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Roselle Lim

    Roselle Limová čerpá inspiraci ze svých filipínských kořenů a z bohaté tapisérie filipínského folklóru a mytologie. Její psaní je ovlivněno směsicí čínských pověr a filipínského katolicismu, což utváří fantazie v jejích románech. Limová, umělkyně v srdci, považuje psaní za způsob, jak „malovat slovy“, a vytváří tak živé a podmanivé příběhy. Její díla často odrážejí její zkušenosti s imigrací a hledáním identity v nové zemi.

    Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
    Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop
    Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club
    Night for Day
    • Two people destined to be together, but to never see each other again, fight against the greatest odds in this powerful and moving fantasy novel by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Exes Ward Dunbar and Camille Buhay thought they would never see each other again. They had broken up to pursue their dream jobs on opposite sides of the country—her to New York City, and him to Los Angeles. But years later, they unexpectedly reconnect in London, where they are interviewing for similar jobs. The spark they feel when they meet again is palpable—the attraction comes back like muscle memory, reminding them of what they had lost. When Ward and Camille discover they both got the job working opposing shifts, they vow to give their relationship another try. Ward starts the day shift and finds the immortal clientele unusual and dazzling. When he clocks out at the end of the day, he finds the door locked and himself trapped in the building. After a horrific first night shift contending with restless spirits and ghosts, Camille is also unable to escape. In their respective prisons, they discover that they’re able to talk to each other a few minutes before dawn. This fleeting encounter incites longing for each other, but their promise to be together feels impossible. Because they are caught in the middle of a war of the gods—and their choices will determine the outcome.

      Night for Day
    • Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,9(271)Ohodnotit

      A new heartfelt novel about the power of loneliness and the strength of love that overcomes it by critically acclaimed author Roselle Lim. Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made quite difficult, however, when she is revealed as a fraud—she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast. In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles upon a secret club within her condo complex: the Old Ducks, seven septuagenarian Chinese bachelors who never found love. Somehow, she convinces them to hire her, but her matchmaking skills are put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak, and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life.

      Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club
    • Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,5(5703)Ohodnotit

      Become enamored with the splendor of Paris in this heartwarming and delightful story about writing one’s own destiny and finding love along the way.Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people’s fortunes -- or misfortunes -- in tea leaves.Ever since she can remember, Vanessa Yu has been able to see people’s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.The day before her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa accidentally sees her own fate: death by traffic accident. She decides that she can’t truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric aunt, Evelyn, shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to America and bonjour to Paris. While working at Evelyn’s tea stall at a Parisian antique market, Vanessa performs some matchmaking of her own, attempting to help reconnect her aunt with a lost love. As she learns more about herself and the root of her gifts, she realizes one thing to be true: knowing one’s destiny isn’t a curse, but being unable to change it is.

      Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop