Simon and Schuster
Annie May's Black Book
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Debby Holt Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ
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Entries from Annie May's Black Book: October 15th, 1974: Miss Baker for telling me how to blow my nose and not believing when I still couldn't do it. February 6th, 1977: David Llewellyn for saying my landscape painting looked like a pig's trough and then making honking noises every time he saw me. April 12th, 1987: Peter Elton for 'borrowing' my cigarettes and never buying any of his own. 9th February, 1988: BEN SEYMOUR FOR EVERYTHING FOR EVER In her Black Book, Annie May has recorded the name and offence of everyone who has ever done her wrong. The greatest transgressor of them all was Ben Seymour: the man who jilted her at the altar seventeen years ago. Now he's moving into a house round the corner...
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anarho
24 сентября 2012
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The Big Red Fez
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Seth Godin Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2002 |
PDF, 324 страницы, 9.72 МБ
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From the author of the business bestseller Permission Marketing, the man Business Week called the 'Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age' comes a book of essential truths about building a better website. Everyone who surfs the web knows that some sites are better than others. Now marketing guru Seth Godin identifies and illustrates the crucial guiding principles behind creating websites that satisfy visitors and keep them coming back for more. Once upon a time it was believed that web surfers had plenty of time, knew exactly what they wanted, and made considered decisions with each click. Before long, however marketers asserted that surfers that surfers were busy, ill-informed and impatient. Data would later reveal that the marketers were right. Thus, according to Seth Godin, anyone building a website should think of every visitor as a monkey — in a big red fez. Monkeys want to know one thing: Where's the banana? If the banana isn't easy to see and easy to get, the monkey is as good as gone. Expanding upon this premise, Godin uses real-life examples to explain why no website sould try to be all things to all visitors, how and why the mantra 'customers first' applies to websites, why it's incredibly important to think proactively about serving online customers, and more. Packed with wisdom and practical applications, The Big Red Fez is an essential tool for anyone involved in the web.
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artemon1986
22 марта 2009
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Birds and the Bees
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Milly Johnson Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2008 |
DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ
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Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her fiance Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo MacLean. It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. She isn't going to act as he might expect. She isn't going to wail and dig her heels in, she is simply going to pretend to let him go whilst she pursues a mad course of dieting, exercising and self-improvement. And it feels like history is repeating itself for Adam MacLean too, who is also determined to win his lady, Jo, back with the same basic psychological tactics. Then he is going to initiate his master plan: Getting together with Stevie to drive Jo wild with jealousy. So, like the Scottish country jig 'The Birds and the Bees', the couples all change partners and learn some revealing truths about each other along the way. But what happens when Adam's master plan actually starts to work? And just who will Stevie be dancing with when the music stops?
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vtormai
20 декабря 2010
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Blair Unbound
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Anthony Seldon Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009 |
PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ
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The first volume of Anthony Seldon's riveting and definitive life of Tony Blair was published to great acclaim in 2004. Now, as the Labour Party and the country get used to their new leader and a new Prime Minister, Seldon delivers the most complete, authoritative and compelling account yet of the Blair premiership. Picking up the story in dramatic fashion on 11 September 2001, Seldon then brings us right up to date as Blair hands over the reins to his arch-rival, Gordon Brown. Based on hundreds of original interviews with key insiders, many of whose views have hitherto been kept private, BLAIR UNBOUND serves both as a fascinating 'volume two' of this masterclass in contemporary history and a highly revealing and compelling book in its own right.
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cool10den
7 декабря 2011
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The Bro Code
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Barney Stinson Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009 |
PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a bro and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the 'bro'. Containing approximately 150 unspoken rules, this code of conduct ranges from the simple (bros before hos) to the complex (the hot-to-crazy ratio, complete with bar graphs and charts). With helpful sidebros THE BRO CODE will help any ordinary guy become the best bro he can be. Let ultimate bro and co-author Barney Stinson and his book, THE BRO CODE share their wisdom, lest you be caught making eye contact in a devil's three-way (two dudes, duh.) Sample Articles from THE BRO CODE: Article 1: Regardless of veracity, a Bro never admits familiarity with a Broadway show or musical. Article 53: A Bro will, whenever possible, provide his Bro with prophylactic protection.Article 57: A Bro may not speculate on the expected Bro / chick ratio of a party or venue without first disclosing the present-time observed ratio.
