Jennifer Donnelly

Odnazhdy Izabel i Oktavija zaperli na cherdake svoju svodnuju sestru Ellu-Sinderellu-Zolushku i chut li ne kostmi legli, chtoby vlezt v khrustalnuju tufelku. Vse my znaem, chem zakonchilas znamenitaja skazka, no chto stalo so zlymi sestrami? Ob etom znajut tri Sudby - deva, mat i starukha, - perom iz kryla chernogo lebedja oni chertjat karty chelovecheskikh zhiznej. No dazhe oni bessilny pered khrabrym serdtsem i tverdoj reshimostju izmenitsja. Izabel najdet v sebe sily perelomit prednachertannoe i vershit svoju sudbu sama. V eto verit Risk, on zhe Azart, on zhe Shans, smuglokozhij i jantarnoglazyj, a potomu on pokhischaet kartu Izabel, chtoby ej pomoch. Ved dazhe zloj sestritse nado dat shans ispravitsja...

Krasivaja i dobraja printsessa Sofi vskore dolzhna vzojti na tron. No zlaja koroleva, machekha Sofi, schitaet padcheritsu slishkom mjagkoserdechnoj, ved dlja bezzhalostnykh ljudej net nichego strashnee dobroty. Praviteli dolzhny byt tverdy i zhestoki; oni ne imejut prava na slabost ili strakh. Zhelaja sokhranit vlast, koroleva prikazyvaet egerju ubit Sofi i zabrat ee serdtse. Odnako sem lesnykh chelovechkov spasajut devushku, vstaviv ej vmesto serdtsa chasovoj mekhanizm... I teper pered Sofi stoit slozhnyj vybor: sprjatatsja, smiritsja s despotichnym pravleniem korolevy ili borotsja. "Zheleznoe serdtse" - novaja interpretatsija istorii o Belosnezhke, rasskazannaja Dzhennifer Donnelli, avtorom bestsellerov "Chajnaja roza" i "Sestritsa", laureatom mnogochislennykh premij, v tom chisle Medali Karnegi.

From New York Times bestselling, Carnegie-award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.“Absolutely enthralling storytelling...the romantic chemistry and witty banter of the lead characters is most enjoyable” - Joy Court, LoveReading (Book of the Month) What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly? That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her - the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault - after all, there's nothing more "beastly" than a girl who expresses her anger - and the only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love. When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the curse. But Beau - spooked by the castle's strange and forbidding ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at night - only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves. A stunningly told, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast Authored by the brilliant, New York Times bestselling, Carnegie-award-winning author, Jennifer Donnelly A story that will change how you view beauty, power and your own emotions

*"A dreamy, sublimely written tale." -- Publishers Weekly, starred reviewFrom New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart. What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly? That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her -- the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault -- after all, there's nothing more "beastly" than a girl who expresses her anger -- and the only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love. When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the curse. But Beau -- spooked by the castle's strange and forbidding ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at night -- only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves.

Leto 1900 goda. V Vostochnom Londone po-prezhnemu tsarit bednost, bandity i shljukhi sosedstvujut s mechtateljami, a svetlye nadezhdy stalkivajutsja s mrachnoj dejstvitelnostju. I eto otnjud ne mesto dlja zhenschiny iz vysshikh sloev obschestva, no Indija reshitelna i uprjama. Ona prinadlezhit k novomu pokoleniju, i professija vracha, kotoruju ona poluchila, tozhe sravnitelno nova dlja zhenschin. Na ulitsakh Vostochnogo Londona Indija vstrechaet, a zatem spasaet zhizn Sidu Melounu, odnomu iz samykh izvestnykh glavarej londonskogo prestupnogo mira. Zhestkij, opasnyj i v to zhe vremja neobychajno obajatelnyj, Meloun javljaetsja polnoj protivopolozhnostju zhenikhu Indii, voskhodjaschej zvezde v palate obschin. I khotja Sid olitsetvorjaet vse, chto poritsaet i otvergaet Indija, ee neobjasnimo tjanet k etomu cheloveku. Ona podpadaet pod ego obajanie. Ej ne daet pokoja ego tainstvennoe proshloe, kuda Meloun ne dopuskaet nikogo... V "Zimnej roze" zhivo vossozdany sobytija nachala bespokojnogo XX veka. Zdes i pritony prestupnogo mira, i bolnitsy dlja bednykh, i gostinye i kluby aristokratov. Mezhdu etimi poljarnymi tochkami lezhit tsarstvo tenej, gde strogie zakony vremeni rastvorjajutsja v tajnykh strastjakh.

