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Кэнни Шапиро никогда не жаловалась на жизнь: прекрасная работа, верные подруги, любимая собака. Да, Кэнни не отличается изяществом форм, но это ничуть не убавляет ее уверенности в себе. Но в один день все меняется.

Брюс, бывший парень Кэнни, ведущий в модном журнале рубрику «Хороши в постели», решил вытрясти на публике их грязное белье и опубликовал статью «Любовь с пышной дамой».

Это будет долгий год, в течение которого Кэнни придется примириться с прошлым, чтобы заглянуть в будущее. А главное, Кэнни предстоит понять: несмотря ни на что, жизнь прекрасна..

Семья – это не только родственные связи. Семьей становятся те, кого вы решили любить.

Они стояли перед новым домом на Альгамбра-стрит. Девочки, полные надежды. Бунтарка Джо и милашка Бетти. Такие разные - сестры. А впереди социальные потрясения, война во Вьетнаме, музыка свободы и борьба за женские права. А впереди первая любовь, рассветы, закаты, громкий смех, соленые слезы, взросление. Это искреннее и очень женское путешествие по разноцветным десятилетиям Америки. Это путешествие длиною в жизнь – удивительную, сложную и неповторимую.

У добропорядочной Роуз есть непутевая сестра Мэгги, которую то и дело приходится вытаскивать из разных передряг. Но настоящий ад начинается в тот момент, когда Мэгги "временно" вселяется в квартиру Роуз. Мало того что Мэгги неряшлива, без спросу берет вещи и таскает деньги из кошелька, так она еще и покусилась на самое большое сокровище сестры! Нет, Роуз больше не желает ее видеть! Оказавшись в безвыходной ситуации, без жилья и денег, Мэгги вдруг вспоминает, что где-то в далеком городке у нее есть бабушка, о которой сестры вот уже много лет ничего не слышали. Мэгги решает поехать к старушке и попытаться наладить с ней отношения...…

Трое детей, муж, который пропадает на работе, и ни одной минуты, которую можно было бы потратить на себя. Такова жизнь Кейт Боровиц. А ведь когда-то она была журналистом, подавала надежды. Но инстинкт журналиста — как умение кататься на велосипеде: можешь сколь угодно долго не крутить педали, но, стоит тебе сесть за руль, обязательно поедешь. Обнаружив свою знакомую, Китти Кавано, убитой, Кейт решила провести расследование и во что бы то ни стало выяснить, кому понадобилось убивать образцовую мать и домохозяйку. К тому же на столе в кухне убитой Кейт обнаружила записку с телефоном человека, который когда-то очень много значил в ее…

Актриса, организатор мероприятий, шеф-повар и телерепортер – что может объединить таких разных женщин? Совместные занятия йогой для беременных, неожиданные роды подруги, радости и горести материнства помогут им подружиться и найти общий язык. Отныне их судьбы тесно связаны. Лиа, Келли, Бекки и Айинде готовы не только помогать друг другу, но и жить общими проблемами. Ведь порой справиться с некоторыми из них в одиночку просто невозможно.

Много лет назад Кэнни приобрела скандальную известность, написав роман, основанный на событиях из ее жизни и неожиданно ставший бестселлером. С тех пор она предпочитает творить в жанре приключенческой фантастики и скрывается от публики под псевдонимом. У нее замечательный муж Питер и дочь Джой, и, хотя отношения с дочерью складываются не лучшим образом, в общем и целом Кэнни довольна своей жизнью. Но все очень осложняется, когда в руки Джой попадает та самая мамина книга, из которой она узнает массу любопытных подробностей об обстоятельствах собственного появления на свет. Девочка приходит в ужас: если верить книге, для матери она была…

Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to the emergency room and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again.

Rachel, the beloved, popular, and protected daughter of two doting parents, grows up wanting for nothing in a fancy Florida suburb. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent that will let him become one of the best runners of his generation.

Over the course of three decades, through high school and college, marriages and divorces, from the pinnacles of victory and the heartbreak of defeat, Andy and Rachel will find each other again and again, until they are finally given a chance to decide whether love can surmount difference and distance and if they've been running toward each other all along.

With honesty, wit, and clear-eyed observations about men and women, love and fate, and the truth about happy endings, Jennifer Weiner delivers two of her most memorable characters, and a love story you'll never forget.

