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'A feisty, feminist fairy tale...Atmospheric' Caroline Kepnes,
author of YOU Best friends Evie, Krista and Willow are just trying
to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. They're regular
girls with typical quarter life crises: making it up the corporate
ladder, making sense of online dating, and making rent. Until they
come across Pretty, a magic tincture that makes them, well
...gorgeous. With a single drop, each young woman gets the gift of
jaw-dropping beauty for one week, presenting them with unimaginable
opportunities to make their biggest fantasies come true. But
there's a dark side to Pretty, too, and as the gloss fades for
these modern-day Cinderellas, there's just one question left: what
are they prepared to sacrifice? Praise for The Regulars:
'Wonderfully entertaining debut, full of magic and heart' Scott
Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author of UGLIES and ZEROES
'Take just one drop of THE REGULARS and you'll be hooked: this is
compulsive reading from a bright new voice' Brenda Bowen, author of
ENCHANTED AUGUST 'A feisty, feminist fairy tale...Atmospheric and
confident' Caroline Kepnes, author of YOU 'Sexy, fast-paced and
extremely funny. You won't want the cheering effect of this
brilliant debut to wear off too quickly' Sunday Mirror 'Great
stuff' Heat 'It's Mean Girls with magic thrown in' Look
"A wedding planner dies and leaves the business to his wife-and his
mistress. What could possibly go wrong? A charming rom-com to kick
off your summer."-People An Elin Hilderbrand Entertainment Weekly
Summer Reading Pick "The book-equivalent of a perfect first date...
Highly highly recommend." -Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times
bestselling author "A heady kaleidoscope of romance, heartbreak,
and healing that's both rich in insight and enchantingly funny."
-Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author The author of the
"emotional, hilarious, and thought-provoking" (People) novel The
Bucket List returns with a witty and heartfelt romantic comedy
featuring a wedding planner, her unexpected business partner, and
their coworkers in a series of linked love stories-perfect for fans
of Christina Lauren and Casey McQuiston. For the past twenty years,
Liv and Eliot Goldenhorn have run In Love in New York, Brooklyn's
beloved wedding-planning business. When Eliot dies unexpectedly, he
even more unexpectedly leaves half of the business to his younger,
blonder girlfriend, Savannah. Liv and Savannah are not a match made
in heaven, to say the least. But what starts as a personal and
professional nightmare transforms into something even savvy,
cynical Liv Goldenhorn couldn't begin to imagine. It Had to Be You
cleverly unites Liv, Savannah, and couples as diverse and unique as
New York City itself, in a joyous Love-Actually-style braided
narrative. The result is a smart, modern love story that truly
speaks to our times. Second chances, secret romance, and steamy
soul mates are front and center in this sexy, tender, and utterly
charming rom-com that is "so much fun" (Casey McQuiston, New York
Times bestselling author).
This is the first of three volumes which offer a detailed analysis
of one of the major city-blocks of ancient Pompeii, destroyed by
the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. Excavated between 1926 and 1932,
the Insula of Menander is so named after the structure that
occupies over half the block's total area of 3,500 square metres,
the House of the Menander, one of the grandest mansions of the
city. Other, smaller houses, notably the House of the Lovers and
the House of the Craftsmen, occupy outlying parts, and a number of
shops and apartments are interspersed among them. The purpose of
the present volume is to document a complete survey of the
architecture of the block and thus trace the structural history of
the Insula, with its intricate pattern of changing
property-boundaries, over the 250-300 years of its existence.
Subsequent volumes will examine the decorations (wall-paintings and
mosaic pavements) and the objects that were found during
excavation. Paradoxically, while Pompeii is one of the best known
of all Roman archaeological sites, very few areas of the site have
been fully published. This is the first time a global study has
been undertaken of one of the major city-blocks and it shows the
enormous potential of such investigations to reveal insights into
the social history of the city.
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