Julie Lawson Timmer Knihy

Strhující příběh o lásce, přátelství, odpovědnosti, odvaze, o síle vzepřít se ranám osudu. Zbývá pět dní - pět dní do fatálního rozhodnutí, jež ukončí utrpení hlavní hrdinky, ale ovlivní i život její rodiny a přátel. Sebevědomá, ctižádostivá právnička Mara jednoho dne zjistí, že trpí nevyléčitelnou Huntingtonovou chorobou, která postupně ničí nejen její tělesnou schránku, chování a vzhled, ale především její intelektuální schopnosti. Dá si slib, že vydrží do chvíle, kdy už nebude moci žít důstojně a stane se pro svou dceru a manžela i pro rodiče nesnesitelnou přítěží. Není to snadné rozhodnutí, ale Mara je odhodlaná slib dodržet a na osudovou chvíli se systematicky připravuje. Na internetu se virtuálně sblíží se Scottem. I on stojí před bodem zlomu. I jemu nemilosrdně běží čas a blíží se chvíle, kdy se bude muset rozloučit s chlapcem, o nějž se společně se svou ženou staral, když si chlapcova matka odpykávala trest ve vězení.

Mara is a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and mother. Struggling with a devastating illness, she has set herself five days to make the ultimate decision for her family. Scott lives a thousand miles away, and is a foster parent to a troubled eight-year-old. Scott is facing his own five day countdown until his beloved foster son is returned to his biological mother. The two connect through an online forum, and find a friendship to help guide them through the most difficult, and momentous, week of their lives.

"Eindringlich, fesselnd und tief bewegend!" Jodi Picoult Mara, erfolgreiche Anwältin und liebevolle Ehefrau und Mutter, lebt seit einigen Jahren mit einer schrecklichen Gewissheit: Sie leidet an einer unheilbaren Krankheit. Um ihrem Mann und ihrer kleinen Tochter einen qualvollen Leidensweg zu ersparen und ihnen als glücklicher Mensch in Erinnerung zu bleiben, beschließt sie, sich nach dem Auftreten bestimmter Symptome das Leben zu nehmen. Nun bleiben ihr noch fünf Tage. Fünf Tage, um sich von den Menschen zu verabschieden, die sie am meisten liebt. Fünf Tage, um letzte Spuren in ihren Herzen zu hinterlassen. Fünf Tage, um für immer loszulassen ...

My name's Julie Lawson - I'm an HR Manager at BMT Publishing. Nearly six months ago my est friend, Allie Rainsbury, left the business. Recently our MD sent a memo asking all BMT employees to clear their Inboxes and, since I had access to Allie's emails after her departure, I set about reviewing hers. Her adventures were so entertaining that I didn't want to stop, let alone destroy them forever - instead I am determined to share her story with you. As a new year dawns, Allie needs various questions answered. Among the most urgent are: Where is her future leading? Why are relationships so complex and confusing? Can she get through a day without five cups of tea? Hilarious, touching and unique, Emailing Allie delves into the life and loves of 31-year-old Allie Rainsbury. Through emails sent to her best-friend Julie, the smooth-talking David Marshall and the enigmatic Scott Cooper (to mention but a few) we are taken on an frenetic, funny and uplifting journey that charts her daily challenges both inside and outside the office.

A tale of how community can heal the brokenness in everyone.

When Char Hawthorn's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no bounds. Char Hawthorn, college professor, wife and stepmother to a spirited fifteen-year-old daughter, loves her family and the joyful rhythms of work and parenting. But when her husband dies in a car accident, the “step” in Char’s title suddenly matters a great deal. In the eyes of the law, all rights to daughter Allie belong to Lindy, Allie’s self-absorbed biological mother, who wants the girl to move to her home in California.While Allie begins to struggle in school and tensions mount between her and Char, Allie’s connection to young Morgan, a ten-year-old-girl she tutors, seems to keep her grounded. But then Morgan, who was adopted out of foster care, suddenly disappears, and Char is left to wonder about a possible future without Allie and what to do about Morgan, a child caught up in a terrible crack in the system.

In a series of brand new paintings, renowned artist, Alison Watt, offers her response to 18th-century Scottish artist Allan Ramsay's wonderful painting of his wife.