Jill Smolinski

Following a car accident that claims the life of her passenger, Marissa, June Parker stumbles upon a list that Marissa had written entitled "20 Things to Do By My 25th Birthday" and is compelled by both guilt and a sense of setting things right to complete the list for Marissa, struggling to complete a variety of different goals before the deadline while learning more about her own life in the process. 25,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Next Thing on My List

Struggling to start over after a failed relationship and her son's entry into drug rehab, a struggling Lucy Bloom tackles an unexpectedly challenging job clearing the cluttered home of a reclusive artist and hoarder who hides an astonishing secret. By the author of Flip-Flopped. 30,000 first printing.

Objects of My Affection

After a car accident kills Marissa, a passenger finds a list written by the dead woman -- "20 things to do by my 25th birthday" and decides to finish the list, which includes run a 5K, go braless, and change someone's life.

Roman

Die Wunschliste

Volcanologist Keeley Baker-Kekuhi is in the middle a a custody battle over her four-year-old son when she meets Ian Gardiner.

Flip-Flopped

In the humorous, heartfelt new novel by the author of The Next Thing on My List, a personal organizer must somehow convince a reclusive artist to give up her hoarding ways and let go of the stuff she’s hung on to for decades. Lucy Bloom is broke, freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and forced to sell her house to send her nineteen-year-old son to drug rehab. Although she’s lost it all, she’s determined to start over. So when she’s offered a high-paying gig helping clear the clutter from the home of reclusive and eccentric painter Marva Meier Rios, Lucy grabs it. Armed with the organizing expertise she gained while writing her book, Things Are Not People, and fueled by a burning desire to get her life back on track, Lucy rolls up her sleeves to take on the mess that fills every room of Marva’s huge home. Lucy soon learns that the real challenge may be taking on Marva, who seems to love the objects in her home too much to let go of any of them. While trying to stay on course toward a strict deadline—and with an ex-boyfriend back in the picture, a new romance on the scene, and her son’s rehab not going as planned—Lucy discovers that Marva isn’t just hoarding, she is also hiding a big secret. The two form an unlikely bond, as each learns from the other that there are those things in life we keep, those we need to let go—but it’s not always easy to know the difference.

Die attraktive Vulkanologin Keeley hat nach der Trennung von ihrem untreuen Ehemann entschieden, der Liebe endgültig abzuschwören. Und nun kommt ihr gerade recht, dass einer ihrer Feuerberge auf Hawaii kurz vor dem Ausbruch steht. Doch da bringt der charmante Kunsthändler Ian ihr Herz zum Beben ... Herzbeben von Jill Smolinski: Romantik im eBook!

Herzbeben

Die exzentrische Künstlerin Marva will ihr Haus entrümpeln lassen. Nur ist bisher jeder an dieser Aufgabe gescheitert, denn sobald es losgeht, kann Marva sich von nichts trennen. Lucy nimmt den Job trotzdem an, sie braucht das Geld. Doch erst nach zahllosen Querelen erkennen die Frauen, dass sie voneinander lernen können: Denn es gibt Dinge, die man festhalten, und solche, die man loslassen muss. Den Unterschied zu erkennen, das ist das Problem.

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