New Releases by Jennifer Weiner

Onko paratiisia ilman käärmettä? Hiekkaa varpaiden välissä, auringon lämpö iholla, uusin Weiner kädessä tai korvissa – paras kesäkirja on tässä! Sarah Danhauserin kauhuksi hänen 22-vuotias tytärpuolensa Ruby ilmoittaa avioituvansa korona-aikaisen poikaystävänsä kanssa. Ja mikä pahinta, häät ovat vain kolmen kuukauden päästä suvun isossa rantatalossa Cape Codissa. Tie suureen päivään ei ole kuopaton: yleensä niin itsevarma Ruby huomaa yhä useammin miettivänsä äitiään, joka hylkäsi hänet vauvana. Sarahin veli on toipumassa suuresta surusta ja kyseenalaistaa nyt kaiken elämässään. Rubyn isä puolestaan kantaa suurta salaisuutta, joka paljastuessaan muuttaa kaiken. Kun hääpäivä valkenee, kaikki naamiot on riisuttu, väärinkäsitykset ovat saavuttaneet huippunsa ja salaisuudet tulleet päivänvaloon – nyt voi tapahtua mitä tahansa... ”Kesäparatiisi on niin hyvä, että se tulee olemaan jokaisen rantalukemista tänä kesänä.” – USA Today Jennifer Weinerin (s. 1970) romaaneja on myyty maailmanlaajuisesti yli 11 miljoonaa kappaletta 36 eri maassa. Hänen kirjansa nousevat järjestään ykkösiksi The New York Timesin bestsellerlistalla. Weinerin romaanit ovat täynnä hersyvää sanailua ja herkullisia henkilöhahmoja. Hänellä on taito kertoa kipeistäkin asioista kevyesti. The New York Times on nimittänyt Weinerin "kesäkirjojen kiistattomaksi kuningattareksi". Weiner asuu Philadelphiassa perheensä kanssa.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey. 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 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.

In alternating points of view, Alice, Millie, Jessica, and Jeremy must work together when the secret world of the Bigfoot is threatened by someone with a personal vendetta against them.

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.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer and Mrs. Everything channels Shirley Jackson and Stephen King to bring us a chilling tale of an author willing to do anything to revitalize her career. Sarah Vernon has spent twenty years trying to make it as a novelist…and she’s never even come close. None of her novels has sold more than five thousand copies, and she’s never earned enough money to make fiction her full-time job. After her last disappointing publication, Sarah’s agent dumped her, and it seems like her dream is dead. Sarah vows that she’ll do anything for one last shot at the bestseller list. Enter Will Presser. Nicknamed The Viper, Will is a literary agent whose career-making reputation precedes him. A business dinner ends with a nightcap at Will’s apartment—and a night Sarah can’t remember. When she wakes up the next morning, Will says he’s got a plan to make her new book a hit. He sends Sarah off to Elder Island, a summer playground for the rich and famous that empties out between September and May, for her own personal writer’s retreat. He’s left word that Sarah needs complete privacy in order to write, and Sarah’s too bewildered and flattered by Will’s attention to do anything but pack her bags and board the ferry. Alone in an isolated mansion, Sarah’s writing has never come more easily. She spends hours each day lost in a trance, falling into the world of her story. She tries not to worry about the nightmares that plague her…or the mornings she wakes up with dirt on her feet and blood under her fingernails. u200b Everything Will Presser touches becomes a success, and, now, Will Presser has touched me, Sarah thinks. But Elder Island isn’t the pretty summer playground it seems to be, and Sarah’s going to learn that success comes at a cost, and that, whenever you sign a deal, it’s always wise to read the fine print.

