Tales from the Bed
10 best books like Tales from the Bed (Jenifer Estess): Goodnight June, Steel Magnolias, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, Rent, Legally Blonde, Slightly Shady, Driving Miss Daisy, The Devil's Advocate
| Author | Sarah Jio |
| ISBN | 0142180211 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room"...
| Author | Robert Harling |
| ISBN | 0822210789 |
This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. I have many lines memorized from the movie. This is my first time reading the original play. Most of the lines in the movie come right out of the pages of the play, but the ending is very different. The ending takes place at the hair salon like every other scene...
| Author | Nancy Price |
| ISBN | 0425127923 |
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 Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible
| Author | Catherine Burns |
| ISBN | 1101904429 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth--and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more--a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the...
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
| Author | Liz Murray |
| ISBN | 0786868910 |
In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.
Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and...
| Author | Jonathan Larson |
| ISBN | 0688154379 |
In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken America by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize...
| Author | Amanda Brown |
| ISBN | 0751534552 |
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...
| Author | Amanda Quick |
| ISBN | 0553583360 |
Amanda Quick's trademark is a bestselling combination of suspense, passion, and sparkling wit in historical tales alight with intrigue. Now she serves up the most tantalizing novel of her career as an enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught up in a torrid brew of treachery-and...
| Author | Alfred Uhry |
| ISBN | 0930452895 |
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires...
| Author | Andrew Neiderman |
| ISBN | 0671014102 |
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...
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
| Author | Ariel Sabar |
| ISBN | 1565124901 |
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their...
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
| Author | Jonathan Rauch |
| ISBN | 1250078806 |
This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.
Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you’re successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?
Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning...
The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
| Author | Clare Naylor |
| ISBN | 0452286107 |
A fast-paced, breezy read about life at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain
No political science degree could ever prepare Elizabeth Miller for her new job as a second assistant at The Agency, whose clients include everyone you’ve never met—but you know who they’re sleeping with. A...
| Author | Dorothea Benton Frank |
| ISBN | 0062132563 |
The perennial New York Times bestselling author returns with an emotionally resonant novel that illuminates the power of friendship in women’s lives, and is filled with her trademark wit, poignant and timely themes, sassy, flesh-and-blood characters, and the steamy Southern atmosphere and...
While We Were Watching Downton Abbey
| Author | Wendy Wax |
| ISBN | 0515154695 |
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TEN BEACH ROAD AND OCEAN BEACH, A NEW NOVEL OF FOUR FRIENDS—AND A SHARED PASSION THAT COULD CHANGE THEIR LIVES.
When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings...
| Author | J.J. Gesher |
| ISBN | 1938849825 |
Shortly after Orthodox Jewish Brooklynite Jacob Fischer puts his young family on a bus to visit relatives, the bus explodes in a stunning act of terrorism. HIs faith shattered, Jacob flees the comforts of his community and disappears. He lands up in a predominantly black town in rural Alabama, where...
| Author | Elizabeth Alexander |
| ISBN | 1455599875 |
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life,...
| Author | Caprice Crane |
| ISBN | 0446695726 |
I hesitated to even admit that I read this on here. And I had to explain to my daughter why I was reading a book with this title and she isn't allowed to say the word stupid in our house. I don't recommend this to anyone unless their looking for total mind candy. That being said, there are some very funny parts...
