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Jodi Picoult

    19 mai 1966

    Jodi Picoult est une auteure dont les œuvres plongent profondément dans des dilemmes éthiques et moraux complexes. À travers ses récits captivants, elle explore des questions controversées avec empathie et urgence. Sa capacité à présenter de multiples points de vue et à susciter une réflexion approfondie en fait une conteuse contemporaine significative. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des œuvres qui laissent une impression durable.

    Jodi Picoult
    Small great things
    J'aimerais tant que tu sois là
    Une étincelle de vie
    Pour que justice soit faite
    La tristesse des éléphants
    Le Pacte - French text Version
    • Le Pacte - French text Version

      • 600pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      Le soir où le téléphone sonne chez les parents d'un couple d'adolescents, personne n'est préparé à la catastrophe. Car chez les Harte et les Gold, on mène une vie heureuse et sans histoire. Chris et Emily s'aiment depuis toujours. Ils ont été élevés ensemble, leurs familles étant voisines et amies depuis près de vingt ans. C'est au cours de l'adolescence que, tout naturellement, les sentiments de Chris et Emily ont évolué, et pour les parents c'est certain, ils vont se marier et fonder une famille. Sauf qu'Émily est retrouvée morte, une balle dans la tête, et que Chris gît, évanoui, à côté d'elle. Ranimé, le jeune homme raconte une histoire que personne ne veut entendre et encore moins ses propres parents. Il déclare qu'Emily et lui avaient conclu un pacte de suicide...

      Le Pacte - French text Version
      4,0
    • Jenna avait trois ans quand a inexplicablement disparu sa mère Alice, scientifique et grande voyageuse, spécialiste des éléphants et de leurs rituels de deuil. Dix années ont passé, la jeune fille refuse de croire qu'elle ait pu être tout simplement abandonnée. Alors elle rouvre le dossier, déchiffre le journal de bord que tenait sa mère, et recrute deux acolytes pour l'aider dans sa quête : Serenity, voyante extralucide qui se prétend en contact avec l'au-delà ; et Virgil, l'inspecteur passablement alcoolique qui avait suivi - et enterré - l'affaire à l'époque. Habilement construit et très documenté, La Tristesse des éléphants est un page-turner subtil sur l'amour filial, l'amitié et la perte. Savant dosage de mystery, de romance et de surnaturel, ce nouveau roman de Jodi Picoult captive, émeut et surprend jusqu'à son finale aussi haletant qu'inattendu.

      La tristesse des éléphants
      4,0
    • Pour que justice soit faite

      • 507pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Picoult brings to life a female prosecutor whose cherished family is shattered when she learns that her five-year-old son has been sexually abused. What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice? In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son -- no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.

      Pour que justice soit faite
      4,0
    • Une étincelle de vie

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Quand une prise d’otages a lieu dans la dernière clinique du Mississipi à pratiquer l’avortement, c’est à Hugh McElroy, un négociateur de crise expérimenté, que l’on fait appel. Avec plusieurs blessés nécessitant des soins et un forcené dont les revendications restent floues, la situation s’avère délicate à gérer. Elle le devient encore davantage quand Hugh apprend que sa fille adolescente se trouve à l’intérieur du bâtiment. Après Mille petits riens, Jodi Picoult poursuit son exploration des tabous de l’Amérique dans un roman palpitant et subtil.

      Une étincelle de vie
      3,9
    • J'aimerais tant que tu sois là

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      La vie de Diana est sur des rails : elle a le petit ami idéal et le job de ses rêves chez Sotheby's. À bientôt trente ans, il ne lui manque plus que la bague au doigt, et elle est presque sûre que Finn va faire sa demande pendant leur escapade aux Galápagos. Mais, réquisitionné à l'hôpital en ce début 2020, il doit rester à New York et insiste pour qu'elle profite de ce paradis sans lui. C'est donc à contrecœur qu'elle part - et rien ne se passe comme prévu : bagage perdu, hôtel fermé, wifi inexistant, elle se retrouve coupée du monde et doit sortir de sa zone de confort. De rencontres en introspection, Diana pourrait bien réaliser que sa vie et son bonheur ne sont pas là où elle le croyait...[4ème de couverture]

      J'aimerais tant que tu sois là
      3,9
    • Small great things

      • 509pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not. Small Great Things is about prejudice and power; it is about that which divides and unites us. It is about opening your eyes.

      Small great things
      4,4
    • My Sister's Keeper

      the gripping and hugely emotional tear-jerker from the bestselling author of Mad Honey

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      A gripping story that captivated readers and became a bestseller, this book explores compelling themes and character dynamics, leading to its adaptation into a major motion picture featuring Cameron Diaz and Alec Baldwin. The narrative's unique elements and engaging plot have resonated widely, making it a significant cultural phenomenon.

      My Sister's Keeper
      4,4
    • THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'An emotional and compelling tale' Sun After a tragic accident which left her deeply scarred, Sage Singer retreated into herself, allowing her guilt to govern her life. When she befriends kindly retired teacher Josef, it seems that life has finally offered her a chance of healing. But the gentle man Sage thinks she knows is in fact hiding a terrible secret. Josef was an SS officer during the Holocaust and now he wishes to die - and he wants Sage to help him. As Joseph begins to reveal his past to her, Sage is horrified. Does this past give her the right to kill him?A compelling tale about the line between justice and mercy from the internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult. Jodi's brand new novel, A SPARK OF LIGHT is publishing soon and is now available to pre-order!

      The storyteller
      4,3
    • Outsiders

      • 187pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      1966. Tucsa, Oklahoma. Deux bandes rivales, les Socs - la jeunesse dorée de la ville - et les Greasers - sortes de blousons noirs aux cheveux gominés -, se livrent une guerre sans merci. Ponyboy Curtis, quatorze ans, est un Greaser. Il traîne dans les rues avec ses copains qui, comme lui, sont des loubards. Mais le meurtre d'un Soc bouleverse brutalement sa vie insouciante, le mettant hors la loi. Au fil d'événements dramatiques, le jeune garçon va devenir adulte et faire l'apprentissage de l'amour et de la mort.

      Outsiders
      4,3
    • By Any Other Name

      • 544pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      "By Any Other Name" intertwines the stories of Melina Green, a modern playwright, and her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano, who secretly authors plays under Shakespeare's name. Both women navigate the challenges of a male-dominated theater world, showcasing their ambition and courage to ensure their voices are heard.

      By Any Other Name
      4,1
    • Nineteen Minutes

      • 503pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case should be the state's best witness - but with her boyfriend dead and her childhood friend charged with murder she is struggling to remember what happened in front of her own eyes... Number one bestselling author Jodi Picoult brings us her hardest-hitting and most involving novel yet. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else - and whether a person is ever whom they seem to be...

      Nineteen Minutes
      4,1
    • My Sister's Keeper

      • 407pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Now a major film. Sara Fitzgerald's daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything - whatever it takes - to save her child. Then the tests results come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs, there is only one option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a beautiful new daughter, Anna, too. Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she doesn't want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.

      My Sister's Keeper
      4,1
    • Mad Honey

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her. Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.[Bokinfo].

      Mad Honey
      4,1
    • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister’s Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a “complex, compassionate, and smart” (The Washington Post) novel about a family torn apart by a murder accusation. When your son can’t look you in the eye…does that mean he’s guilty? Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. He has a special focus on one subject—forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he’s always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he’s usually right. But when Jacob’s small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob’s behaviors are hallmark Asperger’s, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police. Suddenly the Hunt family, who only want to fit in, are thrust directly in the spotlight. For Jacob’s mother, it’s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, it’s another indication why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And for the frightened small town, the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? House Rules is “a provocative story in which [Picoult] explores the pain of trying to comprehend the people we love—and reminds us that the truth often travels in disguise” (People).

      House Rules
      4,1
    • When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated--she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?

      Handle With Care
      4,0
    • Ellie Hathaway decides to defend an unmarried Amish woman against the charge of the murder of her own child.

      Plain Truth
      3,9
    • Salem Falls - Large Print Edition

      • 704pages
      • 25 heures de lecture

      When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school -- until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his reputation. Now, working for minimum wage washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, Jack buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger who has appeared out of the blue. Yet planting roots in Salem Falls may prove fateful for Jack. Amid the white-painted centuries-old churches, a quartet of bored, privileged teenage girls have formed a coven that is crossing the line between amusement and malicious intent. Quick to notice the attractive new employee at Addie's diner, the girls turn Jack's world upside down with a shattering allegation that causes history to repeat itself. Suddenly nothing in Salem Falls is as it seems: a safe haven turns dangerous, an innocent girl meets evil face-to-face, a dishwasher with a Ph.D. is revealed to be an ex-con. Now Addie, desperate for answers, must look into her heart -- and into Jack's lies and shadowy secrets -- for evidence that will condemn or redeem the man she has come to love.

