Les romans d'Olivia Goldsmith explorent souvent des thèmes de fantasmes de vengeance, dépeignant des femmes qui finissent par triompher des mauvais traitements infligés par les hommes. Son écriture aborde fréquemment l'autonomisation des femmes et la rétribution en réponse à l'injustice. Au-delà de sa fiction pour adultes, elle a également écrit des livres pour enfants sous un autre nom. Le travail de Goldsmith est reconnu pour son approche audacieuse et souvent controversée des relations et de la position sociale des femmes.
French translation of "Young wives". Angela, Michelle and Jada, young, naive wives with contemptible husbands, fatefully find their lives intertwined in a tangled web of deceit, cruelty and heartbreak. The plot pivots with clever retribution toward their compassionless husbands, and the conspiracy is both hilarious and luscious!
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.
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...
Rejected by Hollywood as too fat, actress Mary Jane Moran endures a series of operations to reemerge as thin, gorgeous Jahne Moore, and embarks on her new career in Tinseltown.
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.
A wickedly funny comedy of New York life and love, from the bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Bestseller.
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.
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.
Een snelle, sexy roman over het leven en de liefde in New York City
She's changed her style, but her roots are showing... It's not just that Brooklyn bar owner Billy Nolan is wickedly handsome; it's also that any woman he dates and dumps--and he dumps them all--immediately goes on to marry the next person she meets. But Kate Jameson is immune to his charms. She left Brooklyn for upward mobility in Manhattan at the first chance she got. Now working as a psychologist at a swanky private school, she's not about to fall for some cad from the old neighborhood. Then Kate's best friend Bina's engagement is broken off, and a plan is born. All Kate has to do is get Billy to date and dump Bina...and then wait for Bina's wayward fiancé to come back to his bride. With a little help from friends Barbie, Bev, and Bunny--who, along with Bina and Kate dub themselves the "Bitches of Bushwick"--nothing could be simpler. There are just a couple of hitches. Kate hasn't counted on how Billy feels about the whole scheme--and how she begins to feel about Billy.
Tracie's got a weakness for classic bad boys who seem too good to be true...and usually are. Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie-and not just as a friend. But Jon is no bad boy. In fact, he's about as good as they come. But when he convinces a skeptical Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade, she turns him into a heartbreakingly hot bad boy-and soon it seems half Seattle's women want Jon to themselves. Including Tracie. A guilty pleasure. (Entertainment Weekly) Witty and wonderful. (Sue Grafton) Olivia Goldsmith at her best. (Nelson DeMille)
At forty, Sylvie Schiffer has a gorgeous house, two perfect children, a successful husband with a lucrative business. Everything but what she wants passion and romance. With the twins off to college, Sylvie thinks her marriage is about to bloom, until she discovers that her husband, Bob, is already seeding the garden--with a woman named Marla! When Sylvie confronts Marla, she gets the shock--and inspiration---of her life. Except for ten years and fifteen pounds, she and Marla could be twins. But all is not bliss even for Marla. Though she has the best of love--romantic presents, hot sex, candlelit dinners--she lacks the one thing she wants a husband of her own. Going beyond revenge, Sylvie hatches a brilliant, hilarious, and daringly outrageous scheme that just might fulfill both their wildest dreams...or leave them with nothing but two broken hearts.
Companion to Mind maps for medical students / Oliva Smith. 2015.
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.
Román z prostředí hollywoodských filmových ateliérů v 90.letech, kdy v Americe vrcholí kult mládí, krásy a peněz.
Foute mannen, Vlammend hart, Perfecte vrouwen - druk 1
Foute mannenTracie heeft een zwak voor foute mannen. Van die klassieke James Dean-types met brede schouders in zwartleren jasjes. Ze vindt haar goede vriend Jon gewoon veel te aardig. Maar Jon houdt écht van Tracie. Hoe kan hij haar hart veroveren?Vlammend hartZij is niet kwaad, ze is razend! Jennifer Spencer, slim en sexy, de jonge koningin van Wall Street. Wanneer haar baas wordt beschuldigd van fraude, gaat zij ermee akkoord de schuld op zich te nemen. Het is natuurlijk niet de bedoeling dat Jennifer ook werkelijk achter de tralies belandt.Perfecte vrouwenMichelle, Jada en Angie - drie bedrogen vrouwen. Gewond, maar niet gebroken, besluiten zij hun krachten te bundelen en hun mannen terug te pakken. De gezamenlijke woude van het versmade trio maakt een onvermoede, creatieve energie vrij, waarbij superlijm, lucifers, naaldhakken en de Kaaimaneilanden een grote rol spelen.
