Aimee Molloy Knihy

Říkají si májové mámy, protože se jim všem děti narodily v květnu. Dvakrát týdně se scházejí v brooklynském parku, aby se vymanily z únavné rutiny mateřských starostí a probraly spolu radosti, strach a úzkosti své nové životní etapy, která se točí kolem dětí. Tu a tam si dopřejí drink v nedalekém módním baru. Jednoho horkého červencového večera se ale něco děsivě zvrtne: chlapečka jedné z matek někdo unese. Winnie, svobodná maminka, jen nerada nechala šestitýdenního Midase s najatou studentkou, ale kamarádky ji přemluvily, ať není přehnaně ustrašená. Jenže malý Midas zmizel – a pak následuje nervy drásající překotné úsilí o jeho nalezení. Policisté kladou znepokojivé otázky a Winniino soukromí se stává vydatným soustem pro bezohledná média. Ostatní ženy sice mají vůči rezervované Winnie výhrady, tři z nich se ale i tak rozhodnou, že podniknou maximum, aby jí pomohly. Na světlo vycházejí pečlivě skrývaná tajemství, přátelství se bortí, manželské vztahy jsou vystaveny těžkým zkouškám…

In "However Long the Night," Molly Melching recounts her transformative journey in Senegal, where she founded Tostan to empower communities through democracy and human-rights education. Her efforts have improved women's education, healthcare, and led to the abandonment of harmful practices like child marriage and female genital cutting.

The gripping story of a UK journalist imprisoned and tortured in Iran and the global campaign for his release

Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, assuring his pregnant fiancee that he'd be back in just a few days, a week at most. But instead, he would spend the next three months in Iran's most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogations at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater. For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for generations: Maziar's father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. During the worst of his encounters with Rosewater, Maziar drew strength from the memories of his loved ones, and prayed that he would be released in time for the birth of his first child. Riveting and heart-wrenching, Rosewater offers insight into the past seventy years of regime change in Iran, as well as the future of a country where the democratic impulses of the youth clash with a totalitarian government. It is the story of a family's courage in the face of repression, and of one man's journey to freedom

A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent ...You'd listen too, wouldn't you? (You know you would.)Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn't satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after

Du schaust nur kurz nicht hin. Und in diesen wenigen Augenblicken geschieht das Allerschlimmste ... Sie treffen sich jede Woche. Sie teilen Freuden, Sorgen und Nöte. Eine Gruppe Frauen, die nur eines verbindet: Sie sind alle frischgebackene Mütter, und das schweißt zusammen. Freundschaften entstehen. Und ein Plan - einmal eine winzige Auszeit vom Babyalltag zu nehmen, abends in einer Bar. Ein harmloser Spaß. Doch daraus wird schnell bitterer Ernst. Die alleinerziehende Winnie lässt ihren kleinen Sohn Midas für den Abend bei einer Babysitterin. Als Winnie nach Hause kommt, ist ihr Kind spurlos verschwunden, niemand hat etwas bemerkt. Es folgen Tage, in denen jede der Mütter durch die Hölle geht: Sarah will Antworten. Collette weiß zu viel. Nell hat etwas zu verbergen. Und eine Mutter hat etwas Unaussprechliches getan ...

La vita di Pam cambia inesorabilmente in un giorno di giugno, quando Jantsen, suo figlio quindicenne, muore all’improvviso. La placida esistenza della famiglia viene sconvolta. Oppressa dal dolore, Pam precipita in un baratro che pare inghiottirla. Sprofondare o reagire. Così lei, che non ha mai varcato i confini del Missouri, accetta di andare in Vietnam con alcuni amici. Quello che vede la travolge. Dietro le immagini da cartolina del turismo, si cela un mondo in cui migliaia di bambini vivono per strada, abbandonati a se stessi. Costretti a mendicare. A fare lavori pesantissimi. O peggio ancora, esposti al pericolo di essere rapiti e venduti sul mercato del sesso. E negli orfanotrofi la situazione è solo di poco migliore: non ci sono fondi, e sul viso dei bambini si legge il vuoto di chi non ha affetto né prospettive. In fondo al cuore, Pam sente riaccendersi una fiamma. Eccolo il dono di Jantsen. Occuparsi di quelle bambine e di quei bambini, in Vietnam, in Cambogia, in Africa. Strapparli alle malattie e all’inedia, a una schiavitù che li costringe a lavorare anche quindici ore al giorno, come Mark. Per riportare sui loro visi la luce del sorriso. Non è facile, ma ora niente la può fermare.