Category: Non-fiction
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Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller, 2013 Biography If you could see Ms Miller now in her beautifully tidy apartment with its sparkling countertops and clean floors, you would never guess that she grew up in a junk filled home. She new, growing up, that things were different in her home. She was embarrassed, always meeting friends at…
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Educated and Educating {Books by Daughter and Mother}
Educated: Tara Westover, 2018 (the daughter) Educating: LaRee Westover, 2020 (the mom) Autobiography One family. Two very different viewpoints. Educated Educated is a book about Tara’s troubled childhood on into how she deals with things as an adult. She describes her life near Clifton, Idaho as traumatic and unsettling. Her father distrusted the government and…
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The Life Giving Table
Sally Clarkson, 2017, 272 pages How important is it to gather around the table with your family? Sally Clarkson, the author of The Lifegiving Table, sees a table set with food as a place to nurture faith and connection along with satisfying physical hunger. In this book she explains why your table is your mission, along…
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Scoundrel:
Sarah Weinman, 2022 Crime 1960s small town America. Eddy Smith (in his low twenties) seems like ‘the boy next door’. Until he doesn’t. The author sets the stage by showing you Eddy is everyone’s friend. He plays basketball with his buddys. He gives young girls rides home from school. He is loved by his young…
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Tell Me Everything
Erica Krause, 2022 Non-fiction, Personal Memoir, Crime Erica Krause does not have a memorable face, yet everyone thinks they may know her from somewhere. Complete strangers walk up to her and ask where they know her from. Fellow shoppers share secrets they have told no one else. This happened in a bookstore and a job…
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Christmas Stories Worth Reading
Eva’s Choices My first choice is called Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck. I was introduced to this book when I joined Weston’s family. It is a simple story of a young boy wanting to come up with a gift for his father. He doesn’t have much money and time is running short to…
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen, 2014 The Yorkshire Shepherdess is a one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is a simple story about family and farm. It reminded me that the mundane every day things we encounter can be made interesting if we keep the right perspective. Life doesn’t need to be…
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A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle, 1991 In this nonfiction book, Peter Mayle and his wife realize their dream of moving to the south of France. They move into a 200 year old stone farmhouse in the Luberon, and it needs a lot of fixing and changing. This book goes through the entire year from January to December and…
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You Are My Sunshine
Sean Dietrich (Sean of the South), 2022 “My wife forced me into workout clothes, and I found myself donning a pair of out-dated nylon shorts. And we went for a vigorous walk through the morning sunlight. We walked for three miles, until my hamstrings tightened and my heels became blishered and I was begging to…
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Welcome Home
Myquillyn Smith, 2020, 193 pages “On any given day, chances are good that you and I could walk outside and immediately know what season it is. No matter where you live, natural rhythms are showing off outside, and if you pay attention, you’ll notice them. Without knowing the date, we can know the season because…
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