Second Fiddle
10 best books like Second Fiddle (Rosanne Parry): Frederica, The Nonesuch, The Unknown Ajax, Dog Man, The Foundling, Just Like Jackie, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story, Bink & Gollie, Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099465647 |
Rich and handsome, darling of the ton, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke at seven-and-thirty sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. Until a distant connection, ignorant of his selfishness, applies to him for help. When Frederica Merriville brings...
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099474387 |
ETA: Upping my rating to a solid 4 stars on reread. The things that bothered me most the first time I read this bothered me less this time around. I was able to be more amused by Tiffany the spoiled brat, not just annoyed. It’s pretty funny to see how Sir Waldo and Miss Trent manage her.
I don't always...
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099474360 |
Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. The tragic accident that killed his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. For now, he must send for the next heir apparent--the unknown...
| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| ISBN | 0545581605 |
George and Harold have created a new breed of justice -- one that is part dog, part man, and ALL HERO! With the head of a dog and the body of a human, this heroic hound digs into deception, claws after crooks, rolls over robbers, and scampers after squirrels. Will he be able to resist the call of the wild to answer...
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0373835493 |
A diffident young man of 24 years, easily pushed around by his overprotective uncle and the retinue of devoted family retainers who won't let him lift a finger for himself, Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware ("Gilly"), the seventh Duke of Sale, sometimes wishes he could be a commoner. One day he decides...
| Author | Lindsey Stoddard |
| ISBN | 0062652915 |
For as long as Robinson Hart can remember, it’s just been her and Grandpa. Robbie knows they look like an odd pair, because her blond hair and pale skin don’t match his dark complexion—but those differences don’t mean anything to her. And though she wishes Grandpa would tell her more about the...
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0316404489 |
A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin
Pat, pat, pat...
Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake.
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she...
There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story
| Author | Pamela Druckerman |
| ISBN | 1594206376 |
The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bebe investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.
When Pamela Druckerman turns 40, waiters start calling her "Madame," and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her,...
Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks,...
Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
| Author | William Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1559707631 |
A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising...
| Author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN | 0446699489 |
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes -- and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming...
| Author | Lois Sepahban |
| ISBN | 0374302162 |
A moving debut novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II—and the dog she has to leave behind.
Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack...
On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety
| Author | Andrea Petersen |
| ISBN | 0553418572 |
A celebrated science and health reporter offers a wry, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety
A racing heart. Difficulty breathing. Overwhelming dread. Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been experiencing...
Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated
| Author | Whit Stillman |
| ISBN | 0316294128 |
A fun treat for Jane Austen and Whit Stillman fans alike
Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: Meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling,...
Pat Zietlow Miller celebrates individuality in her picture book about the beauty of being yourself.
Remarkably You is a manifesto about all of the things—little or small, loud or quiet—that make us who we are.
You might go unnoticed, or shine like a star,
but wherever you...
From the critically acclaimed author of Just Like Jackie comes a strikingly tender novel about one family’s heartbreak and the compassion that helps them heal.
It’s been almost a year since Rain’s brother Guthrie died, and her parents still have no idea that it’s all Rain’s fault....
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099476398 |
Dispossessed of crown and kingdom, crushed and routed at the grim Battle of Worcester, the young Charles II is forced to flee for his life. Out of the heat of battle, the outlaw King and his tiny party must journey across Cromwell's England to a Channel port and a ship bound for France and safety. But the...
Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; and affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn: all the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely...
