Irma van Dam Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Možná to byl váš otec, možná někdo z prarodičů, možná učitel nebo přítel, někdo starší a moudrý, kdo vám porozuměl, když jste byli velmi mladí, když jste hledali a dospívali. Pomohl vám lépe pochopit svět, spatřit v něm dobré místo k životu a svými radami přispěl k tomu, abyste se na cestách tímto světem neztratili. Pro Mitche Alboma se takovým člověkem stal Morrie Schwartz, jeho bývalý vysokoškolský profesor, kterého znovu nalezl pár měsíců před jeho nevyhnutelnou smrtí. Morrie ví, že umírá, přesto - anebo právě proto - se s Mitchem vytrvale schází během tradičních úterních přednášek, životních lekcí, tak, jak to kdysi dělávali na univerzitě. Jak se jejich vzájemný vztah prohlubuje, nezvyklý studijní "semestr" se chýlí ke konci, až zbývá poslední přednáška, poslední absolventská práce: smrt. "Když se naučíš zemřít, naučíš se i žít," opakuje Morrie tak dlouho, až Mitch pochopí. Pochopíme i my?

As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their faith and their grief, Alison made the mourners coffee, went to school to be taught by the nuns, and - being all her parents had left - set about coping. But underneath run her private rituals of mourning, her increasing idiosyncrasies, unnoticed by her parents trying to heal themselves and teachers anxious to be kind. Until suddenly, Alison begins to realize something's wrong. This is a book about grief, but it's also a love story, about Alison's love of her brother, of her childhood, and finally of life.

1978: Lower East Side, New York. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger, more savage, and more secretive than any tribe in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Offered a new life and new friends amongst the decadent and beautiful denizens of Osborne's empire, Finn falls in love and grows up fast. He's living a twisted approximation of the American dream - and for a moment everything he wants is there for the taking. But in America, social-climbing is a blood sport. Even on what should be the happiest night of Finn's life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Maya, Osborne's bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest… and laughing. A modern coming-of-age novel in the tradition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and a portrait of America as vivid and strange as THE GREAT GATSBY, FIERCE PEOPLE marks the emergence of a dazzling new talent.

Autobiografisch getint relaas van een Amerikaanse puber die opgroeit in een mijnwerkersstadje in West-Virginia in de jaren vijftig.

Een Indiase vrouw, die weduwe wordt als ze 17 jaar is, probeert zich te handhaven in de Verenigde Staten.

Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.

'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE. A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great guitarist and his Latin American wife who has had to flee her homeland; Suwelo, the history teacher, and his former wife Fanny who has fallen in love with spirits. Hovering tantalisingly above their stories are Miss Celie and Shug, the beloved characters from THE COLOUR PURPLE.

De sociale onrust op Jamaica in oktober 1968, gezien door de ogen van een schooljongen.