Joshilyn Jackson Knihy

Pětačtyřicetiletá Ginny je přesvědčená, že je její rodina každých patnáct let stižena kletbou. Ona sama v patnácti otěhotněla a porodila dceru Lizu, jež ve svých patnácti udělala totéž. Teď uplynulo dalších patnáct let a obě svobodné matky, Ginny i Liza, s hrůzou čekají, kdy dospívající Mosey zopakuje stejný scénář. Tentokrát však kletba na rodinu dopadá nečekaným způsobem… Mrazivý román o matkách, které byly samy ještě dětmi, když rodily, dívčích přátelstvích, dávno ztracených i znovu nalezených láskách, zradě, zneužití a zklamání, nenávisti a žárlivosti. A především o rodině a pevných poutech, která vytváří.

'What a storyteller! What an original new voice!' Adriana Trigiani

'Brilliantly unnerving ... expertly crafted' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month 'Jackson raises the stakes again and again' Guardian 'Finely paced, shrewdly observed ... Mother May I is a thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller' Wall Street Journal It's every mother's worst nightmare. 'If you ever want to see your baby again, GO HOME. Tell no one. Do not call the police. Do not call your husband. Be at your house by 5:15 PM. Or he's gone for good...' To get her son back alive, Bree must complete one small but critical task. It seems harmless enough, but this one action comes with a devastating price. And now Bree finds herself complicit in a terrible crime, caught up in a tangled web of secrets that threatens to destroy the perfect life she has built. Mother May I is a pulse-racing, heart-pounding thriller that will have you turning the pages in the race to save Bree's baby, and find the kidnapper. Praise for Joshilyn Jackson 'Jackson writes the kind of book that will set even the most blameless on edge, leaving us to wonder who might know our imperfect histories' Christina Dalcher 'A master of domestic suspense' Entertainment Weekly 'Wonderful - suspense and surprises, real characters and a scary, ominous backbeat' Lee Child

It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighborhood, knows exactly what that is.Roux promises she will go away. She will take herself and her son, who is already growing dangerously close to Amy's teenage stepdaughter, and she will go. If Amy plays by her rules.But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything she's built. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner.

Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem—or what we hope they will be. Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son. Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn't define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes the hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a dangerous stalker-only to discover that it will take more than distance to escape him"-- Provided by publisher

Nonny Frett understands the meaning of "between a rock and a hard place." She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: her husband, easing out the back door; and her best friend, laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised her right; and the Crabtrees, who lost her and won't forget how they were done wrong. In Between, Georgia, population 90, a feud that began the night Nonny was born is escalating, and a random act of violence is about to ignite a stash of family secrets. This might be just what the town needs, if only Nonny wasn't sitting in the middle of it.--From publisher description

Laurel Gray lebt mit Mann und Kind in einer typischen Vorstadt in Florida. Eines Nachts treibt die Leiche der 13-jährigen Freundin ihrer Tochter im Pool der Familie, und die vermeintliche Idylle zerbricht. Nur eine kann Laurel in dieser Krise helfen: ihre tatkräftige Schwester Thalia, mit der sie eine lange Hassliebe verbindet und die wie eine Naturgewalt in den Alltag der Grays einbricht. Joshilyn Jackson zieht ihre Leser unaufhaltsam in diese Geschichte zweier Schwestern, die zeigt, dass Blut wirklich dicker ist als Wasser.

Z empatią, wdziękiem, humorem i przenikliwością autorka Bogów Alabamy prezentuje przejmującą, przepełnioną emocjami powieść o amerykańskim Południu, w której konfrontuje się z prawdą o przywilejach, rodzinie i różnicą pomiędzy naszymi wyobrażeniami a rzeczywistością, jeśli chodzi o nasze pochodzenie i to, kim naprawdę jesteśmy. Superbohaterowie od zawsze byli słabością Lei Birch Briggs. Pewnego zakrapianego tequilą wieczoru podczas zlotu fanów komiksów ta rozsądna zazwyczaj rysowniczka daje się uwieść przystojnemu i anonimowemu Batmanowi. Okazuje się, że ten odziany w pelerynę obrońca ludzkości zostawił po sobie coś więcej niż miłe, niewyraźne wspomnienie. Leia spodziewa się dziecka – co dla trzydziestoośmiolatki jest zaskoczeniem, ale wcale nie nieprzyjemnym. Nim jednak wiadomość o czekającym ją samotnym macierzyństwie (oraz tym, że jej dziecko jest dwurasowe) przekaże swojej konwencjonalnej rodzinie z Południa, sypie się małżeństwo przyrodniej siostry, Rachel. Co gorsza, okazuje się, że ukochana, dziewięćdziesięcioletnia babcia, Birchie, traci rozum, ukrywając demencję z pomocą Wattie, najlepszej przyjaciółki od czasów dzieciństwa.