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Een prachtige historische roman van de auteur van de bestseller Water voor de olifanten. Na een gênant voorval tijdens een high society-nieuwjaarsfeest in Philadelphia in 1944 worden Madeline Hyde en haar man Ellis financieel afgesneden door zijn vader. Tot Maddies schrik besluiten Ellis en zijn goede vriend Hank dat ze de goedkeuring (en het geld) van Ellis’ vader alleen terug kunnen winnen door het monster van Loch Ness te vinden, een zoektocht waarin hij ooit publiekelijk gefaald heeft. Maddie gaat tegen wil en dank mee en moet zichzelf zien te redden in een dorp waar het eten op rantsoen is en de lokale bevolking nors. Toch wordt ze verliefd op de grimmige schoonheid van het Schotse landschap en sluit ze vriendschap met twee jonge vrouwen die werken in de herberg waar ze logeert. Maddie begint zich te realiseren dat niets is wat het lijkt: waar ze eerder belang aan hechtte blijkt van weinig waarde, en er schuilen monsters op de meest onverwachte plaatsen.

FROM INTERNATIONALLY-BESTSELLING AUTHOR SARA GRUEN, A COLLECTION OF HER MOST BELOVED NOVELS ''ONE OF AMERICA''S MOST COMPELLING STORYTELLERS'' Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help 1 - WATER FOR ELEPHANTS The international phenomenon - with over 10 million copies sold, made into a film with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson. ''I loved Water for Elephants'' Stephen King ''You are so immersed in circus life that you are blinded by the thrilling, fatal dazzle of sequins and sawdust'' The Telegraph ''An imaginative modern fairy story, teeming with eccentric characters'' The Times The Great Depression 1929 - when Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits in the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive making one-night stands in town after endless town. He meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her... 2 - AT THE WATER''S EDGE A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War. ''The only fault I can find with this book is that I''ve already finished it'' Jodi Picoult ''Truly enthralling'' Scotsman ''Breathtaking'' Harper''s Bazaar 1945. After disgracing themselves at a high society party, spoilt young Philadelphia socialites Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off from the family without a penny. Ellis decides their salvation will be to hunt down the Loch Ness Monster, a venture his father very publicly failed at. So, oblivious to WW2 raging around them, they make their way to the Scottish Highlands, where Maddie has to face reality and decide just who the real monsters are. 3 - APE HOUSE The New York Times bestseller. ''If you love animals like I do, it''s a must read'' Ellen DeGeneres ''Had me instantly enraptured'' Dallas Morning News ''Wildly entertaining'' Booklist (starred review) These bonobos are no ordinary apes. Like others of their species, they are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships - but, unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn''t understand people, but animals she gets, especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she''s ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what''s really going on inside. When an explosion tears apart the lab, severly injuring Isabel and ''liberating'' the apes to an unknown destination, John''s human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime.

Fin de año, 1944. Para Maddie y Ellis Hyde, un joven matrimonio de clase alta de Filadelfia, la guerra y la privación son conceptos lejanos. A Ellis sólo le interesa divertirse gracias al dinero que recibe de su padre. Pero cuando el viejo general Hyde suspende su asignación, Ellis decide recuperar el favor de su padre retomando el proyecto en el que éste fracasó años atrás: encontrar al famoso monstruo del lago Ness. A pesar de las quejas de Maddie, y acompañados por su inseparable amigo Hank, los tres parten hacia Escocia y se instalan en un pequeño hotel rural, sin ninguno de los lujos que tan bien conocen. Ajenos a todo, cada día los dos hombres salen a buscar al mítico monstruo, mientras otro monstruo, Hitler, está arrasando Europa. Maddie, sola la mayor parte del tiempo en un país extranjero, rodeada de desconocidos, debe comenzar a preguntarse quién es y qué quiere en realidad. Apasionante y conmovedora, El agua de la vida narra una intensa historia de amor, pero también el despertar de una joven privilegiada que, a medida que va experimentando lo que sucede a su alrededor, aprende a entregarse a los demás como nunca antes lo había hecho.

