Adena Halpern

The story of a Philadelphia journalist's life, told through the outfits she most loved, describes how she related fashion to her inner life and used clothes to conform, seduce, or hide her way through school, a series of relationships, and her career.

Notes from a Single Girl's Closet

Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown

Arriving in heaven with her dog Peaches after an unfortunate auto accident, twenty-nine-year-old Alexandra Dorenfield is delighted to find herself in the seventh--and highest--level of heaven, where she is reunited with her grandparents and finds the man of her dreams, until she discovers that she must prove her right to remain there, or be demoted to a lower level of the hereafter. A first novel. Original.

The Ten Best Days of My Life

What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie’s done everything she can to stay young, and the last thing she wants is to celebrate another birthday. So when she finds herself confronted with a cake full of candles, Ellie wishes more than anything that she could be twenty-nine again, just for one day. But who expects a wish like that to come true? 29 is the story of three generations of women and how one magical day shakes up everything they know about each other. While Ellie finds that the life of a twenty-something is not as carefree as she expected, the sheer joy of being young again prompts her to consider living her life all over. Does she dare stay young for more than this day, even if it means leaving everyone she loves behind? Fresh, funny, and delightful, 29 is an enchanting adventure about families, love, and the real lessons of youth.

A Novel

LILY MARRIED THE MAN OF HER DREAMS.THEN SHE WOKE UP. “Never marry a man unless he’s short, bald, fat, stupid, and treats you badly.” That is the advice that twenty-nine-year-old Lily Burns has heard her entire life from her grandmother Dolly and her mother, Selma. Despite this, when she meets Gogo, the handsome, successful pediatrician who treats her like a queen, she has no choice but to let her heart take over. When she agrees to marry him, Dolly and Selma are inconsolable. They decide it’s time to tell her the truth: their family is cursed. If she marries for love, there will be unimaginable consequences. Nevertheless, Lily and Gogo elope. Unable to believe her good fortune, Lily asks Gogo to pinch her—to make sure all this isn’t just a dream. The moment he does, Lily finds herself transported back to the house she lived in when she was single. Gogo is gone. When Lily tracks him down, she finds that he’s married to someone else and has no memory of her. In this modern fairy tale, Lily must find a way to break the curse and turn her nightmare back into a dream come true.

Pinch Me

The story of a young woman’s life, one outfit at a time. Tucked inside the fibers and buttons and pockets of the clothing in our closets are the stories of our lives, the lessons we’ve learned, the people we’ve loved. Like so many of us, Adena Halpern has used clothes to conform, to seduce, to console, to show off, and to hide. Her ability to relate fashion to her inner life--in a way that goes beyond the clothes--has endeared her to many readers, one of whom called her, "the real-life Carrie Bradshaw." But Fashionista, she’s not. Adena is: every teenage girl who had to have what all the other girls had, whether it looked good on her or not; the college coed who swooned for the boy in the leather jacket; the heartbroken girl who chose a rebound dress over a rebound man; the best friend who borrows clothes and never gives them back; the woman who is 45 minutes late to work because she has nothing to wear. She is a lover of clothes and shopping whose passionate memories are always tied not only to the clothes that she wore, but what everyone else was wearing, too. This is the affectionate and funny story of Adena’s life, an unconventional love story that readers will want to share. Clotheshorse or otherwise, this book is for anyone who keeps an old piece of clothing in the back of their closet, wishing that one day those clothes would get up and start talking about the wonderful times you once shared together.

The story of a young woman s life, one outfit at a time. Tucked inside the fibers and buttons and pockets of the clothing in our closets are the stories of our lives, the lessons we ve learned, the people we ve loved. Like so many of us, Adena Halpern has used clothes to conform, to seduce, to console, to show off, and to hide. Her ability to relate fashion to her inner life in a way that goes beyond the clothes has endeared her to many readers, one of whom called her, the real-life Carrie Bradshaw. But Fashionista, she s not. Adena is: every teenage girl who had to have what all the other girls had, whether it looked good on her or not; the college coed who swooned for the boy in the leather jacket; the heartbroken girl who chose a rebound dress over a rebound man; the best friend who borrows clothes and never gives them back; the woman who is 45 minutes late to work because she has nothing to wear. She is a lover of clothes and shopping whose passionate memories are always tied not only to the clothes that she wore, but what everyone else was wearing, too. This is the affectionate and funny story of Adena s life, an unconventional love story that readers will want to share. Clotheshorse or otherwise, this book is for anyone who keeps an old piece of clothing in the back of their closet, wishing that one day those clothes would get up and start talking about the wonderful times you once shared together.

Chrissie Manby

Kristan Higgins

Découvrez les trois comédies recommandées par les éditions MOSAIC : des romans qui font du bien et qui vous feront passer du rire aux larmes. Une semaine légèrement agitée, Chrissie Manby KEEP CALM ! Quelques jours en famille, ce n'est pas la mer à boire ! Va-t-elle survivre à une (longue, très longue) semaine de vacances avec (toute) sa famille ? C’est le casse-tête obsédant de Chelsea Benton depuis que sa mère a lancé sa bombe : les réunir tous en hôtel-club à Lanzarote pour fêter ses 60 ans. « Chaleureux et drôle, caustique et tendre... Une comédie satirique pour rire de vos propres vacances en famille (ou pas) ». A un détail près, Kristan Higgins Une comédie romantique piquante et pleine de charme. Depuis que son fiancé, trois ans plus tôt, a décidé de faire son coming out le jour même de leur mariage, Faith Holland n’a plus qu’une obsession : trouver un homme qui ne lui dissimule pas un détail incompatible avec une relation amoureuse saine, heureuse et durable. Autrement dit, un homme hétéro. Célibataire. Sans enfant caché. Et de préférence pas drogué non plus. Les dix plus beaux jours de ma vie, Adena Halpern Aller au paradis ? Rien de plus facile. Y rester va demander un peu plus d'efforts. Malencontreusement renversée par une Mini Cooper , Alexandra Dorenfield, 29 ans, se réveille au paradis. Et découvre, ébahie, qu’on y exauce tous ses voeux : elle a le droit d’emménager dans la maison de ses rêves, dispose d’un dressing de folie, et peut se gaver honteusement de gâteaux et de chocolat sans prendre l’ombre d’un microgramme... Mais voilà, pour rester au paradis version septième ciel, il y a une condition. Prouver qu’on le mérite. Alexandra y arrivera-t-elle ?

Le meilleur de la comédie

Zum Lachen – zum Weinen: Adena Halpern trifft mitten ins Herz Noch keine dreißig Jahre alt, wird Alex mit ihrem Pocket Beagle in L.A. überfahren. Überraschend findet sie sich im Siebten Himmel wieder. Dort gehören begehbare Schuhschränke genauso zum Alltag wie das bewegende Wiedersehen mit ihren verstorbenen Großeltern. Doch Schutzengel Deborah funkt dazwischen. Mit einem Aufsatz über die zehn besten Tage ihres Lebens muss Alex erst beweisen, dass sie den Siebten Himmel verdient hat und ihr Leben nicht nur mit der sinnlosen Jagd nach dem neuesten Designerfummel zugebracht hat. Aber trifft nicht genau das zu? Ein ganz neuer Ton in der Frauenunterhaltung: rührend, stylish, turbulent, charmant.

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