Susan Ridder Livres

A MONASTERY Hidden deep in the wilderness are the cloisters of two dozen monks - men of prayer and music, famous the world over for their glorious voices. A MURDER But a brutal death throws the monastery doors open to the world. And through them walks the only man who can shine light upon the dark deeds within: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. A MYSTERY Who among the brothers has become an angel of death? As the peace of the monastery crumbles around him, Gamache finds clues in the divine, the human, and the cracks in between. Ingenious, gripping, and powerful, The Beautiful Mystery is the most outstanding novel yet from international bestselling phenomenon Louise Penny.

A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba’s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful cast of characters and presented in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with modern Western prose, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is a tale about memory and the importance of controlling one’s own fate.

Anna is ervan overtuigd dat je je geluk in eigen hand hebt. Je kunt het plannen, regelen, afdwingen. Ze is tenslotte chef-kok en weet dat je met goede ingrediënten in de juiste verhouding alles voor elkaar kunt krijgen. Dus als ze zwanger wordt, verandert dat niets aan haar droom om ooit met haar man Tobias naar Frankrijk te verhuizen. Deze droom wordt een nachtmerrie als Anna's baby Freya bij haar geboorte verstandelijk en lichamelijk gehandicapt blijkt te zijn. In de wervelstorm van emoties die volgt worden Anna en Tobias geconfronteerd met essentiële levensvragen. Toch besluiten ze samen met Freya naar Frankrijk te gaan en het leven te nemen zoals het komt. Tussen de oude muren van hun bouwvallige boerderij leren Anna en Tobias elkaar opnieuw kennen, maar wordt het jonge gezin ook zwaar op de proef gesteld.

Pour perdre quelques petits kilos, il est difficile de choisir parmi tous les régimes qui nous sont actuellement proposés : substituts de repas ? régime dissocié ? hyperprotéiné ? Mireille Guiliano, après un voyage calorique outre-Atlantique, s'est initiée aux principes diététiques, retrouvant ainsi la ligne. Ce livre original, mi-autobiographique, mi-livre de cuisine, montre qu'il est possible de s'affiner tout en savourant salade de canard à l'orange, flan aux asperges et pêches grillées au thym citronné ! Une méthode simple et flexible pour gérer vous-même votre ligne et votre santé ; des conseils utiles pour retrouver sa silhouette ou rester mince tout en évitant les frustrations ; des recettes appétissantes et faciles à concocter, des menus équilibrés pour toutes les saisons.

San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature–the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found.