Ineke van Bronswijk Livres

Chez les Blancs de Jackson, Mississippi, ce sont les Noires qui font le ménage, la cuisine, et qui s'occupent des enfants. On est en 1962, les lois raciales font autorité. En quarante ans de service, Aibileen a appris à tenir sa langue. L'insolente Minny, sa meilleure amie, vient tout juste de se faire renvoyer. Si les choses s'enveniment, elle devra chercher du travail dans une autre ville. Peut-être même s'exiler dans un autre Etat, comme Constantine, qu'on n'a plus revue ici depuis que, pour des raisons inavouables, les Phelan l'ont congédiée. Mais Skeeter, la fille des Phelan, n'est pas comme les autres. De retour à Jackson au terme de ses études, elle s'acharne à découvrir pourquoi Constantine, qui l'a élevée avec amour pendant vingt-deux ans, est partie sans même lui laisser un mot. Une jeune bourgeoise blanche et deux bonnes noires. Personne ne croirait à leur amitié ; moins encore la toléreraient. Pourtant, poussées par une sourde envie de changer les choses, malgré la peur, elles vont unir leurs destins, et en grand secret écrire une histoire bouleversante. Passionnant, drôle, émouvant, La Couleur des sentiments a conquis l'Amérique avec ses personnages inoubliables. Vendu à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires, ce premier roman, véritable phénomène culturel outre-Atlantique, est un pur bonheur de lecture.

Parce qu'elle a fui l'Egypte sans l'autorisation de son mari musulman en emmenant avec elle ses deux filles, Jacky Trevane est accusée d'avoir commis un grave péché contre l'islam et vit aujourd'hui sous la menace d'une fatwa. Ce jugement rendu par un imam la condamne à la peine de mort si jamais elle est retrouvée par son mari. Jacky Trevane est donc vouée à passer le reste de son existence en se cachant. Tout avait pourtant commencé comme dans un conte des Mille et une nuits. Dix mois après son coup de foudre pour un bel Égyptien rencontré lors d'un séjour touristique, Jacky, 23 ans, mettait au monde leur premier enfant. Le début d'un enfer. Brimades, humiliations, violences... Jacky Trevane livre ici le récit terrifiant de sa vie jusqu'à son périple à travers le désert avec ses deux fillettes...

"Stroud is a genius' Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series. Ghosts and ghouls beware! London's smallest, shabbiest and most talented psychic detection agency is back. Life is never exactly peaceful for Lockwood & Co. Lucy and George are trying to solve the mystery of the talking skull trapped in their ghost jar, while Lockwood is desperate for an exciting new case. Things seem to be looking up when the team is called to Kensal Green Cemetery to investigate the grave of a sinister Victorian doctor. Strange apparitions have been seen there, and the site must be made safe. As usual, Lockwood is confident; as usual, everything goes wrong a terrible phantom is unleashed, and a dangerous object is stolen from the coffin. Lockwood & Co must recover the relic before its power is unleashed, but it's a race against time. Their obnoxious rivals from the Fittes agency are also on the hunt. And if that's not bad enough, the skull in the ghost-jar is stirring again The author of the blockbuster BARTIMAEUS sequence delivers another humorous and chilling instalment in the critically acclaimed LOCKWOOD & CO. series."

Quo Vadis for our times! Well, not exactly. It's been awhile since anyone tackled the Roman Empire as entertainingly as Gillespie has done in this book, a nearly-straight historical novel which should please readers of fantasy, too. Germanic Auriane is a combination of the noble, natural savage, and the heroine marked from birth for great deeds. Roman Marcus Julianus is the personification of the highest civilized, republican Roman values. Both are typical and atypical of their societies, fighting for what each believes to be just. Their individual struggles with the clashing Roman and Teutonic cultures are carried out in the Northern forests and in the salons and arena of Rome. Strongly- drawn characters, a setting both familiar and exotic (we all know something of imperial Rome, but very few of us are well-informed about it), a whiff of New-Age ancient mysticism, and a subdued but important romance subplot drive the sweeping novel of Auriane's growth and maturity and Rome's decadence.

Als Sarah Talbot von ihrer schweren Krankheit geheilt wird, glaubt sie aufatmen zu können. Was sie nie für möglich gehalten hätte, tritt ein: Sie findet in Will den Lebensgefährten, der ihr endlich Ruhe und Erfüllung schenken kann. Doch ihr Glück ist bedroht ... Ein Roman über den Sieg der Liebe und die Kraft der Hoffnung!

Koomson has written an enchanting tale of life's most unpredictable loves and heartaches, and the improbable bond between a single woman and an extraordinary five-year-old girl. "Image" (UK) declares this funny and touching novel a book to watch out for.

Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaysia and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact lives in poverty. A woman of formidable energy and intelligence, Lakshmi provides security, if not luxury, for her family, though at a considerable emotional cost. Then the Japanese army invades during WWII. On the eve of peace, her beloved eldest daughter is raped and killed by the occupying army. The family bears deep scars and inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But in Nisha, Lakshmi's great-granddaughter, it is as if Fate has come full circle and the novel ends on a note of reconciliation and hope.

Five lives are suddenly caught up in a whirligig of increasingly dangerous emotions. This thriller is set in Scotland, London, America and Italy.

Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer.Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution engulfed millions of Chinese citizens, and the Red Guard enforced Mao's brutal communist regime. Chen’s family belonged to the despised landlord class, and his father and grandfather were routinely beaten and sent to labor camps, the family of eight left without a breadwinner. Despite this background of poverty and danger, and Da Chen grows up to be resilient, tough, and funny, learning how to defend himself and how to work toward his future. By the final pages, when his says his last goodbyes to his father and boards the bus to Beijing to attend college, Da Chen has become a hopeful man astonishing in his resilience and cheerful strength.

1940: after the Spanish Civil War, Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, as Germany continues its relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone, while General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a traumatized veteran of Dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of old schoolfriend Sandy Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Harry finds himself involved in a dangerous game - and surrounded by memories. Meanwhile Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Claire, is engaged on her own secret mission - to find her former lover, Bernie Piper, a passionate Communist in the International Brigades who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama. A vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and compelling tale. An intesely moving love story, it also evokes a remarkable sense of history unfolding and reveals the profound impact of impossible choices.