Cécile Arnaud Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Analytische annotatie: Een jonge Amerikaanse vrouw uit Colorado met een tragisch geheim weet in haar eentje een perzikenfarm te runnen en alle perzikbomen te redden als alles in haar omgeving onder water moet verdwijnen ten behoeve van een waterreservoir.

(2nd in "The Cazalet Chronicle" series) Volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles turns to the Cazalet children. Sixteen-year-old Louise, Edward and Villy's daughter, moves out into the world, discovering at drama school a casualness towards language and sex that would shock her parents - as much as their secret lives would shock her. And Polly, now fourteen, finds that war cannot forestall the pangs of adolescence, while another fourteen-year-old, Clary, is the one hit hardest by the war: her father, Rupert, has been reported missing after Dunkirk. While the rest of the family gradually accepts that he must be dead, Clary clings to the belief that he is alive. "Deeply romantic without ever straying into the maudlin or sentimental . . . a triumph of authentic nostalgia." (The Times of London)

Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and can’t stand each other. But then Polly’s fortunes unexpectedly change and her world comes crashing down. With no money and nowhere to go, she’s forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters find themselves living together for the first time in years. With an old flame reappearing for Polly, a blossoming new career for Clare and a long-buried family secret in the mix, sparks are sure to fly. Unless the two women have more in common than they first thought?

Fin février 1979, Chosen, petite ville étriquée et appauvrie, en passe d’être repeuplée par de riches New-Yorkais. George Clare rentre chez lui et trouve sa femme assassinée. Leur fille de trois ans, seule dans sa chambre, est saine et sauve. Pour le shérif Travis Lawton, George est le premier suspect. Huit mois plus tôt, le couple avait acheté la ferme des Hale pour une bouchée de pain, George omettant de dire à sa femme que les anciens propriétaires, acculés par les dettes, s’y étaient suicidés, laissant trois orphelins, Eddy, Wade et Cole. Dans les angles morts est aussi l’histoire des frères Hale, et celle de la maison de leur enfance.

Wereldwijd kijken miljoenen lezers reikhalzend uit naar dit nieuwe deel in de saga over het stadje Kingsbridge 1558. Politieke drama’s bepalen het dagelijks leven en een bloedige religieuze strijd zet vrienden en geliefden tegen elkaar op. Zo ook Ned Willard en zijn Margery, de vrouw met wie hij wil trouwen. Ned keert terug naar Kingsbridge in een jaar dat niet alleen zijn leven, maar dat van een heel continent op zijn kop zal zetten: door de kroning van de protestantse Elizabeth I komt Engeland alleen te staan in Europa. Daarom richt de ambitieuze jonge koningin de eerste geheime dienst op, die moordaanslagen, opstanden en invasies in de kiem moet smoren. Tegelijkertijd beraamt haar nicht Maria Stuart, de katholieke koningin van Schotland, een plan om de Engelse troon op te eisen. Het eeuwige vuur is, met zijn setting in een van de meest turbulente en revolutionaire periodes in de Europese geschiedenis, een van Folletts spannendste en meest ambitieuze boeken ooit. Geknipt voor zowel nieuwe lezers als voor trouwe fans van de Kingsbridge-saga, die begon met de bestsellers Pilaren van de aarde en Brug naar de hemel.

It's been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey's sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in hospital, Rachel won't tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there's Ema's surprise announcement: she has an online boyfriend and he's vanished. As he's searching for Ema's missing boyfriend (who may not even exist!), Mickey also gets roped into helping his nemesis, Troy Taylor, with a big problem. All the while, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives to find the answers - until the shocking climax, where Mickey finally comes face-to-face with the truth about his father.

Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his wife, while Clarissa's fragile sister, Olive, needs love and resourceful care. Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon attracts the attention of young, brash Wesley Robson, a rival tea planter. Yet before his intentions become fully clear, tragedy befalls the Belhavens and the sisters are wrenched from their beloved tea garden to the industrial streets of Tyneside. A world away from the only home she has ever known, Clarissa must start again. Using all her means, she must endure not only poverty but jealousy and betrayal too. Will the reappearance of Wesley give her the link to her old life that she so desperately craves? Or will a fast-changing world and the advent of war extinguish hope forever? Revised edition: This edition of The Tea Planter's Daughter includes editorial revisions.