Anna Pitoniak Bücher

Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess Stella inevitably leaves in her wake.After graduation, Violet moves to New York and lands a job in cable news, where she works her way up from intern to assistant to producer, and to a life where she's finally free from Stella's shadow. In this fast-paced world, Violet thrives, and her ambitions grow—but everything is jeopardized when Stella becomes envious of Violet's new life.As Violet and Stella strive for success, each reveals just how far she'll go to get what she wants—even if it means destroying the other person along the way.

"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--. Provided by publisher

This is a story about falling in love, and of a relationship that's falling apart. Evan and Julia are in love, graduating from Yale and moving into a small apartment in a big city in search of the shared future they'd always dreamed about. Taxi cabs and hot pretzels. Woody Allen and Breakfast at Tiffany's. The Met and the Guggenheim. New York is where life is going to begin. Evan lands a job at a hedge fund and a front row seat to watch the financial crash while Julia - lonely, unhappy at work and shut out of his secretive new life - struggles to find her own way in the adult world, finding comfort in someone from her past. But t's not long before Evan and Julia are spinning in separate orbits. Trapped by their own secrets, they are both about to realize that they are in too deep - but by this time it might just be too late . . . This is a story of high expectations and big dreams, of growing up, taking chances and making terrible mistakes. This is a love story. But nobody said it ends happily.

IT'S THE CASE OF AMANDA'S LIFETIME, BUT SOLVING IT WILL REQUIRE HER TO BETRAY ANOTHER SPY-WHO JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE HER FATHER.SPYING IS THE FAMILY BUSINESS. Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world-but one hot summer day, when a Russian[Bokinfo].