Sarah St. John kan het nog niet bevatten: haar twintigjarige zoon Cully is dood. Drie maanden geleden is hij tijdens het skiën in een lawine terechtgekomen. En nu moet ze verder met haar leven.Zo goed en zo kwaad als het gaat doorloopt Sarah alle stadia van rouw: woede, verdriet en zelfs acceptatie. Ze maskeert haar verdriet met sarcasme en leert langzaam omgaan met haar verlies. Maar dan staat Kit op de stoep met een onthulling die alles verandert.
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughters killer.Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on holiday in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim.Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm and they think they know where the next victims will be.With relentless logic and unstoppable action, Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.
De zoektocht van een vader naar de belevingswereld van zijn autistische zoon - Druk 1
Als Rowan tweeënhalf jaar is, wordt de diagnose gesteld dat hij autistisch is. De wereld van zijn vader Rupert Isaacson en zijn moeder Kristin stort in. Rowan lijdt aan spastische aanvallen en is onhandelbaar. Binnen korte tijd verliezen de ouders al het contact met hem. Op een dag kruipt Rowan tijdens een wandeling door een afrastering. Lachend laat hij zich op zijn rug op de grond vallen, pal voor een grote merrie. Rupert weet als paardentrainer dat de situatie levensgevaarlijk is: één verkeerde beweging kan de merrie doen schrikken en Rowan wordt vertrapt. Wat er dan gebeurt is even bijzonder als ongelooflijk.
Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe discovers that coming home isn't all bad--and that maybe the best things in life are second chances.Fans of Nick Hornby and Jennifer Weiner will love this book, by turns howling funny, fiercely intelligent, and achingly poignant. As evidenced by The Book of Joe's success in both the foreign and movie markets, Jonathan Tropper has created a compelling, incredibly resonant story.
In her third novel, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern introduces us to two sisters at odds with each other. Elizabeth's life is an organized mess. The organized part is all due to her own efforts. The mess is entirely due to her sister, Saoirse, whose personal problems leave Elizabeth scrambling to pick up the pieces. One of these pieces is Saoirse's six-year-old son, Luke. Luke is quiet and contemplative, until the arrival of a new friend, Ivan, turns him into an outgoing, lively kid. And Elizabeth's life is about to change in wonderful ways she has only dreamed of. With all the warmth and wit that fans have come to expect from Cecelia Ahern, this is a novel full of magic, heart, and surprising romance.
Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying, liars.