Bøger af Gabrielle Zevin

This internationally bestselling sensation is a 'funny, tender, and moving' (Library Journal, starred review) tale about community, books and second chances set in a world you won't want to leaveA.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession-a rare first edition book has been stolen. Over time, he has given up on people, and even the books in his store, instead of offering solace, are yet another reminder of a world that is changing too rapidly.But one day A.J. finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor, with a note attached to her asking the owner to look after her. His life - and Maya's - is changed forever.Gabrielle Zevin's enchanting novel is a love letter to the world of books--an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.Originally published as The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry.'Readers who delighted in Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, and Jessica Brockmole's Letters from Skye will be equally captivated by this adult novel by a popular YA author about a life of books, redemption, and second chances. Funny, tender, and moving' Library Journal, starred review'This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love--love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory' Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child

"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--

Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has

I 1987 møder Sam og Sadie hinanden på et hospital. Sadie er der for at besøge sin kræftsyge søster, Sam er indlagt efter en bilulykke. Det bliver starten på et venskab, hvor de mødes flere gange om ugen og spiller computerspil sammen. Der er dog en lille ting, Sadie har glemt at fortælle, og da det går op for Sam, får venskabet en brat ende.Otte år senere får Sam øje på Sadie i menneskemængden på en travl togstation. Han kalder på hende. Et øjeblik lader hun, som om hun ikke har hørt ham, men så vender hun sig alligevel om, og spillet mellem dem begynder igen. Det bliver starten på et kreativt samarbejde, der vil gøre dem til superstjerner.Dette er historien om de perfekte verdener, Sadie og Sam bygger, og den uperfekte verden, de lever i  og om alt det, der følger efter succesen: Penge. Berømmelse. Bedrag. Tragedie.Gabrielle Zevin har med i I MORGEN OG I MORGEN OG I MORGEN skabt en række uforglemmelige karakterer og skrevet en stor roman om identitet, kreativitet og menneskets behov for at være forbundet. En kærlighedshistorie, som du aldrig har fået den fortalt før …

From the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin's In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is.All These Things I've Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen-year-old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win.Still, it is Anya's nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds, the nightclub becomes an enormous success, and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again. But after a terrible misjudgment leaves Anya fighting for her life, she is forced to reckon with her choices and to let people help her for the first time in her life.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, this is the second stunning novel in Gabrielle Zevin's Birthright series. In this thrilling novel about a reluctant mobster, Anya tries to shatter the ties that bind--with deadly consequences."Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in."- Michael Corleone, The GodfatherSince her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty has skipped two grades at Holy Trinity, Scarlet and Gable seem closer than ever, and even Win is in a new relationship.But when old friends return demanding that certain debts be paid, Anya is thrown right back into the criminal world that she had been determined to escape. It's a journey that will take her across the ocean and straight into the heart of the birthplace of chocolate where her resolve--and her heart--will be tested as never before.

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A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life over--and see everything anew.

From Gabrielle Zevin-the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry-comes the first book in the Birthright series, All These Things I've Done, a masterful novel about an impossible romance, a mafia family, and the ties that forever bind us.In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.

"A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J. the ability to see everything anew. It doesn't take long for the locals to notice the change; or for that determined sales rep, Amelia, to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light; or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.'s world."--Page 4 of cover.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is an imaginative YA novel all about love and second chances.If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember.She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back.But Naomi picked heads.Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Is it possible to grow up while getting younger?

A. J. Fikry er selvstændig boghandler og ejer Island Books på den lille ø Alice Island i New England, USA. Han har haft nogle hårde år: Hans kone er død, hvilket har gjort ham til en alkoholsøgende enkemand i en alder af kun 39 år, salget i bogladen er for nedadgående, og hans store stolthed - en sjælden udgave af Edgar Allan Poes digte - er blevet stjålet. Bøger har altid været hele hans liv, alle store begivenheder har for ham en litterær reference, men som årene er gået, har han langsomt givet op, er blevet sur og bitter på verden og har trukket sig fra det lille øsamfund. Da han en dag finder en højst overraskende pakke i butikken, bliver alt dog vendt på hovedet. A.J. Fikry får en enestående mulighed for at ændre sit liv og se verden med nye øjne. HISTORIEN OM A.J. FIKRY er for bogelskere. Enhver, der har arbejdet med bøger vil nikke genkendende til Gabrielle Zevins humoristiske og varme fortælling. Men man behøver ikke at have været i bogbranchen for at elske denne bog, for der er noget for alle: kærlighed, drama, romantik, humor og uforglemmelige karakterer. Bogen er en rendyrket kærlighedserklæring til litteraturen. "Zevin fanger så fint glæden ved at forbinde mennesker og bøger ... Fuld af interessante karakterer, en dybdegående viden om bogens liv, vidunderlig kritik af klassiske titler, og meget sjove beskrivelser af læsekredse og forfatterarrangementer. Den er uundværlig for enhver bogelsker." - Booklist"Zevin er en talentfuld forfatter, klog og vittig." —Publishers Weekly