Silvia Piraccini Boeken

Een hartverscheurende roman voor de liefhebbers van Kamer van Emma Donahue, Het wonderbaarlijke voorval met de hond in de nacht van Mark Haddon en De wijde hemel van Alice Sebold. `Ik heet Alex. Ik ben tien jaar. Ik hou van gebakken uien op toast en ik kan veertien minuten aan een stuk op de achterpoten van mijn stoel balanceren. En ik kan demonen zien. Mijn beste vriend is er een. Hij heet Ruen. Hij houdt van Mozart, tafeltennis en brood-en-boterpudding. Mijn moeder is ziek. Ruen zegt dat hij haar kan helpen. Alleen wil hij dat ik iets heel ergs doe. Hij wil dat ik iemand vermoord.’ De jongen die demonen zag is een aangrijpende en hartverwarmende roman over een tienjarig Iers jongetje dat zegt dat hij demonen ziet, en over de vrouwelijke psychiater die vastbesloten is hem te redden.

Called “A new Narnia for the tween set” by the New York Times and perfect for fans of the His Dark Materials series, The Emerald Atlas brims with humor and action as it charts Kate, Michael, and Emma's extraordinary adventures through an unforgettable, enchanted world.These three siblings have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.Until now.Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world...a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And — if an ancient prophesy is correct — what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right.

Owen Mackenzie�s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal price.

A sparkling debut novel about an unlikely romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student.Isolated and far from his native Iran, Ushman Khan has worked hard to build a wealthy, reliable clientele for his wares: exquisite hand-woven rugs from his home city of Tabriz.With perfect rectitude, he caters to clients like New York’s Upper East Side grand dame Mrs. Roberts, who plies him for stories about his exotic origins and culture to feed her own imagination. But like many immigrants, he’s living only half a life. He dreams of the day his beloved wife, Farak, will be able to join him in New York and complete his vision of the American dream. But when she tells him that she is leaving him for another man, Ushman is shattered. He begins to wander aimlessly through the terminals of JFK Airport, imagining a now-impossible reunion with Farak. Unexpectedly, he meets Stella, a Barnard College student who has just bade farewell to her parents en route for an Italian vacation. After Stella, isolated in her own way, finds herself at Ushman’s Manhattan store, they embark on an improbable and powerful romance. Together this American girl from the Deep South and the Iranian aesthete form a tender bond that awakens them both to the possibility of joy in a world full of tragedy.

Als gemeenteraadslid Barry Fairbrother plotseling sterft, blijft het Engelse dorp Pagford in shock achter.

Sam liebt sein Skateboard, sein großes Vorbild ist Tony Hawk, der beste Skateboarder der Welt. Und als Sam Alicia trifft, scheint alles perfekt zu sein. Doch dann passiert in Sekunden etwas, das das Leben der beiden Teenager für immer verändert. Nur langsam kann Sam sich mit dieser Realität anfreunden, begreift, dass alles nicht nur ein Traum ist. Die Darstellung der Personen und ihrer Motive zeigt, dass es keine leichten Lösungen gibt und fordert sie heraus, selbst Stellung zu beziehen. Die Annotationen erleichtern es, die Jugendsprache zu verstehen, ohne dass der Lesefluss gestört wird. Abiturempfehlung zum Themenbereich Growing up

Sam vive a North London; sedici anni, gli ormoni impazziti e una passione grande, come tutti i suoi coetanei: lo skateboard. E l'Eroe, il suo Eroe, è Tony Hawk, il più grande skater del mondo. Lui lo adora, ha il suo poster in camera, gli parla, si confronta con lui. E a chi se non al proprio eroe si possono raccontare le paure, le ansie, i problemi? Forse a una mamma come quella di Sam, giovane, carina, comprensiva, che ha conquistato anche gli amici del figlio. Del resto lei è una mamma davvero particolare e molto vicina al figlio, visto che lo ha avuto a sedici anni. E proprio a quella stessa età Sam conosce Alicia, con la quale è amore a prima vista, passione totalizzante e simbiotica come può esserlo solo a quell'età. Ma poi purtroppo, proprio quando - come succede solo a quell'età - il rapporto si sta ormai sfilacciando, Alicia scopre di essere incinta. Terrorizzato dal dover annunciare ai rispettivi genitori la drammatica verità e distrutto dalla visione terribile di un futuro fatto di pannolini e incomprensioni matrimoniali - prospettatagli dal suo idolo che tra le altre mille qualità ha anche quella di farlo "viaggiare" nel futuro - , Sam sceglie la fuga ad Hastings. Ma la sua fuga avrà breve durata.