Inge de Heer Knihy

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It''s a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle''s tale of a forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences-- a tale that just might help Dorrie find her own way.

Bundeling van twee romans waarin de communicatie tussen mensen en paarden en wolven een grote rol speelt.

Set in post-WWII suburban London, this debut novel explores the downward spiral and quest for redemption of a young man grappling with profound loss. After the war, Lewis Aldridge is adjusting to his father Gilbert's return, but tragedy strikes when his mother drowns, plunging the 10-year-old into isolation. Gilbert, consumed by grief, remarries a year later, leaving Lewis's sadness to fester throughout his adolescence. In a moment of rage, he sets fire to a church and serves two years in prison. Upon his return, he seeks forgiveness but faces ostracism from the community. The powerful Carmichael family, particularly the abusive patriarch Dicky, poses a significant threat, while the alluring Tamsin complicates his emotions. Innocent Kit, just shy of 16, offers a glimmer of hope with her affectionate nature. As mutual distrust grows between Lewis and the townspeople, Kit emerges as a potential savior. The author’s fluid prose captures Lewis's suffering with striking authenticity. Born in London to a creative family, the author transitioned from screenwriting to novel writing, culminating in this poignant narrative.

One night, Shelley and her mum's fragile peace is shattered when Shelley wakes to hear a creak on the stairs - someone has broken into the house. In the shocking, chilling events that follow, Shelley's world is turned on its head, as the women find themselves tested as never before.

Who knew that in the battle against oppression a woman's greatest weapon would be a cricket ball?A determined young woman's plan to escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan (and a cruel Taliban commander who is determined to marry her) depends on the outcome of an unusual cricket match.

Slučka je od svojej strhujúcej prvej kapitoly až po ničiví vyvrcholenie epickým príbehom hlbokej vášne a spásnej lásky, románom ktorý skúma konflikt medzi človekom a prírodou, ako aj boj človeka s „divočinou“ v sebe samom.

Quand, en avril 1999, son épouse Maureen échappe de justesse au massacre de Columbine, Caelum cherche refuge avec elle dans la ferme de son enfance à Three Rivers, Connecticut. C'est là qu'il découvre des archives familiales insoupçonnées : les lettres de son aïeule, militante abolitionniste, anéantie par la perte de ses fils au front ; les journaux de son arrière-grand-mère, fondatrice de la prison pour femmes du comté, hantée par la descente aux enfers de sa soeur ; des coupures de presse sur les tragédies locales de ces années 60 qui ont vu grandir Caelum aux côtés d'un père alcoolique revenu traumatisé de la guerre de Corée... Au fil de ses recherches, Caelum, stupéfait, voit se recomposer deux siècles d'une histoire familiale pleine de bruit et de fureur, et ressurgir le terrible secret de ses origines... Pour tenter de comprendre cette infinie colère qui l'habite depuis toujours, Caelum va devoir explorer les recoins les plus obscurs de sa mémoire...

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.

One of the famous work of Japanese literature is the eleventh-century Tale of Genji by a woman of the imperial court. This title evokes Murasaki's close family, the men and women she loved, the vortex of high politics she was drawn into at court, and the way in which Murasaki came to write her masterpiece.

This is the story of the author's childhood in the 1970s in Rhodesia.

Elizabeth is gelukkig getrouwd met politieagent Michael. Haar wereld stort echter in als ze hoort dat haar man verdronken is terwijl hij het leven redde van een jonge vrouw, Kate. Het lijkt een heldendaad, maar was het dat wel? Langzaam wordt duidelijk dat Elizabeth pas na Michaels dood haar onkreukbare man, de liefde van haar leven, werkelijk leert kennen.

De zeventienjarige Lucy Dane rouwt om de brute moord op haar vriendin Cheri. Het lichaam van het meisje is een jaar na haar vermissing gevonden in een holle dode boom. Als Lucy in een verlaten caravan op het land van haar oom een kettinkje van Cheri vindt, is ze vastbesloten uit te zoeken wat er is gebeurd. In het afgelegen stadje Henbane blijven geheimen niet lang verborgen en Lucy's zoektocht leidt onverwacht ook naar haar eigen verleden. Haar moeder is kort na haar geboorte spoorloos verdwenen, en al snel blijkt deze vermissing onlosmakelijk verbonden met het lot van Cheri. Terwijl Lucy worstelt met angstige vermoedens over de schaduwkant van Henbane probeert ze de gevaarlijke geheimen van haar familie te ontrafelen.

Penelope Green is eind twintig en staat voor de keuze: óf een keurig bestaan met een huis, een man en een kind, óf het avontuur, het onbekende. Ze kiest voor het laatste en boekt een enkele reis naar Rome. Langzaam maar zeker raakt ze vertrouwd met de stad en haar bewoners, maakt ze vrienden, vindt ze een baan in een café én wordt ze verliefd...

"Imagine becoming a best-selling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in a sea of vilification, booze, and drugs." "Then imagine having a second chance ten years later, as the Bret Easton Ellis of this remarkable novel is given, with a wife, children, and suburban sobriety - only to watch this new life shatter beyond recognition in a matter of days. At a fateful Halloween party he glimpses a disturbing (fictional) character driving a car identical to his late father's, his stepdaughter's doll violently "malfunctions," and their house undergoes bizarre transformations both within and without. Connecting these aberrations to graver events - a series of grotesque murders that no longer seem random and the epidemic disappearance of boys his son's age - Ellis struggles to defend his family against this escalating menace event as his wife, their therapists, and the police insist that his apprehensions are rooted instead in substance abuse and egomania." "Lunar Park confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting horror, both psychological and supernatural, toward a resolution - about love and loss, fathers and sons."--BOOK JACKET.

"Truly mesmerizing." MILWAUKEE JOURNAL New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered and the only witness is his grandchild, Richard, who himself disappears, and is presumed dead. Eighteen years later, Richard is "recognized" in Switzerland in the person of Alexander von Reisden, and William Knight's only son, Gilbert, is convinced that this man is the long lost child. Reisden, himself, has no memory of any childhood, and his own growing obsession with finding the real Richard is leading him closer to a shattering thruth. And to a killer, still at large.... "A most satisfying tale." NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.

Krissie and Sarah - best friends for years - have always wanted different things from life. Krissie has no desire to settle down, whereas Sarah married a doctor in her early twenties and is dying to start a family. So when Krissie becomes pregnant after a fling and Sarah can't seem to conceive, things get a little tense.

"Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest ... Now a bestselling author, when he was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family - a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock, Nicholas embarked on a journey to uncover the truth that took him from the Basque coast to St. Petersburg - but the answers wouldn't come easily. In the process of digging into his past, something else happened. Nicolas began writing a novel that was met with phenomenal success, skyrocketing him to literary fame whether he was ready for it or not - and convincing him that he had put his family's history firmly behind him. But now, years later, Nicolas must reexamine everything he thought he knew, as he learns that, however deeply buried, the secrets of the past always find a way out. Page-turning, layered and beautifully written, THE OTHER STORY is a reflection on identity, the process of being a writer and the repercussions of generations-old decisions as they echo into the present and shape the future"--

Een scheikundige die rond 1905 voor een congres naar Amerika zal reizen, wordt vlak voor de reis in Zwitserland herkend als Richard Knight, het kind dat verdween nadat het als enige getuige was van de moord op zijn Amerikaanse grootvader.