Black Swan Shopaholic to the Stars Кинселла Софи

"Шопоголик спешит на помощь" - роман из нашумевшей серии Софи Кинселлы о шопоголике Бекки Брендон, обладающей ярким талантом ввязываться в авантюры • У Бекки Брендон проблемы. Нет, они были всегда, но быстро решались - покупкой новых туфелек или красивой шляпки, например. Теперь все серьезно: ее отец пропал, оставив лишь странную записку, в которой обещал "кое-что уладить". Но, видно, так ничего и не уладил, раз все еще не вернулся • Бекки собирает друзей и отправляется в Лас-Вегас. Ей предстоит не просто найти отца и раскрыть секрет, который заставил его исчезнуть, но и провернуть аферу, достойную "Одиннадцати друзей Оушена" • Огни будут сверкать, пузырьки будут - шипеть в бокале шампанского, а Бекки – играть в казино. И уж не сомневайтесь, она выйдет оттуда с выигрышем! • Книга на английском языке

Издание полностью на английском языке • For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money - and getting paid for it.) She's got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They've even opened a joint bank account (although they can't quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense) • Then Luke proposes - and all of a sudden life gets hectic. Becky's Mum wants her to get married in Oxshott and wear her old frilly wedding dress. Luke's mother wants to host a grand extravaganza at the New York Plaza, complete with woodland glade and the New York Philharmonic • Becky knows she has to sit down and decide - but to be honest, it's a lot more fun tasting cake, trying on dresses and registering wedding presents

"Шопоголик на Манхэттене" - вторая книга комической серии Софи Кинселлы о людях и магазинах • Как же много соблазнов таит Манхэттен! Бесконечные магазины манят тех, для кого шопинг не просто забава, а смысл жизни и услада души. И кто бы сомневался, что Бекки попадет в ловушку большого города. Теперь ни ее жизнь, ни кредитка не будут прежними. Впрочем, Бекки легко понять: c чистым сердцем направляешься в музей Гуггенхайма, но сворачиваешь на яркий свет витрин… И покупаешь, покупаешь, покупаешь! • Но на этот раз беды Бекки не ограничатся лишь борьбой за большую скидку. Под угрозой окажутся ее личная жизнь и карьера. Вот только коварный город не учел главного: женщину, пусть и неисправимого шопоголика, так просто не победить! • Книга на английском языке

Фикси Фарр ничего не может с собой поделать. Выпрямить покореженный предмет, удалить едва заметное пятно, помочь подруге...она просто должна все исправить. В конце концов, именно так она получила свое прозвище • Поэтому, когда красивый незнакомец в кафе просит ее минутку присмотреть за его ноутбуком, Фиксики не только соглашается, но и в конечном итоге спасает его от неминуемой катастрофы. Чтобы отблагодарить ее, владелец компьютера, Себастьян, выписывает ей долговую расписку - но, конечно, Фиксик никогда не собирается просить об одолжении • То есть до тех пор, пока ее подростковый пассион, Райан,не возвращается в ее жизнь и не нуждается в ее помощи - и Фиксики обращается к Себу. Но все идет не по плану,и теперь Фиксики в большом долгу перед Себом

'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and pointlessly never forgot' • It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-filled motorbike tour of Austria as they prepare for "the great zoo bust." But their grand scheme will have both comic and gruesome consequences, as they are soon to find out

Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness • Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two...but are there three in her marriage?

A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they have seen before – a man who is perhaps something more than human • His name is Samara and he speaks with terror of a place called Tartarus – an orbiting prison where hope doesn’t exist • As Samara begins to heal, he also transforms the lives his rescuers. But in so doing, he attracts the attention of a warlord whose gunmen now threaten the very existence of the villagers themselves – and the one, slim chance Samara has of finding his way home • And all the while, in the darkness above, waits the simmering fury at the heart of Tartarus

Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure • Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly ninety-year-old Veronica make an unlikely pair of friends • Fiercely independent and impeccably dressed, Veronica has lived an incredible 87 years. Most of them alone, in her huge house by the sea. But with the arrival of brave and resilient Daisy into her life, Veronica finds she has a renewed thirst for adventure - and that they both share a passion for penguins! • So when Veronica and Daisy are invited to travel to the other side of the world together and visit the penguins of the southern hemisphere, they both jump at the chance • Veronica had thought her days of new friendships, family and love were over, but perhaps it's never too late for one more adventure?

The startling discovery that the weirdness of quantum mechanics provides the vital spark that ignites life • Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? • Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on evolution, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics as Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics. Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments around the world, they show how photosynthesis relies on subatomic particles existing in many places at once, while inside enzymes, those workhorses of life that make every molecule within our cells, particles vanish from one point in space and instantly materialize in another

The witty, weird and wonderful abound in this early romantic comedy by Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley • Tina Devino makes more money teaching people to write than writing herself. A middling romance novelist who dreams of penning a bestseller, she’s increasingly forced to compete with younger, blonder debut authors for her publisher and agent’s attention • Feeling forgotten, Tina realises the only way up is to take her career and destiny in hand and build her own happy ending; which is perfect because, for a romance writer, Tina isn’t the most traditional of women… Although she does see her long term partner lover friend, Sergei, once a week which is ‘quite enough, thank you very much’. But her uncomplicated love life might soon need some unravelling when a mysterious Tube Man, unwelcome ex-husband and a shadowy figure in a butterfly mask waltz into the picture

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, and when it comes to spending money, her new motto is Buy Only What You Need - and she's really (sort of) sticking to it. The icing on the brioche is that she's been offered a chance to work in New York • New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to them all. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other famous places first. Like Saks. And Bloomingdales. And Barneys. And one of those fantastic sample sales where you can get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Is Becky too dazzled to care?

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money - a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York …and has asked her to go with him. New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Is Becky too dazzled to care?