Queen of Babble
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- 12 uur lezen
Big mouth. Big heart. Big problems. More hilarious, fast-moving fun from the author of THE PRINCESS DIARIES
Koningin van het Gekwebel Reeks
Volg de misavonturen van een goedbedoelende vrouw wier onvermogen om een geheim te bewaren haar in een reeks hilarische en chaotische situaties brengt. Van romantische verwikkelingen tot onverwachte reizen over continenten, elke aflevering biedt een mix van humor en hart. Ondanks de constante blunderingen vindt ze vaak liefde en avontuur onder de meest onwaarschijnlijke omstandigheden. Deze serie is perfect voor lezers die houden van geestige dialogen, charmante personages en verhalen die vieren hoe je je weg vindt door de rommelige, onvoorspelbare momenten van het leven.
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Queen of Babble in the Big City
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Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement and looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order). When "Summer Fling" Luke uses the L word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to give up her plan of being postgrad roomies with best friend, Shari, in a one-room walk-up in exchange for cohabitation with the love of her life in his mother's Fifth Avenue pied--̉terre, complete with doorman and resident Renoir. But Lizzie's not as lucky in her employment search. As Shari finds the perfect job, Lizzie struggles through one humiliating interview after another, being judged overqualified for the jobs in her chosen fieldvintage-gown rehaband underqualified for everything else. It's Shari's boyfriend Chaz to the rescue when he recommends Lizzie for a receptionist's position at his father's posh law firm. The nonpaying gig at a local wedding-gown shop Lizzie manages to land all on her own. But Lizzie's notoriously big mouth begins to get her into trouble at work and at home almost at oncefirst at the law firm, where she becomes too chummy with Jill Higgins, a New York society bride with a troublesome future mother-in-law, and then back on Fifth Avenue, when she makes the mistake of bringing up the M word (Marriage) with commitment-shy Luke. Soon Lizzie finds herself jobless as well as homeless all over again. Can Lizzie save herselfand the hapless Jilland find career security (not to mention a mutually satisfying committed relationship) at last?
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Queen of Babble Gets Hitched
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- 11 uur lezen
Will Lizzie find happiness in the final part of Meg Cabot's romantic series, Queen of Babble Gets Hitched? Things are looking up for Lizzie Nichols. She loves her career, and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding in the south of France. But the dream soon becomes a nightmare as the best man, with whom Lizzie might once accidentally have slept - no, really, just slept - announces his lack of support for the couple; Lizzie's Midwestern family can't understand why she doesn't want to have her wedding in the family backyard; and her future French in-laws seem to be luring the groom away from medical school and into investment banking. Is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as wife and mistress of Chateau Mirac? Or is she destined to spend the rest of her life as a New York City spinster, in a two-room walk-up with no one for company but the cat from down the street?