Humiliated to discover that her ex-boyfriend has been chronicling their sex life in a series of articles called "Loving a Larger Woman" in a popular women''s magazine, journalist Cannie Shapiro embarks on an adventure-filled odyssey as she confronts her losses, makes peace with the past, and comes to terms with herself

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer masterfully combines Stephen King with Donna Tartt, plus a twist of Shirley Jackson, in this timely tale of a man, his new partner, and his old dog. When he was a boy, it was just him and his mother, and when he was an adult, it was just him, alone. Michael Corcoran thought it would always be that way. Then he’d met Tina, who didn’t know that he’d never had friends, or what kinds of “experiments” he liked to do in his lab in the garage as a boy. Instead of being alone, Michael had a wife, and children and, eventually, a dog. Michael had promised himself he wasn’t going to be one of those people who pushed their dogs in carriages and called them “fur babies.” “Just wait,” Tina said—and soon enough, Lady was enjoying premium kibble and wearing a tiny Eagles jersey, plus special booties for the snow. He and Tina even developed a voice for Lady, a routine: a low, gruff, cigarettes-and whiskey tone that went with the tragic backstory they gave her. Then Tina found a lump in her breast. And then she was gone. And then small, determined Suzanne Nelson dropped by Michael’s newly empty apartment with some homemade lasagna and never left. The transition would’ve gone smoothly if not for Lady—and the lisping, babyish falsetto Suzanne used when she “talked” as the dog. Michael asked her to stop. And Suzanne did her best. But some things people can’t change, no matter how they try, like how they sound, and who they love—and who they are, in the wee small hours, when it’s dark and no one’s watching.

Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother''s upcoming wedding.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ''An ambitious, immersive novel from the author of In Her Shoes'' RED MAGAZINE ''Engrossing'' SUNDAY MIRROR From Jennifer Weiner, the bestselling author of IN HER SHOES and WHO DO YOU LOVE . . . ____________ Jo and Bethie couldn''t be more different . . . but the world expects them to be the same Growing up in 1950s Detroit, the Kaufman sisters'' roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. But as the sixties begin, the world around them is changing fast. Soon nothing about their future seems to be what they''d hoped for or expected. Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child, while Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, putting the truth of what - and who - she really desires to one side. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of. Is it too late for them to stake a claim on the lives they really want? _____________ Find out why everyone''s talking about Jennifer Weiner ''If you have time for only one book this summer, pick this one'' THE NEW YORK TIMES ''You''ll love this book and wish she was your friend'' MINDY KALING ''Fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave'' CHERYL STRAYED ''Like Helen Fielding, Weiner balances fresh humour, deft characterisations, and literary sensibility'' THE GUARDIAN ''Mrs Everything is like Beaches but with mothers and daughters and sisters. I may never recover'' JILL GRUNEWALD ''Generous and entertaining'' Publishers Weekly ''You''ll laugh, you''ll cry, you''ll want to read it again'' TheSkimm ''Blends humour and heartbreak to create an irresistible novel'' Publishers Weekly ''Weiner [is] a marvellously natural storyteller'' Publishers Weekly ''Jennifer Weiner has done it again. She has made me feel more emotions than I''ve felt in a long time'' Goodreads reviewer ''Beautifully written and heart-touching'' Goodreads reviewer

Een intelligente, veelomvattende roman over het leven van twee zussen die geconfronteerd worden met grote levensvragen in een snel veranderende wereld Voor de lezers van David Nicholls Zij is een ambitieus, meeslepend verhaal dat decennia omspant en grote sociale thema’s niet uit de weg gaat Jo en Bethie Kaufman worden in de jaren veertig geboren en groeien op in een zich snel ontwikkelende buitenwijk van Detroit. Ze zijn close met elkaar, ook al zijn ze zeer verschillend. Jo is een tomboy die zich lekkerder voelt in spijkerbroek en gympen dan in een jurk. Ze weet al vroeg dat ze zich aangetrokken voelt tot meisjes en doet mee aan burgerrechtendemonstraties. Bethie is knap en populair, de gehoorzame dochter die een conventioneel leven wil en vol vertrouwen is dat ze dat zal krijgen. Maar wat is ‘conventioneel’ eigenlijk precies, in het licht van de enorme sociale veranderingen in de jaren vijftig en zestig? Jennifer Weiner laat in deze grootse roman afwisselend de beide zussen aan het woord, terwijl ze op zoek gaan naar hun bestemming. Ze vinden de nodige obstakels op hun pad die onthutsend veel vrouwen zullen herkennen, zoals seksisme en misbruik. Ook ondervinden ze dat de kansen en mogelijkheden voor vrouwen toenemen – maar niet voor iedereen. De pers over Zij ‘Lezers zullen smullen van deze ambitieuze, zo goed als perfecte roman.’ Booklist, starred review ‘Een ambitieuze kijk op hoe de rollen van vrouwen zijn veranderd – of juist hetzelfde zijn gebleven – in de afgelopen zeventig jaar.’ Kirkus Reviews

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and In Her Shoes masterfully combines Stephen King with Donna Tartt, plus a twist of Shirley Jackson, in this timely tale that spikes horror with humor and asks whose stories matter—and who gets to decide. 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 women 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 totebag 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.

