Паулина Саймонс – лучшие книги

22 июня 1941 года, когда радиоэфир взорвала весть о начале войны, Татьяна Метанова поступила скорее как легкомысленная француженка, чем рассудительная советская девушка. Надев белое с красными розами платье и радуясь летнему дню, она вышла на улицу родного Ленинграда навстречу своей судьбе. Да, такое могло случиться только с Татьяной. Из всех молодых людей ее сердце слепо выбрало поклонника сестры, а из всех русских солдат и офицеров ей приглянулся американец! И трудно было бы вообразить более беспечных, пылких и счастливых влюбленных, взахлеб читающих друг другу Пушкина, — если бы не блокада... и не сестра. «Медный всадник» — первый роман…

Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes obsessed with the belief that her husband, Red Army Major Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately...
Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander, having barely escaped execution, is leading a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by Soviet high command. New recruits survive only days. Yet Alexander is determined to take them across the ruins of Europe in one last, desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine, and see Tatiana once again...

На долю обыкновенной девушки из небольшого американского городка выпало немало испытаний: жестокость и предательство, смерть близкого человека, банальное безденежье. Однако душевная чистота, внутренняя сила и умение любить помогают ей обрести вкус к жизни и женское счастье.

Они молоды и хороши собой. У них с детства было все, о чем только можно мечтать. Они легкомысленно играют с любовью и изменой, сексом и наркотиками. Но вот кто-то из них вступает в опасную игру со смертью. И когда в снегу находят обнаженное тело убитой девушки, молодой детектив Спенсер О`Мэлли начинает расследование, еще не подозревая, какие темные и порочные тайны ему предстоит раскрыть...

The epic and monumental love story Paullina Simons began with her adored international bestseller The Bronze Horseman comes to a breathtaking conclusion. The Summer Garden is the third volume in Simons’s magnificent trilogy—a Russian Thorn Birds—which follows a love that survived the terrible siege of Leningrad during World War Two, a heartbreaking separation and a glorious reunion in America, only to be supremely tested by the hatred, fear, and uncertainty of the Cold War. You will never forget the lovers Tatiana and Alexander and their story of enduring love and commitment, and you will cherish every moment spent in The Summer Garden.

A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century.

Lily's life is turned upside down with the disappearance of her flat mate, incredible revelations about her family and a personal discovery, all of which will affect her forever! What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent, find love. Adrift in bustling New York City, the most interesting things in Lily's life happen to the people around her. But Lily loves her aimless life until her best friend and roommate Amy disappears. That's when Spencer Patrick O'Malley, a cynical, past his prime NYPD detective with demons of his own, enters Lily's world. And a sudden financial windfall which should bring Lily joy instead becomes an ominous portent of the dark forces gathering around her.

But fate isn't finished with Lily. She finds herself fighting for her life as Spencer's search for the missing Amy intensifies, leading Lily to question everything she knew about her friend and family. Startling revelations about the people she loves force her to confront truths that will leave her changed forever. From a master storyteller comes a new heart-wrenching, magnificent and un-putdownable novel. This is the odyssey of two young women, Lily and Amy, roommates and friends on the verge of the rest of their lives.

Many years have passed since that time Tatiana made lazy cabbage for Alexander. Yet it was still vivid in her mind: her grandmother’s slightly hoarse quiet voice, the taking of the tram across the river, the waning afternoon, the ache in her limping, broken leg: but above all, the desire to make something for someone, for no other reason than to please him.

Love, passion, and friendship collide on the road trip of a lifetime in this breathtaking novel from Paullina Simons, internationally bestselling author of The Bronze Horseman and Tully.

There’s no telling where a journey will lead you…

Shelby Sloane has big plans for the summer of 1981. She’ll drive cross country in her graduation present—a classic yellow Mustang. In California, she hopes to find the mother who left her behind long ago, and then return East in time to start college. Her childhood friend Gina is desperate to reunite with her boyfriend in Bakersfield and has convinced Shelby to bring her along.

With Gina on board, Shelby’s carefully mapped-out itinerary is quickly abandoned. Soon, so is their “no hitchhikers” rule when Shelby picks up a mysterious girl named Candy Cane, who sets them all on a new and dangerous course. Streetwise beyond her years and decked out with tattoos, piercings, and spiky hair, Candy is on the run from a past darker than anything the two suburban girls have ever known. Candy draws Shelby and Gina into her terrifying world, where life as they know it is turned upside down and there is no place left to hide.

Powieść o losach rodziców Aleksandra, poprzedzająca uwielbianą przez polskie czytelniczki trylogię „Jeździec miedziany”. U progu XX wieku Gina przybywa z Sycylii do Bostonu w poszukiwaniu nowego, lepszego życia. Poznaje Harry'ego Barringtona, który szuka dla siebie miejsca w starym świecie Nowej Anglii. Ona jest biedną, prostą imigrantką, on pochodzi z jednej z najlepszych rodzin w mieście, jednak łączy ich wzajemna fascynacja. Mija czas. Po trudnych chwilach rozłąki oraz wielu przeciwnościach losu Gina i Harry pragną być razem. Wiedzą jednak, że ich związek odciśnie piętno na losach dwóch rodzin i pozostawi po sobie zgliszcza. Zakochani stają w obliczu najbardziej okrutnego wyboru – między tym, czego nie mogą mieć i tym, bez czego nie mogą żyć. Dalsze losy Giny i Harry’ego opisuje powieść "Bellagrand", która już wkrótce ukaże się nakładem Świata Książki.

The passionate love story that led to The Bronze Horseman.
They gave up everything to be together, but love was just the beginning …
Italian immigrant Gina, independent, compassionate and strong, desperately wants a family. Boston blue-blood Harry, idealistic and political, wants to create a better world. Bound together by tormented passion, they rail, rage, and break each other’s hearts, only to come face to face with a stark final choice that will forever determine their destiny.
Their journey takes them through four decades and two continents, through triumph and turmoil, from the wooden planks of the troubled immigrant town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the marble halls and secret doors of a mystical place called … Bellagrand.
From internationally bestselling author Paullina Simons comes the passionate love story that led to The Bronze Horseman.

From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling Bronze Horseman saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved author, and the real story behind the epic novels.
Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fiction as captivating and heart-wrenching as the lives of Tatiana and Alexander. Only a few chapters into writing her first story set in Russia, her mother country, Paullina Simons travelled to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) with her beloved Papa. What began as a research trip turned into six days that forever changed her life, the course of her family, and the novel that became The Bronze Horseman.
After a quarter-century away from her native land, Paullina and her father found a world trapped in yesteryear, with crumbling stucco buildings, entire families living in seven-square-meter communal apartments, and barren fields bombed so badly that nothing would grow there even fifty years later.
And yet there were the spectacular white nights, the warm hospitality of family friends and, of course, the pelmeni and caviar. At times poignant, at times inspiring and funny, this is both a fascinating glimpse into the inspiration behind the epic saga, and a touching story of a family’s history, a father and a daughter, and the fate of a nation.

Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like.

But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, school friends from very different backgrounds.

As they grow into the world of the seventies and eighties, the lives of the three best friends are changed forever by two young men, Robin and Jack, and a tragedy which engulfs them all.

Against the odds, Tully emerges into young womanhood, marriage and a career. At last Tully Makker has life under control.

And then life strikes back in the most unexpected way of all ...