Laura Prandino Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will you sweep you up and never let you go. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn't? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has lost. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are-not a war, but a revolution-and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria's freedom

Hoci sa v ospalom mestečku Venus Cove nikdy nič zvláštne nedeje, práve sem sú vyslaní traja anjeli – bojovník Gabriel, liečiteľka Ivy a neskúsená Bethany, aby plnili svoje poslanie na Zemi a postavili sa proti silnejúcim temným silám. Bethany je z trojice anjelov najmladšia a viac než silám Zla musí čeliť volaniu vlastného srdca, ktoré ju priťahuje k mladíkovi Xavierovi. Láska anjela k pozemskému chlapcovi však porušuje všetky zákony neba a ani nebesá nie sú nekonečne trpezlivé. Navyše sa v mestečku nečakane zjavuje tajomný študent a každému pripomenie, že nadprirodzené sily nebývajú len láskavé a dobrotivé. A čo je najhoršie, zálusk si robí aj na Bethany, ktorá sa tak ocitá v smrteľnom nebezpečenstve.

First book of a sweeping trilogy from the fastest-growing author in historical fiction.

Major Ernest Pettigrew is perfectly content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies, the Major finds himself seeking companionship with the village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali. Drawn together by a love of books and the loss of their partners, they are soon forced to contend with irate relatives and gossiping villagers. The perfect gentleman, but the most unlikely hero, the Major must ask himself what matters most: family obligation, tradition or love? Funny, comforting and heart-warming, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand proves that sometimes, against all odds, life does give you a second chance.

A series of seismic events--the tanking of Claudia's film, the return of Jeremy's manipulative ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments--deal a crushing blow to a young married couple dreaming of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations, and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future.

Alice Howlandová je hrdá na to, čo sa jej v živote podarilo dokázať. Má päťdesiat rokov, je profesorkou kognitívnej psychológie na Harvardovej univerzite a svetovo uznávanou expertkou v lingvistike, má úspešného manžela a tri dospelé deti. Keď ju však začne trápiť neobvyklá zábudlivosť a chvíľami stráca orientáciu, dozvie sa, že trpí skorou formou Alzheimerovej choroby. Nevyhnutné príznaky začínajúcej demencie ju postupne pripravujú o spomienky a minulosť, a tak predtým nezávislá a ctižiadostivá Alice sa pokúša žiť naplno aspoň v prítomnosti. Príbeh Strácam svoje ja je dojemným, hrozivým i krásnym opisom života so skorou formou Alzheimerovej choroby.

Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens of her camera, all the while searching for a husband who can prevent her return home. Original.

The breakthrough thriller from a new talent in psychological crime ... Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mercer - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mackey's team. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems ...

Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own.

In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the arranged marriage. The second is the love marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the first toward the second.The daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself caught between the traditions of her ancestors and the lure of her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, Yalini is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present.While Kumaran’s loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family’s roots—and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils—through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran’s death and his daughter’s politically motivated nuptials edge closer, Yalini must decide where she stands. Lyrical and innovative, V. V. Ganeshananthan’s novel brilliantly unfolds how generations of struggle both form and fractures families.

CRUSADE is the second book in the magnificent BRETHREN trilogy

Seven Trials, Seven Keys, Seven Days. . . One chance to save the world. When Robert Reckliss is sent a copper puzzle box accompanied by a cryptic note, he has no idea his life is about to be transformed. That night, an acquaintance kills himself; the following day, an old friend reveals a terrorist threat that could wipe the Western world from the face of the planet. And the responsibility for hunting down this weapon, this Malice Box, lies with Robert. The weapon is primed to explode in seven days and Robert must undergo a quest in order to track down the keys vital to prevent detonation. The Malice Box is utterly unique.

Rovnako ako kniha Štyridsať pravidiel lásky, aj román Rebelka z Istanbulu je ďalším fascinujúcim rozprávaním tureckej autorky Elif Shafak. Román bol v roku 2008 nominovaný na cenu Orange Fiction Prize. Autorka v ňom na pozadí mystického a multikultúrneho mesta Istanbul opisuje osud rodiny Kazandžiovcov, v ktorej už po mnoho pokolení vládnu ženy a muži zomierajú mladí. Keď sa v jedno daždivé popoludnie v ordinácii lekára zjaví mladé slobodné dievča a žiada, aby mu urobili potrat, ani len netuší, že udalosti toho dňa ovplyvnia život celej jej rodiny. O dvadsať rokov neskôr žije krásna Asya Kazandžiová s početnými príbuznými vo veľkom dome v Istanbule. Mladá žena nepozná svojho otca, a teda ani svoju minulosť a je presvedčená, že taký človek nemá budúcnosť. Keď rodinu navštívi príbuzná z USA, pokojný život Kazandžiovcov sa nečakane zvrtne.