Lori Lanses Libri

Per la maggior parte della gente, Rose e Ruby Darlen sono una curiosità. Ma nella cittadina canadese dove abitano e lavorano come bibliotecarie, sono soltanto "le Ragazze". Perfettamente integrate nella comunità locale, e ormai abituate agli sguardi invadenti degli sconosciuti, sono note per essere a quasi trent'anni le gemelle siamesi più longeve al mondo, unite sul lato della testa, all'altezza delle tempie. Abbandonate alla nascita dalla giovane madre nell'estate del 1974, proprio mentre un violento tornado si abbatteva sulla regione di Toronto, le due sorelle crescono tra mille difficoltà confortate dall'amore di zia Lovey, una generosa infermiera che le ha adottate insieme al marito Stash. Tante sono le cose che le ragazze non possono fare. Aggrovigliate come un cespuglio di erica, Rose, la più forte e determinata delle due, e Ruby, la bella e fragile, riescono comunque nell'intento più difficile: vivere pienamente la propria vita. Credono nell'amicizia, rincorrono sogni e si innamorano, ognuna a suo modo. La loro è davvero un'esistenza straordinaria. Rose ama la letteratura e vorrebbe diventare scrittrice, e alla vigilia dei trent'anni decide di raccontare in prima persona la loro storia. Ruby insiste per dare la sua versione dei fatti e a più riprese si inserisce nel racconto, svelando un animo civettuolo e romantico. Con questo romanzo a due voci, Lori Lansens affronta i temi della diversità e della dignità umana con originalità e partecipazione.

A woman recalls her long and eventful life while caring for the five-year-old girl who is abandoned on her trailer park doorstep.

Four go up the mountain - but only three come down again ... On the anniversary of the day his best friend, Byrd, had a tragic accident on the mountain which had been the boys' paradise and escape, Wolf Truly reaches for the summit again with the intention of not coming home. But Wolf meets three women in the cable car on the way up from Palm Springs and finds himself agreeing to help them get to a mountain lake. As the weather suddenly deteriorates, the group is stranded on a lethal ridge as the lights of the city twinkle below, so close and yet so terrifyingly far away. Those who will survive the ordeal will do so through a mixture of bravery, determination and self-revelation. 'Lori Lansens has created a heart-pounder of a book that is every bit as much of an emotional roller-coaster as an adventurous one. Filled with richly drawn characters, unexpected twists, and gritty details about survival' Jodi Picoult

"This brilliant new novel by the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain Story is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. Taking place over 48 hours in the year 2023, this is the story of Rory Ann Miller, on the run with her best friend because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. There's a bounty on their heads, and a social media storm of trolls flying around them, not to mention a posse of law enforcement, attack helicopters and drones trying to track them down. Rory's mom, a social activist and lawyer, has been arrested and implicated in her daughter's "crimes" whereas her dad (who betrayed his wife and daughter in a nasty divorce) is cooperating with the authorities. The story exists in a universe of gated communities, born-again Christians, Probationary Citizens (once known as "Dreamers"), re-criminalized abortion and birth control, teenage virginity oaths and something called the Red Market, which is either a Conservative bogey-man created to further polarize the "base" or a criminal network making money from selling unwanted babies to whomever wants them and fetal tissue to cosmetics and drug companies. Rory is cynical and scared, furious and scathing, betrayed and looking for something or someone to trust. What she has to say about the dads and bosses and politicians lining up to keep women in their place, and about the ways women collaborate in their own undermining, is fierce, and funny, and sad, and true."-- Provided by publisher

Love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn't come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient, sets out on a truly remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her first to the big city and then to another country.