Svet módy a módneho návhárstva, móda ako bezohľadný biznis, prinášajúci obrovské peniaze, prostredie elitných amerických módnych salónov,leskmódnych prehliadok,aleaj tvrdá drina, mučivéhľadanie inšpirácie - to je svet, v ktorom žije hlavná hrdinka Karen Kahnová. Po rokoch ťažkej práce si vydobyla v tomto svete významné postavenie a zároveň je ním sama úplne pohltená.
Román pro ženy o mladé novinářce, která není spokojená ani se svou prací, ani s osobním životem. Dívka má ale velmi oddaného a spolehlivého přítele, na kterého je v každém případě spolehnutí a s nímž může svoje problémy konfrontovat. Přítele zase velice trápí jeho soustavné neúspěchy u dívek a tak v zoufalství požádá hrdinku, aby z něho svými radami udělala sebevědomého a neodolatelného svůdce. Dívka, která má řadu osobních zkušeností s atraktivními suverény, vytvoří z dobrosrdečného a neohrabaného mladíka přitažlivého muže o něhož je mezi ženami veliký zájem, s hrůzou ale zjistí, že jeho přitažlivost působí i na ni....
In der Dunkelheit vor der Morgendämmerung schläft Manhattan, eine glitzernde Trauminsel, die ein Ort ist, an dem Träume gewebt, verwirklicht und verworfen werden. In dieser Nacht im Mai Ende der 80er Jahre ist es auch eine Insel mit vielen alleinlebenden Frauen. Anne ist gesund und charmant; Eileen ist elegant und bezaubernd; Barbara ist fröhlich und klug; doch sie alle verabscheuen das Gefühl, im mittleren Alter verlassen zu werden. Daher schließen sie Gewalt aus, nutzen ihren Verstand und schmieden gemeinsam eine Reihe von Racheplänen gegen ihre erfolgreichen Ex-Männer. Diese neue Frauengruppe, bestehend aus drei geschiedenen Frauen, trägt den Namen „Club der Teufelinnen“ und ihr Motto lautet: „Wir sind nicht wütend, wir holen uns Gerechtigkeit.“ Aus ihrer traurigen und hilflosen Verzweiflung erheben sie sich, überdenken ihre Position und die vergangene Ehe sowie den Partner an ihrer Seite, um mit cleveren Gegenangriffen gegen die banalen Realitäten ihrer Ex-Männer zurückzuschlagen und schließlich ihre Würde zurückzugewinnen. Dieses Buch ist ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für die neue Frau weltweit und ein unterhaltsames, herzergreifendes Werk.
Smutnosmiešny príbeh matky a jej odrastených detí, ktorí jej po smrti otca chcú pomôcť nájsť si nového manžela.
Van je moeder af? Huwelijk haar uit aan een rijke man!
Phyllis is balorig, bemoeiziek en bot - kortom, de wanhoop van haar drie volwassen kinderen. Wat hen betreft is het maar goed dat ze een flink eind weg woont. Tot Phyllis besluit terug te keren naar New York. Susan, Sharon en Bruce raken totaal in paniek en beleggen een spoedvergadering om hun opdringerige moeder uit hun toch al zo gecompliceerde levens te weren. Moord kan niet, puur om praktische redenen. En Phyllis heeft een moeilijke leeftijd - te jong voor een bejaardentehuis en te oud voor het tuchthuis. Maar wat dan? Susan bedenkt de ideale oplossing. Moeder moet uitgehuwelijkt worden, bij voorkeur aan een rijke, oude man met een slechte gezondheid. Maar Phyllis laat zich niet zo gemakkelijk de wet voorschrijven. En zeker niet door haar bloedeigen kinderen.
Drie vrouwen, die door hun mannen zijn verlaten voor een andere vrouw, verenigen zich om hun ex-echtgenoten ten gronde te richten.
Een grote Amerikaanse uitgeverij brengt vijf nieuwe boeken op de markt, waarvan de romans waarvan het 't minst wordt verwacht, grote bestsellers blijken.
