Jeannet Dekker Livres

Tessa est une jeune fille ambitieuse, volontaire, réservée. Elle contrôle sa vie. Son petit ami, Noah, est le gendre idéal. Celui que sa mère adore, celui qui ne fera pas de vagues. Son avenir est tout tracé : de belles études, un bon job à la clé, un mariage heureux... Mais ça, c'était avant qu'il ne la bouscule dans le dortoir. Lui, c'est Hardin, bad boy, sexy, tatoué, piercé. Grossier, provocateur et cruel, c'est le type le plus détestable que Tessa ait jamais croisé. Et pourtant, le jour où elle se retrouve seule avec lui, elle perd tout contrôle. Cet homme ingérable fait naître en elle une passion sans limites. Une passion qui, contre toute attente, semble réciproque... Initiation, sexe, jalousie, mensonges, entre Tessa et Hardin, est-ce une histoire destructrice ou un amour absolu ? Le premier tome d'une série phénomène, véritable best-seller planétaire. Sulfureux et addictif. Direct Matin. Il y a du Fifty Shades of Grey dans l'air. Elle.

Le 2 mars 1998, la jeune Natascha Kampusch va pour la première fois à l’école à pied. Elle est enlevée sur la route par Wolfgang Priklopil, un ingénieur électricien d’une trentaine d’années. Elle réussira à s’échapper après 3096 jours. Voici le récit de cette captivité terrible : pendant dix ans, elle restera enfermée dans une pièce de 5 mètres carrées, la plupart du temps dans le noir et pendant les six années suivantes elle sera son esclave domestique. Sous le joug de la violence et surtout d’un terrible harcèlement psychique de son agresseur, elle réussira à résister à sa séquestration et à s’enfuir. Un récit bouleversant et terriblement émouvant.Traduit de l'allemand par Olivier Mannoni et Leïla Pellissier

Fashion model and UN ambassador Waris Dirie was born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia and told the story of her escape from there in "Desert Flower". Here she traces the roots of her courage, resilience and humour back to her motherland, and particularly her mother

Emma adores living in Brighton, but she loves Matt more. When he suggests they buy the perfect farmhouse in the south of France, she reluctantly agrees, even though he continues commuting to London while she looks after their daughter and the builders. But France is not the idyll he promised, and when she discovers the true reason he spends half his time in London the foundations on which she's built her life start to crumble...

Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider. But when Nouf ash-Shrawi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man the Shrawis trust to bring her home. Days later Nouf's body is found in a desert wadi, but Nayir's task is not over; he feels compelled to uncover the disturbing circumstances surrounding her death. His search takes him far from his natural terrain, away from the endless dunes and empty skies of the desert and into the city of Jeddah, with its oppressive monuments, foreigners' compounds and shuttered apartments. Most troubling of all, his investigations force him to work closely with Katya Hijazi, a forensic scientist. He finds himself struggling with emotions he has fought all his life to repress and with loyalties he has never before questioned: to old friends, to his faith, and to a culture in which women take their secrets to their graves. Vivid and suspenseful, The Night of the Mi'raj is an extraordinary psychological drama and a mesmerising portrait of a society at once exquisitely cultured and profoundly claustrophobic.

Roman familial. Roman d'humour.

Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers--with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another.The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery in London. They come to know the building's other residents. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter suffering from crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Marjike, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment and life behind.Niffenegger weaves a captivating story in Her Fearful Symmetry about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life--even after death.

On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she found herself in a dark cellar, wrapped in a blanket. When she emerged eight years later, her childhood had gone. In "3,096 Days" Natascha tells her incredible story for the first time: her difficult childhood, what exactly happened on the day of her abduction, her imprisonment in a five-square-metre dungeon, and the mental and physical abuse she suffered from her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. "3,096 Days" is ultimately a story about the triumph of the human spirit. It describes how, in a situation of almost unbearable hopelessness, she slowly learned how to manipulate her captor. And how, against inconceivable odds, she managed to escape unbroken.

Als Sarah McClure en haar man Matt naar het kleine dorpje Waterford verhuizen, is Sarah in eerste instantie behoorlijk eenzaam. Het lukt haar maar niet om een baan te vinden, totdat ze aarzelend het aanbod aanneemt van de rijke weduwe Sylvia Compson. Sarah zal haar helpen het familielandgoed Elm Creek Manor op te knappen voor de verkoop, en als dank voor haar hulp zal de norse oude dame Sarah leren quilten. Al snel vindt Sarah haar draai, zeker als ze gevraagd wordt om lid te worden van de plaatselijke quiltclub. De excentrieke vrouwen die ze zo leert kennen, worden algauw echte vriendinnen. Ook de weduwe ontdooit een beetje en langzaam maar zeker vertelt ze Sarah de geschiedenis van haar landgoed en haar leven. Sylvia's familie is uiteengevallen door tragedies, jaloezie en verraad, en Sarah beseft dat ze, om gelukkig te worden, zelf ook de confrontatie met haar verleden aan moet gaan. Als Sylvia vertelt dat ze eigenlijk dolgraag op het landgoed zou blijven wonen, maar dat het haar te veel herinnert aan het ongelukkige lot dat haar familie is beschoren, doet ze Sarah en Matt een voorstel... De quiltclub is een inspirerende en hartverwarmende roman over familiebanden, vriendschap en vertrouwen. Quilten is zoals het leven: met tijd, liefde en geduld breng je verschillende, ongelijke stukjes bij elkaar tot een harmonieus en prachtig geheel.