1914 god. London nakanune Pervoj mirovoj vojny. Shejmi Finnegan, teper uzhe izvestnyj poljarnik, zhenitsja na krasivoj molodoj uchitelnitse i vsemi silami pytaetsja zabyt svoju junosheskuju ljubov Uillu Olden, kotoraja bessledno ischezla posle tragicheskogo proisshestvija na Kilimandzharo. Odnako prezhnjaja strast vspykhivaet s novoj siloj, kogda byvshie vljublennye neozhidanno vstrechajutsja, no u sudby svoi plany... V "Dikoj roze", poslednej chasti krasivoj, emotsionalnoj i zapominajuschejsja trilogii, vossozdana istorija obychnykh ljudej na fone mirovykh kataklizmov. Zdes svetskie salony i pritony Londona, bogemnyj Parizh i surovye Gimalai, ledjanye prostory Arktiki i peski Aravijskoj pustyni.

From Jennifer Donnelly, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Stepsister, comes a fairytale retelling that'll forever change the way you think about strength, power, and the real meaning of "happily ever after." "...a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, wrapped up in a thrilling fantasy adventure." -- The Guardian A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year AN American Library Association-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Optioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born, and Bruna Papandrea, producer of Big Little Lies. Once upon a time, a girl named Sophie rode into the forest with the queen's huntsman. Her lips were the color of ripe cherries, her skin as soft as new-fallen snow, her hair as dark as midnight. When they stopped to rest, the huntsman pulled out his knife . . . and took Sophie's heart. It shouldn't have come as a surprise. Sophie had heard the rumors, the whispers. They said she was too kind and foolish to rule -- a waste of a princess. A disaster of a future queen. And Sophie believed them. She believed everything she'd heard about herself, the poisonous words people use to keep girls like Sophie from becoming too powerful, too strong . . . With the help of seven mysterious strangers, Sophie manages to survive. But when she realizes that the jealous queen might not be to blame, Sophie must find the courage to face an even more terrifying enemy, proving that even the darkest magic can't extinguish the fire burning inside every girl, and that kindness is the ultimate form of strength.

1906 god. Matilde 16 let, i bolshe vsego na svete ona ljubit chitat. Odnako ej predstoit provesti vsju zhizn na ferme v Severnykh Lesakh, khlopotat po khozjajstvu, stat zhenoj i materju, zabotitsja o seme. O drugoj sudbe nechego i mechtat. Zrja uchitelnitsa govorit, chto u Metti est talant i ej nuzhno uekhat v Nju-Jork, postupit v universitet, stat pisatelnitsej... Ustroivshis na leto porabotat v otel "Glenmor", Metti neozhidanno stanovitsja khranitelnitsej pisem Grejs Braun, zagadochno ischeznuvshej devushki. Mozhet li byt, chto, razmyshljaja o zhizni Grejs, Matilda reshitsja izmenit svoju?

Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow, and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne.

