Lori Lansens ist bekannt für ihre Romane, von denen viele in ihrer Heimatstadt in Ontario angesiedelt sind. Dieser Ort mit seiner reichen Geschichte als Endpunkt der Underground Railroad diente als Kulisse für ihre ersten Bestseller. Lansens ist inzwischen nach Kalifornien gezogen, wo ihre neueren Werke neue Schauplätze und thematische Gebiete erkunden.
Eines Morgens sitzt die fünfjährige Sharla, von ihrer Mutter verlassen, auf den Stufen des Wohnwagens von Addy Shadd, einer alten schwarzen Frau. Addy bringt es nicht übers Herz, das kleine Mädchen wieder fortzuschicken, und nimmt es bei sich auf. Zwischen den beiden beginnt sich eine wunderbare Freundschaft zu entwickeln, die ihnen schließlich hilft, sich mit ihrem Schicksal auszusöhnen. Achtung: Whoopie Goldberg hat die Filmrechte gekauft!/b
Die Schwestern Rose und Ruby sind Zwillinge, siamesische Zwillinge. Am Kopf zusammengewachsen, haben sie sich ihr ganzes Leben lang noch nie in die Augen gesehen. Es gibt einiges, was sie noch nie tun konnten und doch haben sie schon sehr viel gemeistert. Rose ist es, die anfängt, ihr Leben zu erzählen: von Familie, Freunden, Liebe und Arbeit, vom Alltag und von Abenteuern. Dann meldet sich Ruby zu Wort, die kleinere, aber hübschere. Ihr beider Leben scheint fast wie ein großer Kompromiss, doch kennen und wollen sie es nicht anders … Ein sehr bewegender, aber nie sentimentaler Frauenroman über die einzigartige Liebe zwischen Schwestern, über Nähe, Sehnsucht, Mut und Freundschaft.
Four go up the mountain - but only three come down again ... On the anniversary of the day his best friend, Byrd, had a tragic accident on the mountain which had been the boys' paradise and escape, Wolf Truly reaches for the summit again with the intention of not coming home. But Wolf meets three women in the cable car on the way up from Palm Springs and finds himself agreeing to help them get to a mountain lake. As the weather suddenly deteriorates, the group is stranded on a lethal ridge as the lights of the city twinkle below, so close and yet so terrifyingly far away. Those who will survive the ordeal will do so through a mixture of bravery, determination and self-revelation. 'Lori Lansens has created a heart-pounder of a book that is every bit as much of an emotional roller-coaster as an adventurous one. Filled with richly drawn characters, unexpected twists, and gritty details about survival' Jodi Picoult
"This brilliant new novel by the bestselling author of The Girls and The Mountain Story is an urgent bulletin from an all-too-believable near future in which the religious right has come out on top. And where a smart young girl who questions the new order is suddenly a terrorist. Taking place over 48 hours in the year 2023, this is the story of Rory Ann Miller, on the run with her best friend because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. There's a bounty on their heads, and a social media storm of trolls flying around them, not to mention a posse of law enforcement, attack helicopters and drones trying to track them down. Rory's mom, a social activist and lawyer, has been arrested and implicated in her daughter's "crimes" whereas her dad (who betrayed his wife and daughter in a nasty divorce) is cooperating with the authorities. The story exists in a universe of gated communities, born-again Christians, Probationary Citizens (once known as "Dreamers"), re-criminalized abortion and birth control, teenage virginity oaths and something called the Red Market, which is either a Conservative bogey-man created to further polarize the "base" or a criminal network making money from selling unwanted babies to whomever wants them and fetal tissue to cosmetics and drug companies. Rory is cynical and scared, furious and scathing, betrayed and looking for something or someone to trust. What she has to say about the dads and bosses and politicians lining up to keep women in their place, and about the ways women collaborate in their own undermining, is fierce, and funny, and sad, and true."-- Provided by publisher
Love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn't come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient, sets out on a truly remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her first to the big city and then to another country.
