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10 best books like The Botox Diaries (Janice Kaplan): Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington, The Arrangement, Christmas at the Cupcake Café, Dream Story, Partners in Crime, That's What Frenemies Are For, Under the Table, Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems, A New Leash on Love, My Life in Middlemarch
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
| Author | Patricia Miller |
| ISBN | 0374252661 |
The woman--and her illicit affair--that rocked Victorian America
When Madeline Pollard was a teenager, she began an extended affair with the Kentucky Congressman William Breckinridge, one of the most influential men in America. Breckinridge was married, and he once declared women's...
Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not go online and find a sugar daddy—a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates, and even give her a monthly allowance? Lots of girls do it, Nat learns. All that’s required is to look...
Christmas at the Cupcake Café
| Author | Jenny Colgan |
| ISBN | 0751549223 |
Issy Randall, proud owner of The Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn't be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Caroline don't seem quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend Austin...
| Author | Arthur Schnitzler |
| ISBN | 0141182245 |
“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”
The Bride (1918) by Klimt
It all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007111509 |
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic...
That's What Frenemies Are For
| Author | Sophie Littlefield |
| ISBN | 1984817965 |
A Manhattan socialite turns her spin instructor into a fitness superstar to impress her friends. But can she keep her little project under control? Or has she created a monster?
Julia Summers seems to have it all: a Fifth Avenue apartment, a successful husband, and two adorable children attending...
| Author | Stephanie Evanovich |
| ISBN | 0062850334 |
3.5 Stars..rounded up!
In the end it was Tristan who taught Zoey the most important lessons. About what love really looked like and how it was supposed to be shown. It was the unwavering, unflinching ability to support a partner throughout their changes. Or no changes at all.
Zoey...
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
| Author | David Rakoff |
| ISBN | 0767916034 |
A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist.
Whether David Rakoff's contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel;...
| Author | Debbie Burns |
| ISBN | 1492650838 |
When Craig Williams draws the short straw and has to take his daughter’s adorable new puppy to a shelter after the holidays, it’s just another painful episode in the fall-out of a miserable divorce. He needs to pick up the pieces of his life, and, after a fiery confrontation with Megan Anderson, the...
| Author | Rebecca Mead |
| ISBN | 0307984761 |
A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town...
| Author | Luciana Littizzetto |
| ISBN | 8804560703 |
La rivergination si fa per evitare la svalutation e incentivare la devolution. È l'ultima moda della chirurgia estetica: qualche minuto e voilà, ci si ritrova candide e immacolate stile prima comunione. Un po' come quando vuoi vendere la macchina e azzeri il contachilometri per farla sembrare...
| Author | Marjorie Hart |
| ISBN | 0061189529 |
Do you remember the best summer of your life?
New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find...
| Author | Kate White |
| ISBN | 0062448889 |
Kate White returns to her New York Times bestselling Bailey Weggins’ Mystery series, with this favorite true-crime journalist turned sleuth’s most chilling case to date.
Bailey Weggins’ great new friend in college, Jillian Lowe, had everything going for her. Pretty, popular, and...
Thirtysomethings Freya and Jack have been "just friends" for more than ten years. Of course, they've had their differences. Freya doesn't approve of Jack's taste for student teeny-boppers from Planet Bubblegum, and Jack has problems with Freya's utter scorn for human frailty-especially his own.
So...
| Author | Jane Moore |
| ISBN | 0767913000 |
At age thirty-three, Josephine Miles is forced to come up with a brand-new life when her husband leaves her for "the cliche"--his very young, very pretty secretary. Suddenly she's single and back in the dating game with the added complication of children in tow. But Jo's no wallflower, and she soon finds...
| Author | Carrie Doyle Karasyov |
| ISBN | 0767921267 |
The Right Address sears through the upper crust of New York’s glittering Park Avenue scene to dish the dirt on the ladies who lunch, the gents who club, and the desperate climbers who will stop at nothing to join the backstabbing, champagne-sipping, socialite-eat-socialite stratosphere.
