'A staggeringly beautiful meditation on love, legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living.' Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's WifeBOSTON, 1980Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and home-schooled. Her days are spent in a lab with her father David, a computer science professor, and the brilliant minds of his colleagues.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River comes an immersive novel about a missing child whose disappearance sends shockwaves through three distinct worlds: an opulent Adirondack summer estate, a rustic teen summer camp, and the blue-collar community that serves them. When Barbara Van Laar goes missing from her camp bunk in August 1975, a frantic search ensues. Her disappearance is particularly tragic as she is the daughter of the wealthy family that owns both the camp and the nearby estate. This incident is eerily reminiscent of a past tragedy—Barbara’s older brother vanished sixteen years earlier, never to be found. Liz Moore crafts a richly textured drama, balancing emotional depth with a compelling mystery. As the narrative unfolds, the secrets of the Van Laar family and the surrounding community are revealed, drawing readers into the lives of characters forever altered by this harrowing summer. This ambitious novel explores themes of love, inheritance, identity, and second chances, delving into the tensions between family and community, and the haunting legacy of secrets that bind them all.
"Mickey Fitzpatrick has been patrolling the 24th District for years. She knows most of the working women by name. She knows what desperation looks like and what people will do when they need a fix. She's become used to finding overdose victims: their numbers are growing every year. But every time she sees someone sprawled out, slumped over, cold to the touch, she has to pray it's not her sister, Kacey. When the bodies of murdered sex workers start turning up on the Ave, the Chief of Police is keen to bury the news. They're not the kind of victims that generate a whole lot of press anyway. But Mickey is obsessed, dangerously so, with finding the perpetrator - before Kacey becomes the next victim."--Publisher description
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here . Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising sporting career - if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel's mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur's. After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene's unexpected phone call to Arthur - a plea for help - that jostles them into action.
August 1975. Z chatky v letnom tábore zmizne trinásťročná Barbara Van Laarová. Nie je to bežná táborníčka, ale dcéra majiteľov tábora a rezervácie, ktorá nesie ich meno. Rodičia aj ľudia v blízkom mestečku sú hlboko znepokojení, lebo Barbara nie je prvé zmiznuté dieťa v rodine, pred štrnástimi rokmi sa bez stopy stratil jej starší brat Bear. Niektorí ľudia hovoria, že Van Laarovci sú prekliati, iní, že ide len o tragickú zhodu okolností, no niektorí si myslia, že obidve zmiznutia spolu súvisia. Otázka však znie ako.
Letztendlich war es die Einsamkeit, die uns zueinander führte und miteinander verband. Arthur Opp, ehemaliger Literaturprofessor, wiegt 250 Kilo und hat sein Haus in Brooklyn seit über einem Jahrzehnt nicht mehr verlassen. Nur 30 Kilometer entfernt kämpft der junge Kel um seinen Schulabschluss und die Chance auf ein besseres Leben: ein Sportstipendium. Zwei Menschen, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten - und die doch etwas Entscheidendes verbindet.
Bývalý vysokoškolský profesor Arthur váží 250 kg a už deset let nevyšel z domu. Sedmnáctiletý Kel Keller se musí potýkat se svým životem chudého kluka, jenž veškeré naděje vkládá do kariéry profesionálního hráče baseballu. Pojítkem těchto dvou zdánlivě nesouvisejících osudů je Kelova matka a Arthurova bývalá studentka Charlene. Tíha je příběh o lásce a rodině, kterou občas nacházíme na těch nejméně pravděpodobných místech.
Roman - Eine herzerwärmende, von Reese Witherspoons Bookclub empfohlene Geschichte über Familie, Liebe und Verlust
Welche Geschichten sind es wert, geteilt und bewahrt zu werden? Als die Studentin Monica von dem Geheimnis erfährt, das ihre Großmutter mit einer alten Bleistiftfabrik in Shanghai verbindet, will sie alles wissen. Was geschah damals wirklich in der Phoenix Pencil Company? Welcher Zauber liegt in den Bleistiften verborgen? Je tiefer Monica in die Vergangenheit ihrer Familie eintaucht, umso schmerzlicher werden die Erinnerungen und umso schwerer die Worte, die ausgesprochen werden müssen, um den Fluch der Vergangenheit zu brechen. Ein ergreifendes Romandebüt über Familie, Liebe und Verlust und über die magische Kraft von Geschichten – mit dem Allison King von Reese Witherspoon entdeckt und in ihrem Book Club gefördert wurde.