A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE WASHINGTON POST’S 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF FICTION IN 2019 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING’S 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2019 An instant New York Times bestseller “A multigenerational narrative that’s nothing short of brilliant.” —People “Simply unputdownable.” —Good Housekeeping “The perfect book club pick.” —SheReads Named a Best Book of Summer by Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, PopSugar, HelloGiggles, and Refinery29 From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places—and be true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving world. Do we change or does the world change us? Jo and Bethie Kaufman were born into a world full of promise. Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies. As their lives unfold against the background of free love and Vietnam, Woodstock and women’s lib, Bethie becomes an adventure-loving wild child who dives headlong into the counterculture and is up for anything (except settling down). Meanwhile, Jo becomes a proper young mother in Connecticut, a witness to the changing world instead of a participant. Neither woman inhabits the world she dreams of, nor has a life that feels authentic or brings her joy. Is it too late for the women to finally stake a claim on happily ever after? In her most ambitious novel yet, Jennifer Weiner tells a story of two sisters who, with their different dreams and different paths, offer answers to the question: How should a woman be in the world?

From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters'' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives.

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Rachel och Andy är åtta år gamla när de möts för första gången. Platsen är väntrummet på akuten. Rachel föddes med en hjärtdefekt och är sjukhusveteran, och hon fascineras av pojken som kommer dit alldeles ensam med en bruten arm. När de skils åt den kvällen tror de inte att de någonsin kommer att ses igen. Men under tre decennier korsas deras vägar och vänskapen växer till något mer. Genom high school och college, äktenskap och skilsmässor, genom framgångar och förluster hittar Andy och Rachel om och om igen tillbaka till varandra. Tills de en gång för alla måste bestämma om kärleken är tillräcklig för att övervinna olikheterna och avståndet. En känsloladdad och varm berättelse om hur människor förändras och förändrar varandra, om hur kärlek inte alltid har svaret på allt, och om hur livet ibland leder in dig på en bana du aldrig hade kunnat ana.

Twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is not human. While Alice goes in search of her past, her best friend Millie Maximus, a tiny Bigfoot with a big voice, prepares for her future. Together they plan to sneak off to New York City in this second of a trilogy from a #1 New York Times-bestselling author. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16.

"Generous and entertaining." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave" (Cheryl Strayed) collection of heartwarming personal essays "as wonderful as her fiction" (Mindy Kaling) that "will enthusiastically reach out to readers and swiftly draw them close" (Publishers Weekly , starred review). Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an "unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker ). She''s also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this "unflinching look at her own experiences" (Entertainment Weekly ), Jennifer fashions tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest essays: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother''s coming out of the closet, her estranged father''s death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F word-fat-for the first time, Jen dives into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to fans all over the world.

Small Millie Maximus, a misfit in her tribe of tall, hairy Bigfoots, and twelve-year-old Alice, large and clumsy, who feels out of place at her boarding school in upstate New York, form a bond and experience friendship for the first time.

Een onvergetelijk verhaal over ware liefde, het echte leven en tweede kansen... Rachel Blum en Andy Landis zijn acht jaar oud als ze elkaar ontmoeten op de Eerste Hulp van het ziekenhuis. Rachel, door haar aangeboren hartafwijking al een ziekenhuisveteraan, is meteen geïntrigeerd door de jongen die daar helemaal alleen in de wachtkamer zit met een gebroken arm. Hij vertelt haar zijn naam. Zij vertelt hem een verhaal. Als Andy wordt meegenomen door een dokter en Rachel teruggaat naar haar ziekenhuisbed, denken ze dat ze elkaar nooit meer zullen zien. De twee hebben niets gemeen: Rachel groeit op in een keurige buitenwijk; de populaire en beschermd opgevoede dochter van twee liefhebbende ouders, Andy woont alleen met zijn regelmatig afwezige moeder en heeft een bijzonder talent voor hardlopen. Maar gedurende de dertig jaar die volgen zullen Andy en Rachel elkaar keer op keer ontmoeten – voor altijd verbonden door toeval, geschiedenis en de herinnering aan de eerste keer dat ze elkaar zagen, een nacht die hun beider levensloop ingrijpend veranderde. De pers over de boeken van Jennifer Weiner: ‘Niet weg te leggen. Weiner weet als geen ander hoe je een goed verhaal schrijft.’ The New York Times Book Review ‘Dit ontroerende verhaal over een levenslange liefde is Weiner op haar hartverscheurende best.’ Kirkus Reviews

