The Devil Wears Prada 穿著Prada的惡魔

　安德莉亞是個來自小鎮的社會新鮮人。因緣際會下，她得到一個所有女孩夢寐以求的工作，成為Runway時尚雜誌知名編輯米蘭達．普瑞斯特的私人助理。

　　第一次見到新主管，安德莉亞著實大開眼界。她望見整間辦公室，充斥著滿坑滿谷的Prada, Armani, Versace 等知名品牌，這讓初出茅廬的她，深深地墜入時尚產業的炫麗世界。

　　在這個流行天堂，瘦骨如柴的男女，每天來來往往；高貴嬌氣的女人，穿著狹小到無法呼吸的新款服飾，俊逸的男人則穿上可清楚看見肋骨的貼身高領毛衣，外加緊身皮褲。在單純的安德莉亞眼中，這些行頭，正默默的替主人宣示；他們的終身職志，將是全然無悔的奉獻給流行時尚與健身房。然而，更令人驚訝的還在後頭；不管這些時尚貴族有多麼的驕傲跋扈，多麼的不可一世，她的上司米蘭達，總有辦法讓這些王子公主，乖乖俯首稱臣。就像個小朋友一樣，安安靜靜地，連大氣都不敢喘一下！！

　　《穿著Prada的惡魔》給眾多難搞的上司老闆，重新賦予一個幽默的新名詞『地獄來的老闆』安德莉亞用清新詼諧的幽默語調，言簡易駭的描述，充斥著八卦消息與鉤心鬥角的時尚圈，還有在華服美食的派對背後，不為人知的黑暗秘辛。

　　書中對米蘭達，這個苛刻浪費的特權人士，有著一針見血的描述；她斥資讓孩子們，坐著豪華的私人噴射機，到巴黎購買尚未上市的《哈利波特》。還有她包下法國不知名小鎮的古老商店，周圍的氛圍都要合她胃口，米蘭達爽快的使喚下人為她服務，還買了一大堆高級服飾。但是米蘭達對待員工的方式，可就不如花錢這麼爽快了！

　　安德莉亞與她工作，可真是個漫長而痛苦的實驗，她得時時刻刻忍受上司陰晴不定的古怪脾氣，不但對工作要戰戰兢兢，更得在三更半夜，接聽米蘭達一時興起，打來咆哮的電話。

　　唯一支持她忍受這些痛苦的，只有一個終極目標，如果她還想在時尚圈工作，她就得獲得米蘭達的推薦信，只要有了這封信，就如同皇帝御賜的聖物，她將可以選擇任何一家，她想去的知名雜誌社工作。為了美好的將來，也為了可以順利的往上爬。安德莉亞願意默默忍受一切的不公平與痛苦。然而到最後，安德莉亞意識到一個可怕的事；這個所有女孩夢寐以求的工作，不但讓她生不如死，失去自尊，還會一並出賣她的靈魂。

本書中譯本《穿著 PRADA的惡魔》由高寶出版。

　　A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses.

　　Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child.

　　THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA gives a rich and hilarious new meaning to complaints about “The Boss from Hell.” Narrated in Andrea’s smart, refreshingly disarming voice, it traces a deep, dark, devilish view of life at the top only hinted at in gossip columns and over Cosmopolitans at the trendiest cocktail parties. From sending the latest, not-yet-in-stores Harry Potter to Miranda’s children in Paris by private jet, to locating an unnamed antique store where Miranda had at some point admired a vintage dresser, to serving lattes to Miranda at precisely the piping hot temperature she prefers, Andrea is sorely tested each and every day—and often late into the night with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation from Miranda that will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the price of her soul.

Message in a Bottle

If you thought Nicholas Sparks couldn’t possibly tug at your heartstrings again like he did in The Notebook, you were wrong. Thrown to the waves and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. But it found its way to Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son. The letter inside is signed ”Garrett”, and is an expression of his love for a woman he has lost. Challenged by the mystery, Theresa searches for Garrett, and takes the reader along on a hunt about love. 　　本書曾被改編為電影《瓶中信》，由凱文科斯納主演。中譯本《瓶中信》由時報出版。

The Help

2009年美國出版界奇蹟！

　　★不到一年銷量突破4百萬冊！
★《紐約時報》2009年度暢銷榜第二名，僅次於丹．布朗《失落的符號》

　　我們只是兩個人，我倆之間並沒有那麼多不同。

　　遠遠不如我們想像中的不同。

　　1962年美國南方密西西比州。23歲白人女孩史基特剛從大學畢業返鄉，她夢想成為作家，但她的母親認為一椿好婚事才是女人的依歸。史基特從小由女傭帶大，女傭是她傾訴心事的好朋友，然而這次回來女傭也失蹤了，沒有人知道去向。

　　機靈能幹，內斂沉著，曾帶大十七個白人小孩的53歲黑傭愛比琳，在兒子兩年前因雇主疏忽而意外死亡後，她的內心世界起了變化，她在史基特的朋友李佛太太家當幫傭，照顧兩歲的小女孩。

　　黑傭米妮，是愛比琳最好的朋友，矮小肥胖，廚藝了得，除了一身潑辣性格使她時常丟工作，一直到鎮上新來一戶人家才讓她找到幫傭之職。新來的漂亮女主人對待米妮如同姊妹，只是女主人看似心事重重還行跡可疑，鎮上的其他女士也不歡迎她。

　　某日，史基特的朋友希莉起草一份衛生計畫，她恐於黑人身上帶有病毒，建議為幫傭另蓋廁所。對此感到不平的史基特，決意著手一個謂為大膽的寫作計畫：採訪黑傭在白人家庭的工作甘苦，並寫成一本書……

　　愛比琳、米妮，和善良的史基特、接二連三的黑人遭虐事件，以及一個「幫傭專用廁所」事件，使得這些女人在保守的60年代不分黑白地首次相聚：黑傭訴說人 生，白女孩記錄並改造故事。像發動寧靜革命，也像是拋磚引玉，有越來越多黑傭透過她們願意說出故事，在膚色黑白分明、道德黑白卻模稜兩可的年代，她們的相 遇是民權運動發生前黑與白間搭起的最初橋梁。或許是真的，不管有多麼危險，「這本書」真能順利出版，讓她們的聲音被世人聽見……

　　夢工廠取得電影版權即將盛大開拍

　　中譯本《姊妹》由「商周」出版。

　　Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:

　　Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

　　Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

　　Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

　　Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

　　In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

Sex And the City

Equal parts soap opera, gossip page, sociological study, and dating manual, Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell’s regular New York Observer column, has attracted a cult following, propelling Bushnell to achieve her own star-status. This collection brings her pieces together for the first time, where they read as a twisted nineties society novel in serial format. A chronicle of the mating habits of our cultural elite, Sex and the City makes a stage of the various launch parties, openings, and celebrity affairs that keep New York’s high society amused. It has long since been proven that the later Candace stays out at night, the better the stories she comes home with. In addition to banging on kitchen doors for more champagne, her stunts include shedding her clothes to infiltrate a sex club, plying a roomful of men with rum and marijuana as a prelude to a discussion of menage a trois, and venturing to the most posh of all suburbs to interview married women about their sex lives (only to return to Manhattan and forget her sordid findings with the aid of several cocktails). Sex and the City is a modern-day comedy of errors, a fantastic and sometimes terrifying foray into the hearts and minds of city dwellers. Traveling in packs from parties to bars to clubs, Bushnell’s characters carry on the never-ending search for the perfect marriage partner, the most coveted piece of gossip, and, when the night is done, someone to go home with.