Gigi, Bea, and Neerja are best friends and total overachievers. Even if they aren't the most popular girls in school, they aren't too worried. They know their real lives will begin once they get to their Ivy League colleges. There will be ivy, and there will be cute guys in the libraries (hopefully with English accents)! But when an unexpected event shows them they're missing out on the full high school experience, it's time to come out of the honors lounge and into the spotlight. They make a pact: They will each take on their greatest challenge-and they will totally rock it. Gigi decides to run for student rep, but she'll have to get over her fear of public speaking-and go head-to-head with gorgeous California Will. Bea used to be one of the best skiers around, until she was derailed. It could be time for her to take the plunge again. And Neerja loves the drama club but has always stayed behind the scenes-until now. These friends are determined to show the world that smart girls really can get what they want-but that could mean getting way more attention than they ever bargained for.

Smart Girls Get What They Want

Blonde, jolie, excentrique et coiffeuse de son état, Bubbles Yablonski est aussi journaliste à ses heures perdues. Et elle attend désespérément le scoop qui la couvrira de gloire. L'occasion se présente bientôt : le prétendu suicide d'une jeune fille, survenu dix ans plus tôt. Malgré les menaces qu'elle reçoit et la police qui la discrédite, elle décide de jouer les trouble-fête et de mener sa propre enquête. De rencontres déstabilisantes en situations parfois dangereuses et rock'n'roll, Bubbles compte bien prouver qu'avec elle, ça décoiffe !

Bubbles Se Lâche

Jane Austen's Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want. Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested in snagging a full scholarship to Harvard than a full-time boyfriend. That doesn't mean she's oblivious to the ways of the heart. Or, rather, the head. Because after months of research, Addie has discovered how to make anyone fall in love. All you need is the secret formula. But will her discovery be enough to win the coveted Athenian Award and all its perks? (See above, full scholarship to Harvard.) Or will she be undone by Dexter, her backstabbing lab partner, who is determined to deep-six her experiments at their exclusive private school?Those are the least of her problems now that she's survived a death-defying flight with a mysterious, dark-haired boy, who has delicious chocolate-brown eyes and a few secrets of his own. With an experiment to mastermind, an infatuated exchange student on her hands, and at least one great white shark (more on that later), can Addie's prefrontal cortex outwit her heart? Or will she have to give in to her amygdala and find out, once and for all, if this thing called love is more than just her brain on drugs?

This Is My Brain on Boys

Like Meg Cabot, Sarah Strohmeyer has a gift for creating smart, funny girls teen readers love. She's done it again with Zoe, heroine of her latest romcom. In YA novel How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True, Zoe learns there is a dark core under the glittering façade of the fairy-tale themed amusement park (cough, Disneyland, cough) where she's a summer intern. For starters, her boss has a blacker heart than Snow White's stepmother, and the other interns are worse backstabbers than Cinderella's step-sisters. On the upside, she has the chance of romance with a real-life Prince Charming, and a shot at winning a big heap of cash. If she can just live through a summer in the Fairyland Kingdom.

How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

Elle est jeune, elle est belle, elle est coiffeuse. Bubbles Yablonsky s'applique à rendre séduisantes les ménagères de plus de cinquante ans tout en restant convaincue que la vie a plus à lui offrir que des permanentes en série. Entre potins et ragots, elle joue ainsi, pour arrondir ses fins de mois difficiles, les journalistes. redresseuses de torts. Quelle petite chanceuse cette Bubbles ! Alors qu'elle met tout en œuvre pour dégotter un job à plein temps au journal New-Times, voici que le plus fascinant des meurtres lui tombe tout cuit dans le bec. La victime: un gros bonnet d'une aciérie locale. L'accusée: sa charmante épouse. L'arme: un vernis à ongles contenant du cyanure. Si quelqu'un est en mesure de résoudre un crime aussi bien manucuré, c'est sans aucun doute Bubbles: Et rien ne pourra l'arrêter, ni le fait de devoir s'appliquer du mascara d'une main tandis qu'elle conduit sa Camaro de l'autre, ni les frasques de sa mère Lulu. Ni même le craquant photo-journaliste Steve Stiletto, sosie de Mel Gibson, rappelons-le - qui s'est juré de dompter Bubbles... en lui proposant de venir vivre chez lui ! Mais la question demeure: un animal aussi farouche qu'une artiste capillaire doublée d'une détective de choc sera-t-il un jour domesticable?