Het boek van de film In Her Schoes, met Cameron Diaz en Toni Colette Maggie en Rose zijn zussen, maar ze verschillen als dag en nacht. Maggie is mooi en sexy; oppervlakkig maar heel charmant. Rose is twee jaar ouder, advocaat en heeft haar pensioenvoorziening al geregeld. Ze heeft een relatie met een gescheiden collega, waarvan ze hoopt dat die zal uitmonden in een huwelijk. Als Maggie bij haar zoveelste baantje de laan uit vliegt, gaat ze voor hulp naar Rose, die voor de zoveelste keer probeert haar zus te helpen. Maar als blijkt dat Maggie niet alleen een voorkeur heeft voor de schoenen van Rose, maar ook voor haar minnaar, ontspoort hun toch al wankele relatie. Dan komt Ella in hun leven: hun grootmoeder die ze al twintig jaar niet hebben gezien. Zij brengt Maggie en Rose samen in haar huis in Florida, waarop even hilarische als hartverscheurende verwikkelingen volgen. Over de boeken van Jennifer Weiner: ‘Niet weg te leggen. Weiner weet als geen ander hoe je een goed verhaal schrijft.’ The New York Times ‘Dit ontroerende verhaal over een levenslange liefde is Weiner op haar hartverscheurende best.’ Kirkus Reviews

Voor de lezers van Nicholas Sparks en Marian Keyes Kort nadat Cannie en Bruce besluiten een tijdje uit elkaar te gaan, leest Cannie een artikel in een vrouwenblad. Het blijkt geschreven door haar ex en het onderwerp is... zijzelf. Hij meldt niet alleen dat hij zelf erg goed is in bed – een leugen – maar ook dat hij Cannie te dik vindt. Dat staat er echt, plompverloren, wreed ingeklemd tussen advertenties voor lingerie en diëten... Cannie is woest. Dodelijk beledigd verbreekt ze de relatie voorgoed. Wraak, dat is wat ze wil. Zoete, rechtvaardige, verwoestende wraak. Maar het blijkt lastig vergelden als de weegschaal Bruce genadeloos in het gelijk stelt. Totdat Cannies arts haar vertelt dat ze zwanger is: gierende hormonen inspireren haar tot een meesterlijke tegenzet. Over de boeken van Jennifer Weiner: ‘Niet weg te leggen. Weiner weet als geen ander hoe je een goed verhaal schrijft.’ The New York Times ‘Dit ontroerende verhaal over een levenslange liefde is Weiner op haar hartverscheurende best.’ Kirkus Reviews

The bestselling "In Her Shoes"--soon to be a major motion picture by Fox 2000 starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine--is now available in paperback. As she did in "Good in Bed," Weiner has created a story that is by turns poignant and comical as she unfolds the tale of how three women who have nothing in common but their shoe size find each other--and themselves.

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes her “best book yet” (Philadelphia Inquirer), a “compulsively readable” novel that shows “there’s no doubt Weiner knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well” (The New York Times Book Review). Allison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, an adorable daughter, a job she loves, and the big house in the suburbs. But while waiting in the pediatrician’s office, she opens a magazine to a quiz about addiction and starts to wonder…Is a Percocet at the end of the day really different from a glass of wine? Is it such a bad thing to pop a Vicodin after a brutal Jump & Pump class…or if your husband ignores you? She tells herself that the pills help her make it through her days…but what if her increasing drug use, a habit that’s becoming expensive and hard to hide, is turning into her biggest problem of all? Hailed as “a witty, realistic criticism on the modern age” (Boston Herald), this remarkable story of a woman’s fall into addiction and struggle to find her way back up again is Jennifer Weiner’s most masterful, moving, and celebrated work yet.