Janine van der Kooij Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Lange tijd werd het schrijven van en over muziek gedaan door mannen, voor mannen. Mannelijke dominantie en seksisme zitten stevig ingebed in de canons - in literatuur, film en muziek - en vrouwen hebben altijd moeten vechten tegen een hokjesmentaliteit, tegen buitenspel gezet worden wanneer zij hun eigen ruimte wilden creëren. Nu is het tijd voor vrouwen om zich uit te spreken, hun verhaal te vertellen. En harder te schreeuwen. This Woman's Work is een collectie essays over experimentalisten en genredoorbrekers, over vrouwen die muziek met activisme combineerden, over de geracialiseerde stijlfiguren van jazz en over hun eigen persoonlijke ervaringen. Met bijdragen van o.a. Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Leslie Jamison, Maggie Nelson, Juliana Huxtable, Yiyun Li, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margo Jefferson en Rachel Kushner. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Lila, de cuatro o cinco años, malvive en una casa de obreros inmigrantes en algún punto del Midwest de la década de 1920. Nadie parece preocuparse mucho por ella. Pasa el tiempo acurrucada bajo una mesa hasta que rompe a llorar y alguien la manda fuera de la casa. Un anochecer, una mujer llamada Doll se lleva a Lila. Sobreviven uniéndose a una banda de trabajadores nómadas en busca de empleo mientras el país se sume en la Gran Depresión. Pasan los años y para Lila la felicidad sigue siendo algo extraño. Doll ha desaparecido de su vida sin saber cómo y ella sigue su deambular, preguntando casa por casa si alguien tiene un trabajo para ella. Un día, para guarecerse de una tormenta, entra en una iglesia del poblado de Gilead mientras el reverendo John Ames pronuncia su sermón. Con el vestido mojado, los ojos tristes, Lila no había nacido para ser una mujer bella. A pesar de la diferencia de edad y de condición, Lila y el reverendo Ames vivirán una historia de amor como un milagro repentino e inexplicable. Lila huye de un pasado itinerante y brutal, y el reverendo recupera el sentido del amor cuarenta años después de la muerte de su primera mujer.

The shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-year-old Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss, takes readers through her downward spiral with warmth and candor, and gives a moving and inspiring account of how she overcame a lifetime of discrimination and abuse.

"My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born..." Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa. More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, captures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Guiliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrets that threatens her life. Set against the drama of 15th Century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself.

The New York Times bestseller that Nelson DeMille said "will keep...readers entranced and entertained from cover to cover." Savvy young Los Angeles P.I. Regan Reilly faces an unusual challenge when she gets an urgent call from Lilac Weldon, owner -- with her two hippie brothers -- of the run-down California winery Altered States. Lilac asks Regan to find her actress daughter, Whitney, AKA "Freshness," in time to attend the wedding of Lilac's wealthy aunt Lucretia Standish, a 93-year-old silent-film star. The Weldons have learned from a secret source that each family member will receive a gift of $2 million from Lucretia -- but only if they all attend. Lucretia's bridegroom, a 46-year-old con man and former actor, knows he must keep Whitney away; they have met before and she is wise to his game. How Regan foils his plot makes for an exciting climax to this comic suspense novel, filled with Carol Higgins Clark's inimitable characters.

Eithne is the keeper of secrets in her family. When her sister Beatrice disappeared from her home in the dark woods of Co. Meath, it was thirteen-year-old Eithne who uncovered the forlorn evidence of her life: a string of pearls, a pink beret, a compact and her beloved sketchbook. Their mother, Sarah, was so grief-stricken that she did not speak for five years, and her father Joe, sank further into drink-filled rage. Now, as an adult, Eithne is an artist, and tries to remember her sister in her sketches of the dark wooded bogs behind her house. For there was something else about Beatrice that was rarely spoken of in the household, a dark, guilty secret that her disappearance only made worse. And now, almost twenty years later, all could be revealed when a stranger appears. Framed by Eithnes journey to discover the truth about her sister, with the magic and beauty of art running through it, this is a richly compelling, haunting story of family secrets, passion and ultimately redemption.