Sara Gruen Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War. 'Unique and impeccably researched... the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already finished it' - Jodi Picoult After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1944, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already ashamed of his colour-blind son's inability to serve in WWII. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour (and generosity) is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces. In January 1945 they hitch a ride on a ship across the Atlantic while the war is still raging all around them. And Maddie, now alone and virtually abandoned in a foreign country, must begin to work out who she is and what she wants - the vacuous life she left behind or something more real? What she discovers - about the larger world and about herself - opens her eyes not only to the dark forces that exist around her but to the beauty and surprising possibilities of life.

Syv år gamle Tiller drømmer om at mamma skal være glad. En dag er mamma borte og Tiller bruker all tid på å lete etter henne. En kveld går hun ned i den mørke kjelleren, til døren med det blå lyset. Der finner hun mamma og livet blir ennå merkeligere.

An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home. In 1904, Frederick and Jette flee her disapproving mother, choosing to escape to America. Initially set to board a boat to New York, they opt for one to New Orleans instead, ultimately finding themselves in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. With no knowledge of English, they begin their new life together. Beatrice is filled with unforgettable characters: a jazz trumpeter who cooks delicious gumbo, a giant teenage boy, a schoolteacher who teaches more than music, a minister convinced he has seen the Second Coming, and a malevolent, bicycle-riding dwarf. The story is narrated by James, the grandson of Frederick and Jette, who realizes he knows little about his own heritage. From bare-knuckle prizefighting and Prohibition to barbershop harmonies and the Kennedy assassination, James's family experiences the ebb and flow of history. Each generation learns anew what it means to be American, often discovering more about themselves than expected. Poignant, funny, and heartbreaking, this novel explores the experience of being an outsider—within one’s country, hometown, and family—ultimately telling a universal story about the search for home.

Старику Якобу Янковскому, обитающему теперь в доме престарелых, есть что вспомнить: во времена Великой депрессии судьба забросила его, студента-ветеринара, в передвижной "Цирк Братьев Бензини". Парад-алле, клоуны, дрессированные львы и слоны, карлики и силачи, кровь и пот, фанфары и крики "браво!". Закулисье цирка оказывается вовсе не таким чарующим и прекрасным, как представлялось Якобу сначала. Однако именно здесь он встречает лучших друзей, злейших врагов и ту единственную, ради которой можно вытерпеть любые унижения и пойти на подвиг.

Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but animals she gets--especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what's really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and "liberating" the apes, John's human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he'll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show, Ape House, featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest--and unlikeliest--phenomenon in the history of modern media. Ape House delivers great entertainment, but it also opens the animal world to us in ways few novels have done, securing Sara Gruen's place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before.

He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.

Wanneer zijn ouders om het leven komen, sluit Jacob Jankowski zich aan bij een rondreizend circus. Een wonderbaarlijke wereld vol spanning, verdriet, woede en passie, met zijn eigen bizarre wetten, zijn eigen manier van leven en zijn eigen manier van sterven. Een wereld die voor Jacob een toevluchtsoord en een nachtmerrie tegelijk zal worden. Hij neemt de verzorging op zich van Rosie, de olifant die door de circusdirecteur is binnengehaald als de nieuwe attractie die het circus voor de ondergang moet behoeden. Het probleem is alleen dat Rosie niet reageert op commando's en dat ze niet één kunstje lijkt te beheersen. Als Jacob verliefd wordt op Marlena, de betoverend mooie ster van het paardennummer - en de echtgenote van August, de charismatische, maar wrede dierentrainer - lijken zijn dagen bij het circus geteld...

Twenty years after her competitive riding career died, Annemarie Zimmer worries that her relationship with the man she loves is off course, and fears that daughter Eva's own dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far from home ... and into harm's way. When the teenage Eva is invited to audition for a world-class trainer, Annemarie realizes that she must give Eva a chance to soar. But when Eva falls in love with a spectacular blue roan Nokota who hasn't let anyone ride him since his arrival at the barn, Annemarie's doubts come crashing back. It is a time of change at Maple Brook, when fears must be saddled and broken. And one remarkable family must learn how to deal with Flying Changes.

As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables—and where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl . . . and in the seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch. But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter her fragile world.