Saskia Peterzon-Kotte Books

The riveting sequel to THE FIRM, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of the world's bestselling author.[Bokinfo].

[Nayeri's] exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent. -The New Yorker Rich and colorful... [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere. -New York Times Crystalline, vivid, moving, and without pretensions, Nayeri's writing is fluid and spare...Refuge is a timely novel, about a theme that touches and moves so many, no matter where you are from. -Los Angeles Review of Books [An] urgent, resonating contemporary story, highlighting today's scattered, displaced, lost, all-forced-to-be refugees in search of the titular refuge... Nayeri carefully illuminates the plight of the ever-searching, never-belonging global wanderer. -The Christian Science Monitor As the daughter of an immigrant father, the cultural divides that can exist within families is always on my mind. I love stories that explore questions of home, a central theme of Refuge. How do we relate to the homes of our parents, especially if they aren't ours? How do we build homes when we haven't left the old ones freely? -Elle Dina Nayeri focuses on the relationship between an Iranian father and daughter as they explore the experience of exile from different sides of the world and there is so much beauty and pain expressed in her prose... I'll be recommending it to everyone I know. It's stunning. -Buzzfeed The immigrant experience is at the heart of Dina Nayeri's powerful novel of a family split by circumstances. -Minneapolis Star-Tribune A lush, brimming novel of exile. -Newsday Topical and urgent. -W Magazine A nuanced look at what it means to seek refuge; novels don't get more timely than this. -The Millions Dina Nayeri's Refuge is a searing and moving meditation on the migrant experience...Against the ebb and flow of their separations and reconciliations, Nayeri charts the desperate journeys and the hopes and fates of other refugees of different nationalities seeking sanctuary in Europe. A timely read and a compelling one. -Malcolm Forbes for The National Refuge should be required summer reading in 2017... a beautiful and poignant portrait of the many different experiences of the displaced. A timely and necessary work... a vital read for anyone trying to understand what it means to lose and look for home. -Bustle Nayeri, who was an Iranian refugee herself, has written a novel that explores the current worldwide refugee crisis through the lens of a father-daughter relationship. -Brightly Niloo's story, and her complex relationship with her father, expose a narrative of immigration that is necessary and nuanced. -Read It Forward A poignant reflection on the plight of refugees... Nayeri uses gentle humor and evocative prose to illuminate the power of familial bonds and to bestow individuality on those anonymous people caught between love of country and need for refuge. A beautiful addition to the burgeoning literature of exile. -Library Journal (starred review) Richly imagined and frequently moving... [manages] various threads-the personal, the political, the cultural, the generational-deftly, and the result is poignant, wise, and often funny...a vital, timely novel about what it means to seek refuge. -Kirkus Set against landscapes of political unrest, Nayeri's novel of a daughter and father seeking to reconcile their long-distance perceptions of family offers a captivating, multilayered exploration of lives caught between worlds. -Booklist A heart-splicing portrayal of the current refugee crisis...These are people who, seeking asylum, arrive in countries that aren't their own but must be made inhabitable, if not home. -The Riveter A nuanced and remarkably textured narrative about a world few of us experience. -BookPage Nayeri's prose sings while moving nimbly with equal parts seriousness and humor. -Publishers Weekly Beautifully elegiac, Refuge brings into focus the entire experience of emigrat

Assistant D.A. Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial . . . until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to Alexa's beautiful 17-year-old daughter, Savannah, who Alexa has raised alone since her painful divorce years before. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters - and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly Alexa must make the toughest choice of all - and send her daughter back to the very place that Alexa swore she would never return: to her ex-husband's world of southern tradition, long memories, and the antebellum charm of Charleston. While Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history she's never known. As a family's wounds are exposed and the healing begins, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again - strengthened by the trials they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, armed with miracles that are uniquely their own.

The next astonishing thriller from the master of the legal thriller. NO ONES WRITES DRAMA LIKE GRISHAM.[Bokinfo].

Zweden, 1798. Emil Larsson, een drinkende en gokkende vrijgezel, raakt bevriend met de eigenaresse van een goklokaal, mevrouw Sofia Mus, die hem de toekomst voorspelt aan de hand van een nieuwe vorm van kaartlegging: het octavo. Wanneer Sofia na een lange nacht aan de goktafels een kostbare waaier van barones De Uzanne wint, leidt dat tot bittere rivaliteit en een moorddadig complot waar niemand ongeschonden uit tevoorschijn komt. Ondertussen krijgt Emil te horen dat hij `de Zoeker' is, en dat niet alleen zijn toekomst maar ook die van de monarchie, de stad en heel Zweden afhangt van zijn vermogen de acht leden van het Stockholm Octavo te achterhalen...

Het grootste deel van ons leven functioneren we op de automatische piloot; we denken niet echt na over de dingen die we doen. Net zoals de toerist, die dezelfde zin met steeds luidere stem herhaalt omdat hij niet begrepen wordt, blijven wij ons hardnekkig op dezelfde manier gedragen. Zelfs als het niet resulteert in wat we willen. The Mind Gym leert je om deze mentale patronen te doorbreken. Niet op een zweverige, ingewikkelde manier, maar met praktische tips en doelgerichte oplossingen. In Engeland is de methode van The Mind Gym inmiddels al een groot succes! Wat is The Mind Gym? Het idee achter The Mind Gym is simpel: wat de sportschool is voor het lichaam, is The Mind Gym voor de geest. Bedrijven als Barclays Bank, Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft en Deutsche Bank hebben de coaches van The Mind Gym ingehuurd om trainingen te geven op het gebied van onder meer creatief denken, indruk maken en effectief beslissingen nemen.

"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again-until now. Now Mack is back, and he's leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned. In "Strawberry Moon," we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can't save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request. The "Sparring Partners" are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to save herself? By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told.[Bokinfo]

A chilling new thriller that gets into the heart and mind of the killer, and the victim . . . Seventeen-year-old Tessa, dubbed a 'Black-Eyed Susan' by the media, became famous for being the only victim to survive the vicious attack of a serial killer. Her testimony helped to put a dangerous criminal behind bars - or so she thought. Now, decades later the black-eyed susans planted outside Tessa's bedroom window seem to be a message from a killer who should be safely in prison . . .

Twee zussen nemen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een moedige beslissing die veertig jaar later grote consequenties heeft… Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog worden de zusjes Caterina en Isabella Cammaccio gedwongen de moeilijkste beslissingen van hun leven te nemen waarvan de consequenties nog jarenlang zullen doorwerken. Veertig jaar later moet Alessandro Pallioti een merkwaardige moordzaak op een oude man oplossen. De vermoorde man blijkt een held voor de verzetsleden van de Tweede Wereldoorlog te zijn geweest. Hij is doodgeschoten en er is zout in zijn mond gepropt. Hoe meer Pallioti zich in de zaak verdiept, des te meer komt de geest van de oorlog tot leven. Als hij het dagboek van Caterina tussen het bewijsmateriaal vindt, wordt een ontstellende geschiedenis van het verzet en het leven van twee zussen opgerakeld.

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