Кэтрин Райан Хайд — новинки

Представьте себе, что бескорыстно помогаете человеку и просите его отблагодарить вместо вас трех других людей, которые, в свою очередь, помогут еще троим. И так тепло и доброта станут распространяться по всей планете. Насколько действенной может оказаться такая простая на первый взгляд идея? Двенадцатилетний Тревор решает проверить это и начинает цепочку добрых дел, надеясь изменить мир, пусть даже ценой собственной жизни.

Рассел Аммиано опаздывал на работу, когда ему сообщили печальные новости из дома. Но этот неожиданный и тревожный телефонный звонок спас Расселу жизнь. Это случилось утром 11 сентября, тем самым утром, когда были разрушены башни-близнецы и одновременно - судьбы множества людей. Растерянный и ошеломленный, Рассел вынужден отправиться в ненавистный родной город, из которого уехал много лет назад и куда больше не хотел возвращаться. Однако именно там, в самом неожиданном месте, Рассел находит покой, поддержку и любовь. Жизнь начинает сиять новыми красками, пока однажды ночью не появляется новая угроза.

Від авторки бестселерів за версією The New York Times!

Учитель Август Шрьодер лікується від алкозалежності після смерті дев'ятнадцятирічного сина. Як і кожного літа, він вирушає в путь, але цього разу все не так, як завжди. Август мріяв поїхати до Єллоустона разом із сином Філіпом, а везе з собою лише урну з його прахом. Та волею примхливої долі в нього з'являються попутники - двоє напівсиріт, яким більше нема до кого звернутися. Жоден із мандрівників не міг навіть уявити, як змінить їхнє життя ця подорож, - і як вона поєднає їх. Відтепер у них буде спільна доля і спільне майбутнє.

Bestsellerautorin Catherine Ryan Hyde erzählt eine berührende Geschichte über Liebe und Freundschaft, Hoffnung und Zusammenhalt.

Texas 1959: Ihren Traum, als Ärztin zu arbeiten, musste die resolute Dr. Lucy Armstrong aufgeben. Denn für selbstständige Frauen haben ihre Nachbarn nur Misstrauen und Verachtung übrig. Seitdem lebt sie zurückgezogen auf einer abgelegenen Farm und kümmert sich um Tiere in Not. Doch als der Junge Pete, der mit seinem brutalen und kaltherzigen Vater zu kämpfen hat, einen verletzten Wolfshund zu Lucy bringt, beginnt zwischen den beiden eine Freundschaft, die ihre Einsamkeit vertreibt.

Unterdessen erregen Calvin und Justin Bell den Unmut der braven Bürger des Dorfes: Gerade zugezogen, sind sie dem Hass der weißen Südstaatler auf die Schwarzen schutzlos ausgeliefert. Nie hätten sie gedacht, dass sie am Rande dieser feindseligen Gemeinschaft eine Zuflucht finden würden. Dann begegnet Calvin Lucy und entgegen aller Hindernisse verlieben sie sich ineinander.

Mit dem Mut der Verzweiflung kämpfen Lucy, Calvin, Pete und Justin für eine gemeinsame Zukunft, nicht ahnend, dass ihnen die schwerste Prüfung noch bevorsteht.

Представьте себе, что бескорыстно помогаете человеку и просите его отблагодарить вместо вас трёх других людей, которые, в свою очередь, помогут ещё троим. И так тепло и доброта станут распространяться по всей планете. Насколько действенной может оказаться такая простая на первый взгляд идея? Двенадцатилетний Тревор решает проверить это и начинает цепочку добрых дел, надеясь изменить мир, пусть даже ценой собственной жизни.
Об авторе: Кэтрин Райан Хайд - американский писатель-романист и автор коротких рассказов. Её книги стали бестселлерами не только в США и Великобритании, но и по всему миру, а рассказы получили много наград и почетных званий.
О книге: История мальчика Тревора Маккинни, который придумал идею бескорыстной помощи трём незнакомцам, была впервые опубликована в 1999 году и моментально пленила сердца и умы миллионов читателей по всему миру. Она не только получила воплощение в кинематографе - книга была экранизирована в 2000 году с участием голливудских актеров Хелен Хант и Кевина Спейси, - но и породила реальное общественное движение взаимопомощи друг другу.
Это пятнадцатое, юбилейное издание, к которому Кэтрин Райан Хайд написала специальное предисловие. В нём автор рассказывает, как появилась идея «Заплати другому», и рассуждает о её феномене.

Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she loses everything and is forced to abandon her trailer. With only two-thirds of a tank in her old van, she heads toward the Pacific Ocean with her cat—on a mission to reclaim what’s rightfully hers, even if it means making others pay for what she lost.

When fifteen-year-old Allie’s parents are jailed for tax fraud, she’s sent to a group home. But when her life is threatened by another resident, she knows she has to get out. She escapes only to find she has nowhere to go—until fate throws Allie in Bea’s path.

Reluctant to trust each other, much less become friends, the two warily make their way up the Pacific Coast. Yet as their hearts open to friendship and love from the strangers they meet on their journey, they find the courage to forge their own unique family—and begin to see an imperfect world with new eyes.

Виде девятнадцать лет, и она серьезно больна. Каждый из нас, засыпая, знает, что впереди новый день. Вида всю свою недолгую жизнь никогда не была уверена, что очередной день наступит. Ее единственный шанс на спасение — не чудо-таблетка, а новое сердце. Но цена за выздоровление слишком велика: Вида будет жить, только если умрет кто-то другой. Девушка получает столь долгожданный подарок, но рада ли она ему? Вида не знает, как ей быть дальше, как использовать драгоценную возможность начать все заново. Теперь ей предстоит то, чего она не умеет и к чему никогда не готовилась, — жить.

Бывший танцор и актер Бродвея Билли не выходил из своей квартиры и ни с кем не общался почти десять лет. Люди пугали его, а внешний мир ужасал еще больше, поэтому день за днем он проводил в четырех стенах. И вот на ступеньках его дома появилась десятилетняя Грейс. С тех пор спокойная и тихая жизнь Билли перевернулась: отныне ему придется преодолеть собственные страхи и даже объединиться с соседями, чтобы помочь девочке, чья мать-наркоманка, похоже, совсем не заботится о судьбе дочери. Билли понял простую и очень важную истину: когда тебе плохо, найди того, кому еще хуже, и протяни руку.

"Не отпускай меня никогда" – это трогательная, смешная и жизнеутверждающая история о том, как доброта и смелость маленькой девочки творят чудеса со взрослыми людьми.

Als Nathan McCann ein halbvergrabenes Baby im Wald findet, geht er davon aus, dass es tot ist. Doch dann bewegt es sich, und Nathans Leben ändert sich für immer. Der kleine Junge wird zu seiner Großmutter geschickt, um bei ihr aufzuwachsen, aber Nathan kann ihn nicht vergessen. Er bittet die alte Frau um ein Versprechen: dass sie Nathan irgendwann dem Jungen vorstellen wird. Die Jahre vergehen, und Nathan nimmt an, dass die Dame ihr Versprechen vergessen hat, bis eines Tages ein wütender, schwieriger Junge mit einem Koffer vor seiner Haustür steht ...

Der Highschool-Lehrer August Schroeder hat nach dem Tod seines siebzehnjährigen Sohnes nur ein Ziel: Er will die gemeinsam geplante Reise nun allein unternehmen, um etwas von der Asche seines Sohnes im Yellowstone-Nationalpark zu verstreuen.

Doch schon bald sieht es ganz so aus, als wollte ihm das Schicksal einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen. Sein Wohnmobil bleibt mitten im Nirgendwo liegen, und die Reparaturkosten würden sein Budget für diese ihm so wichtige Reise sprengen.

Aber dann macht ihm der Besitzer der Autowerkstatt ein Angebot: Wenn er seine beiden Söhne Seth und Henry mit auf die Reise nimmt, wird er ihm das Wohnmobil kostenlos instand setzen. August ist hin- und hergerissen. Die Reise ist ihm wichtig, aber ist es wirklich eine gute Idee, die sieben- und zwölfjährigen Jungen mitzunehmen, wo er doch den Tod seines eigenen Sohnes noch lange nicht verarbeitet hat?

August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he’s spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philip’s ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go.

What none of them could have known was how transformative both the trip—and the bonds that develop between them—would prove, driving each to create a new destiny together.

One girl: Vida is nineteen, very sick, and has spent her short life preparing for death. But a new chance brings its own story, because for Vida to live, someone had to die. One man: Richard has just lost his beloved wife in a car accident. He hasn't even begun to address his grief, but feels compelled to meet the girl who inherited his wife's heart. Someone else's heart: In hospital Vida sees Richard and immediately falls in love. Of course he dismisses her as a foolish child. But is she? Can two people be bound by a second hand heart?

Sometimes a child knows better...

Grace
Ten-year-old Grace knows that her mum loves her, but her mum loves drugs too. And there's only so long Grace can fend off the 'woman from the county' who is threatening to put her into care. Her only hope is...

Billy
Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been out of his apartment for years. People scare him, and the outside world scares him even more. Day in, day out, he lives a perfectly orchestrated silent life within his four walls. Until now. . .

The Plan
Grace bursts into Billy's life with a loud voice and a brave plan to get her mum clean. And it won't be easy, because they will have to confiscate the one thing her mum holds most dear . . . they will have to kidnap Grace.

A remarkable, moving story about family and the many forms this can take, which will be loved by fans of Jodi Picoult and Susan Lewis. Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mum are on the brink of homelessness... again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has a form of autism, and a tendency to shriek. Home never seems to last long. Until they move in with Aunt Vi, across the fence from a huge Great Dane. Sophie falls in love, and begins to imitate the dog’s calm nature. The shrieking stops. Everyone relaxes. Until Paul, the dog's grumpy, socially isolated owner, moves away. Much to Angie's humiliation, her mum thinks they can follow Paul and his dog. Once reunited, despite a huge age gap, Angie and Paul form the closest friendship either has known. But Angie risks everything to help Paul's dream come true, even their friendship and her one chance at a real home – the only thing she's dreamed of since her father was killed. A place she won’t be thrown out of. A place she can feel she belongs.

