The Best Laid Plans

10 best books like The Best Laid Plans (Lynn Edelman Schnurnberger): Babylonne, Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate, The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II, Scones and Sensibility, The Better Mousetrap, The Social Climber's Handbook, The Arrangement, The Purloined Paperweight, Mind Storm, A Lily of the Field

AuthorCatherine Jinks
ISBN0763636509
Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.

Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's...
Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate
AuthorKarey Parker (K.S.R. Kingworth)
ISBN0980130352
The School Library Journal compares Secret Speakers to the Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and Wizard of Oz novels in their starred review: "“Kingworth has created a rich, detailed fantasy world that is unique and as vivid as all of them, with charming, whimsical touches.” Hidden in the depths of Cloven...
AuthorGreg King
ISBN0471727636
Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar



"Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and often startling new look at the life of the last Romanovs, but also lived up to the promise of his title. He has shown us how the whole enterprise worked,...
AuthorLindsay Eland
ISBN1606840258
Seek tirelessly and you shall not find a contemporary heroine of middle-grade literature as refined and romantic as Miss Polly Madassa. Still swooning over the romantic conclusions of Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, twelve-year-old Polly decides her purpose in life: helping along...
AuthorTom Holt
ISBN1841495034
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire, and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together. Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank...
AuthorMolly Jong-Fast
ISBN0345501896
HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
 
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled...
AuthorSuzanne Forster
ISBN0778324265
Alison Fairmont Villard wakes in a hospital bed with a face
she doesn't recognize and a husband she doesn't know.
Andrew Villard, a self-made millionaire, has a bright future but
a shadowy past. When he tells Alison the details of their life
together, she has no choice but to believe...
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0933756097
TL;DR: 5 stars, one of the two best non-series Wodehouse I've read to date.

This was the perfect choice for the day. It's been far too long since I read some Wodehouse and Company for Henry has all the best Wodehouse tropes. Aunts and Uncles, Country Houses, poor relations, people engaged to the...
AuthorK.M. Ruiz
ISBN0312673175
The first in an exciting new sci-fi series that’s being described as Blade Runner meets X-Men

Two hundred and fifty years after the world was nearly wiped out by nuclear war, what’s left of society fights over the scraps of the Earth as the rich and powerful plan to ascend in secret to another...
AuthorJohn Lawton
ISBN0802119565
Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Méret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany.The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans.Auschwitz, 1944....
AuthorMichael Gerber
ISBN0786838515

Hart Fox may not have the pedigree to be a shoo-in at Stutts, a prestigious Ivy League school, but he has the grades and the rsum. And he does make it in-sort of. His acceptance is hijacked by Burlington Darling III, a wealthy alum who is so desperate to get his hapless son, Trip, into Stutts that he funds...
AuthorLaurie Horowitz
ISBN0060875275
Jane Fortune's fortunes have taken a downturn. Thanks to the profligate habits of her father and older sister, the family's money has evaporated and Jane has to move out of the only home she's ever known: a stately brick town house on Boston's prestigious Beacon Hill. Thirty-eight and terminally single,...
Red Station
AuthorAdrian Magson
ISBN0727869396
First in the brand-new Harry Tate thriller series - Having been made the scapegoat for a botched drugs intercept operation, MI5 officer Harry Tate is dispatched to ‘Red Station’, a remote outpost in the Balkans, ostensibly to avoid press scrutiny, but where in effect the security services send...
AuthorMichael Kinch
ISBN0738720674
In the year 2069, turning seventeen means mandatory Global Alliance work assignments that range from backbreaking drudgery to deadly canal labor. Trying to survive in a world that's been ravaged by plagues and environmental disasters, three "s'teeners" from the harshest backgrounds think they've...
AuthorTim Green
ISBN0446401501
Readers last saw Casey Jordan in The Letter of the Law, where she defended her law professor for the grisly murder of a student only to discover he was guilty. After, Casey left her high-powered practice and wealthy husband and opened a legal aid clinic.When an illegal Mexican immigrant is shot on a ranch...
Busy Woman Seeks Wife
AuthorAnnie Sanders
ISBN0446505447
To a casual observer, Londoner Alex Hill is every inch the calm and collected executive of a global sportswear company. In reality, she's constantly frantic, with barely enough time to take out the trash. When her demanding mother, a 1960s style icon, has a bad fall and has to move in with her indefinitely,...
Agent Out
AuthorFrancine Pascal
ISBN0689878230

Catherine is dead. At least that's what the FBI claims. They say there's no point investigating the strange disappearance any further. Instead they want Gaia to stay in Quantico to carry on the search for the Lollipop Murderer. Gaia is convinced her partner is still alive -- and that she needs help....
AuthorThelma Adams
ISBN0312656661
“Adams is that rare writer who sends out every laugh with a sting in its tail. Most novels fade from the memory. This one sticks.”—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Inside their picture-perfect homes, the residents of this quiet California suburb are not at all what they seem.

Lance...
AuthorBetty N. Thesky
ISBN1606390112
Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase is a wildly popular podcast about airline travel by real life flight attendant Betty, who shares funny stories from pilots, flight controllers, ground crew, passengers, and fellow flight attendants and is listened to by hundreds of thousands of Betty fans around the...
AuthorKeith Giffen
ISBN1401204783
I didn't like this nearly as well as I'd been liking the earlier JLI collections. The characters are the same, and the sense of humor is similar... For the most part. What knocked this book down a star from a three for me was the tireless repetition of misogynistic jokes that weren't funny the first time....
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