Barbara de Lange Book order (chronological)

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a brilliant new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, a thirty-seven-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who long ago abandoned her ambition to be a successful artist, has become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and tidy neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale. He and his parents--dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar and professor at the École Normale Supérleure; and Sirena, an effortlessly glamorous Italian artist--have come to Boston for Skandar to take up a fellowship at Harvard. When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies who call him a "terrorist," Nora is drawn into the complex world of the Shahid family: she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora's happiness explodes her boundaries, until Sirena's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal. Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this story of obsession and artistic fulfillment explores the thrill--and the devastating cost--of giving in to one's passions.

In een stadje in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten groeit de jonge Jim, Biscuit voor vrienden, bij zijn grootmoeder op. Op een dag treft hij zijn nichtje L.A. toegetakeld aan op de veranda en hij neemt haar mee naar binnen. Ze is te getraumatiseerd om haar verhaal te doen. Al snel blijkt dat er in de stad meisjes verdwijnen die vermoord teruggevonden worden. Jim vermoedt dat er een verband is tussen de verdwijningen en hij denkt dat L.A. er meer van weet. Naarmate de lange, warme zomer vordert ontdekt Jim steeds meer verdachten. Geplaagd door visioenen van de slachtoffers en geholpen door een bevriende politieman, gaat hij op zoek naar de moordenaar.

Nadat twee tieners in het Texas van de jaren zeventig van de 20e eeuw het lijk van een verminkt meisje hebben gevonden, komt hun leven in gevaar.

In the aftermath of a child's shocking murder, the mother of the only witness, an autistic boy, struggles to work through her son's trauma and his communication disabilities in order to help the police to solve the case. 40,000 first printing.

Opgegroeid in een traditionele Indiase vrouwenwereld ondervinden twee nauw verbonden nichtjes in hun latere veelbewogen leven de ware betekenis van hun achtergrond.

Een jonge weduwe veroorzaakt veel opschudding in de orthodox-joodse gemeenschap in de Amerikaanse stad Memphis.

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.'A haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction' The Times'So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure' GuardianUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever.'Enthralling . . . image the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' Bacchae set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction . . . forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled . . . ferociously well-paced . . . remarkably powerful' The New York Times'Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller' Stephen KingDonna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages, and The Goldfinch.

Studie over denken en handelen van voornamelijk de middenklasse in de Republiek der Nederlanden.