Шість років тому раптова сварка поклала край дружбі Дафни і Дрю. Відтоді подруги припинили спілкуватися. Аж раптом Дрю звертається до Дафни з проханням бути подружкою нареченої на її шикарному весіллі влітку. Дафна вагається: чи варто їй, успішній блогерці, яка веде інстаграм-сторінку для людей з великими розмірами, знову впускати у своє життя улюбленицю долі Дрю. Урешті Дафна виявляється безсилою перед її чарами та їде на весілля, про яке писатимуть усі таблоїди.

Це зворушлива й драматична історія про людські стосунки, які не бувають простими, про силу соцмереж та пошук найважливішого в житті.

Чудова книжка для того, щоб краще зрозуміти себе і світ, у якому так непросто буває розпізнати, що фейк чи маніпуляція, а що справжнє і щире.

Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she’s got it good. So why is she up all night?

While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she’s also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. While Daisy’s driving carpools, Diana is chairing meetings. While Daisy’s making dinner, Diana’s making plans to reorganize corporations. Diana’s glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away from Daisy’s simpler existence. When an apology leads to an invitation, the two women meet and become friends. But, as they get closer, we learn that their connection was not completely accidental. Who IS this other woman, and what does she want with Daisy?

From the manicured Main Line of Philadelphia to the wild landscape of the Outer Cape, written with Jennifer Weiner’s signature wit and sharp observations, That Summer is a story about surviving our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of friendship.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.

When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house on Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.

But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah’s twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is—questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah’s husband, Eli, who’s been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by challenges of life during quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been.

When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.

From “the undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner’s love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.

Laurel Spellman is the most respected and feared literary critic in America. For years—more than she wants to admit—she’s written acid-etched reviews, gleefully goring sacred cows, anointing Great American Novelists, keeping the mob of scribbling authors in their place while enjoying all the perks of her position.

She doesn’t want to lose her spot on top of the literary world—not any more than she wants to replace her decades-old cartoon head shot with a new photograph. But when Laurel ends up taking a group of bibliophiles on a tour of literary Paris, she meets her worst nightmare: an eager debut author of commercial fiction named Tess Kravitz.

Laurel despises books like Tess’s: easy reads with happy endings, where the fat girl finds true love, or happiness through yoga. She can’t stand Tess herself, a chirpy, chunky blond with a tote bag full of a seemingly inexhaustible supply of her book, The Comfort Diet. But Tess is undeterred by Laurel’s scorn. She makes it clear that she’ll do anything—absolutely anything—to get her book on Laurel’s radar.

As author and critic play cat and mouse in Paris, ominous tokens appear, dark secrets are revealed, and Laurel finds herself haunted by her history and tormented by Tess’s book. The line between reality and fantasy begins to blur in a clash between an aging critic who will do anything to hold on to what she has, and a desperate author, who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Alice Mayfair, twelve years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed. Ignored by her family and shipped off to her eighth boarding school, Alice would like a friend. And when she rescues Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake one day, she finds one. But Millie is a Bigfoot, part of a clan who dwells deep in the woods. Most Bigfoots believe that people—No-Furs, as they call them—are dangerous, yet Millie is fascinated with the No-Fur world. She is convinced that humans will appreciate all the things about her that her Bigfoot tribe does not: her fearless nature, her lovely singing voice, and her desire to be a star. Alice…

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat.
Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents’ house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She’s just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. "Something horrible has happened," Val tells Addie, "and you’re the only one who can help."

Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It’s about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together.

Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted.

Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that some­thing isn’t right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invi­tation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she’s happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.

But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the group—Sebastian, the one-night stand she thought she’d never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then there’s a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she’s still trying to undo.

Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways...and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love.

From the bestselling author of Good in Bed comes a new collection of stories.

Born in the U.S.A....

American gals are taking liberties -- and pursuing happiness on their own terms -- in this star-studded story collection featuring the nation's red-hot women writers.

They've declared their independence!

Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel" -- and the trouble with falling for an incognito Hollywood actor. Lauren Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada) sends a single New Yorker on a backpacking trip halfway around the world -- where she sees her love life back home with new eyes -- in "The Bamboo Confessions." A harried mom with a hit novel crosses the pond in "My Great Brit Book Tour" by Adriana Trigiani (Lucia, Lucia), and turns a crumbling talk show appearance into a sweet success. Also uniting their talents in this free-spirited anthology are

JULIANNA BAGGOTT • CINDY CHUPACK • LYNDA CURNYN • QUINN DALTON • LAUREN HENDERSON • JUDI HENDRICKS • GRETCHEN LASKAS • CLAIRE LaZEBNIK • CHRIS MANBY • SARAH MLYNOWSKI • MELISSA SENATE • JILL SMOLINSKI • NANCY SPARLING • LAURA WOLF