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10 best books like Stuck in Downward Dog: A Novel (Chantel Simmons): The Secrets We Kept, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Park Avenue Summer, The Darling Buds of May, Very Nice, This Rough Magic, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, A Dangerous Engagement, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The Old Man and Me

The Secrets We Kept
AuthorLara Prescott
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.

At the height of...
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
AuthorCasey Cep
ISBN1101947861
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...
Park Avenue Summer
AuthorRenee Rosen
ISBN1101991143
Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits...

New York City is filled with...
The Darling Buds of May
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0140016023
The Darling Buds of May, which came out in 1958, was the first of five Larkin novels and in it readers witness the transformation of Mr. Charlton from a undernourished and timid tax clerk to ‘Charlie’, a fully-converted member of the Larkin way of life: an easygoing celebration of nature, food, drink,...
Very Nice
AuthorMarcy Dermansky
ISBN0525655638
A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous American novelist who is seduced by them both.

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but...
This Rough Magic
AuthorMary Stewart
ISBN0060747471
When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale...
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
AuthorArianna Huffington
ISBN0804140847
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.

Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye -- the result of a fall brought on by...
A Dangerous Engagement
AuthorAshley Weaver
ISBN1250159776
A Dangerous Engagement is the stylish, charming sixth novel in the Edgar-nominated Amory Ames mystery series by Ashley Weaver, set in 1930s New York.

As they travel by ship to New York for her childhood friend Tabitha's wedding, Amory Ames gazes out at the city's iconic skyline, excited by...
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
AuthorNicholas Carr
ISBN0393339750
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing...
The Old Man and Me
AuthorElaine Dundy
ISBN1590173171
In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser.

Honey...
Oh! to be in England
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0141029668
With a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - are to be christened. Pop, who needs no excuse to open a few bottles and host the perfick party, rushes out and buys a fun fair to celebrate. But there are one or two gatecrashers even Pop...
The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker
AuthorMaeve Brennan
ISBN0395893631
From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan contributed to "The New Yorker's" "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "the long-winded lady." Her unforgettable sketches--prose snapshots of life in the streets, diners, and cheap hotels just off Times Square--are a timeless, bittersweet tribute to...
A Cotswold Killing
AuthorRebecca Tope
ISBN0749083980
Nestled in the fertile hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret: beautiful, timeless and quintessentially English. When recently widowed Thea Osborne arrives to house-sit for a local couple, her only fear is that three weeks there might prove a little dull....
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
AuthorIan Morgan Cron
ISBN0830846190
Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness...

What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships―and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing...
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 Paris Secret
AuthorKaren Swan
Not every door should be opened...

With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan.

Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with dust and secrets: full of priceless...
A Little of What You Fancy
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0718107640
'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?' ' 'No,' 'said Dr Conner. 'You'll have to strap him down,' Ma said. 'You'll have to put the handcuffs on.' And so...
Cobwebs and Cream Teas
AuthorMary MacKie
Mackie’s husband was Houseman and then Administrator at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk in the 1980s – live-in roles that demanded a wide range of skills and much more commitment than the usual 9 to 5 (when he borrowed a pedometer he learned that he walked 15 miles in the average day, without leaving the house!)....
A Breath of French Air
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0141029641
‘I should like to go to France,’ said Ma.

‘God Almighty,’ Pop said. ‘What for?’

‘For a holiday of course,’ Ma said. ‘I think it would do us all good to get some sun.’

And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins – all ten of them, including little...
When the Green Woods Laugh
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0141029684
'When the Green Woods Laugh' was the third in a series of five immensely popular comic novels featuring the Larkin family, and consisting of ‘The Darling Buds of May’ (1958), ‘A Breath of French Air’ (1959), ‘When the Green Woods Laugh’ (1960), ‘Oh! To Be in England’ (1963), and ‘A...
Dry Rot and Daffodils
AuthorMary MacKie
ISBN0708933947
If you thought living in a stately home was all gleaming banisters, visiting aristocracy, and priceless antiques—read on. The sequel to Cobwebs and Cream Teas, this volume continues the often amusing story of life behind the scenes at a National Trust house, describing the pleasures and pains—dry...
A Cotswold Ordeal
AuthorRebecca Tope
ISBN0749083492
Thea Osborne embarks on her second house-sitting commission with very few worries. The Phillipses are obviously a laid back family, and there is little to do but tend an ailing old pony and feed various furry pets and farmyard birds. But it seems she is jinxed. An apparent suicide takes place in one of...
Family Money
AuthorNina Bawden
ISBN1844083187
Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful 'family money'. Fanny has different views about inheritance...
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
AuthorViolette Leduc
ISBN0720612179
I am on the side of light hearts and light wallets; look over here, you too can be made of light. I never gave anything away, I deserve to be where I am.

Eleanor Rigby versus the Piano Man. The old man in Home Alone versus the bird lady in Home Alone 2. There is sentiment without being sentimental. To...
Map of Another Town
AuthorM.F.K. Fisher
ISBN1911547372
‘A glowing memoir of Provence’ New York Times

M F K Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her daughters after the Second World War.

In Map of Another Town, she traces the history of this ancient and famous town, known for its tree-lined avenues, pretty fountains and ornate facades.

Beyond...
Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
AuthorJohn von Sothen
ISBN0735224838
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ

Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think...
Top Marks for Murder
AuthorRobin Stevens
ISBN0241348382
Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event: the fiftieth Anniversary.

Plans for a weekend of celebrations are in full swing. But all is not well, for in the detectives' long absence, Deepdean has changed. Daisy has lost her crown to a fascinating...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1846974216
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...
Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series)
AuthorEugene Salomon
ISBN0007500955
He's taken all sorts of people for a ride; Mafiosi, hookers, the rich and famous, down and outs, young lovers, old lovers, animals, fare dodgers, tourists from every corner of the globe, lifetime New Yorkers, passengers in a rush, and others with no particular place to go.

Driving a cab for more...
Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship
AuthorIsabel Vincent
ISBN1616204222
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping Edward’s daughter--who lives far away and has asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York--Isabel has no idea that the man in...
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