Gloria Pastorino Boeken

Che fare se il ragazzo di cui siete perdutamente innamorate dai tempi della scuola è sull'altare di fronte a voi e sta per sposare la vostra migliore amica? Disperarsi? Rassegnarsi? Oppure ideare un piano diabolico per far saltare il matrimonio? Nessuna di queste opzioni è praticabile per Savannah Clark, che ha scelto di essere una damigella perfetta e un'amica fraterna, soffocando dentro di sé la gelosia. Ma dopo la cerimonia e il ricevimento, l'inaspettata visita di Peter, lo sposo, fuggito da sua moglie e dalla fatidica prima notte, rimette tutto in discussione. Lui è sbronzo, sconvolto, forse non sa quel che dice, eppure sta per confessarle di essere sempre stato innamorato di lei. Un sogno che si avvera o la fine di un'amicizia? Impossibile capirci qualcosa: la balbettante dichiarazione di lui viene interrotta dalla mamma della sposa e il momento della verità è rimandato al ritorno dei due sposini dal viaggio di nozze. Rimasta sola con la propria ansia, Savannah tenta di dimenticare Peter: è sufficiente una serata a base di vodka e Rin Tin Tin per trasformare il suo disperato bisogno di affetto e fedeltà nella folle e impulsiva decisione di ordinare su internet un cucciolo di pastore tedesco. Un cucciolo di cinquanta chili... che le procurerà un bel po' di grane, ma anche una nuova e affascinante conoscenza: il dottor Alex Brandt, un bel veterinario dai lunghi capelli biondi e dal sorriso fantastico.

Everyone dreams of getting the kiss of a lifetime ... but what if that kiss carried some unexpected consequences? A girl who's always been in the shadows finds herself pursued by the unbelievably attractive new boy at school, who may or may not be the death of her. Another girl grows up mute because of a curse placed on her by a vindictive spirit, and later must decide whether to utter her first words to the boy she loves and risk killing everyone who hears her if the curse is real. And a third girl discovers that the real reason for her transient life with her mother has to do with belonging - literally belonging - to another world entirely, full of dreaded creatures who can transform into animals, and whose queen keeps little girls as personal pets until they grow to child-bearing age.

Het is 1881 en Sally Lockharts leven ziet er zonnig uit. Haar vrienden Jim Taylor en Webster Garland zijn op reis, maar Sally woont met haar dochtertje Harriët in een mooi huis met bedienden. Ze heeft een bloeiende praktijk als financieel adviseur en het leven is nog nooit zo goed voor haar geweest. Maar dat zal allemaal dramatisch veranderen. Ze zal al haar moed, haar morele kracht en haar aangeboren scherpzinnigheid en vastberadenheid nodig hebben om erachter te komen wie haar leven overhoop heeft gegooid. Ze zal er helemaal alleen voor komen te staan en van gevaarlijk dichtbij alles over de tijger in de put te weten komen...

De zevende zoon van een zevende zoon, Septimus Heap, wordt gestolen in de nacht van zijn geboorte. Diezelfde nacht vindt de vader van het kind, Silas Heap, een bundeltje in de sneeuw met daarin een pasgeboren meisje. De Heaps nemen het hulpeloze kind op in hun gezin, noemen haar Jenna en voeden haar op als een van hen. Maar wie is dit mysterieuze meisje, en wat is er werkelijk gebeurd met hun geliefde zoon Septimus?

Critically acclaimed authors Jenny Han - whose New York Times bestseller To All The Boys I've Loved Before inspired the hit NETFLIX movie - and Siobhan Vivian team up in this thrilling trilogy. Perfect for fans of Pretty Little Liars and Big Little Lies.

From the bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook comes a heartfelt and rebellious novel in the vein of The Perks of Being a Wallflower . Nanette O'Hare has played the quintessential privileged star athlete and straight-A student for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper --a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic--the rebel within Nanette awakens. As the new and outspoken Nanette attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, she learns that rebellion can sometimes come at a high price...and with devastating consequences.

A Fancy Affair Bridal Salon Forest Hills, Queens "Did you know that one of your hips is higher than the other?" the seamstress asked me in a totally conversational tone. The bridesmaid to my left eyed me in the mirror, then her gaze dropped to my hips. "I didn't," I said. "I never knew that. But I'm glad you told me." The seamstress had the decency to look embarrassed. She ducked her head back down and continued pinning. Perhaps that had been the reason why Blind Dates One, Two and Three hadn't been interested. it wasn't the smoking, after all. it was my Hip Issue. And just my luck that Blind Date Four was with a doctor, whose business it was to notice such deformaties. See Jane Date will speak to singles everywhere. At once warm and witty, this look into the life of twenty-eight-year-old assistant editor Jane Gregg, screams, "You are not alone!" Case in point: See Jane . . . --Endure two months of bridesmaid hell for her younger cousin's wedding --Brilliantly dodge being fixed up with Grammy's next door neighbor by fibbing that she, um, already has a boyfriend --Date . . . like crazy to find one suitable guy to bring to said wedding Okay, find one suitable guy to love . Was that so much to ask?

When the opportunity of a lifetime leads her to Australia, Darcie Baxter, determined to find the perfect man, an office with a door, and a wonderful apartment before she is thirty, embarks on an affair with Aussie sheep rancher Dylan Rafferty--a turbulent relationship that teaches Darcie some valuable lessons in life. Original.

Prosegue la cronaca dell’epica guerra che infiamma il continente Derlavai, un mondo conquistato lentamente ma in modo inesorabile, miglio dopo miglio, dalle forze dell’impero algarviano… forze la cui più terribile magia di guerra è alimentata dal genocidio di un popolo innocente, i Kauniani, disprezzati da tutti i regni del continente. In questo quarto volume la guerra prosegue aumentando di ferocia mentre i maghi di Kuusamo, aiutati dagli ex rivali di Lagoas, lavorano disperatamente per creare una nuova forma di magia che cambierà il corso del conflitto. Ma è una storia anche di gente comune, traditori e patrioti, nobili e plebei, costretta dal destino a diventare degli eroi… o a cedere alla parte più oscura del proprio essere.