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Jane Marple este o doamnă în vârstă din St Mary Mead care posedă un talent neobişnuit pentru a rezolva chiar şi cele mai complicate enigme. Acum, pentru prima dată în ultimii patruzeci şi cinci de ani, personajul iubit al Agathei Christie revine în paginile unei cărţi şi ne invită într-o călătorie plină de mistere. În St Mary Mead, o cină de Crăciun este întreruptă de oaspeţi neaşteptaţi; scena de pe Broadway din New York este pregătită pentru o improvizaţie periculoasă; prevestiri rele înconjoară o moarte prematură la bordul unui vas de croazieră către Hong Kong; un scriitor de bestsellere aflat în vacanţă în Italia este prins într-un…

"At once a hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery and a compelling exploration of motherhood and belonging that packs a profound emotional punch. I couldn't stop thinking about this book." -- Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women--from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation. Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for…

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.
This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.
* Naomi Alderman
* Leigh Bardugo
* Alyssa Cole
* Lucy Foley
* Elly Griffiths
* Natalie Haynes
* Jean Kwok
* Val McDermid
* Karen M. McManus
* Dreda Say Mitchell
* Kate Mosse
* Ruth Ware
Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930's The Murder at the Vicarage. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie's last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time.

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.

This collection of a dozen original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.

Naomi Alderman
Leigh Bardugo
Alyssa Cole
Lucy Foley
Elly Griffiths
Natalie Haynes
Jean Kwok
Val McDermid
Karen M. McManus
Dreda Say Mitchell
Kate Mosse
Ruth Ware

Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Agatha Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930’s The Murder at the Vicarage. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie’s last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time.

В одиннадцать лет в судьбе Кимберли Чанг началась новая глава – вместе с мамой она эмигрировала из Гонконга в Америку. Практически без денег, знания языка и четких представлений, что ее ждет. И вскоре у Кимберли начинается двойная жизнь: днем она как все учится в школе, а вечером как рабыня надрывается на маленькой швейной фабрике в Чайнатауне. Она вынуждена скрывать свою нищету и работу от одноклассников и учителей, ухитряясь оставаться при этом самой блестящей ученицей.
День за днем Кимберли все четче понимает: только вера в себя и бесконечное желание помогут им с мамой вырваться из убогой ледяной квартирки с тараканами в новое лучшее будущее. И шаг за шагом она начинает возводить мост между двумя такими непохожими мирами, пытаясь не потерять в переводе с китайского на английский главное – себя.

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation

It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother—and then vanishes.

Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn’t rejoin her family in America until age nine. Timid and shy, Amy has always looked up to her sister, the fierce and fearless protector who showered her with unconditional love.

But what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Sylvie has always looked out for them. Now, it’s Amy’s turn to help. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister’s movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. But instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Sylvie, the golden girl, kept painful secrets . . . secrets that will reveal more about Amy’s complicated family—and herself—than she ever could have imagined.

A deeply moving story of family, secrets, identity, and longing, Searching for Sylvie Lee is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive portrait of an immigrant family. It is a profound exploration of the many ways culture and language can divide us and the impossibility of ever truly knowing someone—especially those we love.

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (American-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works— miserably—as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge.…

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher.

But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed—something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.

Escrita con una voz inolvidable, esta novela relata las experiencias de una joven inmigrante china en el Brooklyn de los años setenta, que crece rodeada de una lengua y un mundo que sólo puede entender a medias, y siempre a caballo entre el amor a su tradición y el deseo de avanzar hacia un futuro mejor. Tras la muerte de su padre, Kim Chank deja Honk Kong con once años para trasladarse junto a su madre a Nueva York. Ahí tendrá que integrarse en una lengua y cultura nuevas, donde sus expectativas chocan frontalmente con la realidad. Al iniciar la escuela en esta ciudad tan apasionante como hostil, le cuesta mucho seguir las clases porque apenas conoce el idioma. Acostumbrada a ser una brillante estudiante, empieza a faltar al colegio. Por si fuera poco, el piso donde les ha tocado vivir es un lugar insalubre lleno de cucarachas y sin calefacción, y por las tardes tiene que trabajar en el mismo taller de confección que su madre,donde sus tíos las explotan sin miramientos. En la fábrica conoce a Matt, un chico que no tardará en convertirse en un fiel amigo y por quien sentirá un creciente amor, que tendrá que ocultar. En medio de dos mundos que no se tocan, Kim aprenderá a saltar de un lado al otro del abismo para poder sobrevivir y evitar así el duro destino que les ha tocado vivir a ella y a su madre.

Кимберли с мамой эмигрировали из Гонконга в Америку и очутились вовсе не в экономическом раю, как ожидали, а в самом сердце Бруклина, в Нью-Йоркских трущобах. И теперь вся надежда только на Кимберли, поскольку мама совсем не знает английского. И вскоре у Кимберли начинается двойная жизнь. Днём она примерная американская школьница, а вечером - китайская рабыня, вкалывающая на маленькой фабрике с потогонной системой, и её заработка едва хватает на еду и аренду убогой квартирки. Скрывая от всех и свою нищету, и то, что она тащит на себе семью, и свою любовь к юноше с фабрики, Кимберли день за днём учит язык, переводя свою жизнь с китайского на…

Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them, making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are deep in debt. And neither speaks one word of English.

Yet there is hope. Eleven-year-old Kim goes to school. And though cut off by an alien language and culture, and forced by poverty to work nights in a sweatshop, she finds the classroom challenges liberating. In books and learning she'll be saved. But can Kim successfully turn the lost girl from Hong Kong into a happy American woman? And should she?

Jean Kwok's powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation.

Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but…