Laura Prandino Boeken

Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will you sweep you up and never let you go. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn't? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has lost. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are-not a war, but a revolution-and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria's freedom

Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...

First book of a sweeping trilogy from the fastest-growing author in historical fiction.

A series of seismic events--the tanking of Claudia's film, the return of Jeremy's manipulative ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments--deal a crushing blow to a young married couple dreaming of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations, and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future.

In Sussex bloeit iets moois op tussen een gepensioneerde Engelse majoor en een Pakistaanse winkeleigenares.

CRUSADE is the second book in the magnificent BRETHREN trilogy

The Bastard of Istanbul is a vivid tale of two families intertwined by a dark history. Armanoush, an Armenian American, seeks her roots in Turkey, while Asya, a spirited young woman in Istanbul, navigates her own identity. This dramatic novel explores themes of memory, forgetting, and the complexities of national identity.

Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens of her camera, all the while searching for a husband who can prevent her return home. Original.

She was sent to save him. . .but can she save herself?

Een psychopaat ontvoert stelletjes en dwingt ze te kiezen wie van hen tot zonsopgang blijft leven en wie niet. De jonge profiler Mark Nelson wordt op zijn eerste werkdag in het team van de succesvolle rechercheur John Mercer meteen in de zaak van de 50/50-moordenaar betrokken. Mark krijgt te maken met een verbrand lijk van een man en een vreemde tekening op de muur. Als een volgend slachtoffer ontsnapt en zich verward en verminkt op het politiebureau meldt, wordt de zoektocht naar diens vriendin een race tegen de klok. Zij moet voor de ochtend aanbreekt gevonden worden...

In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the arranged marriage. The second is the love marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the first toward the second.The daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself caught between the traditions of her ancestors and the lure of her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, Yalini is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present.While Kumaran’s loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family’s roots—and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils—through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran’s death and his daughter’s politically motivated nuptials edge closer, Yalini must decide where she stands. Lyrical and innovative, V. V. Ganeshananthan’s novel brilliantly unfolds how generations of struggle both form and fractures families.

Op de dag dat een echtpaar miljonair wordt, komt er een eind aan hun huwelijk.

Robert Reckliss krijgt onverwacht een intrigerend voorwerp toegespeeld, een rond platinakleurig kistje. Voordat hih het goed en wel beseft, wordt hij meegezogen in wat een spannend spel van geocoaching lijkt: hij moet in Manhatten met behulp van een hightech gps zeven mysterieuze sleutels zien te vinden en de bijbehorende codes zien te kraken. Dat het geen spel maar bloedserieus is, wordt hem duidelijk als zijn vrouw plotseling verdwijnt. Robert moet vechten voor zijn leven, verstrikt in een proces waarbij hij binnen zeven dagen, door middel van zeven beproevingen, zijn ware krachten moet zien te ontwikkelen. Een met mystiek en mysterie omgeven wapen dreigt de westerse wereld compleet te vernietigen. Robert zal een sprong in het duister moeten wagen: de ultieme proef is die van zijn vertrouwen. Hij moet het wapen onschadelijk maken en ervoor zorgen dat een afschuwelijk lot hem, de zijnen en misschien wel de hele mensheid bespaard zal blijven.