De virkelige monstrene kommer i mange forkledninger og kan være nærmere enn du tror. Madeline Hyde, en ung sosietetskvinne fra Philadelphia, følger motvillig med ektemannen og deres beste venn til det skotske høylandet på jakt etter sjøormen i Loch Ness – samtidig som et virkelig monster, Hitler, fører krig mot de allierte. I den lille landsbyen har lokalbefolkningen ikke annet enn forakt for de privilegerte nykommerne. Maddie blir overlatt til seg selv på den isolerte kroa, der det er mangel på mat og brensel, og et besøk av postbudet kan bety tragiske nyheter. Likevel finner Maddie seg etter hvert til rette, og hun innser at ingenting er som det gir seg ut for og at monstre kan dukke der du minst venter det. Sara Gruen ble litterær superstjerne med Vann til elefantene, som ble en bestselger verden over. Boken fikk en rekke litterære priser, og ble filmatisert med Reese Witherspoon og Robert Pattinson i hovedrollene. Bøkene hennes er oversatt til 43 språk og har solgt i mer enn 10 millioner eksemplarer. Ved vannkanten er hennes femte roman. På norsk foreligger også Vann til elefantene og Apehuset.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII” (Harper’s Bazaar) from the renowned author of Ape House and Water for Elephants “Gripping, compelling . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced.”—The Boston Globe In January 1945, when Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a retired army colonel who is ashamed of his son’s inability to serve, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father’s favor is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failed—by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster. Leaving her sheltered world behind, Maddie reluctantly follows Ellis and his best friend, Hank, to a remote village in the Scottish Highlands. Gradually, the friendships Maddie forms with the townspeople open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first appears, and as she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, she becomes aware not only of darker forces around her but of life’s surprising possibilities.

Secrets, amors i assassinats en la novel·la sobre el circ que ha despertat passions arreu del món. S’ha mantingut cinc anys a les llistes de llibres més venuts als Estats Units, i ara arriba al cinema amb l’aclamada pel·lícula de Robert Pattinson i Reese Witherspoon. Quan Jacob Jankowsi, a la desesperada i després de la mort en accident dels seus pares, s’enrola en un circ de tercera categoria durant els duríssims anys de la Gran Depressió Americana, poc s’imagina que la seva vida està a punt de canviar per sempre. Perquè enamorar-se de la Marlena, la domadora de cavalls i elefants, només pot ser un risc d’imprevisibles conseqüències, quan, tard o d’hora, se n’assabenti l’August, el seu marit. Però cal comptar amb la providencial intervenció de la Rosie, l’elefant amb un secret... “Tenim un elefant. Un elefant! —somica de felicitat—. He esperat aquest dia durant anys. Ara ja tenim un espectacle de primera!”

When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.

The New York Times–bestselling author of Water for Elephants "writes with passionate precision about horses and their humans and the healing power of love" (Maryanne Stahl, author of Forgive the Moon). There is a time to move on, a time to let go . . . and a time to fly. Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer''s days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva''s dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm''s way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past. But if she cannot let go, the personal battles she has won and the heights she has achieved will have all been for naught. It is a time of change at Maple Brook Horse Farm, when loves must be confronted head-on and fears must be saddled and broken. But it is an unanticipated tragedy that will most drastically alter the fragile world of one remarkable family—even as it flings open gates that have long confined them, enabling them all to finally ride headlong and free. "Flying Changes reminds me how unpredictable life is . . . Even if you are horseless (my deepest sympathies), you will love this novel" —Rita Mae Brown, New York Times–bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle

As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father''s New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables—and where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl . . . and in the seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch. But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter her fragile world.

我九十岁,或者九十三岁,不是九十就是九十三。当你五岁的时候,自己几岁零几个月都了然于心。即使年过二十,你也把岁数记得一清二楚。你会说我二十三岁,二十七岁。可是到了三十来岁,怪事便发生了。一开始不过是一时的语塞,片刻的迟疑。“你几岁?”“噢,我——”你信心满满脱口而出,又蓦然噤声。你本来要说三十三岁,但你不是三十三,而是三十五......

Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla #1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller "This colorful headlong tale of a Depression-era circus simply can''t be beat." —Stephen King A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz Jacob Janowski’s luck had run out--orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was the Great Depression and for Jacob the circus was both his salvation and a living hell. There he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but brutal animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this group of misfits was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

Annemarie Zimmer, jeune et prometteuse cavalière, a vu ses rêves de carrière olympique brisés lors d''un terrible accident de jumping qui l''a laissée handicapée et qui a coûté la vie à son cheval, Highland Harry. Depuis, elle a l''impression d''aller d''échec en échec. Mais ses parents, trop vieux pour continuer à s''occuper de leur centre équestre, et sa fille, qui traverse une violente crise d''adolescence, la mettent face à ses responsabilités, au moment où elle rencontre un nouvel amour... Lorsque, dans l''ombre d''un box, Annemarie aperçoit un cheval qui ressemble au Highland Harry de sa jeunesse, la passion qu''elle croyait endormie se réveille brutalement... Dans la lignée de L''homme qui murmurait à l''oreille des chevaux, ce roman est devenu un best-seller aux États-Unis.

Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.