Carly and her little sister Jen are walking. Something terrible has happened. Something that has left Carly in charge, her faith in humanity shattered. She knows they need help. But she is terrified of her sister being taken away from her. All they have is each other.

Carly wants them to find their way back to the last person she knew she could trust - their stepfather. But Jen holds a secret about him which, if she's telling the truth, will put them both at far more risk than they could imagine.

And so begins a journey, across hundreds of miles, which neither girl could have anticipated. It isn't an easy one, and is often dangerous. But along the way they are also confronted with the unexpected kindness of strangers. And ultimately, should they choose to accept it, some new relationships that hold the potential to change everything.

I was doing my best to get out the door. And then the phone rang. I almost let it go. New York, September 11th 2001 Russell Ammiano is rushing to work when he gets a phone call that saves his life. As the city he loves is hit by unimaginable tragedy, Russell must turn his back and hurry home to Kansas. Kansas, September 14th 2001 Ben Ammiano is mentally disabled, and a creature of habit. Any change to his routine sends him into a spin. But now his estranged brother has reappeared, and Ben's simple, ordered world has turned upside down. In a story as heartbreaking as it is uplifting, two brothers must bury their pasts and learn from each other, if they are to survive.

Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors—beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and 9-year-old Grace and her former addict mother Eileen.

But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building’s front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy’s patio. Troubled by this change in the natural order, Billy makes it far enough out onto his porch to ask Grace why she doesn’t sit inside where it’s safe. Her answer: “If I sit inside, then nobody will know I’m in trouble. And then nobody will help me.”

Her answer changes everything.

There's a split second between having it all, and losing everything. Hayden briefly has it all: a wife and daughter he adores and a baby on the way. But when his son dies at birth, a deep anger emerges, robbing Hayden of everything. Years on, Hayden is living in self-imposed exile. He's just lost his beloved dog and is now losing Laurel, the only woman he's loved since... But just as Hayden's rage rises again, a young figure from the past emerges, forcing him to re-visit his long-buried childhood...

THE MIRACLE OF INNOCENCE The story of how a boy who believed in the goodness of human nature set out to change the world. "Pay It Forward" is a wondrous and moving novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts the challenge that his teacher gives his class, a chance to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world for the better -- and to put that plan into action. The idea that Trevor comes up with is so simple and so naive that when others learn of it they are dismissive. Even Trevor himself begins to doubt when his "pay it forward" plan seems to founder on a combination of bad luck and the worst of human nature. What is his idea? Trevor chooses three people for whom he will do a favor, and then when those people thank him and ask how they might pay him back, he will tell them that instead of paying him back, they should each "pay it forward" by choosing three people for whom they can do favors, and in turn telling those people to pay it forward. It's nothing less than a human chain letter of kindness and good will. Does his plan work? No. And yes -- it works wonderfully, but only after it has seemed to Trevor that maybe all his efforts have been for naught. The first person he chooses to help -- a homeless man to whom he gives his paper-route money so he can make himself presentable enough to find a job -- disappoints him by returning to a life of dissolution and eventually ending up in jail. The second is a lady on his paper route, old and alone and infirm, and with a garden that needs tending. No sooner has Trevor begun to help her, however, than she goes and dies on him. The third personTrevor hopes to help is his teacher, Reuben St. Clair, a scarred, bitter, untrusting man who seems to come truly alive only when in front of his class. Trevor's goal is to match him with his mother, Arlene, a pretty, hardworking woman who has raised Trevor more or less alone, but who Trevor feels has a lot to offer the right man. It proves not to be a match made in heaven, though, and Trevor's dismay only deepens as he watches these two people come so close to achieving the connection he wants for them, only to turn away at the last moment. Failure seems inevitable, and Trevor is resigned. What he doesn't realize, however, is that there really is a good side to human nature, and that the tiny seed of kindness and caring he planted has taken root. In neighborhoods in other California towns, and as far away as Los Angeles, there are others following the rules of "paying it forward." Soon fame comes knocking, bringing with it excitement and an unforeseen tragedy. In the end, "Pay It Forward" is the story of seemingly ordinary people made extraordinary by the simple faith of a child. In the tradition of the successful and inspirational television show "Touched by an Angel," and the phenomenally successful novel and film "Forrest Gump, Pay It Forward" is a work of charm, wit, and remarkable inspiration, a story of hope for today and for many tomorrows to come.

When Nathan McCann discovers a newborn baby boy half buried in the woods, he assumes he-s found a tiny dead body. But then the baby moves and in one remarkable moment, Nathan-s life is changed forever.The baby is sent to grow up with his grandmother, but Nathan can-t forget him and is compelled to pay her a visit. He asks for one simple promise - that one day she will introduce the boy to Nathan and tell him, -This is the man who found you in the woods.- Years pass and Nathan assumes that the old lady has not kept her promise, until one day an angry, troubled boy arrives on his doorstep with a suitcase . . .