Fifteen Minutes of Shame
10 best books like Fifteen Minutes of Shame (Lisa Daily): The Bookseller of Kabul, Princess in Pink, Forever, Interrupted, Book Love, What's a Girl Gotta Do?, Winterhouse, The Beholder, Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imagination, The Little Café in Copenhagen, Stepsister
Author | Åsne Seierstad |
ISBN | 0316159417 |
In spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Åsne Seierstad spent four months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul.
For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities—be they communist or Taliban—to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated...
Author | Meg Cabot |
ISBN | 0060096128 |
Princess Mia is dreaming about the prom - and contending with a hotel workers' strike - in the fifth, supremely hilarious episode of Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries. This time, Mia's in the pink about the upcoming Albert Einstein H.S. prom, and she's crossing her fingers that Michael will ask her to go....
Author | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.
Elsie Porter is...
Author | Debbie Tung |
ISBN | 1449494285 |
Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks! And ebooks! And bookstores! And libraries!
Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles....
Author | Holly Bourne |
ISBN | 1474915027 |
1.) Am I Normal Yet ★★★★★
2.) How Hard Can Love Be? ★★★★★
3.) What's A Girl Gotta Do? ★★★★★
*.) ...And A Happy New Year? ★★★★.5
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INCREDIBLE..
An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut―the first book in a trilogy―set in a magical hotel full of secrets.
Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly...
Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. As the only daughter of the leader of Potomac, she knows her duty is to find the perfect match, a partner who will help secure the future of her people. Now that day has finally come.
But after an excruciatingly public rejection from her closest...
Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imagination
Author | Helen Fielding |
ISBN | 0143035363 |
At the close of the last millennium, Helen Fielding debuted the irrepressible (and blockbuster-bestselling) Bridget Jones. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era...Move over 007, a stunning, sexy-and decidedly female-new player has entered the world of international espionage....
The Little Café in Copenhagen
Welcome to the little cafe in Copenhagen where the smell of cinnamon fills the air and the hot chocolate is as smooth as silk.
Publicist Kate Sinclair’s life in London is everything she thought she wanted: success, glamour and a charming boyfriend. Until that boyfriend goes behind her back...
Author | Jennifer Donnelly |
ISBN | 1338268465 |
Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe ... which is now filling with...
Author | Meg Cabot |
ISBN | 0060096098 |
Never before has the world seen such a princess.
Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking meters is met with resistance.
But the...
Author | Meg Cabot |
ISBN | 0060724552 |
Princess just want to have fun . . . And Mia does too, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. But Grandmere's got a wacky scheme to raise the money, catapult Mia to theatrical fame, and link her romantically with an eligible teen bachelor who's not her boyfriend....
Author | Meg Cabot |
ISBN | 0064472809 |
Princess Mia may seem like the luckiest girl ever.
But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooching from her...
Author | R.L. Stine |
ISBN | 0590460986 |
I’m pretty sure that I’d not read this Point Horror before!
With all the usual ‘fun’ Stine fake out cliffhangers, it’s entirely possible that I’d blurred it with the numerous other books of his that I’d read in the 90’s.
The main gist of this one sees Brenda annoyed by cousin...
Author | Meg Cabot |
ISBN | 0060096152 |
Princess for president!
Student body president, that is -- nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, but as usual, she has bigger problems to worry about, like Geometry. And now that Mia's one true love, Michael, is uptown at...
Author | Patrick Flores-Scott |
ISBN | 1627797416 |
With a strong, loving family, an incredibly loyal best friend, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for seventeen-year-old Teodoro “T” Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before his senior year when his nearly perfect brother Manny returns from a tour in...
Author | Holly Bourne |
ISBN | 1409591220 |
Amber, Evie and Lottie: three girls facing down tough issues with the combined powers of friendship, feminism and cheesy snacks. Both hilarious and heart-rending, this is Amber’s story of how painful – and exhilarating – love can be, following on from Evie’s story in Am I Normal Yet?
