Lucie Schaap Libros

The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.

Carcassonne 1942. A spirited and courageous young woman, Sandrine, finds herself drawn into the world of the Resistance in Carcassonne under German Occupation. Her network - codenamed 'Citadel' - is made up of ordinary women who risk everything to fight the sinister battles raging in the shadows around them. As the war reaches its violent and bloody conclusion, Sandrine's fate is tied up with that of three very different men. But who is the real enemy? Who is the real threat? And who is the true guardian of the ancient secrets that for generations have drawn people to the foothills of the Pyrenean mountains?

"En 1969, en un barrio de Nueva York, se rumora la llegada de una adivina que asegura conocer el dâia de la muerte de las personas. Los hermanos Gold, a pesar de su corta edad, deciden ir y eschuchar lo que les depara el futuro. Las profecâias les narran su prâoximas cinco dâecadas. Klara, la soänadora, se convierte en una maga en Las Vegas, siempre obsesionada con la delgada lâinea que separa la realidad de la fantasâia; Daniel, busca seguridad como mâedico militar despuâes de los atentados del 11 de septiembre; finalmente Varya, la devoradora de libros; se sumerge en una investigaciâon sobre la longevidad, poniendo a prueba la ciencia y la inmortalidad. Una novela profunda y ambiciosa que juega con las preguntas que todos nos hemos formulado alguna vez: ÅQuâe tanto influyen nuestras decisiones en nuestro destino? ÅExiste una vida despuâes de la muerte? ÅQuâe papel tienen nuestros sueänos en la realidad?"--Reverso del libro.

Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph

'This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular. Really, really just amazing' Gillian Flynn: From the author of the highly acclaimed GODS OF GOTHAM comes another vivid, gritty, historical novel set around mid-nineteenth century New York's notorious Five Points

Naar de haaien is een roman die op grootse wijze de verzenuwde periode tussen de beurscrash van 1929 en de definitieve machtsovername van de nazi’s in 1933 vastlegt. In deze jaren van armoede en gebrek doolt de werkloze Fabian door Berlijn, een stad die zich zowel op politiek als erotisch vlak in een crisissituatie bevindt. Het boek werd in 1931 in Duitsland verkort, gecensureerd en onder een andere titel op de markt gebracht (Fabian: het verhaal van een moralist), om twee jaar later op de brandstapel te belanden: de nazi’s achtten ook de gemuilkorfde editie obsceen, decadent en getui­gen van een gedegenereerde geest. Na ruim tachtig jaar is nu voor het eerst de roman te lezen zoals Kästner die bedoeld heeft.