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Aimee Molloy

    Aimee Molloy
    Il paese dei bambini che sorridono
    Then They Came for Me
    The perfect mother
    Goodnight Beautiful
    • Goodnight Beautiful

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent ...You'd listen too, wouldn't you? (You know you would.)Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn't satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after

      Goodnight Beautiful2020
      3.8
    • ***Don't miss this instant New York Times bestseller*** Soon to be a major motion picture starring Scandal's Kerry Washington. We all want different things. Francie wants to be the perfect mother. Nell wants to escape the past. Collette wants to spend more time with her family. All Winnie wants is to have her baby back. When Nell suggests a night out in Brooklyn to her new mums club, the others jump at the chance. But the evening takes a tragic turn when single mother Winnie learns that her six-week-old son Midas has been kidnapped. As the investigation hits a dead end, Nell, Collette and Francie make it their mission to succeed where the police are failing and bring baby Midas home. But as Winnie and those around her come under scrutiny from the media, damaging secrets come to light and friendships are pushed to the limit. Because people will do almost anything to protect the ones they love . . . Don't miss this addictive page-turner, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and The Girl on the Train

      The perfect mother2018
      3.4
    • Then They Came for Me

      A Story of Injustice and Survival in Iran's Most Notorious Prison

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      In June 2009, Maziar Bahari left London to cover Iran’s presidential election, promising his pregnant fiancée, Paola, he’d return in a few days. Unbeknownst to him, he would spend the next three months in Evin Prison, enduring brutal interrogations from a man known only by his scent: Rosewater. The Bahari family has faced the harsh realities of wars and revolutions for generations; Maziar’s father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Alone in his cell, Maziar draws strength from the courage of his father and sister, hearing their voices across time. He dreams of Paola in London and imagines his resilient eighty-four-year-old mother campaigning for his release. During his harrowing encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of his loved ones, seeking their strength and praying for release in time for his child's birth. This riveting memoir provides insight into seventy years of regime change in Iran, highlighting the clash between the democratic aspirations of the youth and an increasingly totalitarian government. It is a moving account of one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of repression. Now a major motion picture directed by Jon Stewart, it was previously published as Then They Came for Me.

      Then They Came for Me2012
    • Il paese dei bambini che sorridono

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      La vita di Pam cambia inesorabilmente in un giorno di giugno, quando Jantsen, suo figlio quindicenne, muore all’improvviso. La placida esistenza della famiglia viene sconvolta. Oppressa dal dolore, Pam precipita in un baratro che pare inghiottirla. Sprofondare o reagire. Così lei, che non ha mai varcato i confini del Missouri, accetta di andare in Vietnam con alcuni amici. Quello che vede la travolge. Dietro le immagini da cartolina del turismo, si cela un mondo in cui migliaia di bambini vivono per strada, abbandonati a se stessi. Costretti a mendicare. A fare lavori pesantissimi. O peggio ancora, esposti al pericolo di essere rapiti e venduti sul mercato del sesso. E negli orfanotrofi la situazione è solo di poco migliore: non ci sono fondi, e sul viso dei bambini si legge il vuoto di chi non ha affetto né prospettive. In fondo al cuore, Pam sente riaccendersi una fiamma. Eccolo il dono di Jantsen. Occuparsi di quelle bambine e di quei bambini, in Vietnam, in Cambogia, in Africa. Strapparli alle malattie e all’inedia, a una schiavitù che li costringe a lavorare anche quindici ore al giorno, come Mark. Per riportare sui loro visi la luce del sorriso. Non è facile, ma ora niente la può fermare.

      Il paese dei bambini che sorridono2010
      4.2