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zorkuzz
15 июня 2011
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Bro on the Go
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Barney Stinson Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009 |
PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ
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THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a bro and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the 'bro'. Containing approximately 150 unspoken rules, this code of conduct ranges from the simple (bros before hos) to the complex (the hot-to-crazy ratio, complete with bar graphs and charts). With helpful sidebros THE BRO CODE will help any ordinary guy become the best bro he can be. Let ultimate bro and co-author Barney Stinson and his book, THE BRO CODE share their wisdom, lest you be caught making eye contact in a devil's three-way (two dudes, duh.) Sample Articles from THE BRO CODE: Article 1: Regardless of veracity, a Bro never admits familiarity with a Broadway show or musical. Article 53: A Bro will, whenever possible, provide his Bro with prophylactic protection.Article 57: A Bro may not speculate on the expected Bro / chick ratio of a party or venue without first disclosing the present-time observed ratio.
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liego55
21 августа 2011
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Best Friends for Never
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Lisi Harrison Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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The Clique is back... Massie Block — Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school... she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school's first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire. She's not sure which is scarier... Dylan Marvil — Lost the weight. Kept the attitude. Plans to use her new look to snag a cute guy. Kristen Gregory — Clothes are for sharing. Guys aren't. Likes the same guy Dylan does. Will do whatever it takes to get him. Alicia Rivera — With the Clique unravelling faster than last season's Burberry sweater, is it time for Alicia to stage her takeover? Claire Lyons: Still out. Wants in. Seriously needs to lose those Keds.
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allkonekt
10 декабря 2009
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Clique v: 1
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Lisi Harrison Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 220 страниц, 6.60 МБ
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Meet the Clique: Massie Block — with her glossy brunette bob and clear white smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of the Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day School, an exclusive private school at Westchester, New York. Dylan Marvil — Massie's second in command, Dylan divides her time between sucking up to Massie and sucking down Atkins shakes to try to get rid of the extra fifteen pounds that won't seem to leave her hips alone. Alicia Rivera — as sneaky as she is beautiful, Alicia floats easily under the adult radar because she seems so 'sweet'. Would love to take Massie's throne one day. Might just do it... Kristen Gregory — Kristen has been dying to fit in ever since her parents went broke. She's smart, hard-working and will insult you to tears faster than you can say 'scholarship kid'. Claire Lyons — the new girl from Florida, Claire is staying in the guesthouse on Massie's family estate. She is definitely not Clique material, yet Massie's family insist that Claire is included in her gang. Claire's future looks worse than a bad Prada knock-off, but with a little luck and a lot of scheming, she might just coming up smelling of Chanel No.19...
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admin
15 июня 2009
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Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Lisi Harrison Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ
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Alicia knows her Spanish cousin, Nina, is the hottest thing to come from Europe since Versace and Prada. But when Nina arrives from Spain and starts flirting with all the Briarwood boys, including Massie's crush, the Clique decides that foreign imports are totally Out! Alicia is forced to choose between her friends and her own overexposed flesh and blood... especially when Nina is clearly edging in on Massie's territory. Will Nina make every boy in Westchester fall in love with her? Or will Massie toss her out faster than last season's Seven's jeans...?
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lawyer_78rus
25 июня 2009
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Revenge of the Wannabes
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Lisi Harrison Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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Just weeks before Christmas and the girls are busy at the Body Alive Dance Studio. As Alicia and her exhausted dance friends change out of their Nuala gear (not just for yoga anymore), they discuss their plans for the weekend. Alicia is hands down the most popular girl in the class, not only because she's the best dancer, but because Massie isn't there. Massie hates to dance, so for three hours a week on Tuesday and Thursday, Alicia is the alpha female. And she absolutely loves it. Is the Clique about to be turned upside down?
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allkonekt
10 декабря 2009
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Dark Visions Bind-Up: The Strange Power, The Possessed, The Passion
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: L.J. Smith Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009 |
PDF, 656 страниц, 19.68 МБ
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The strange power: Kaitlyn is an artist, but not an ordinary one; everything she draws comes true. When she is invited by Dr Xetes, a scientist who is studying psychic abilities, to join his school of talented individuals in California, Kaitlyn is only too happy to go. There she meets Rob, a healer, and Gabriel, a dark lone wolf, who apparently wants nothing to do with her. But with so much supernatural energy going around, it's hardly surprising that the psychics soon develop a telepathic link that can't be broken. The Possessed: Having learned the dark secrets of the psychic institute, Kaitlyn and her new friends are on the run, not even daring to contact their parents or old friends. As the group hide-out together they grow closer and Kaitlyn finally discovers Gabriel's dark secret: he's a psychic vampire. In order to survive he needs to drain other people's life-force, but he's been holding back to keep others safe. Kaitlyn offers herself as a source — and finds the experience not entirely un-enjoyable. The Passion: Back at the lab, captured like animals, Kaitlyn and her friends are still in danger from the evil Dr Xetes. To escape they will need to face the true meaning of what their psychic link really means. But Kaitlyn is battling with an internal conflict too: Rob or Gabriel? Sunlight or darkness? She'll need to search her heart for the answer.
