Persons
By: Erica Bauermeister
4.09
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons
18. Sipsworth
By: Simon Van Booy
4.26
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more
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- adult
- animals
- audiobook
19. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
20. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- knitting
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crafts
- adult
- nature
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
21. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
By: Margareta Magnusson
3.58
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning— now a TV series… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"...unless you depend on your looks for your career or your joy, hinging your life on looking young is such a bad idea."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
"The world is always ending, and yet it continues to survive. We must always hope for a sustainable future, but hope is not enough."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
"It is never too late to do anything, unless it is really too late and you are. dead. The moment you start thinking it is too late, then you begin to die. I will keep going and do all I want to do."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
"The older I get, the more I find that I remember clearly all the things I said yes to, just when I was about to say no. I must admit I have not been open-minded all the time. I just wish I had been."-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
22. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
23. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
By: Helen Ellis
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
24. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- nature
- audiobook
25. The Last Animal
By: Ramona Ausubel
3.47
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more
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- adult
- animals
- audiobook
26. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
27. The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
By: Jane Cooper
4.05
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- nature
- audiobook
28. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
By: Clara Parkes
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- nature
- audiobook
29. The Joy of Yarn: Your Stash Solution for Curating, Organizing and Using Your Yarn―with 10 Knitting Patterns
By: Marie Greene
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Say Goodbye to Your Yarn Stash Woes ― Forever Every knitter knows the innate joy of purchasing y… read more
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- crafts
- nonfiction
- knitting
30. Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textil… read more
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- crafts
- audiobook
- nonfiction
- knitting
31. Please Grow: Lessons on Thriving for Plants (and People)
By: Alex Testere
4.32
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Discover the life lessons plants can teach you—from the importance of putting down roots to leaning… read more
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- nonfiction