All...
The Little Brooklyn Bakery
‘Irresistible’ Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde
Take a trip to New York and the best little bakery in Brooklyn for bagels, bakes, and more than a sprinkle of romance!
When Sophie Bennings arrives in New York, love is the last thing on her mind. Still reeling from a painful break...
You May Now Kill the Bride
NEW Fear Street stories with a retro look, perfect for fans of Stranger Things!
Two sisters, divided by time. Each with a terrible resentment she can barely contain.
Two Fear family weddings, decades apart... Each bride will find that the ancient curse that haunts the Fears LIVES...
The Bed and Breakfast on the Beach
Author | Kat French |
ISBN | 0008236755 |
A gorgeous summer read to escape with this summer!
A Greek island solves all life’s problems…doesn’t it?
Winnie, Stella and Frankie have been best friends forever.
When their lives unexpectedly unravel, they spontaneously decide to buy a gorgeous B on a remote Greek...
Fetele bune ajung in rai, Fetele rele ajung unde vor
Ce vor crede ceilalti despre mine?
Ce atitudine vor lua?
Vor accepta o fata rea?
Sa duc in spate frica pedepsei… a acelei pedepse care ar urma dupa micile incalcari ale conventionalului? Sa ma simt oarecum vinovata? Sau sa renunt la slalomul prin lumea lui “nu se face”?
Desigur,...
Author | Jennifer Probst |
ISBN | 1442395753 |
Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
Hot on the heels of her beloved Marriage to a Billionaire novels, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst nails it with the first in an all-new sexy romance series featuring red-hot contractor siblings who give the Property Brothers a run for their money!
Ever...
The Summer House by the Sea
A brand new summery story about returning to your past and finding a new beginning from bestselling author Jenny Oliver!
Nestled on the Spanish coast, bustling café Estrella features in every one of Ava Brown’s happiest memories. It’s where she tasted her first delectably-chocolatey churros,...
Author | Sophia Money-Coutts |
The Plus One [n] informal a person who accompanies an invited person to a wedding or a reminder of being single, alone and absolutely plus none
Polly’s not looking for ‘the one’, just the plus one…
Polly Spencer is fine. She’s single, turning thirty and only managed to have sex...
Eigentlich wollte Cassidy einem Mädchen an ihrer Schule nur dabei helfen, ihren blöden Freund loszuwerden. Doch plötzlich hat die 17-Jährige sich damit den Ruf erworben, Beziehungen innerhalb eines Tages zerstören zu können. Die dankbaren Mitschüler bezahlen sie sogar für ihren „Schlussmach-Service“....
For fans of He Said/She Said and Anatomy of a Scandal, Penny Hancock’s I Thought I Knew You is about secrets and lies – and whose side you take when it really matters.
Who do you know better? Your oldest friend? Or your child?
And who should you believe when one accuses the other of an abhorrent...
I'm a world famous tattoo artist with a six month waiting list. Everybody's begging me to put my ink on them. I'm the hottest shit in L.A., and can get any girl I want. So the last thing I expect is for Ash Carter to walk into my shop and blow me off.
I've spent the last seven years screwing half the women...
'A glorious jaunt around Italy with characters I didn't want to leave' CLARE MACKINTOSH
A compelling
novel about friendship, family secrets and second chances, set against the backdrop of southern Italy.
Sandy is in her fifties, and at a crossroads in her life: she's a teacher and respected...
‘I love all of Sue Moorcroft’s books!’
Katie Fforde
When Sofia Bianchi’s father Aldo dies, it makes her stop and look at things afresh. Having been his carer for so many years, she knows it’s time for her to live her own life – and to fulfil some promises she made to Aldo in his final days.So...
The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus
Author | John Glatt |
ISBN | 1250036372 |
New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and long-overdue rescue of three women found in a Cleveland basement.
The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned,...