De selectie heeft het leven van 35 meisjes voorgoed veranderd. En nu is de tijd aangebroken dat er een winnaar wordt gekozen. America had nooit durven hopen dat ze kans maakte op de kroon of om het hart van prins Maxon te kunnen veroveren. Maar nu de competitie haar einde nadert en de bedreigingen van buiten de paleismuren steeds gewelddadiger worden, realiseert America zich hoeveel ze heeft te verliezen en hoe hard ze moet vechten voor de toekomst die ze wil.
Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has enchanted readers from the very first page. In this fourth romantic novel, follow Illea's royal family into a whole new Selection-and find out what happens after happily ever after. Eighteen years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story...but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought. A new generation of swoonworthy characters and captivating romance awaits in the fourth book of the Selection series!
America (17, ik-figuur) en haar kunstenaar familie behoren tot een van de amste kasten van het koninkrijke Illea. dat verandert als America besluit mee te doen aan een selectieprogramma waaruit kroonprins zijn toekomstige vrouw zal kiezen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
A very funny romantic novel (... and no. 1 ebook bestseller) Childhood sweethearts Matthew and Katy agree they must never see each other again following a school reunion. So all is forgotten ... until eight months later when a shock meeting at an antenatal class forces them to confront the fact that Matthew could be the father of Katy's baby. Love and life are messy, but Katy and Matthew take things to a whole new level as deep emotions begin to resurface and hormones run riot. Never has a one-night-stand led to such chaos!
Dress code se dnes již nepovažuje za omezení tvořivosti a individuality, nicméně k pochopení pravidel oblékání je stále zásadní, a to i v případě, že se je snažíme překročit.
Tato kniha obsahuje souhrn klasických pravidel pánského oblékání upravených podle moderního vkusu a zároveň slouží jako záchytný bod pro docela nové a originální styly oblékání, jimiž muži každodenně usilují o pohodlí a eleganci.
Text, jehož autorem je věhlasný italský odborník v oblasti současné módy Giuseppe Ceccarelli a který doprovází řada kvalitních fotografií, obsahuje mnoho svědectví a zkušeností skutečných přívrženců pánského oblékání, od generálních ředitelů přes úředníky a dělníky až po umělce a dandyovské šviháky.
Zjistíme tak například, jakým způsobem tyto osobnosti přetvořily smoking, aniž by porušily jeho tradici, anebo jaký převrat zapříčinily úpravou obleku „formal attire“. Dozvíme se rovněž, že „zvláštní příležitostí“ k oblékání může být i nová pracovní pozice či změna životního stylu. Někteří muži vytvářejí svůj styl přirozeně a spontánně, pro jiné jde o pečlivé budování vlastní image.
Tato příručka vám postupně odhalí smysl jednotlivých pánských dress codů a krok za krokem vás provede jejich současnými proměnami.
'See Naples and die', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets handsome, studious Salvatore, and finds herself enveloped by his family - in particular by his elegant mother, Raffaella, who begins her real education: never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and remember that mealtimes are sacred. Immersed in Neapolitan culture, tradition and cooking, slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and basking in Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers how to prepare meals that sing, from rich ragu to pasta al forno, with bacon, bechamel and four kinds of cheese. Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday Mass, marriage and motherhood, Katherine slowly comes to appreciate carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort and confidence in one's own skin. Steeped in sunlight, wine and unforgettable food, Only in Naples is a love letter to a city and a family, a coming-of-age story, and a transporting account of learning to live the Italian way. 'Katherine Wilson gives us more than the fabulous food of Naples. She offers us a passport to an exotic country we would never be able to enter on our own.' Ruth Reichl, author of My Kitchen Year
"A sassy, sexy novella from NYT bestselling author Alice Clayton, which is a delightful addition to the Cocktail Series, reuniting readers with Caroline and Simon"--
The cafe is boiling. The atmosphere is clouded with bittersweet coffee. Three years of desire rip through my body and burst from my lips: Josh His head jolts up. For a long time, a very long time, he just stares at me. And then...he blinks. Isla? Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on brooding artist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And, after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer break, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to face uncertainty about their futures, and the very real possibility of being apart. Set against the stunning backdrops of New York, Paris and Barcelona, this is a gorgeous, heart-wrenching and irresistible story of true love, and the perfect conclusion to Stephanie Perkins's beloved series."
"This is the last book in New York Times bestselling author Alice Clayton's Cocktail series of sexy romances, which began with WALLBANGER and continued with RUSTY NAILED and SCREWDRIVERED"--
