The Purloined Paperweight

10 best books like The Purloined Paperweight (P.G. Wodehouse): Babylonne, Tickled Pink: A Comic Novel, The Better Mousetrap, The Social Climber's Handbook, The Arrangement, Naked Eye, The Best Laid Plans, Mind Storm, Freshman, Red Station

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...
AuthorRita Rudner
ISBN0743442628
Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethink her grand plan. Finding herself spending way too much time in the comedy...
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...
AuthorFrancine Pascal
ISBN0689878249
The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear.

An agent’s work is never done.

Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case—and find her way back into the FBI’s good graces—when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes...
AuthorLynn Edelman Schnurnberger
From Lynn Schnurnberger, bestselling co-author of Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries, comes a novel of big secrets, family ties, and a reminder that sometimes The Best Laid Plans can lead to delightful surprises.

Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side “M&Ms”—the wealthy...
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...
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...
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...
P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography
AuthorFrances Donaldson
ISBN1853754242
Who has not come to know and love Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth, Ukridge and Psmith and the chorus of Wooster aunts? Their creator, Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse, with nearly 100 tomes to his name, is one of the best-loved and famous writers of comedy in the English language. But what of the man himself?...
AuthorCamaren Subhiyah
ISBN1449434347
The hit series Downton Abbey, upon which this parody graphic novel is based, has been nominated for 16 Emmy Awards in 2012, including an acting nomination for Brendan Coyle, who plays valet John Bates (a.k.a. Agent Gates). Our book will release in January 2013, in time for the premiere of season 3 in the...
Pied and Prodigious
AuthorD.M. Andrews
ISBN1782992219
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a wife, must be in want of a good fortune.' There is much excitement in Longlawn when two men with tall hats enter the district. Mothers buy new dresses for their daughters, fathers polish up on their fencing skills, and Mr Bonnet tackles...
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...
Mike Nelson's Death Rat!
AuthorMichael J. Nelson
ISBN0060934727
What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four hundred times more copies than his own? Well, he would write...
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN1439133905
"MYTH-Interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin" collects 19 short works, some not previously published, with good reason. Most not fun; only 5 include the Mythical Young Troubleshooting Heroes. The outcomes are generally obvious from the beginnings, so summaries usually have spoilers, who...
Wodehouse: A Life
AuthorRobert McCrum
ISBN0393051595
Another famous writer in a sexless marriage, and it worked beautifully for 60 years. At 32, PG, who had no interest in sex, but needed someone to organize his overloaded life as fame increased yearly, married Brit Ethel Wayman in 1914 in NYC, where she'd gone to find a husband. Her resume already included...
AuthorRobert Rankin
ISBN0575077735
Were you aware that there are, hidden in the streets of Brighton, twelve ancient constellations, like the Hangleton Hound and the Bevendean Bat? Well, there are, and on each one hangs a tale, a tale so strange that only The Lad Himself, that inveterate spinner of tales and talker of the toot, Hugo Rune,...
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,...
Danger Is Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding Danger
AuthorDavid O'Doherty
ISBN0316299308
This fully illustrated, totally wacky handbook is about an everyman who is afraid of everything! Dr. Noel Zone, the greatest (and only) dangerologist in the world, is ready to teach readers how to avoid danger at all costs--from sneaky snakes posing as toothbrushes, to sharks hiding in toilets, to...
AuthorJohn Galsworthy
ISBN1406761702
That, then, was all – yes, all.

He turned out the little lamp, and groped towards the hearth. But one thing left. To say goodbye. To her, and youth, and passion – to the only salve for the aching that Spring and Beauty bring – the aching for the wild, the passionate, the new, that never quite...
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