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.

Het is een witte kerstnacht. Drie jonge kinderen vluchten van huis voor een gewetenloos en duister gevaar. Tien jaar later wonen Kate, Michael en Emma in een weeshuis. Ze weten nog altijd niet waarom ze van hun ouders werden gescheiden. Het antwoord blijkt verborgen te liggen in een betoverd boek. Wanneer de macht van dit boek is ontketend, komen de kinderen in een wereld waar een goudharige gravin en haar leger zielloze Krijsers heersen. Daar wordt duidelijk dat er nog meer betoverde boeken zijn met weergaloze krachten. Kate, Michael en Emma moeten naar deze boeken op zoek als zij ooit hun ouders terug willen vinden....

Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. After growing up in the small town of Willow, Owen marries the elegant and remote Phyllis, his college girlfriend. But this soon leads to his first betrayal and he abandons his reserve, embarking on a series of affairs and sexual encounters in New England and as far as Las Vegas. Nevada. This is in America during the revolutionary sixties and seventies, and Owen's profession as a computer programmer does not shelter him from the era's reckless appetites. Owen's 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.

'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.' Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is - has he got what it takes to confront them? Visit betweenthelines.com.au - the destination for Young Adult books.

Vaclav e Lena si conoscono che hanno solo dieci anni, ed è subito amore. Figli entrambi di immigrati russi in America, dividono i sogni e le difficoltà. I sogni di un futuro sfavillante - in cui lui diventerà un famoso mago e lei "la sua incantevole assistente" - e le difficoltà di una vita in un paese straniero, confortata dall'affetto di una famiglia presente e affettuosa per Vaclav, fatta di abbandono e solitudine per Lena, che non ha mai conosciuto i genitori e abita con una zia che non si occupa di lei. Ma per i due bambini l'importante è stare insieme, fino al giorno, terribile, in cui Lena sparisce dalla vita di Vaclav senza nemmeno un addio. Dieci anni dopo i due si rincontreranno, per scoprire che nulla è cambiato, ma il passato allunga la sua ombra terribile sulla loro felicità...

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.