      Salem Falls - Large Print Edition
      3,9
    • Keeping Faith

      • 460pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      As Mariah White struggles with depression her seven-year-old daughter Faith seeks solace in a new friend-a friend who may or may not be imaginary. Faith talks to her 'Guard' constantly and begins to recite passages from the Bible-a book she's never read. After a succession of visits to psychiatrists, all of whom conclude Faith is not hallucinating, the unimaginable starts to seem possible: perhaps Faith may actually be seeing God. When Faith's cachet is enhanced by reported miracle healings and alleged stigmata, she is touted as a prophet. Amidst the gathering storm of controversy, most disruptive of all is the arrival of two men: one a renowned television atheist who plans to debunk Faith's claims and help boost his flagging ratings, and the other her divorced father whose fear for his daughter's safety leads him to battle for custody. As Mariah finds herself fighting to keep her daughter, she has to push past her own insecurities and stand up for herself and her competence as a parent. Keeping Faith explores a family plagued by the media, the medical profession, and organised religion in a world where everyone has an opinion but no one knows the truth. At her controversial and compelling best, Jodi Picoult explores the moment when boundaries break down, and when the only step left to take is a leap of faith.

      Keeping Faith
      3,8
    • Second glance

      • 483pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Latest release from bestselling international phenomenon Jodi Picoult asks: What would you do if you lost the love of your life?

      Second glance
      3,8
    • Sing You Home

      • 524pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      Traditional Chinese edition of Sing You Home. Jodi Picoult deftly tackles another controversial subject, this time, the subject of gay rights. Specifically, the right of gay women carrying a fetus and raising a baby. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

      Sing You Home
      3,8
    • Wonder Woman. Love and murder

      • 128pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      Sent to man's world from the paradise island of Themyscira as an ambassador of peace, Diana Prince is Wonder Woman, the world's greatest superheroine! Wonder Woman has found her place after the Infinite Crisis - posing as Agent Diana Prince - but her world is soon thrown into turmoil as Circe resurfaces with a cunning and malevolent new plan.

      Wonder Woman. Love and murder
      3,5
    • Stories

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, "Stories" is a groundbreaking collection that features diverse tales from renowned authors. This anthology expands the boundaries of imaginative fiction, challenging misconceptions and showcasing the power of storytelling to transform perspectives and ignite appreciation for exceptional literature.

      Stories
      3,8
    • When Delilah is united with Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairytale, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, and all must be resolved for the two to live happily ever after.

      Off the Page
      3,8
    • Lone Wolf

      • 421pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.

      Lone Wolf
      3,8
    • June's first husband was killed in a car crash eighteen years ago. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured - and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years later they were a happy family, June pregnant with their own child. Now June's second daughter is twelve, and dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty - for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart . . .

      Change of Heart
      3,7
    • Vanishing Acts

      • 417pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound - which she uses to find missing persons. But as she plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. Then a policeman shows up at her door, arresting her father for the kidnap of a little girl. And Delia's past and present fracture into little pieces. VANISHING ACTS is a book about the very nature and power of memory. It explores what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us, and questions who we trust to tell us the story of our lives before we are capable of remembering it ourselves.

      Vanishing Acts
      3,7
    • Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes... even the one that meant taking her life. Into this charged atmosphere drifts Mia, a new assistant at Allie's floral shop, for whom Cam feels an instant and inexplicable attraction. While he aids the prosecution in preparing the case against Jamie, who killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy, Cam finds himself betraying his own wife.

      Mercy
      3,6
    • The Book of Two Ways

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon. The airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home, but she could take another path: return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history. As the story unfolds, Dawn's two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly asked: What does a life well-lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices...or do our choices make us? And who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now? --Adapted from publisher description

      The Book of Two Ways
      3,6
    • Harvesting the heart

      • 453pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Paige har kun nogle svage minder om sin mor, som forlod hende da hun var 5 år. Nu har Paige forladt hjemmet for at tage på kunstskole og blive gift med en yngre læge. Da hun selv får et barn føler hun sig følelsesmæssigt og fysisk udmattet, overvældet af krav fra sin familie. Paige kan ikke glemme sin mors fravær. Er det muligt Paiges baby ville være bedre stillet uden hende?

      Harvesting the heart
      3,6
    • Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah. And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom. A romantic and charming story, this companion novel to Off the Page will make every reader believe in the fantastical power of fairy tales.

