Speechless
10 best books like Speechless (Yvonne Collins): An Arranged Marriage: A Pride & Prejudice Alternate Path, One Thread Pulled: The Dance with Mr. Darcy, The Almost Moon, Jemima J, My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, Accidental It Girl, Dog Handling, Sleeping Over, Fat Chance
An Arranged Marriage: A Pride & Prejudice Alternate Path
| Author | Jan Hahn |
| ISBN | 1936009145 |
Can a marriage of convenience ever lead to true love? Immediately after Elizabeth Bennet refuses Mr. Darcy's proposal at Hunsford, her father dies, leaving Longbourn entailed away and little fortune to sustain his widow and daughters. Six months later, the Bennet family receives a visitor with a...
| Author | Diana J. Oaks |
| ISBN | 1475149611 |
When the wealthy and handsome Fitzwilliam Darcy encounters the beautiful and lively Elizabeth Bennet at a small country ball, he loudly refuses to dance with her, declaring her to be merely tolerable. Fortunately for Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth has walked away and does not overhear his insult, thus snagging...
| Author | Alice Sebold |
| ISBN | 0316677469 |
A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children....
| Author | Jane Green |
| ISBN | 0767905180 |
Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion...
| Author | Cindy Jones |
| ISBN | 0062003976 |
A down on her luck woman goes on an Austen-inspired journey of self-discovery in Jones's middling debut. After Lily Berry loses her mother, gets dumped by her boyfriend, and is fired, she finds in her passion for all things Jane Austen (Jane, indeed, is Lily's imaginary friend) an escape route: she travels...
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
| Author | Howard Schultz |
| ISBN | 1605292885 |
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its...
| Author | Libby Street |
| ISBN | 0743499247 |
What comes around...
Photographer Sadie Price is known for her thick skin and infallible instincts. A lofty education has made her skilled in her craft, and a fear of poverty -- and love for Jimmy Choo -- has made her one of the East Coast's most savvy paparazzi. She keeps her exhilarating but...
| Author | Clare Naylor |
| ISBN | 0345465393 |
Yesterday, Liv Elliot had it all: a great flat in London’s Notting Hill, an actual career (okay, as an accountant), and a coveted fiancé. Every girl’s dream, right? But then Tim declared that the wedding was off—leaving Liv shell-shocked. Luckily, she’s got her best friend’s fab Australian...
This book started out promising, but the one really good story line of Jess, took a twisted and uncalled for turn toward the end, throwing any promise of feeling good about finishing this book out the window. It is divided into the various stories of the women involved. I found myself caring little about...
| Author | Deborah Blumenthal |
| ISBN | 0373895151 |
OMG, I am so glad I am not alone in my intense dislike of this book. I had high hopes, being a fat girl myself, for something that wasn't a "fat girl loses weight and now she's BETTER and MEN like her!" story, but that's exactly what this is. The nutritionist author (I should have known RIGHT THERE!) slides...
| Author | Alex Witchel |
| ISBN | 0743240855 |
Sandra Berlin's got it all. She's living in Manhattan and climbing the editorial ladder at ultrachic fashion magazine Jolie! and she's newly engaged to her high school sweetheart, Bucky Ross. Bucky's her knight in shining WASP armor: ad executive and descendant of Betsy Ross, with whom she'll live...
Helen Bradshaw isn't exactly living out her dreams. She's a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, she drives an ancient Toyota, and she has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard. Not to mention that she shares an apartment with a scruffy...
| Author | Cara Lockwood |
| ISBN | 0743457544 |
She's been handed her walking papers.
Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. She's a twenty-eight-year-old art major whose last major career accomplishment was being propositioned by the company vice president....
| Author | Lynda Curnyn |
| ISBN | 0373250576 |
Enjoyable Chick lit. Curnyn enfuses her characters with a believable vunerability. In this story, Grace Noonan is a single woman working for an upscale cosmetics firm in New York City. Realising suddenly and painfully that her current boyfriend is not interested in a permanent future and feeling...
The third in a trilogy of Jane Austen romantic comedies from UK author Victoria Connelly featuring characters obsessed with Jane Austen and set in Jane Austen locations (A Weekend with Mr. Darcy, Dreaming of Mr. Darcy). Sarah and Mia Castle, two estranged sisters (and Austen addicts) who have spent...
| Author | Alyssa Goodnight |
| ISBN | 0758267436 |
In this quirky, sexy novel set against the lively, music-filled backdrop of Austin, Texas, a young woman learns that romance can wreak havoc with even the best laid plans. . .It started innocently enough. While browsing in one of Austin's funky little shops, Nicola James is intrigued by a blank vintage...
That Month in Tuscany . . .
Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip.
On a flight across the Atlantic headed for Italy,...
