Mary Bresser Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

A little girl whio is detained by the military, restrained in a wheelchair, and goes to school while heavily guarded doesn't truly understand why she is special until it is up to her to save the world.

<b>A <i>Today Show</i> Top Ten Pick, Florida Book Award Winner, Shortlisted for Prix Polar International Award for Best Book</b> On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Florida beach neighborhood is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can't fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget. Disturbing events trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future . . . and her daughter.

Overstelpt door verdriet na een ongeluk waarbij haar vijfjarige dochtertje Aria om het leven komt, besluit de Iraans-Amerikaanse Jasmine Talahi op reis te gaan. Van de Sonoran-woestijn in Arizona naar China, naar de maïsvelden van Guatemala tot de heilige plaatsen van Tibet, zoekt Jasmine, een rationele kankerspecialiste, naar spirituele verlichting. Pas wanneer ze zich in Iran verzoent met haar ouders - die haar moderne Amerikaanse levensstijl veroordelen en met wie ze sinds de geboorte van Aria geen contact heeft gehad – en aansluiting zoekt bij de eeuwenoude tradities van haar vaderland lukt het Jasmine om haar wonden te genezen. Aria is een diep spirituele roman over de zoektocht naar betekenis. Aria zal vele lezers aanspreken die nieuwsgierig zijn naar de verhalen en ervaringen van immigranten. Het is een weergaloze en indringende roman, in de traditie van Monica Ali, Zadie Smith en natuurlijk Khaled Hosseini’s De vliegeraar.

Love hurts ... Sometimes it even kills It's like any other day in New York for freelance writer Ridley Jones. She collects some prints from her local photo lab expecting nothing more than a set of routine photographs. But when she looks more closely a shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she's taken in the last year, just far enough away to make identification impossible. When she investigates further she soon discovers that everyone from the FBI to the criminal underworld wants to know who the man is - and where he is. And some people are prepared to kill to find out...