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10 best books like Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good (Beverly Donofrio): The First Wives Club, Beaches, Born on the Fourth of July, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Pursuit of Happyness, Dances with Wolves, Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay, Penelope, Nanny Mcphee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda, Legally Blonde

The First Wives Club
AuthorOlivia Goldsmith
ISBN0099435136
Don't get mad. Get everything.

When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elise, Brenda and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband's career. But now that the men are successful, they've traded in their wives for newer, blonder models.

Over lunch...
Beaches
AuthorIris Rainer Dart
ISBN0060594772
Loudmouthed, redheaded Cee Cee Bloom has her sights set on Hollywood. Bertie White, quiet and conservative, dreams of getting married and having children. In 1951, their childhood worlds collide in Atlantic City. Keeping in touch as pen pals, they reunite over the years ... always near the ocean.

Powerful...
Born on the Fourth of July
AuthorRon Kovic
ISBN1888451785
“A great, courageous fellow, a man of deep moral convictions and an uncompromising disposition.”—John Kerry on Ron Kovic

“As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages.” —Oliver Stone,...
Sleeping with the Enemy
AuthorNancy Price
ISBN0425127923
4 ½ stars. Worthwhile read about a woman escaping a physically abusive husband. Fulfilling feeling at the end.

I saw the movie years ago. The book is better. One part of the movie annoyed me - stupid frustrating act of the mother. In the movie Martin visits the mother in a nursing home pretending...
The Pursuit of Happyness
AuthorChris Gardner
ISBN0060744871

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street

At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco...
Dances with Wolves
AuthorMichael Blake
ISBN0449000753

Dances With Wolves film poster.

I HAD watched Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves in the late ’90s and had loved it. I finally got to read Michael Blake’s novel a few days back and loved it as much. By the way, it is the first Western that I have read after the early seventies when as a schoolboy...
Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
AuthorMarc Norman
ISBN0786884851
For years I avoided Shakespeare in Love, mostly because I find Gwyneth Paltrow insufferable. I finally watched the film earlier this year, and over a decade after everyone else, I get why this film was such a big deal. It's beautiful and smart and funny and all of the best of what Hollywood aspires to be....
Penelope
AuthorMarilyn Kaye
A modern-day fairytale--a major motion picture starring Christina Ricci, Catherine O'Hara, James McAvoy, and Reese Witherspoon.

Penelope Wilhern has everything a girl could want: A wealthy, socialite family, an enchanted bedroom and some of the coolest clothes around. There is only...
Nanny Mcphee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda
AuthorChristianna Brand
ISBN1582346712
Mr. and Mrs. Brown were forever having trouble with their numerous and incredibly naughty children... until the day Nurse Matilda entered their lives.

First published nearly fifty years ago, Nurse Matilda and its two companion books-Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital-have...
Legally Blonde
AuthorAmanda Brown
ISBN0751534552
The hilarious novel that inspired the blockbuster movie--including what's next for Elle Woods!

Elle Woods, California University senior, seems to have it all. President of Delta Gamma sorority, she's aced her major--sociopolitical jewellery design--and is on the verge of becoming...
Pay It Forward
AuthorCatherine Ryan Hyde
ISBN0743412028
The story of how a boy who believed in the goodness of human nature set out to change the world.

Pay It Forward is a wondrous and moving novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts the challenge that his teacher gives his class, a chance to earn extra...
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
AuthorPeter Hedges
ISBN0671038540
Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is...
Atlas of the Human Heart
AuthorAriel Gore
ISBN1580050883
Like Jack Kerouac’s intrepid little sister, Ariel Gore spins the spirited story of a vulnerable drifter who takes refuge in the recesses of the human heart. With just a few pennies and her I Ching, a change of clothes and a one-way ticket to Hong Kong, a perceptive, searching Gore makes her way through...
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
AuthorStephanie LaCava
ISBN0061963895
It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July—with a touch of Joan Didion—in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with her social...
10 Things I Hate about You
AuthorFrederic P. Miller
ISBN6130296185
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film. It is directed by Gil Junger and stars Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik,...
Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The remarkable memoir of an ordinary Irish woman and her extraordinary life
AuthorMaura Murphy
ISBN0755313054
When seventy-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer, she left her husband of fifty years and started writing her memoirs. Born 'chronically ugly and as cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura lived much of her adult life in England, where she raised nine children...
Braveheart
AuthorRandall Wallace
ISBN0671522817
For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom ... he became the hammer and scourge of England.

In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence...
Little Girl Lost
AuthorDrew Barrymore
ISBN0671689231
I'm not a big fan of Drew Barrymore; granted she was excellent in Firestarter but as she got older her acting skills were replaced with bizarre stunts and behaviour and she became nothing but vulgar, incredibly crass and nasty as a person. I think child actors have a lot of pressure on them and as they grow...
Must Love Dogs
AuthorClaire Cook
ISBN0451217217
The Must Love Dogs series:
Must Love Dogs (#1)
Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life (#2)
Must Love Dogs: Fetch You Later (#3)
Must Love Dogs: Bark & Roll Forever (#4)
Must Love Dogs: Who Let the Cats In? (#5)

"Funny and pitch perfect." -Chicago Tribune
"Wildly witty"...
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Interviews
AuthorAndy Warhol
The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations...
Juoppohullun päiväkirja
AuthorJuha Vuorinen
ISBN9519800905
Algus oli isegi naljakas aga mida lõpupoole seda enam hoog maha käis. Esiteks see tobe meta-teema katuselt pildistava ajakirjanikuga, kes Juha päevikut wõrku paneb. Teiseks sõber Kristjan, kes oli muarust liiga igavaks idioodiks tehtud ja lõpuks asjade lõputu kordamine. Ma olen ka kuram...
The Devil's Advocate
AuthorAndrew Neiderman
ISBN0671014102
DEFENDER OF THE DAMNED... When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton and Associates, he's hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they've so desired-- a chauffeur-driven limo, a stunning home in the very building that Mr. Milton himself lives in. Little...
Once I Was a Princess
AuthorJacqueline Pascarl
ISBN1840182776
Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation - and then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, betrayal and abuse? What would you do if you managed to escape...
Disgraced
AuthorSaira Ahmed
ISBN0755318188
Brought up in a violent Muslim household, where family honour is all, Saira is watched 24 hours a day.

However, an innocent friendship with a boy is uncovered and Saira is sent to Pakistan, punished for dishonouring her family.

There, the nightmare really begins. Forced to marry an...
Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner
AuthorF.X. Toole
This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid,...
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