Alessandro Storti Book order (chronological)

Java, 1850. Isah is de dochter van de kleermaakster van de sultan en groeit op in de gesloten gemeenschap van de Kraton, het vorstenverblijf in Djokja. Haar levensloop in de traditionele standenmaatschappij lijkt daarmee vast te staan. Maar Isah is eigenzinnig en loopt weg van huis. Ze wordt huishoudster én minnares van een Hollandse officier en schenkt hem twee dochters. Wanneer hij hen verlaat, moet ze grote offers brengen om haar kinderen in de snel veranderende kolonie te zien opgroeien. Uiteindelijk beseft Isah dat ze haar Javaanse afkomst niet kan en wil verloochenen.Lichter dan ik is het aangrijpende verhaal van een jonge vrouw die wordt gedwongen alles op te geven voor haar kinderen, die door hun gemengd bloed meer status hebben dan zijzelf. In deze historische roman worden de Nederlandse overheersing en de gevolgen daarvan door haar ogen gezien.

Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing. This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page. You don't need to be a writer to take this walk; you just need to write - that's all.

In Reykjavik pleegt de veertigjarige patiënt Daniel zelfmoord in een inrichting. Vrijwel gelijktijdig komt een bejaarde man bij een brand om het leven. Beide gevallen houden verband met elkaar. De bejaarde man heeft Daniel in de jaren zestig les gegeven en blijkt hem kort voor zijn dood met een aantal bezoeken te hebben vereerd. Aan inspecteur Erlendur en zijn kompaan Sigurõur Óli de taak om de achtergronden van beide zaken te onderzoeken. Ook de broer van Daniël begint naspeuringen te doen. Onafhankelijk van elkaar komen ze tot gruwelijke conclusies.

After feeling disconnected for so long my mind and body are finally coming back to each other. [4e de couverture].

In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MIS tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.

"Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy-- and one final scavenger hunt. Home in Los Angeles, Miranda finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store's shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. She is drawn into a journey where she meets people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda's mother has kept hidden-- and the terrible secret that tore her family apart."-- Adapted from book jacket.

In Petsamo, in het hoge noorden van Finland, wacht een jonge vrouw op haar geliefde. Ze willen per schip naar IJsland terug, weg van de oorlog die zich nu tot de noordelijke landen heeft uitgebreid. Haar vriend komt echter niet opdagen. In de lente van 1943 heeft de Wereldoorlog een hoogtepunt bereikt. In Reykjavík is de bevolking in rep en roer. Aan het strand van Nauthólsvík is een lichaam aangespoeld. Achter een legerkroeg aan de Klambratún wordt een jongen het slachtoffer van geweld. Een vrouw die veel contacten onder militairen heeft lijkt verdwenen te zijn.

The electrifying new Cotton Malone thriller by international bestseller Steve Berry. People say the Cold War is coming back. For some, it never went away. Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin is headed for North America to join another long-term sleeper embedded in the West. Armed with a Soviet weapon long thought to be just a myth, Zorin is aided by a shocking secret hidden in the archives of America's oldest fraternal organization, the Society of Cincinnati. Past presidents used this group's military offensive - including advice on the invasion of what was to be America's 14th Colony - Canada. Inauguration Day for a new President of the U.S.A. is only hours away. Zorin's deadly plan is timed to bring about political chaos. In a race against the clock from Russia to the White House itself, Malone must not only battle Zorin, he must also confront his deepest fear, a crippling weakness that he's long denied but one that now jeopardizes everything. Steve Berry's trademark mix of fact, fiction, history and speculation is all here in this fast-paced and utterly compelling new thriller.

When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond. But what they find at the murder site is unexpected. The body is posed, the scene meticulously set. And there is almost no forensic evidence to be found. Detective Mia Kr3ger is a woman on the edge - she has been signed off work pending psychological assessment. But her boss has less regard for the rules than he should. Desperate to get Mia back in the office, Holger Munch offers her an unofficial deal. But the usually brilliant Mia is struggling and the team are unable to close the case. Until a young hacker uncovers something that forces the team to confront the scope of the murderer's plans and face the possibility that he may already be on the hunt for a second victim.

Jasmine Anderson ziet tijdens een navo-missie de dood recht in de ogen. Haar hart staat meer dan een minuut stil, en de herinnering aan die honderd seconden zal haar leven voorgoed veranderen. Wanneer Jasmine jaren later met haar moeder en zoontje betrokken raakt bij een ernstig auto-ongeluk, komt zij als enige weer bij bewustzijn. Haar moeder is overleden en haar zoon is zo ernstig gewond dat artsen zijn hart moeten stilzetten om hem te redden. Jasmine herinnert zich de wereld tussen leven en dood en besluit haar zoon te gaan helpen door ook haar hart stil te laten zetten. Alleen zo zal ze hem kunnen redden, wég van de dood.

De (zelf)moord van een douanebeambte in Stockholm, de diefstal van drugs, de moord op de assistente van een messenwerpster in Marseille en de verwaarlozing van ouderen in verpleeghuizen lijken in eerste instantie niets met elkaar te maken te hebben.

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

THE INTERNATIONAL SWEDISH BESTSELLER One night, when a strange red moon fills the sky, six school girls find themselves in an abandoned theme park, drawn there by a mysterious force. A student has just been found dead. Everyone suspects suicide. Everyone - except them. In that derelict fairground an ancient prophecy is revealed. They are The Chosen Ones, a group of witches, bound together by a power, one which could destroy them all. But they soon learn that despite their differences they need each other in order to master the forces that have been awakened within them. High school is now a matter of life and death. Because the killing has only just begun.

A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on similar murder cases, committed the same way, but half a world away. And both murders are somehow connected to a sixteenth century palimpsest book—The Book of John—which appears to be a journal of a serial murderer back in 1529 Norway, a book bound in human skin. A runaway bestseller in Norway, Jørgen Brekke's Where Monsters Dwell has since sold to over fourteen countries. Where Monsters Dwell is the most awaited English language crime fiction debut in years.

The stunning first instalment in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series of Swedish crime novels, a Richard & Judy Bookclub selection.

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa couldn’t stop there. Next up: a time-travelling bathtub. You just hop in, lather up the Time Soap, and wish for where you’d like to go. Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. You see, he lost his true love years ago, when Juliette Margarine married an evil count. The good Doctor has never quite gotten over this, and he's going back to change it. But when things go wrong, it's up to Nilly and Lisa to travel back in time to right all wrongs and reunite the two lovebirds. Nothing is quite so simple in a Jo Nesbo book. Enter a herd of hippos, a scheming assistant, and Time Soap that keeps going awry, sending Nilly and Lisa to the storming of the Bastille! Fortunately, as in every Jo Nesbo book, the Fart Powder solves everything.