Anna Airoldi Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven-year-old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa's granny 'eccentric', or even 'crazy'. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don't always exist in imaginary kingdoms; they could live just down the hallway. As Christmas draws near, even the best superhero grandmothers may have one or two things they'd like to apologise for. And, in the process, Elsa can have some breath-taking adventures of her own . . .

Svezia, anni Settanta. In un villaggio solitario vicino alla costa, nasce una bambina che non corrisponde all'immagine dorata che la madre aveva sognato. Si chiama Angela Rafaela Lo Mård, ma per tutti è Lo. Cresce spensierata, immersa nella natura e nei giochi con gli zii, fino a quando un'estate un incendio lungo la ferrovia segna un cambiamento irreversibile. In quel giorno incontra Lukas, un ragazzo ungherese il cui padre vive in modo selvaggio e parla una lingua sconosciuta. Tra loro si sviluppa un legame profondo, costruito su gesti e comprensioni silenziose. Nella "capanna del pescatore", Lo e Lukas affrontano le loro paure, tra cui il monito della madre di Lo: «Sta' attenta all'amore», un sentimento che può essere un veleno inarrestabile. Con l'adolescenza, la loro connessione si logora a causa di abbandoni e tradimenti. Lo decide di lasciare tutto, dalla famiglia a Lukas, intraprendendo un viaggio frenetico da Stoccolma a Budapest, da Cracovia a New York, ma Lukas rimane sempre nel suo cuore. La storia racconta un amore non convenzionale, un legame che sa di essere eterno eppure impossibile. Con grazia, l'autrice ci guida attraverso il viaggio di Lo e Lukas, mentre cercano di ritrovare il filo che li unisce, esplorando il potere segreto del loro amore.

This captivating bestseller tells the true story of a miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl and a baby whale off the coast of California. It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was swimming her last half mile back to the pier after a long workout when she became aware that something was swimming with her. The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; whatever it was felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body. In fact, it was a baby gray whale following alongside her. Lynne quickly realized that if she swam back to the pier, the young calf would follow her onto shore and die from collapsed lungs. On the other hand, if Lynne didn't find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death. Something so enormous--the mother whale would be at least fifty feet long--suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean. How could Lynne possibly find her? This is the story--part mystery, part magical tale--of what happened.

Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.