Annemarie Verbeek Poradie kníh

In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control. When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief. But within two years rumours have begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty five years on, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her glamorous mother's legacy. At odds with her father and his second wife, struggling in a stalled marriage, she returns to the place of her birth to find that the ghost of her mother, in differing ways, still haunts them all. The only place she finds comfort is in her shop, The Peacock Emporium, a coffee shop-cum-curio store, decorated in her own image, which provides a haven for other misfits in the town. There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina. But the spectre of Athene and the shop itself combine to set in place a chain of tragic events, forcing Suzanna to confront the feelings she has disguised for so long - and her family, in their varying ways, finally to deal with the events of the past. And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along.

Charizmatická, životom skúšaná Cordelia postupne odhaľuje vnučke Sophii útrapy mladučkej slúžky Rose, ktorú osud pred vyše stopäťdesiatimi rokmi zavial z Anglicka na druhý koniec sveta, kde sa z nej po prekonaní nesmiernych ťažkostí stala bohatá majiteľka vinohradov a zakladateľka rozvetvenej, prosperujúcej dynastie. Návrat do minulosti pomáha Cordelii vysvetliť vnučke, prečo treba za každú cenu zachovať odkaz predkov a ponechať si ohrozený rodinný podnik. Ibaže Sophia musí vyriešiť nielen záchranu Žakarandových viníc, ale aj tajničku vlastného ľúbostného života...

Jenny Sanders krijgt Churinga, een afgelegen schapenfarm in de Australische outback, als afscheidscadeau van haar man. Een cadeau dat hij haar niet zelf meer heeft kunnen geven, want pas na zijn tragische dood hoort ze erover. Omdat ze niet weet waar ze met haar verdriet naartoe moet, vertrekt ze naar Churinga. Zo is ze tenminste op een plek waar haar man van hield. De overweldigende natuur en rust maken indruk op Jenny, maar Churinga blijkt ook een geheim te herbergen. Er hangt een sfeer van mysterie rond de vorige bewoonster van Churinga, ene Matilda Thomas. Jenny's nieuwe buren zijn vriendelijk maar terughoudend en ze laten weinig los over Matilda. Maar hoe langer Jenny op Churinga is, hoe meer ze het gevoel heeft dat Matilda nog steeds aanwezig is. Dan ontdekt ze de vele dagboeken van Matilda, en al lezend wordt ze in een schokkend verhaal getrokken. Ze vraagt zich af of de erfenis van Churinga een zege is of een vloek...

Fleur Daxeny is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of the obituaries, she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich and newly vulnerable men. Charming her way into their lives, their beds, and their bank accounts, she takes what she can and moves swiftly on

Thanks to a mutual friends' invitation, two families meet in a luxury villa in Spain and discover their room is overbooked, igniting old passions and tensions.

There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage . . .

Co to je za rodinu bez věrného, dobře vychovaného klidného psa? Labrador Marley má však k takovému psímu hrdinovi daleko. Když si ho John s Jenny přivedou domů, nestačí se divit. Kde je ten mírný, inteligentní a přizpůsobivý pejsek, kterého slibovaly kynologické příručky? Už první jízda autem se promění v malé dobrodružství a překvapení pokračují: Kdo to roztahal po bytě celou roli toaletního papíru? Kam se poděly ubrousky, papírové kapesníky, účtenky, korkové zátky, svorky na papír a šachové figurky? Proč má židle najednou jen tři nohy? Marley kosí ocasem sklenice a zarámované fotografie, ohryzává nábytek, vyhrabává květiny na zahradě, leze do odpadkového koše, skáče na lidi a loudí u stolu, hraje si na potápěče v misce s vodou, škrtí se na vodítku, čmuchá, funí, slintá a očurává kdeco a kdekoho. A navíc roste jako z vody. Přesto na něj John s Jenny nedají dopustit a s velkou láskou i pochopením líčí Marleyho veselé kousky i dojemné chvíle z jeho stáří a nemoci.

A solid middle-class girl from Middle America, Jamie Whitfield isn't "one of them" but she lives in the wealthiest section of Manhattan. And she has most everything they have--a big new apartment, full-time help with her three children, as well as her very own detached Master of the Universe attorney husband. What she doesn't have is a full-time father figure for their struggling nine-year-old son, Dylan. Enter the manny. At first the idea of paying a man to provide a role model for Dylan sounds too crazy to be true, but one look at Peter Bailey is enough to convince Jamie that the idea may not be quite so insane after all. Peter reminds her of everything she once was, still misses, and underneath all the high-society glitz, still is. But will the new manny in her life put the ground back beneath her feet, or sweep her off them?--From publisher description.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—The Washington Post Book World Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women—one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love—will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. “Enormously entertaining . . . Hannah has a nice ear for dialogue and a knack for getting the reader inside the characters’ heads.”—The Seattle Times

Po tridsiatich rokoch manželstva je Wilson Lewis, zať Allie a Noaha Calhounovcov, nútený priznať si, že z jeho vzťahu s manželkou Jane už vypršalo romantické čaro. Zúfalo sa snaží získať späť srdce svojej ženy, no musí nájsť spôsob, ako docieliť, aby sa doňho opäť zamilovala. Napriek žiarivému príkladu manželstva Allie a Noaha je Wilson muž, ktorý len ťažko vyjadruje svoje pocity. Ako úspešný advokát sa dokázal postarať o rodinu, no teraz, keď sa blíži svadba jeho dcéry, zisťuje, že sa s Jane odcudzili, a bojí sa, že manželka ho už nemiluje. Wilsonova láska k Jane sa však rokmi prehĺbila a zintenzívnila. Na ceste k znovuzískaniu srdca zbožňovanej ženy mu pomáhajú aj Noahove spomienky na svoj päťdesiat rokov trvajúci ľúbostný príbeh.