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trundle
24 июля 2010
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Dashing Through the Snow
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Mary Higgins Clark Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009 |
PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are all pitching in to prepare for the first annual Festival of Joy. Arriving for the festival, with hopes of an old-fashioned holiday in the country, are: private Investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack — head of the NYPD Major Case Squad; Regan's mother, the suspense writer Nora Regan Reilly, and her father Luke, the owner of several funeral homes in New Jersey; Alvirah Meehan — the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; and Alvirah's husband Willy. With preparations for the festival in full swing, a group of employees at Branscombe's local market, who have recently been cheated of their Christmas bonus by their boss's new wife, learn that they have won $160 million in the mega-mega lottery. Acting on dubious advice from a pair of crooks masquerading as financial advisers, one of their co-workers, Duncan, decided at the last minute not to play. He goes missing, and the next day his girlfriend Flower disappears. A second winning lottery ticket was purchased in the next town, but the winner hasn't come forward. Could Duncan have secretly bought it? Alvirah, Regan and Jack are just the people to find out what is amiss. As they dig beneath the surface, they find that life in Branscombe is not as tranquil as it appears...
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admin
22 марта 2012
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Dead Sexy
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Kathy Lette Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2004 |
DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ
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Kit Kincade, American, with diamond-studded ears and friends in low places, believes women are little more than a life support system to an ovary. Shelly Green, pinstripe-underpanted, cultured, classical guitarist, thinks optimism is an eye disease and hates all men. The perfect pair? Yes, according to a 'Desperate and Dateless' reality TV competition. A computer has matched them — physically and emotionally — with huge financial rewards if they can survive their five-star honeymoon on a paradise island. Kit and Shelly meet the day they are to be married... and it's hate at first sight Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.
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anarho
23 октрября 2009
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Ex-Girlfriends United
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Matt Dunn Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2008 |
PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ
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Despite his new-found fame on ITV 5's latest soap, womaniser Dan Davis is failing to score with the ladies. Every time. And he can't understand why. All is revealed when Dan and his friend Ed Middleton come across a mysterious website — slateyourdate.com — where women rate their experiences of their exes, and where Dan is shocked to learn that long after he's given them one, his ex-girlfriends are giving him one — one out of ten, that is. Faced with the prospect of a lifetime of singledom, Dan needs to crack the code of a website that's strictly women only to find out where he's been going wrong. Then he must track down his many exes in order to put things right. Along the way, Dan discovers he has much to learn about himself. Particularly when he meets up again with Polly — and realizes he wants her back. Can Dan convince his former love he's changed? Can Ed convince Dan he needs to change in the first place? Can the two friends use their new-found knowledge to help other men in the same boat?
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yury-m
14 февраля 2010
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The Ex-wife's Survival Guide
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Debby Holt Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2006 |
PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ
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Two months before Sarah's twin sons leave home for their gap year travel, her husband Andrew, a keen amateur thespian, announces that he's leaving her for his leading lady. Happily married for the past twenty years, Sarah has no idea how to fill her empty house, her empty days, nor play the role of discarded wife. As Sarah is to discover, the way forward is strewn with hazards and humiliations. If she is not to be bludgeoned to pieces, she must acquire skills for survival... fast. Happily for Sarah, help (and hindrance!) is at hand in the form of well-meaning neighbours, a misbehaved mongrel, an eventful trip to Majorca, an unassuming plumber, and an unwelcome role as Mrs De Winter in the forthcoming Ambercross Players' production of Rebecca. In this wickedly funny and hugely entertaining comedy of manners, life in a small Wiltshire village is exposed with a highly infectious sense of humour and a devastatingly accurate eye for detail.
