Behaving Badly
10 best books like Behaving Badly (Isabel Wolff): The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs, Goodnight, Irene, The Matchmakers of Minnow Bay, Seeing Me Naked, Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes, Summer at 23 The Strand, The Little Perfume Shop off the Champs-Élysées, L'Art de perdre, Brazil Red, Letters from Peaceful Lane
The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
Author | Dana Bate |
ISBN | 1401311008 |
Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., lives in a swanky apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for an academic career just like her parents. The only problem is that Hannah doesn’t want any of it. What she wants is much...
Author | Jan Burke |
ISBN | 0743444515 |
In Jan Burke's Goodnight, Irene, the first installment in the Irene Kelly mystery series, this debut will grip you from the first page. It all started when Irene's friend O'Connor was killed in a car bombing, when he was about to tell her something important. After his death, it was up to Irene to pick up...
The Matchmakers of Minnow Bay
Author | Kelly Harms |
ISBN | 1466880945 |
A young painter, Lily has reached a crossroads in her life. Her career hasn't taken off, her best friend may no longer be the trusted friend she thought, her boyfriend is a disappointment, and now she can't keep up with the rising cost of living in the city. With no one to turn to, Lily is forced to move from...
Author | Liza Palmer |
ISBN | 0446698377 |
Elisabeth Page is the daughter of Ben Page, yes, that's right, THE world famous novelist. And yes, she's also the sister of Rascal Page, world famous novelist in his own right. So what does Elisabeth do? Much to her family's disappointment, Elisabeth is a pastry chef. And a pretty damn good one, at Beverly,...
Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes
Author | Jean-Michel Guenassia |
ISBN | 2226193928 |
Michel Marini avait douze ans en 1959, à l'époque du rock'n'roll et de la guerre d'Algérie. Il était photographe amateur, lecteur compulsif et joueur de baby-foot au Balto de Denfert-Rochereau. Dans l'arrière-salle du bistrot, il a rencontré Igor, Léonid, Sacha, Imré et les autres, qui...
Summer at 23 the strand is a gorgeous read. Uplifting and full of wonderful characters. It is absolutely perfect for the summer or days when you long for the summer to come. So pretty much a perfect read for any time of the year.
I loved the premise of this book that 23 the strand is a house for people...
The Little Perfume Shop off the Champs-Élysées
What is French for falling in love?
When Del leaves small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris, she thinks it is just the next step on her five-year-plan. It’s an exciting opportunity. What started out as just a dream for Del and her twin sister is nearly in her grasp. If she...
L’Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n’a longtemps été pour Naïma qu’une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses origines. Mais quel lien pourrait-elle avoir avec...
Author | Jean-Christophe Rufin |
ISBN | 0393052079 |
"BRAZIL RED tells the story of two orphaned children, Just and Colombe, who are dragged off on the French colonizing expedition--they are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters. Everything in this novel is outsized: the setting, a jungle still populated by cannibals; the characters,...
Letters from Peaceful Lane
In the rugged Ozarks of beautiful Branson, Missouri, a woman struggles to save her marriage--and finds answers from an unexpected source . . .
Allison felt like she'd stepped into a fairy tale when she married widower Burke Caldwell. But after less than a year of marriage, he's become removed...
The Little Teashop on Main
A rainy-day ritual—a tea party between three little girls—becomes the framework of not only their friendship, but their lives.
Blonde, curly-haired Zoe is openhearted, kind and free-spirited, and dreams of becoming a famous actor in New York City. Shy Emily struggles with mental...
Is love just something you find in books?
Six months ago, writer and bookstore owner Maddie Hanson was left at the altar. Since then, she’s had zero interest in romance—despite the fact that she runs a book club full of sexy eligible bachelors. But when her latest novel is panned by an anonymous...
Author | Mary Ann Marlowe |
ISBN | 1496708067 |
Biochemist Eden Sinclair has no idea that the scent she spritzed on herself before leaving the lab is designed to enhance pheromones. Or that the cute, grungy-looking guy she meets at a gig that evening is Adam Copeland. As in the Adam Copeland international rock god and object of lust for a million women....
Author | Dani Atkins |
ISBN | 1781857148 |
A gripping love story from the bestselling author of Fractured.
Emma Marshall can't wait to marry her childhood sweetheart, Richard. But then a tragic accident changes everything, and introduces a stranger, Jack, into her life. Gorgeous and mysterious, Jack is like no-one Emma has met before....
Author | David Vann |
ISBN | 2351780302 |
Une île sauvage du Sud de l’Alaska, accessible uniquement par bateau ou par hydravion, tout en forêts humides et montagnes escarpées. C’est dans ce décor que Jim décide d’emmener son fils de treize ans pour y vivre dans une cabane isolée, une année durant. Après une succession d’échecs...
It's all about that second chance... The Way They Were is Book Two of That Second Chance Series. (These are standalone books tied together by a common theme--belief in the beauty of that second chance.) He hasn't spoken her name in fourteen years. She keeps a journal hidden in the back of her closet and...
I'm officially addicted to the Subutex series - this stuff just speaks to me. Short recap: After Vernon had to close his record store and lost his old friend and benefactor, rock star Alex Bleach, to a drug overdose, he ended up homeless in the streets of Paris. But as he is in possession of the last video...
Author | Liza Palmer |
ISBN | 1250169844 |
"Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author." --Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the Six
If there's one thing Joan Dixon knows about herself, it's that she is a damn good journalist. But when she is laid off from yet another soon-to-be-shuttered...