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Jennifer Crusie

    17 settembre 1949

    Jenny Crusie è un'autrice bestseller del New York Times la cui prolifica produzione include una ventina di romanzi e numerose altre opere. La sua scrittura è celebrata per la sua voce distintiva e la sua capacità di catturare i lettori. Approfondisce temi che risuonano profondamente con il pubblico contemporaneo, creando narrazioni che sono sia divertenti che stimolanti.

    Jennifer Crusie
    Manhunting
    Bet Me
    Agnes and the Hitman
    Charlie All Night
    Temptation
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    • Facciamo finta che

      • 334pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      I Goodnight sono una famiglia rispettabile, titolari da generazioni di un'altrettanto rispettabile galleria d'arte. C'è Gwen, la matriarca, che sogna di fuggire e mollare tutto; c'è Eve, la figlia maggiore, che ha un piccolo problema di identità (o per meglio dire, di identità ne ha due) e un ex marito degno di lei (adora travestirsi da donna); c'è Nadine, sua figlia, pronta a seguire la vocazione di famiglia. E infine c'è Matilda, la sorella minore di Eve, che ha ereditato il segreto nascosto nella cantina di casa. Per preservarlo Matilda è pronta a fare di tutto, compreso introdursi furtivamente in casa altrui: ed è in questa occasione che, dentro un armadio, incontra Davy, affascinante ex farabutto a cui dovrà raccontare il suo segreto...

      Facciamo finta che
      3,5
    • A hilarious and heartfelt tale by the master of romantic comedy, Jennifer Crusie! Dumped by her boyfriend and demoted from WBBB's prime-time spot, radio producer Allie McGuffey has nowhere to go but up. She plans to make her comeback by turning temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a household name. And if he's willing to help cure her breakup blues with a rebound fling, that's an added bonus. Charlie just wants to kick back, play good tunes and eat Chinese food. He's not interested in becoming famous. But he is interested in Allie. And after all, what harm is a little chemistry between friends? But suddenly their one-night stand has become a four-week addiction. Night after night on the airwaves, his voice seduces her…and all the other women in town. He's a hit. It looks as if Charlie's solved all Allie's problems…except one. What is she going to do when he leaves?

      Charlie All Night
      4,0
    • Agnes and the Hitman

      A Novel

      • 419pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Agnes Crandall's problems are rolling to a boil. First, a dog-napper invades her kitchen, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she's staked her entire net worth on. Then a man climbs through her bedroom window to save her. "Shane" (no last name) may be Agnes's hero, but he's also a professional hitman—so he's no stranger to trouble himself… Between a rival who wants to take him out and an uncle who may have lost five million bucks in Agnes's basement, Shane's plate is plenty full. Soon Agnes and Shane are tangled up with the lowlifes after the money, a gang of Southern mob wedding guests, a dog named Rhett, and—most dangerous of all—each other.

      Agnes and the Hitman
      4,0
    • The biggest gamble of all is true love in this story about long shots, risk management, and great shoes--the best novel yet from the author of "Faking It." "A hoot. Oh, go ahead. Indulge."

      Bet Me
      4,0
    • Manhunting

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie released on Oct 25, 2000 is available now for purchase.

      Manhunting
      3,9
    • Tell Me Lies

      • 502pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Maddie Faraday's life would be perfect- if it weren't for her cheating husband, her suspicious daughter, her gossipy mother, her secretive best friend, her nosy neighbors, and that guy she lost her virginity to twenty years ago... In TELL ME LIES, Jennifer Crusie dishes up a funny, sexy, suspenseful novel about small-town secrets, big-time betrayals and the redemptive power of love, laughter and chocolate brownies. "A humorous mixture of romance, mystery, and mayhem. A winner!" - Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author of Breathing Room "Lovers of Susan Isaacs? mysteries, take heart? There's a new author on the block!" - Woman's Own "A jaunty tale of love and murder...the plot springs some genuine surprises...there's enough intrigue and scandal here to make a small city stay home." - Publishers Weekly "Smart, sexy and howlingly funny. Having a bad day? Tell Me Lies is just the tonic to make you laugh again." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Apprentice

      Tell Me Lies
      3,8
    • Crazy for You

      • 325pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her.

      Crazy for You
      3,8
    • Welcome to Temptation

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want. Gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent sex: all hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble, and in love.

      Welcome to Temptation
      3,8
    • Coffee at Luke's

      • 208pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      In the fall of 2000, Gilmore Girls premiered on the WB and viewers were introduced to the quirky world of Stars Hollow and the Gilmores who had made it their home, mother-daughter best friends Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. With the show in its seventh season on the fledgling CW, Coffee at Luke's is the perfect look at what has made the show such a clever, beloved part of the television landscape for so long.What are the risks of having your mother be your best friend? How is Gilmore Girls anti-family, at least in the traditional sense? What's a male viewer to do when he finds both mother and daughter attractive? And how is creator Amy Sherman-Palladino like Emily Gilmore? From the show's class consciousness to the way the characters are shaped by the books they read, the music they listen to and the movies they watch, Coffee at Luke's looks at the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking underpinnings of smart viewer's Tuesday night television staple, and takes them further into Stars Hollow than they've ever been before.

      Coffee at Luke's
      3,6