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phoenix7
14 июля 2009
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From Here to Paternity
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Matt Dunn Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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Will Jackson is a desperate man — desperate to be a dad, that is. Tired of his laddish lifestyle, he's redecorated the spare room, traded in his beloved sports car for a 4x4, and even drawn up a list of his favourite baby names. In fact, there's only one thing left he's got to do — find a female who'll have his child. But where on earth is he going to find a woman who meets his exacting standards? Certainly not in the usual bars and clubs he frequents. But Will has a plan — you can find everything else on the Internet these days — so why not someone to start a family with? From Friends Reunited, through the weird world of online dating, even to auctioning his 'services' on Ebay, Will's journey to paternity is a hilarious romp through the pitfalls of procreation. But when push comes to shove, is Will prepared to trade passion for Pampers? What do men really look for when it comes to starting a family? Can the perfect mother also be the perfect partner, or are there more important things than a nice-fitting pair of genes?
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admin
15 мая 2010
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The Good Bride Guide
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Matt Dunn Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2009 |
PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ
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Ben Grant is fed up with always meeting the wrong girl. Having just celebrated his 30th birthday by being dumped by his 30th girlfriend, he decides he can't go on like this. Why can't he be as blissfully happy as his best friend Ashif, about to marry the beautiful Prithi, a bride chosen for him by his parents? Suddenly Ben has a great idea: why not ask his own parents to do the same for him? But while Ben's parents see this as the perfect opportunity to set their son on the right path to matrimonial bliss, it soon becomes clear that Ben's idea of the kind of woman he wants to settle down with is quite different from that of his somewhat traditional mum and dad. Following a series of disastrous dates, Ben starts to realize that he wouldn't let his parents pick him out a shirt to wear, let alone a woman to marry. But when Ben finally meets the girl he thinks might be 'the one' and she's not interested in him, he realizes that maybe he does have something to learn from his mum and dad after all. Can he learn the art of romance from his parents and land the girl of his dreams?
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yury-m
15 декабря 2011
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Goodnight Nobody
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Jennifer Weiner Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2006 |
PDF, 452 страницы, 13.56 МБ
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For Kate Klein, semi-accidental mother of three, the unsolved murder of a fellow mother is the most interesting thing to happen since the neighbours cracked their septic tank. Up until then life in suburbia has been distinctly underwhelming. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermums on the playground routinely snub her and her days are filled with an empty routine. At night, most of her orgasms are o f the do-it-yourself variety. So, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when her kids are in nursery school, Kate launches a murder investigation of her own. With the help of her best friend, carpet heiress Janie Segal, and former flame, Evan McKenna, she is drawn deep into the dead woman's double life. Suddenly suburbia is not so ordinary after all. Engrossing, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Goodnight Nobody i s another unputdownable, sparkling tale; a quick-witted mystery with a great heart and a narrator you'll never forget.
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ozikus
11 августа 2008
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The Guy Not Taken
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Jennifer Weiner Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ
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In The Guy Not Taken, a young married woman happens upon her ex boyfriend's wedding registry and wonders what life would have been like if she'd ended up with him after all — only to wake up and find out her dream, for better and worst, has come true. In Tour of Duty, a young man visits an ivy league college with his mother who does not know how to tell him that his father has left and is moving out during their weekend away. And in Kidnapping Nana two sisters travel to a beach resort and kidnap an older woman so they have a place to stay while they're there — and find an unexpected bond with the older woman in the process.
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admin
19 апреля 2011
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How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints)
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Simon and Schuster
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Автор: Kathy Lette Издательство: Simon & Schuster, 2007 |
PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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«All women want to kill their husbands some of the time «Where there's a will, I intend to be in it», wives half-joke to each other. Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death. But when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat. Life should begin at 40 — not with life imprisonment for killing your spouse. Jazz, stay-at-home mum and domestic goddess; Hannah, childless career woman; and Cassie, demented working mother of two are three ordinary women. Their record collections are classical, not criminal. Cassie and Hannah set out immediately to prove their best friend's innocence, uncovering betrayal, adultery, plot twists, thinner thighs and toy boys aplenty en route but will their friendship survive these ever darker revelations? Sexy, funny and wise, Kathy Lette's irresistible new novel is about women not Having It All But Doing It All. It's about how today's mother is often a married lone parent. It's about the fact that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was vacuuming.This is Kathy Lette at her brilliant best, casting her trade mark caustic eye on what goes on in the bedrooms and kitchens of ordinary married couples. A novel which will strike a cord with married women everywhere and ensure that, from now on, they all read the Top page small print on their marriage licenses.»
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admin
15 мая 2010
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