Laura Prandino Livres

Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will you sweep you up and never let you go. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn't? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has lost. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are-not a war, but a revolution-and decide how she, too, will cry for Syria's freedom

"Alice Howland is a 50-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, and a world-renowned expert in linguistics, with grown children and a satisfying marriage, when she starts to experience fleeting forgetfulness and disorientation. She initially attributes these episodes to normal aging or menopause. But as her symptoms worsen, she sees a neurologist and is given the diagnosis that will change her life forever: early-onset Alzheimer's disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her sense of self is gradually stripped away, leaving her unable to continue in her profession, take care of herself, recognise her loved ones or even understand that she has a neurodegenerative disease. Without memory or hope, Alice is forced to live in the moment, which is in turns beautiful, terrifying, and maddening."--Publisher description.

First book of a sweeping trilogy from the fastest-growing author in historical fiction.

A series of seismic events--the tanking of Claudia's film, the return of Jeremy's manipulative ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments--deal a crushing blow to a young married couple dreaming of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations, and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future.

À Edgecombe St. Mary, le major Ernest Pettigrew, gentleman anglais raffiné et courtois, suit avec rigueur le rituel de sa tasse de thé. Veuf, il vit entouré de ses livres et de quelques amis du club de golf, loin des préoccupations de son fils Roger, un jeune londonien ambitieux. La routine du major est bouleversée par la mort de son frère Bertie et la rencontre avec Mme Ali, une commerçante pakistanaise également veuve. Leur passion commune pour la littérature et leur expérience du deuil les rapprochent, malgré les différences culturelles qui les séparent. Ils doivent faire face aux préjugés des villageois, où le racisme ordinaire se manifeste dans divers contextes sociaux. Les tensions s'intensifient avec l'arrivée de Roger et sa petite amie américaine, ainsi que le neveu de Mme Ali, qui revient du Pakistan avec un secret. Helen Simonson explore avec charme et intelligence le thème des traditions, révélant à la fois leur potentiel de réconfort et leur danger. L'atmosphère so british du roman enchante, tout en posant la question : votre tasse de thé, avec un nuage de lait ou une tranche de citron ?

CRUSADE is the second book in the magnificent BRETHREN trilogy

A la fin des années 1990, chez les Kazanci, famille turque d'Istanbul, les femmes sont de grandes amoureuses, tandis que les hommes ne vivent pas vieux. Chez les Tchakhmakhchian, installés à San Francisco, Rose abandonne son époux et se remarie avec un Turc. Armanouch, sa fille, se rend à Istanbul et rencontre Asya, la plus jeune des Kazanci, la bâtarde. Peu à peu des secrets se révèlent.

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 ...

A 22 ans, Yalini se démène entre le poids des coutumes ancestrales que lui valent ses origines tamoules et sa vie de jeunefemme moderne. A l'arrivée d'un oncle mourant, Yalini (qui vit au Canada) se plonge dans l'histoire de sa famille et découvre au final le chaos du Sri Lanka dont elle est originaire. Une découverte qui l'aide alors à mieux comprendre l'histoire de ses propres parents.

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.

Seven Trials, Seven Keys, Seven Days. . . One chance to save the world. When Robert Reckliss is sent a copper puzzle box accompanied by a cryptic note, he has no idea his life is about to be transformed. That night, an acquaintance kills himself; the following day, an old friend reveals a terrorist threat that could wipe the Western world from the face of the planet. And the responsibility for hunting down this weapon, this Malice Box, lies with Robert. The weapon is primed to explode in seven days and Robert must undergo a quest in order to track down the keys vital to prevent detonation. The Malice Box is utterly unique.