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Gorod Blekuell v shtate Massachusets. Kogda-to davno neskolko liudei prishli siuda, na pustuiu zemliu, chtoby vozdelyvat ee, stroit doma i rozhat detei. Sredi nikh byla i Khelli Bredi - otvazhnaia molodaia zhenshchina, kotoraia ne boialas ni metelei, ni medvedei. Tolko blagodaria ei pervye poselentcy ne zamerzli nasmert i ne umerli s goloda. Khelli davno umerla, a Blekuell po-prezhnemu sushchestvoval. V gorod prishli novye liudi: zhenshchina, kotoroi prishlos sovershit prestuplenie, chtoby spasti svoego rebenka i sokhranit sobstvennyi rassudok, tainstvennyi neznakometc, kotoryi poselilsia v lesu i skryvalsia ot vsekh, i mnozhestvo drugikh, ne menee interesnykh i tainstvennykh personazhei. V zhizni kazhdogo iz nikh ochen vazhen magicheskii Krasnyi sad, takoi krasnyi, slovno v ego pochve betsia zhivoe, napolnennoe kroviu serdtce. Takoi sad, gde rastut tolko krasnye plody, est tolko zdes, v Blekuelle, i tolko zdes s liudmi mogut proiskhodit stol neobychnye sobytiia.

"Alice Hoffman can write about love like no-one else" Jodi Picoult Twig lives in a remote area of town with her mysterious brother and her mother, baker of irresistible apple pies. A new girl in town might just be Twig's first true friend, and ally in vanquishing an ancient family curse. A spellbinding tale of modern folklore set in the Berkshires, where rumours of a winged beast draw in as much tourism as the town's famed apple orchards.

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a spectacularly imaginative and moving new novel in the vein of The Night Circus that has been acclaimed by Jodi Picoult as 'truly stunning: part love story, part mystery, part history, and all beauy'. New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has run away from his painful past and his Orthodox family to become a photographer, documenting life on the teeming city streets. One night by the freezing waters of the Hudson River, Coralie stumbles across Eddie, who has become enmeshed in the case of a missing girl, and the fates of these two hopeful outcasts collide as they search for truth, beauty, love and freedom in tumultuous times.

Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. An extraordinary swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl,and a 100 year old turtle, in her father''s "museum". She swims regularly in New York''s Hudson River, and one night stumbles upon a striking young man alone in the woods photographing moon-lit trees. From that moment, Coralie knows her life will never be the same.The dashing photographer Coralie spies is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father''s Lower East Side Orthodox community. As Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the mystery behind a young woman''s disappearance and the dispute between factory owners and labourers. In the tumultuous times that characterized life in New York between the world wars, Coralie and Eddie''s lives come crashing together in Alice Hoffman''s mesmerizing, imaginative, and romantic new novel.

Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes crippled with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future shed once taken for granted.But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more . . .What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one womans journey towards happiness and the power of love, family and fate.

When teenager Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a motherless baby - his divorced mother is perplexed and terrified. she takes off on her own journey to find him. Turtle Moon follows their path in a suspenseful, beautifully written story that confirms once again the exquisite talent of Alice Hoffman.

Description On the night that Arlyn Singer"s father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life. John Moody takes Arlyn to live in a house made of glass, the Glass Slipper. Her life there is not the romantic destiny she envisaged. She dreams of escape for herself and her children, Sam and Blanca, but her eventual escape, too, is not the one she dreamed of. Years later, Arlyn is gone, and Meredith Weiss arrives at the Moody house. Sam, now a teenager, is careening down a path of drug-fuelled self-destruction, while John Moody is tormented by visions of a red-haired woman in white. Meredith sets out to try to save this troubled family. But will her devotion be enough to pull them back from the fate they seem to have cho sen for themselves? Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules and have their own secrets. Told with Alice Hoffman"s signature grace and originality, "Skylight Confessions" is a shimmering, powerful story of passion, heartbreak and families. Alice Hoffman, geboren 1952 in New York, aufgewachsen auf Long Island. Studium in Stanford. Sie wurde von "Entertainment Weekly" in die Liste der "100 kreativsten Persönlichkeiten der Unterhaltungsbranche" aufgenommen; ihre Romane standen auf den amerikanischen Bestsellerlisten. Heute lebt die Autorin der Nähe von Boston.

Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. John is cool, practical and deliberate - the polar opposite of dreamy Arlyn - yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their marriage traces a map no one should follow, leading them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and, like all families, John and Arlyn's makes its own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to walk a path of ruin and redemption in order to solve the emotional puzzle of his family.

"With her glorious prose and extraordinary eye, Alice Hoffman seems to know what it means to be human." (Susan Isaacs, Newsday) The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? How do we love truly and deeply in a world that is as brutal as it is beautiful? When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that for more than thirteen years, he has been running from his past. His true nature has been locked away, as hidden as his real identity. But sometimes locks spring open, and the devastating truths of Ethan Ford's history shatter the small-town peace of Monroe, affecting family and friends alike. This deeply felt and compelling novel makes it clear why Alice Hoffman has been called "one of the best writers we have today" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Honest, shattering, seductive, and ultimately healing, Blue Diary is an unforgettable novel by a writer who tells "truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart" (Time).

Las Sparrow son mujeres extraordinarias que han gozado de poderes sobrenaturales desde épocas muy lejanas. Sus dones se han ido sucediendo y variando con cada generación. Desde Rebecca, que allá por el siglo XVII era insensible al dolor, pasando por Leonie o Sophie, que caminaban sobre fuego o veían en la oscuridad, hasta llegar a Jenny, capaz de percibir los sueños 

El camino a casa nos descubre la vida de una adolescente, Gretel SamueLson, y el mundo que la rodea: su mejor amiga, Jill su madre, Franny y la prima de Franny, Margot. Estos cuatro personajes tejen cada una de las quince historias que componen la cronica de los complicados años de la adolescencia de Gretel. Conocemos a Gretel cuando sus padres estan a punto de separarse y seguimos con ella cuando Jason su inteligentisimo hermano se convierte en drogadicto, su madre debe batallar contra el cancer y cuando ella se enamora por primera vez. JiIL tambien la acompañara, creciendo junto a su amiga y descubriendo juntas lo dificil que es convertirse en adultas. En esta novela fragmentada en historias cortas, que la prosa brillante de Hoffmann dota de humor y que consigue insuflar de urgencia por seguir leyendo hasta el final, Gretel y su familia se convierten en amigos irresistibles, entrañables y muy humanos.

From one of the most captivating storytellers in American fiction comes a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica. As the magical charm of their childhood wears away, they escape from this mystical mayhem - one by running away, the other by marrying. Many years go by before strange circumstances thrust them together again, and once more they are in a place that blends the mundane and mysterious, the familiar and fantastic, the normal and the numinous. Three generations of Owens women are brought together in an experience of unexpected insight and revelation, teaching all of them that such perceptions are rare and wonderful and - to be sure - practical.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back-almost as if by magic... "A beautiful, moving book about the power of love and the desires of the heart."-Denver Post "Charmingly told, and a good deal of fun." -New York Times Book Review