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A Montreal woman searches for her friend, Hiroji, a neurologist, and the story of his and his brother's past unlocks buried memories of Cambodia, of her separation from her family under the Khmer Rouge, and her harrowing journey of escape from the "rehabilitation" camp where her mother and brother were taken with others.

1944. Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared. She is not alone, as all the women in the isolated Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to find their husbands gone. With this sudden and unexplained absence they regroup as an all-female community and wait, hoping for news.

'The thinking man's John Grisham' New Statesman The body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, is discovered late one night in a pile of autumn leaves at the side of the road. At first it looks like a hit and run - after all, it's Halloween night and the streets have been full of children trick or treating. But how did a 3-year-old come to be alone on the dark streets at such a late hour? Lawrence, the policeman sent to investigate, finds himself under increasing pressure when it becomes clear that the chief suspect is the town's star quarterback. In the ensuing cover-up, Lawrence finds himself a pawn in the power games between the local mayor, the suspect's family, and an investigator with some personal scores to settle.

In Madeleine Thien's internationally acclaimed and powerful debut novel, two parallel stories of intense love and loss - spanning Canada, Borneo, and the Netherlands - become intertwined as her characters struggle to accept the uncertain nature of the past, as well as the future.

Een opgroeiende blanke jongen in Zuid-Afrika ontdekt in de jaren zeventig wat het is om in een apartheidsstaat te leven.

Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The tragedy of Max's life was to fall in love at seventeen with Alice, a girl his own age - but to her, Max looks like an unappealingly middle-aged man. However when Max reaches the age of thirty-five, with an appearance to match, he has his second chance at love. But tragedy befalls this star-crossed couple, and desperate measures are required.

In 1828, before all living things were destroyed, William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land, fell in love with a black woman and discovered, too late, that love is not safe.

Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from welcome. He's also determined to do something about the long "tradition" of permanent loans to faculty of shovels, saws, even cars, from the school's supplies. Eloquent as he is on the subject of honor, rumor has it he's only taken this job to escape his past. And Hawthorne isn't the only uneasy newcomer. There's Jessica, a former stripper at fifteen, and Frank LeBrun, a replacement cook who's a bit too quick with a dirty joke. All three have secrets to conceal, memories to suppress.Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder.

Stunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . .  The First Americans .  When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is threatened by a series of natural disasters. A bold young hunter named Torka, who lost his wife and child to a killer mammoth, leads the survivors over the glacial tundra on a desperate eastward odyssey to the save their clan. Through attacks of savage animals and encounters with strangers not unlike themselves, they must brave the hardships of a foreign landscape and learn to live in an exotic new world of mystery and danger. They must travel toward the land where the sun rises for a new day for their clan—and an awesome future for the American.

Acht verhalen over ervaringen op diverse plaatsen van de wereld.

Torka - Om de sluwe listen van zijn vijanden te trotseren voert Torka zijn gezin naar een land dat niemand vóór hem had durven betreden... Karana - Torka's geadopteerde zoon verbergt twee geheimen voor zijn vader: dat zijn magische krachten zijn afgenomen....en dat hij de afschuwelijke waarheid over zijn toekomst weet. Lonit - Torka's mooie en dappere vrouw zal nooit het kind kunnen vergeten dat ze heeft moeten opgeven...en in haar dromen gelooft ze dat hij nog steeds leeft... Cheanah- De enige overlevende zoon van een vrouw die hem ertoe drijft Torka te vernietigen... Mahnie - Jong, zachtaardig en mooi. Ooit was zij Karana's vrouw, maar de hartstocht die zij voor hem voelde was niet wederzijds...

In Gang der Stormen zijn de dappere jager Torka, zijn vrouw Lonit en hun geadopteerde zoon Karana, na een afschuwelijke natuurramp ternauwernood te hebben overleefd, terechtgekomen in een gebied dat voor alle mensen verboden is: een gebied waar bergen bewegen en geesten spreken. Torka leidt zijn mensen naar een winterkamp waar tal van groepen zich verzamelen om de grote mammoet te vernietigen die zoveel mensenoffers heeft geëist. Maar daar ontmoeten hij en zijn volgelingen een kwaad dat nog veel krachtiger is dan de dreiging van de natuur in dat onherbergzame land: Navahk, de boze magiër, de doder der geesten, die zijn uiterlijke charmes gebruikt om zijn duistere lusten te bevredigen en meedogenloos zijn vijanden uit te schakelen. Zelfs Lonit kan de krachtige aantrekkingskracht niet weerstaan van de man die zichzelf bezworen heeft haar geliefde Torka te vernietigen...

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