Love in Translation

10 best books like Love in Translation (Wendy Nelson Tokunaga): Goodbye, Paris, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, The Chaperone, Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, Postscript, The Second Worst Restaurant in France, Swallowtail Summer, The Peppermint Tea Chronicles, The Dandelion Years, Four Respectable Ladies Seek The Meaning Of Wife

Goodbye, Paris

Author	Anstey Harris
ISBN	1501196502

Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.

Grace once had the beginnings of a promising musical career, but she hasn’t been able to play her cello publicly since a traumatic event...

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Author	Nora Ephron
ISBN	0307264556

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

The...

The Chaperone

Author	Laura Moriarty
ISBN	1594487014

The Chaperone is  a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
 
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks...

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe

Author	Melissa de la Cruz
ISBN	1250141397

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, from New York Times bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz, is a sweet, sexy and hilarious gender-swapping, genre-satisfying re-telling, set in contemporary America and featuring one snooty Miss Darcy.

Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful,...

Postscript

Author	Cecelia Ahern
ISBN	0008194882

It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died – six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life.

She’s proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love...

The Second Worst Restaurant in France

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1846974216

Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.

So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...

Swallowtail Summer

Author

Erica James

It was the summer it all ended . . . It was the summer a new story began. Linston End has been the summer home to three families for several decades. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the local...

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1846974836

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting.

For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may...

The Dandelion Years

Author

Erica James

A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James.

Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl. A rambling pink cottage on the edge of the Suffolk village of Melbury Green, its enchanting garden provided a fairy-tale playground...

Four Respectable Ladies Seek The Meaning Of Wife

Author

Barbara Toner

'Marriage isn't always a bed of roses. And there are many ways to be a wife,' the vicar informs the town ...

It's 1930, and as the Depression overtakes rural New South Wales, what it means to be a wife tests the four respectable ladies of Prospect to their very limit.

Louisa Worthington...

The Forensic Records Society

Author	Magnus Mills
ISBN	1632868164

I remained convinced that my original theory was correct: there were some records that were never heard on planet Earth unless I (or James) happened to be playing them.

Two men with a passion for vinyl create a society for the appreciation of records. Their aim is simple: to elevate the art of...

The Summer Theatre by the Sea

Author

Tracy Corbett

A summer to remember…
Charlotte Saunders has always loved the buzz of city life. So, when she finds herself abruptly fired, dumped and forced to leave London to move in with her sister Lauren in Cornwall, she thinks the world is ending.

To keep herself busy in the quiet coastal town, Charlotte...

What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights Into the Experience of Dying

Author	Jennie Dear
ISBN	0806539860

A compassionate, honest, and illuminating look at the dying process . . .

As a long-time hospice volunteer, Jennie Dear has helped countless patients, families, and caregivers cope with the many challenges of the dying process. Inspired by her own personal journey with her mother's long-term...

Delicious!

Author	Ruth Reichl
ISBN	1400069629

In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and never more so than in her dazzling fiction debut about sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must finally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts.

Billie Breslin has traveled...

Destiny Junction

Author	Michael R. Phillips
ISBN	0768420628

I hardly know how to rate it, since in some ways it was a disappointment and in others it touched me. Let's just say for a Calvinist this is probably not a book you will call a favorite. It's all about different characters' lives and how they are changed by one girl's life and death and a sermon given by the girl's...

The Age of Misadventure

Author

Judy Leigh

The gloriously funny new novel about living life to the full, whatever your age, from the author of A Grand Old Time.

55-year-old Georgie Turner doesn’t need a new man. Her daughter, aunt and sister are the most important people in her life (and the most infuriating). But it seems the older...

Tis the Season

Author	Kathryn Quick
ISBN	0803497423

Santa quit! Well, Holly Winters’ father who plays the beloved character every year at the local mall is quitting the business. Jack Winters has been the shopping mall’s Santa for as long as anyone can remember but this year, the unrelenting commercialization of Christmas has him threatening to...

Driving with the Top Down

Author	Beth Harbison
ISBN	1250043808

Three women, two weeks, one convertible: sometimes life doesn't take you in the direction you expect...

Colleen Bradley is married with a teenage son, a modest business repurposing and reselling antiques, and longtime fear that she was not her husband’s first choice. When she decides...

You're Not That Great: (but neither is anyone else)

Author	Elan Gale
ISBN	1478918292

I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.

I care more about feeling great than being great.

I am NOT THAT GREAT.

The self-help industry tells you that if you're positive, if you put your best foot forward and if you just believe...