Olivia Goldsmith Livres

A quarante-trois ans, Karen, modéliste, a presque tout pour être comblée : ses créations séduisent les grands couturiers, son mari est charmant, sa fortune assurée. Beaucoup envient sa réussite. Pourtant, en dépit du succès, Karen n'est pas une femme heureuse. Il lui manque l'essentiel : l'amour d'un enfant. Elle entame une longue bagarre pour l'adoption tandis que s'éveille sa douleur de ne pas connaître sa véritable mère. Manipulée par des concurrents prêts à profiter de ses moindres faiblesses, trompée par ses amis en qui elle avait confiance, trahie par son mari, Karen doit encaisser les mauvais coups. De déconvenues en mauvaises surprises, elle découvrira l'amour vrai. A travers l'histoire de Karen, ce grand roman tissé de passions, de raffinement et de cruauté évoque un problème crucial : celui de la femme actuelle, déchirée entre réussite professionnelle et maternité, indépendance et mariage.

A humorous and practical guide offers tips on how to clean out the closet, find personal "signature styles" that make stylish dressing simple and effective, and save money while clothes shopping. Original.

This brand new revision aid has been designed specifically to help medical students memorize essential clinical facts, invaluable throughout medical studies and particularly useful in the pressured run-up to final exams. Over 100 maps are organized by body system, with a concluding section of miscellaneous examples. The book’s format has been designed with the student in mind – it is pocket sized and the maps summarize a variety of aspects, including the definition of the disease, causes, investigations, treatments and complications, to aid in recall. Ideally suited for students and early postgraduates revising for exams, this convenient and portable distillation of knowledge will aid in memorization and save many hours of note taking.

Olivia Goldsmith - bestselling author of The First Wives Club - delivers her best revenge novel to date. The best way to beat the system is from the inside... Meet Jennifer - a smart, sexy woman who has broken through the glass ceiling to become a big-time trader in the world of high finance. When her boss is caught playing fast and loose with the regulations, Jennifer agrees to take the rap. After all, her fiancé is a lawyer with the connections to get her off. Instead, she ends up in a women's prison; a world a whole lot meaner than Wall Street and where her designer clothes and fancy education count for nothing. She has to learn fast if she wants to survive and she does, once she is accepted by the prison's top 'crew'; a group of smart, strong, scary women led by tough lifer Movita and crazy Cher. These are women that Jennifer would never, ever, have befriended on the outside, but on the inside she soon discovers that working together is the only way out...

When Jennifer agrees to take the rap for her boss, who has been wreaking havoc on the SEC, she finds herself in Jennings Correctional Facility for Women where she encounters a fiesty group of smart, tough women who change her life.

A wickedly funny comedy of New York life and love, from the bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Bestseller.

Mary Jane Moran is an out-of-work actress. She should have been a star. A brilliant off-Broadway success, she was too fat, too plain and - at 34 - too old for Hollywood. To cap it all, Tinseltown has also stolen the only man she ever loved. Mary Jane Moran is ready for revenge. Two years, 40 pounds and $67,000 worth of plastic surgery later, she gets it in the person of Jahne Moore - thin, drop-dead gorgeous and soon to be the hottest property in Hollywood. Buy Mary Jane finds that dazzling beauty and meteoric success bring problems of their own...

A New York romantic comedy by the author of 'UPTOWN GIRL' and 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB', featuring a woman who discovers her Prince Charming in an unexpected place.

Set against the background of big business book publishing, this novel is an accurate expose of the cut-throat world of conglomerate publishing. By the author of Fashionably late.

The battle of the sexes hasn't ended - it's just moved to suburbia. Now Olivia Goldsmith returns to the trenches in a new novel as unforgettable as The First Wives Club. Michelle has a perfect marriage, a perfect house and a perfect life in middle-class Westchester - until she finds out how her husband has been paying for it all. Her friend Jada has worked too hard to become the first black woman bank manager in their town, as well as a wonderful mother and homemaker, to let her lay-about husband take it all away from her. But can she stop him? Angie is their lawyer - and she knows exactly what they're going through. Married just a year ago, she's been shell-shocked to find out about her wealthy, Ivy League husband's extra-marital activities. Can she help herself, as well as helping her friends? Let down by their men and by the law - now all they have is each other. Moving, funny and angry, this is the story of how a friendship formed in adversity helps Michelle, Jada and Angie fight back.