Titia Ram Livres

#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another gripping thriller

Amanda Travis is a high-powered, 28-year-old lawyer whose greatest likes are spinning classes at her Palm Beach gym and a compliant jury. As for the things she hates, they include nicknames, the color pink, clients who don't follow her advice... and memories. Unfortunately, running from her past becomes a lot harder when one of her ex-husbands calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed a complete stranger. Now she must return to face her demons--a love that once consumed her and a mother who seems to hold a strange, dark power over everyone she encounters. But Amanda is no longer willing to acquiesce to her mother's fatal whims--no matter what the cost.

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, "Who Will Win a Billion?" It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question. Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Swarup's "Q & A" is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know -- not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil -- and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive. The movie "Slumdog Millionaire" was based on this novel.

Annette Herfkens overleefde als enige een vliegtuigramp en bracht acht dagen door in de Vietnamese jungle voordat ze gevonden werd. Na haar bijzondere redding slaagt ze erin om haar leven weer op te bouwen, het verdriet om de dood van haar verloofde een plek te geven, haar carrière te hervatten en de liefde weer te vinden. De voornaamste les die ze in de jungle leerde, blijkt ook van toepassing te zijn in haar verdere, dagelijkse leven: neem de zaken zoals ze zijn en verander alleen datgene wat je daadwerkelijk kunt veranderen. Een mooie maar moeilijke les, waar Annnette mee worstelt als haar zoon gediagnosticeerd wordt met autisme. Na veertien jaar keert Annette terug naar Vietnam om de berg te beklimmen waar de crash heeft plaatsgevonden en antwoorden te krijgen op vragen die al jaren door haar hoofd gaan.

From the bestselling author of Good in Bed and In Her Shoes comes a hilarious, warm-hearted story of what follows 'happily ever after' as three young wives make the journey into motherhood. There's Becky, a plump, sexy chef, with an overworked husband, an adorable baby girl ... and the mother-in-law from hell. There's Kelly, a twenty-four-seven event planner who is charting her baby's every move on a spreadsheet, while hoping that her husband will pull his finger out, and finally find a job. And then there's the beautiful Ayinde, who is happily married to Philadelphia's most prominent basketball star, until the combination of new baby and infidelity threatens their marriage. By turns moving, funny, and inspiring, Little Earthquakes is a great big delicious read from a prodigiously talented author.

A stunning epic novel of secrets, betrayal and passion, from 1933 to the 1960s 1933. Tessa and Frederica Nicolson enjoy one last idyllic summer at the beautiful Villa Millefiore, overlooking Florence. Four years later, Italy is a distant memory and Tessa is revelling in the glamour and excitement of modelling in London, until a passionate affair with married author Milo Rycroft leads to tragic consequences. Tessa returns to Florence, and, missing her sister desperately, Freddie, too, travels to Italy, where she is swept up in adventure, danger and romance, and makes a chance encounter that will change her life. With the outbreak of World War Two, Tessa and Freddie must fight for their own survival and happiness, while they wonder whether they will ever see each other again...

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the Dracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, and evading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful - and utterly unforgettable.

Wanneer Claire Barclay hoort dat haar geliefde stiefvader een beroerte heeft gehad, besluiten zij en haar man Art vanuit New York naar Schotland te vliegen om gedurende de zomer voor Leo te zorgen. Leo blijkt niet meer zelfstandig te kunnen wonen, maar weigert zijn vertrouwde huis te verlaten. Art komt met een plan om de woning te verbouwen tot conferentieoord en ernaast een cottage voor Leo te laten bouwen. De situatie wordt gecompliceerd als Claires oude vlam, Jonas Fairwether, de verzorger en vertrouweling van Leo, voorstelt om het huis en het land te veilen. Dan ontdekt Claire dat er een aanvraag is ingediend om een bouwproject te starten op het land van Leo. Ze begint te vermoeden dat Jonas misbruik probeert te maken van de oude man. Maar is dat echt zijn enige motief?

Audrey's family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected. As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?

In Bij jou of bij mij? beschrijft Jennifer Weiner hoe liefde, vriendschap en behoefte aan menselijk contact op verschillende manieren mensenlevens kunnen beïnvloeden. Zo ontmoeten we Marlie Davidow, op vrijdagavond alleen thuis met haar baby, die langs het onlinehuwelijksregister van haar ex surft en zich afvraagt wat er was gebeurd als ze met hem was verdergegaan. Weiners personages in Bij jou of bij mij? zijn van vlees en bloed en zoeken hoop, geloof, humor en liefde in de stille hoekjes van het bestaan.