When...
| Author | Sue Margolis |
| ISBN | 0385338996 |
The acclaimed author of Original Cyn finds fertile ground for her wicked wit in this ferociously funny new novel about babies, sex, celebrity...and daring to date a gynecologist.
Ruby (still single at thirty-two) Silverman has made a name for herself at Les Sprogs, her exclusive baby boutique...
Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred
| Author | Carl-Johan Vallgren |
| ISBN | 0060842148 |
Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the picaresque fable of the love that grows between the mute, telepathic human monstrosity Hercules and the beautiful Henriette—a love that will entwine their fates forever. Author Carl-Johan Vallgren creates an unforgettable...
| Author | Luca Bianchini |
| ISBN | 8804534087 |
Is it possible to love a man and a woman at the same time? And would the man and woman put up with sharing the same person in public? This is the story of Instant Love.
The story of the emotional acrobatics between three almost-thirty-year-olds who decide to unearth the irrational, uncontrollable...
| Author | Luca e Claudia |
| ISBN | 8804559977 |
Ogni tanto una lettura leggera ci vuole, e questa mi è piaciuta davvero molto.
Innanzitutto, ci tengo a sottolineare che non è il romanzo a essere stato tratto dal film omonimo ma viceversa. La maggior parte della pellicola ricarica in maniera estremamente fedele ogni singolo dettaglio,...
Stand-alone Whisper Lake romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way!
There is a thin line between love and hate. For Allison Walsh, that line was a tightrope hanging a hundred feet in the air, with no safety net to catch her if--or when--she fell.
Ali was barely...
At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life
| Author | Jennifer L. Scott |
| ISBN | 1476770336 |
Approach life at home the Madame Chic way: a beautiful, illustrated toolbox of tips and ideas for organizing, entertaining, and savoring a stylish life.
When she arrived at Madame Chic’s Parisian apartment as a foreign exchange student, Jennifer Scott was a casual California girl who...
The Forever Christmas Tree
| Author | Sandra Hill |
| ISBN | 0062854089 |
The Christmas bells are chiming across the Outer Banks town of Bell Cove, North Carolina, but there’s one local ‘grinch’ who’s not listening . . .
He’s got bad-boy looks and a Bah Humbug attitude, so when the local paper asks the villagers to vote on the “Biggest Local Grinch”...
BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private...
| Author | Paige Roberts |
| ISBN | 1496710096 |
Not so long ago, Lizzie Glass had a successful TV show, a cookbook deal, and a social diary crammed with parties and events. But fame doesn’t stay fresh for long. Her show fizzles, her magazine column is canceled, and Lizzie’s only option is a summer job as personal chef to the Silvesters, a wealthy...
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WYNE AND DINE
Citizen Soldier Series/Book 1: Ben
68,000 words
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Lea Gablonski has two dreams: To work at a museum in NYC, and to gain other-than-sisterly attention from her best friend’s brother. So far, she’s...
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Damien Keown |
| ISBN | 0192853864 |
This accessible volume covers both the teachings of the Buddha and the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? What or who is the Buddha, and what are his teachings? How has Buddhist thought developed over the centuries, and how can contemporary dilemmas...
The word chakra means "wheel of light" in the language of Sanskrit. The chakras are the body's internal energy centers, and are aligned vertically near the spine. Energy enters the body through the head (the heavens) and the base (the earth beneath). The 7 chakras are vortex points where these forces...
| Author | Richard Paul Evans |
| ISBN | 1501111825 |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy—a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.
Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead....
| Author | Shelley Bradley |
| ISBN | 0425268217 |
WANTED FOR KIDNAPPING: a beautiful blonde with a penchant for trouble. May be armed (with bad intentions) and dangerously seductive…
Kerry Sullivan is running out of time—and patience. With her brother wrongfully accused of embezzling millions, she can’t face one more humiliating...