Ça Chauffe Pour Bubbles (Bubbles Yablonsky, #4)

"A fabulous read packed with suspense, unexpected twists, glamour and humor. Prepare to be gripped from the first to the last page!" -Liane Moriarty For readers of Lisa Jewell, Liv Constantine, and Megan Miranda, a lightning-paced psychological thriller that the New York Times Book Review says "kept me reading, near breathless, until all assumptions were gloriously upended" about two women, a tragedy that connects them as teenagers, and the terrible reckoning that will decide their fates a decade later Jane Ellison is a "super recognizer" able to identify strangers by the slightest facial details-the curve of a head, the arch of an eyebrow. When she spies human rights activist and heiress Bella Valencia in a crowded Boston airport, Jane's convinced she's found the person responsible for her sister Kit's disappearance and presumed death eleven years earlier. But her attempt to detain the suspect ends with Jane herself fired and humiliated. As Bella prepares to marry Will Pease, scion of the uber-wealthy, influential, and ruthless Pease family, famous for their wholesome wellness and lifestyle brand, on their private Cape Cod island, she grows increasingly anxious that her dire secret will be revealed and used against her by-of all people-the man she loves. She has reason to fear: Jane is ready to risk everything for the chance to publicly expose Bella's crimes at her upcoming celebrity wedding. But the more she digs into what happened that night, the more she questions her own assumptions. Combining magnetic, wise-cracking narration and a skillfully layered plot, Do I Know You? is a gripping psychological thriller and tale of redemption that reveals the power of a sister's love.

Do I Know You? - A Mystery Novel

Elle est jeune, elle est belle, elle est coiffeuse. Bubbles Yablonsky s’applique à rendre séduisantes les ménagères de plus de cinquante ans tout en restant convaincue que la vie a plus à lui offrir que des permanentes en série. Entre potins et ragots, elle joue ainsi, pour arrondir ses fins de mois difficiles, les journalistes redresseuses de torts. Bubbles se retrouve encore une fois dans la panade : son amie Janice ne s’est pas présentée devant l’autel le jour de son mariage. Et tout le monde l’accuse d’avoir encouragé la future mariée à prendre ses jambes à son cou en entonnant « Free like a bird » la veille, à l’occasion de son enterrement de vie de jeune fille. Pour couronner le tout, notre coiffeuse sexy découvre le corps inerte de l’oncle de Janice, le crâne fracassé. Son seul indice : la Rolls Royce de la victime a disparu. Notre héroïne se lance alors dans une enquête complexe qui la conduira à se faire passer pour une Amish au fin fond de la Pennsylvanie. Finalement ce meurtre énigmatique va permettre à Bubbles de prendre enfin un peu de vacances sans froufrous, douches ni même…la moindre trace de maquillage. Ne manquez pas Bubbles en fermière détective !

Bubbles coupe les cheveux en quatre

Ca chauffe pour Bubbles (Bubbles Yablonsky, #4)

Elle est jeune, elle est belle, elle est coiffeuse. Bubbles Yablonsky s'applique à rendre séduisantes les ménagères de plus de cinquante ans tout en restant convaincue que la vie a plus à lui offrir que des permanentes en série. Entre potins et ragots, elle joue ainsi, pour arrondir ses fins de mois difficiles, les journalistes redresseuses de torts. 
Mais comment dénicher une affaire juteuse à Lehigh, petite ville industrielle sur le déclin ? Il y aurait bien ce fait divers qui a secoué la haute société dix ans auparavant.. Une jeune fille de bonne famille, retrouvée morte d'une overdose dans la villa de ses parents. Un suicide, avaient conclu les autorités. Pour Bubbles, qui avait coiffé la victime l'après-midi même du drame, rien n'est moins sûr ! 
Entraînée dans un tourbillon où sexe, drogue et rock'n Roll sont saupoudrés de recettes cosmétiques et autres crêpages de chignon, la jeune femme va devoir prouver qu'elle manie aussi bien le stylo que le sèche-cheveux...

Bubbles se lache

Ms. Bubbles Yablonsky heeding a call from her boss at the News-Times and racing her Camaro toward a potentially big news story. But when she arrives at an abandoned coal mine, she finds the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious and the body of another man with a sizeable hole in his chest. Moments later, Bubbles and Stiletto are trapped by an explosion. Convinced that someone wants them dead, they search for their intended assassin in coal country, where they uncover a conspiracy at the Main Mane hairdressing salon, a cadre of women known as the Sirens of Slagville, and a hot spot called Limbo that's been burning underground for forty years.

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