1888 god. Vostochnyj London — eto gorod v gorode. Mesto tenej i sveta; mesto, gde vory i shljukhi sosedstvujut s mechtateljami; gde dnem deti igrajut na bulyzhnykh mostovykh, a nochju po nim kradetsja ubijtsa; gde svetlye nadezhdy stalkivajutsja s mrachnoj dejstvitelnostju. Zdes, pod shepot voln Temzy, Fiona Finnegan, rabotnitsa chajnoj fabriki, mechtaet odnazhdy otkryt svoj magazin vmeste s Dzho Bristou, synom rynochnogo torgovtsa, kotorogo ona znaet i ljubit s detstva. Dvizhimye veroj drug v druga, Fiona i Dzho vedut povsednevnoe srazhenie s zhiznju, ekonomjat na vsem i terpjat lishenija; i vsjo vo imja osuschestvlenija ikh mechty. No privychnaja zhizn Fiony razletaetsja vdrebezgi, kogda dejstvija temnogo i zhestokogo cheloveka otnimajut u nee pochti vsjo i vsekh, kogo ona ljubila i kto sluzhil ej oporoj. Opasajas za svoju zhizn, Fiona vynuzhdena bezhat iz Londona v Nju-Jork. Tam, blagodarja uporstvu i neukrotimomu dukhu, ona podnimaetsja ot khozjajki skromnogo magazina v Vest-Sajde do vladelitsy protsvetajuschej chajnoj kompanii. No prizraki proshlogo ne dajut ej pokoja, i chtoby razobratsja s nimi, Fiona vozvraschaetsja v London. Smertelnaja skhvatka s ee proshlym stanovitsja kljuchom k ee buduschemu. Vpervye na russkom jazyke!

From Jennifer Donnelly, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Stepsister, comes a fairytale retelling that'll forever change the way you think about strength, power, and the real meaning of "happily ever after.""...a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, wrapped up in a thrilling fantasy adventure." -- The GuardianA Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year AN American Library Association-YALSA Best Fiction for Young AdultsOptioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born, and Bruna Papandrea, producer of Big Little Lies. Once upon a time, a girl named Sophie rode into the forest with the queen's huntsman. Her lips were the color of ripe cherries, her skin as soft as new-fallen snow, her hair as dark as midnight. When they stopped to rest, the huntsman pulled out his knife . . . and took Sophie's heart. It shouldn't have come as a surprise. Sophie had heard the rumors, the whispers. They said she was too kind and foolish to rule -- a waste of a princess. A disaster of a future queen. And Sophie believed them. She believed everything she'd heard about herself, the poisonous words people use to keep girls like Sophie from becoming too powerful, too strong . . . With the help of seven mysterious strangers, Sophie manages to survive. But when she realizes that the jealous queen might not be to blame, Sophie must find the courage to face an even more terrifying enemy, proving that even the darkest magic can't extinguish the fire burning inside every girl, and that kindness is the ultimate form of strength.

* "Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of familiar fairy tale. Isabelle is] a shattered but not unredeemable girl with a warrior's heart." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn instant New York Times bestsellerOptioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born and Bruna Papandrea, producer of Big Little LiesA Seventeen Best of the YearLonglisted for the Carnegie MedalAn American Librarian Association-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults bookAn American Library Association Feminist Book Project bookA Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the YearIsabelle should be blissfully happy -- she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe . . . which is now filling with blood. Isabelle tried to fit in. She cut away pieces of herself in order to become pretty. Sweet. More like Cinderella. But that only made her mean, jealous, and hollow. Now she has a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl. Evoking the darker, original version of the Cinderella story, Stepsister shows us that ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and uses Jennifer Donnelly's trademark wit and wisdom to send an overlooked character on a journey toward empowerment, redemption . . . and a new definition of beauty.

Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again. The charming and mysterious characters Belle meets within the pages of Nevermore offer her glamorous conversation, a life of dazzling Parisian luxury, and even a reunion she never thought possible. Here Belle can have everything she ever wished for. But what about her friends in the Beast's castle? Can Belle trust her new companions inside the pages of Nevermore? Is Nevermore's world even real? Belle must uncover the truth about the book, before she loses herself in it forever.

'In an ancient city by the sea, three sisters - a maiden, a mother, and a crone - are drawing maps by candlelight. Sombre, with piercing grey eyes, they are the three Fates, and every map is a human life . . .'Stepsister takes up where Cinderella's tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella's two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not. Isabelle is fearless, brave, and strong-willed. She fences better than any boy, and takes her stallion over jumps that grown men fear to attempt. It doesn't matter, though; these qualities are not valued in a girl. Others have determined what is beautiful, and Isabelle does not fit their definition. Isabelle must face down the demons that drove her cruel treatment of Ella, challenge her own fate and maybe even redefine the very notion of beauty . . . Cinderella is about a girl who was bullied; Stepsister is about the bully. We all root for the victims, we want to see them triumph. But what about the bullies? Is there hope for them? Can a mean girl change? Can she find her own happily ever after?