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10 best books like Love or Something Like It (Deirdre Shaw): Winter Solstice, Chances Are..., Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, The Dutch House, Dubliners, How to Be a Woman, The Postmistress, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, The Library of Lost and Found, Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Winter Solstice
AuthorRosamunde Pilcher
ISBN0340752483
Her captivating bestseller of loss and the healing power of love now re-issued with a stunning new jacket look. Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to...
Chances Are...
AuthorRichard Russo
ISBN1101947748
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
AuthorJessica Pan
ISBN0857526154
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.

When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...
The Dutch House
AuthorAnn Patchett
ISBN0062963678
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
Dubliners
AuthorJames Joyce
ISBN0192839993
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well,...
How to Be a Woman
AuthorCaitlin Moran
ISBN0091940737
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly...
The Postmistress
AuthorSarah Blake
ISBN0143145444
There are tons of great stories set during WWII. This is not one of them. It's not even much of a story, it just sort of meanders and then peters out. The main characters aren't much more than plot devices or symbols; in fact, the only people worth caring about are the mostly nameless refugees fleeing the...
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
AuthorAlison Arngrim
ISBN0061962147
For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history's most beloved series. Though millions of Little House on the Prairie viewers hated Nellie Oleson and her evil antics, Arngrim grew to love her character—and the freedom and confidence...
The Library of Lost and Found
AuthorPhaedra Patrick
ISBN0778369358
Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people--though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible.

All of that changes when a book of fairy tales...
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
AuthorLisa Jervis
ISBN0374113432
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms. Magazine, Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and...
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
AuthorMichael Chabon
ISBN0060790598
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity.

Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art...
The Imperfectionists
AuthorTom Rachman
ISBN0385343663
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat.

Fifty years and many changes...
Grange House
AuthorSarah Blake
ISBN0312280041
By the author of the New York Times bestseller The Postmistress

Maisie Thomas spends every summer at Grange House, a hotel on the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant Miss Grange. In 1896, when Maisie turns 17, her visit marks a turning point. On the morning after her arrival, local fishermen make...
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
AuthorKyria Abrahams
ISBN1416556842
Raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, Kyria Abrahams’s childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery catastrophe; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale was infested by demons; and that Ouija boards—even...
The Guest Book
AuthorSarah Blake
An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.

The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American...
The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House
AuthorMelissa Anderson
ISBN0762759704
When other girls her age were experiencing their first crushes, Melissa Sue Anderson was receiving handwritten marriage proposals from fans as young, and younger, than she was. When other girls were dreaming of their first kiss, Melissa was struggling through hers in front of a camera. From age eleven...
The Rector's Wife
AuthorJoanna Trollope
ISBN0425170551
Anna Bouverie is the rector's wife. She irons his surplices (badly), delivers the parish newsletter, and scrimps to get by on a pittance, all the while keeping up appearances. She rarely complains and rarely rebels. But now-as she watches her children do without, as her husband withdraws further into...
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
AuthorGraham Hancock
ISBN1250045924
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled...
Mythologies
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0684826216
Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...
The Outside World
AuthorTova Mirvis
ISBN1400075289
Tzippy Goldman was born for marriage. She and her mother had always assumed she’d graduate high school, be set up with the right boy, and have a beautiful wedding with white lace and pareve vanilla cream frosting. But at twenty-two, Tzippy’s fast approaching spinsterhood. She dreams of escape;...
The Garden Angel
AuthorMindy Friddle
ISBN0312424965
In Sans Souci, South Carolina, talk is cheap, real estate even more so. No one knows this better than Cutter Johanson, a gruff tomboy who waits tables, writes obits, and makes every effort, however comical and in the face of her mercenary relatives, to avert the sale of the dilapidated ancestral home....
A Working Girl Can't Win
AuthorDeborah Garrison
ISBN0375755403
"Is this the birth of a pundit
or a slut? Is she the woman they courted for her youthful edge
or a kiss-and-tell bimbo,
a careerist coquette?
The loyal daughter to spin doctors
losing their hair or soul sister
to feminist essayists everywhere?
Is her meteoric rise the source
of...
The Ladies Auxiliary
AuthorTova Mirvis
ISBN0345441265
When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular...
The Scenic Route
AuthorBinnie Kirshenbaum
ISBN0060784733
Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expatriate. Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wife's money, Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitous route around the continent--as Sylvia entertains...
Two From the Heart
AuthorJames Patterson
ISBN0316468924
From the #1 bestselling author of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sundays at Tiffany's, two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities.

Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she...
The Soldier's Wife
AuthorJoanna Trollope
ISBN0385618034
I will start this review by saying I am a Navy wife so I understand the issues faced by Military families.

I found this book to be very true (from my own experiences.)
The homecoming after a deployment is always difficult, the excitement at seeing your loved one again is often plagued with...
An Unsuitable Match
AuthorJoanna Trollope
ISBN1509823514
Rose Woodrowe is getting married to Tyler Masson—a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn’t the first time for either of them. And when you marry later in life there are a lot more people to consider. Like Rose’s daughter, Laura, who remembers...
King of the Mountains. The Remarkable Story of Giuseppe Musolino, Italy's Most Famous Outlaw
AuthorDan Possumato
This is (according to the author) the first ever English account of the trials and tribulations of Giuseppe Musolino: Calabrian Folk Hero, Italian Outlaw, Robin Hood of Southern Italy.

Researched as well as recalled from his mother's family history author Dan Possumato is the grandson of...
The Book of Separation
AuthorTova Mirvis
ISBN0544520521
The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world.

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this...
How to be Famous
AuthorCaitlin Moran
ISBN1443448524
A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, "rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways."

You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It...
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