Лучшие книги Гленди Вандера

Жизнь не балует Джоанну Тил: сначала от рака умирает ее мать, а потом девушке и самой приходится два года сражаться с болезнью. Решив, что работа - лучшее лекарство от тоски, Джо, орнитолог по профессии, отправляется в сельскую глушь Иллинойса, чтобы изучать особенности гнездования певчей птицы - индигового кардинала. Однако череду размеренных дней нарушает появление неожиданной гостьи: одетая в грязную пижаму девочка лет восьми уверяет Джо, будто прилетела на Землю из галактики, расположенной в созвездии Большой Медведицы. Что делать с маленькой фантазеркой? Джо не может прогнать несчастного ребенка, особенно когда видит у нее на шее…

"Орнітолог Джоанна Тіл від ранку до ночі працює над польовими дослідженнями. Робота з дисертацією допомагає жінці опритомніти після втрати матері та власної боротьби з раком. Якось у неї на подвір’ї з’являється дивна дитина і стверджує, що прибула з особливою іншопланетною місією. Відтепер дослідниця має чималий клопіт. Як бути з дівчинкою, котру так просто не здаси в поліцію, адже вона спритно втікає від усіх чужаків, окрім Джо? Її нема в списках зник

A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.

After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm. Here she found solace in caring for her extraordinary adoptive brother, exploring the surrounding wild nature, and gazing at the mystical moon—a private refuge in which she hides from her most painful memories. But ten years later, now twenty-one, Riley feels too confined by the protective walls she’s erected around herself. When a stranger enters her family’s remote world, Riley senses something he’s hiding, a desire to escape that she understands well.

Suffering from writer’s block, bestselling novelist Vaughn Orr has taken to the country roads when he happens upon the accommodating, if somewhat unusual, Mays family. He’s soon captivated by their eccentricities—and especially by Riley and her quiet tenacity. In her, he recognizes a shared need to keep heartbreaking secrets buried.

As the worst moments of their lives threaten to surface, Riley and Vaughn must find the courage to confront them if they’re to have any hope of a happy future. With the help of Riley’s supportive family, a dash of everyday magic, and the healing power of nature, can the pair let go of the troubled pasts they’ve clung to so tightly for so long?

One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest.

In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.

In a remote area of Washington, a young girl named Raven keeps secrets inside, too. She must never speak to outsiders about how her mother makes miracles spring from the earth, or about her father, whose mysterious presence sometimes frightens her. Raven spends her days learning how to use her rare gifts—and more important, how to hide them. With each lesson comes a warning of what dangers lie in the world beyond her isolated haven. But despite her mother’s cautions, Raven finds herself longing for something more.

As Ellis and Raven each confront their powerful longings, their journeys will converge in unexpected and hopeful ways, pulled together by the forces of nature, love, and family.