      Between the Lines
      3,6
    • The tenth circle

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush - where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself - jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life - and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped... and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.

      The tenth circle
      3,6
    • Picture Perfect

      • 436pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time, The Storyteller, and Nineteen Minutes... To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern is taking shape—a cycle of hurt, denial, and promises, thinly veiled by glamour. Torn between fear and something that resembles love, Cassie wrestles with questions she never dreamed she would face: How can she leave? Then again, how can she stay?

      Picture Perfect
      3,6
    • Arrowood

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Superb and subtle psychological suspense, and a compelling mystery, too . . . I thought I knew who did it, but I was wrong-four times. Lee Child

      Arrowood
      3,4
    • I owe you one

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      The irresistible new standalone from Sophie Kinsella is a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything . . . Fixie Farr can't help herself. Straightening a crooked object, removing a barely-there stain, helping out a friend . . . she just has to put things right. It's how she got her nickname, after all. So when a handsome stranger in a coffee shop asks her to watch his laptop for a moment, Fixie not only agrees, she ends up saving it from certain disaster. To thank her, the computer's owner, Sebastian, scribbles her an IOU - but of course Fixie never intends to call in the favour. That is, until her teenage crush, Ryan, comes back into her life and needs her help - and Fixie turns to Seb. But things don't go according to plan, and now Fixie owes Seb- big time. Soon the pair are caught up in a series of IOUs - from small favours to life-changing debts - and Fixie is torn between the past she's used to and the future she deserves. Does she have the courage to fix things for herself and fight for the life, and love, she really wants? ***** EVERYBODY LOVES SOPHIE KINSELLA- ***** 'Left me giddy with laughter. I loved it' JOJO MOYES 'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel' RED 'One of the most relatable books I've read in a long time, I couldn't put it down.' LOUISE PENTLAND (SprinkleofGlitter)

      I owe you one
      3,5
    • Songs of the Humpback Whale

      • 427pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to the sanctuary of the New England apple orchard where Jane's brother Joley works. Oliver, used to tracking male humpback whales across vast oceans, now has the task of tracking his wife across a continent. To do so he must learn to see the world - and even himself - through her eyes...

      Songs of the Humpback Whale
      3,2
    • Pod jiným jménem

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Mladá dramatička Melina Greenová právě napsala novou hru inspirovanou životem své alžbětinské předkyně Emilie Bassanové. Ale že by se dočkala jejího uvedení? To je v divadelním světě, kde ženy nemívají stejnou startovní čáru jako muži, nepravděpodobné. A tak se Melinina kamarádka rozhodne poslat hru na festival pod mužským pseudonymem. V roce 1581 je Emilia Bassanová chráněnkou anglických šlechticů. A ačkoli je velmi duchaplná a má vypravěčský talent, jako většina žen své doby nemá vlastní hlas. Když je donucena stát se milenkou vlivného lorda, Emilia díky němu poprvé vidí, co dokážou slova dramatiků. Rozhodne se tedy tajně dostat na jeviště svou hru – tím, že zaplatí herci jménem William Shakespeare, aby ji uvedl pod svým jménem. Autorka ve dvou prolínajících se časových rovinách – i s pomocí autentických historických pramenů – rozvíjí působivý příběh ambicí, odvahy a odhodlání, příběh dvou žen, které sice dělí staletí, ale spojuje je touha nedbat předsudků a moci svobodně tvořit.

      Pod jiným jménem
      4,5
    • Čas odejít

      • 456pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Jenna se nikdy nevzdala naděje, že jednou najde svoji mámu Alici. Ta totiž zmizela, když její kolegyni v rezervaci udupal slon. Anebo to bylo celé jinak? Alice studovala chování slonů v Africe, když však poznala Jennina otce, vrátila se s ním do Ameriky, kde společně vedli sloní rezervaci. A jednoho dne, když zemřela za záhadných okolností jejich kolegyně, Alice zmizela. Jenna byla tehdy ještě maličká, přesto celé ty roky touží matku najít. Nevěří totiž, že by ji jenom tak opustila. Jde za vědmou, najme si soukromého detektiva, zkouší cokoliv, jen aby celé záhadě přišla na kloub. Někdy se však i zdánlivě jasné odpovědi mohou docela zamotat a svět nemusí být takový, jaký se zdá.

      Čas odejít
      4,3
    • Ich wünschte, du wärst hier

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      • 15 heures de lecture

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      • 22 heures de lecture

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