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.
Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyone-especially herself. . . Is love a great enough power against evil?
The breakthrough thriller from a new talent in psychological crime ... Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mercer - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mackey is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mackey's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mackey's team. Soon afterwards, a young man walks into a police station badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive in the woods he's escaped from. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place. However, all is not what it seems ...
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.
Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own.
Los Angeles, California. Un sole feroce splende in un cielo dall'azzurro fin troppo perfetto. L'aria è pesante e piena di elettricità. Nella sua splendida casa circondata dagli eucalipti, Claudia non sa che una tempesta sta per abbattersi su di lei. Oggi è il più bel giorno della sua esistenza, il coronamento di un sogno. Stretta nel suo vestito da sera di seta rossa, si sistema gli orecchini e dà un ultimo sguardo allo specchio. Una sala gremita dei critici più influenti del mondo del cinema l'attende per la proiezione del suo film, la sua opera prima. Accanto a lei c'è Jeremy, il marito, cantante e chitarrista di una band emergente e alla moda. Insieme sono la coppia ideale, magnifici e di successo. Il loro ingresso è trionfale. Ma proprio quando sembra che niente possa andare storto, un terremoto investe la loro vita, facendola crollare come un fragile castello di carte. Il film si rivela un flop, nessuno lo vuole distribuire. La carriera di Claudia va a rotoli. Come se non bastasse, la band di Jeremy si scioglie e lui confessa a sua moglie di essere molto, troppo, indietro con le rate del mutuo. All'improvviso sono sul lastrico. E il loro matrimonio entra in crisi. Mentre Jeremy preferisce fare l'adolescente, chiudere gli occhi di fronte allo sfacelo e fuggire tra le braccia della sua eccentrica ex fidanzata pittrice, Claudia stringe i denti e si mette in trincea. È impaurita, piena di rabbia, sfiducia e delusione. Ma non abbandona la battaglia. Lei è l'unica che può far riemergere i loro sogni dalle macerie che li hanno sepolti. Rialzando la testa e reinventandosi da capo. Dopo lo strepitoso successo di Una fragile perfezione, Janelle Brown si riconferma come il nuovo astro nascente del panorama letterario americano. A poche settimane dall'uscita, <i>Una bugia di poco conto</i> ha scatenato l'entusiasmo della critica, dei blog e di numerosissimi gruppi di lettura e ha acceso infuocate discussioni per l'attualità dei temi trattati. Una storia di speranza e di ambizione, di compromessi e di forza. La forza di una donna di ricominciare da zero, in cui ognuno di noi può trovare sé stesso.