Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a multi-million copy New York Times bestseller, now an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys Fans of Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Beth Hoffman's Saving CeeCee Honeycutt will love Sue Monk Kidd's Southern coming of age tale. The Secret Life of Bees was a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, a Good Morning America .Read This" Book Club pick and was made into an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's most vicious racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina-a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love-a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

Midtveis i livet er Jessie Sullivan overbevist om at hun er lykkelig. Hun har alt hun har drømt om: et vakkert hjem, en ektemann hun kan stole på, og en vellykket tenåringsdatter. Men da moren hennes begynner å oppføre seg stadig merkeligere, er det Jessie som må reise til den avsidesliggende øya der hun vokste opp. Der møter hun Broder Thomas, en benediktermunk i ferd med å avlegge sitt endelige klosterløfte. Møtet med Broder Thomas fører til en intens åndelig og seksuell oppvåkning for Jessie. I barndommens vakre og ville kystlandskap føler hun seg dratt mellom nye og sterke lengsler og hensynet til familien og ekteskapet. Etter alle disse årene begynner hun endelig å forstå hvem hun er og hvor hun hører hjemme. Men samtidig innser hun hvor mye av hennes gamle liv som har plass i det nye.

THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013.

Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the neglected and silenced women around her. Raised in a wealthy family in Galilee, she is sheltered from the brutality of Rome's occupation of Israel. Ana is expected to marry an elderly widower to further her father's ambitions, a prospect that horrifies her. A chance encounter with the eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything: his ideas and his passion are intoxicating. Taking Ana on a journey she could never have imagined, The book of longings is a glorious evocation of a time and a place where astounding events unfolded, and of one woman's fate when she fights to make her voice heard.

1803, Charleston, South Carolina. När Sarah fyller elva år får hon en egen slav i present av sin mor. Men trots att Sarah vuxit upp i en välbärgad plantageägarfamilj - och sett slavar piskas och förödmjukas - kan hon inte leva med tanken att äga en annan människa. Även om Sarahs försök att frige den jämnåriga slaven Trubbel går om intet så växer en ovanlig vänskap fram mellan dem. Två unga kvinnor vars enda likhet i livet är att de vuxit upp på samma plats på jorden - men i hemlighet inleder de snart vad som ska bli en livslång kamp mot slaveriet. Sue Monk Kidds hyllade roman En handfull vingar bygger på kvinnorättskämpen Sarah Grimkés (1792-1873) fantastiska liv och kamp mot slaveriet.

Jessie Sullivan har vært gift halve livet og hun tror oppriktig på at hun er lykkelig. Når hun reiser tilbake til den isolerte øya hvor hun vokste opp for å finne ut hvorfor mora hennes har oppført seg så rart, blir hun tiltrukket av Thomas, en benediktinermunk som akkurat skal avlegge sine klosterløfter. Deres møter vekker et enormt seksuelt og åndelig begjær i Jessie, og hun blir dratt mellom sine nye kraftige følelser og lengsler, og det lange ekteskapet sitt. Etter alle disse årene begynner hun å forstå hvem hun egentlig er og hvor hun hører hjemme, men hun begynner også å forstå hvor mye av det gamle livet hennes som har plass i det nye.

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and her daughter comes a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time when each had reached an important turning point in her life. What emerged was a quest for Ann and Sue to redefine themselves and also rediscover one other. Against the backdrop of the sacred sites of Greece, Turkey and France, Sue grapples with the problem of how to expand her vision of swarming bees into the novel that she feels compelled to write, whilst newly-graduated Ann ponders the classic question of what to do with her life.

'A delicious summer read' RedbookHow do you choose between your first love and a sizzling new romance? The perfect romantic read set on a beautiful Florida island, from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Travelling with Pomegranates (written with Sue Monk Kidd). Not to be missed by fans of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by multi-million-copy bestselling author Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, which will resonate with everyone who went to see the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave and fans of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees. 'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial TimesYou do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse.Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.

The new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.

It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series launches with six perennial favorites to give as elegant gifts, or to showcase on your own shelves. K is for Kidd. Set in South Carolina during the tumultuous summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees also ushered young Lily Owens, a girl transformed by the power and divinity of the female spirit, into the canon of modern-day heroines. Lily and her fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother" escape the racism of their hometown and find refuge with an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, whose world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna is mesmerizing.

En flammende sørstatsroman om håp, mot, frihetstrang og behovet for å ha en stemme i verden. Basert på en sann historie.

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