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Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps, Volume 1

10 best books like Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps, Volume 1 (Robert Rodi): Life and Other Inconveniences, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Behind Jane Austen's Door, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, Goody Two Shoes, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale, And Who Can Be In Doubt Of What Followed?: The Novels of Jane Austen Expanded, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness, Above the Waterfall

Life and Other Inconveniences
AuthorKristan Higgins
From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Luck with That comes a new novel about a blue-blood grandmother and her black-sheep granddaughter who discover they are truly two sides of the same coin.

Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London....
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
AuthorDaniel Immerwahr
ISBN0374172145
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
Behind Jane Austen's Door
AuthorJennifer Forest
Need to escape the modern world? Step back into Jane Austen's world with Behind Jane Austen's Door. Join the author, Jennifer Forest, as she takes you on an easy to read, non-academic tour of a Regency house.

Jane Austen did not place her stories in palaces or on the battlefields, but in that one...
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
AuthorJohn Mullan
ISBN1620400413
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing...
Goody Two Shoes
AuthorJanet Elizabeth Henderson
Take one American singer who doesn’t believe in falling in love…

Josh McInnes’ biological clock is ticking and he wants to get married—now. After 20 years singing soppy love songs, he knows that there is no such thing as romantic love. There’s only hormones and lust. At thirty-five,...
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
AuthorMichael W. Twitty
ISBN0062379283
A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom.

Southern...
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale
AuthorJessica A. Fox
ISBN1476730253
In this inspiring, delightful memoir, a young woman decides to escape the daily grind and turn her “what if” fantasy into a reality, only to find work—and a man—she loves in one fell swoop, all in a secondhand bookstore in a quaint Scottish town.

Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood,...
And Who Can Be In Doubt Of What Followed?: The Novels of Jane Austen Expanded
AuthorAlexa Adams
Have you ever wondered how Caroline Bingley learned of Mr. Darcy's engagement to Elizabeth Bennet, what Colonel Brandon did to win Marianne Dashwood's heart, or who discovered Mr. Elliot and Mrs. Clay in flagrante? Alexa Adams seeks to answer these questions and more, delving into the details at which...
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
AuthorRobert Specht
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with...
Above the Waterfall
AuthorRon Rash
ISBN0062349317
Les, a long-time sheriff nearing retirement, contends with the ravages of poverty and crystal meth in his small Appalachian town. Nestled in a beautiful hollow of the Appalachians, his is a tight-knit community rife with secrets and suspicious of outsiders.

Becky, a park ranger, arrives...
On Second Thought
AuthorKristan Higgins
ISBN0373789254
Ainsley O’Leary is so ready to get married—she’s even found the engagement ring her boyfriend has stashed away. What she doesn’t anticipate is being blindsided by a breakup he chronicles in a blog…which (of course) goes viral. Devastated and humiliated, Ainsley turns to her older half...
Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice
AuthorStacy King
ISBN1927925185
*4.5 stars*

The idea of making manga adaptations of classics is simply genious and I literally can’t wait to see if Little Women will be made in a manga as well for it is my second favourite classic after Pride and Prejudice.

Now this adaptation wasn’t perfect or one hundred percent...
XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed
AuthorHenry S.F. Cooper Jr.
ISBN0801850975
Superb.

But be aware. This is not human-drama version of the story, a la the movie Apollo 13.

There is almost no mention of worried family, the fretful public entranced by global media coverage, or the personal relationships and tensions among the onboard or ground crews. It’s almost...
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