Lisa See Boeken

Lily groeit op in het China van de negentiende eeuw, een tijd waarin de vrouwen nog een geïsoleerd leven leidden en hun voeten ingebonden werden. Op een dag ontvangt Lily een waaier, waarop in de geheimtaal Nushu is geschreven. Hij is afkomstig van Snow Flower, met wie Lily vanaf haar zevende een laotong - een bijzondere verbintenis - heeft. Via de waaier schrijven zij elkaar en delen zij alles: verhalen over liefde, moederschap, eenzaamheid en geluk. Tot er een misverstand ontstaat en hun levenslange vriendschap ten einde dreigt te komen.

When Annalise, a single mother, moves to the city with her daughter Penelope in tow, she hopes for a fresh start. She finds a job as a personal assistant to a high-powered recruitment CEO and secures a dream home, but her journey is far from over. As she navigates her new role and the challenges that come with it, she finds herself drawn to her boss, Hunter, a notorious playboy who has sworn off love. Can Annalise and Hunter find their way to each other, or will their fears get in the way? Follow these two characters as they grapple with emotions and attraction in this heart-wrenching love story.

The new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.

Inspired by the true story of a woman physician and writer, this is an absorbing story of female friendship and conflict set in 15th Century China, rich in detail and court intrigue.

"The Ghost Army of World War II is the first book to tell the full story of how a traveling road show of artists wielding imagination, paint, and bravado saved thousands of American lives-now updated with new material"-- Provided by publisher

See is one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot. -New York Times Book Review

Lily, a farmer's daughter in nineteenth-century China, learns that proper footbinding can enhance her marriage prospects and change her family's fortunes. As she endures the painful process, she befriends Snow Flower and learns nu shu, a secret women's writing. However, an unexpected twist threatens her new life.

A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture

They were the best of enemies, two stalwart men of the national stage whose differences--personal and political--seemed to capture larger conflicts churning within our young republic. In this fascinating dual biography, Rick Beyer brings these two towering figures to vivid life on the page. In Beyer's fine hands, the long feud between Burr and Hamilton seems part opera buffa, part Greek tragedy. As the pages keep turning, we feel ourselves pulled along a collision course--one that still has powerful resonance today. - Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of ice

A cultural history/visual culture book featuring the story, photos, ephemera, and art of The Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit, which used inflatable tanks and other illusions to mislead the Germans on the battlefields of Europe. The Army recruited artists to create these illusions; in private moments, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique visual record of the war