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Add spice or tenderness, feel a connection with the past or look into the future … Choose a book with the mood that your loved ones lack to complete the New Year’s feelings.
“The Last of the Moon Maidens”
Barbara Davis, Inspiria
Ambitious perfumer Lizzy Lune receives news of her grandmother’s death at the same time she is promoted. The girl will have to return home and inherit the Moon Maiden farm, where nine generations of her family’s women have grown medicinal plants. Women of her family have always chosen independence and business, no matter what is at stake, even if the price was the rejection of personal happiness. Liz was determined to live differently – to find love and start a family.
“Anomaly”
Herve Le Tellier, Corpus
What do a hitman, a disillusioned writer, and a girl with a frog have in common? All of them are passengers of the March Boeing 787 flight, which hit a rain cloud a hundred days ago while flying from Paris to New York. Surviving the crash, they miraculously escaped. And in the summer of 2021, the same plane and the same passengers ended up at a military base in New Jersey. Panic in the world. And the heroes are forced to take a closer look at their past. For this mystery novel, Le Tellier received the Prix Goncourt.
Note Letters. Collections “Art”, “Fathers”, “Cats”
John Asher, Livebook
These sincere messages contain revelations and reflections on parenthood, vocation and pets. Doubts of creative people from Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo to Wilde and Proust in a collection of art. Paternal feelings of Leo Tolstoy and touching tenderness in the mean lines of Che Guevara (collection “Fathers”). These letters are not perfect, but that’s what makes them good – each seems to be addressed to you personally.
“Thursday Murder Club”
Richard Osman, MIF
Can a nursing home be a good place to live? Yes, if it’s Cooperschase. Four friends in their 70s are having fun sorting through archival police cases. But life gives them a chance to get involved in a real investigation. And a former spy, a nurse, a psychologist and a trade union activist begin to search. They may not be very creative, but their optimism and humor are uplifting.
“Demand, Paris”
Alexey Tarkhanov, Editing by Elena Shubina
How to keep the dream of the Seine embankments, croissants and the Louvre when you are already in Paris? How to keep the delight of love when you and the city finally get used to each other? This is true love, says journalist Alexei Tarkhanov, who settled here more than ten years ago. His book is an emotional map of the city, a collection of essays about the spirit of France, fashion, art and, of course, love.
“Shadows of Our Past”
Sarah Blake, Sinbad
The story begins as a beautiful novel about an aristocratic American family. Evie Milton, historian and feminist, returns to her childhood home on Crockett Island. Fresh flowers in vases and lobster picnics in the evenings… But the nostalgic pastoral quietly turns into a social drama. Revealing the secrets of the Milton clan, Blake enters into a conversation about the paradoxes of the nation.