Ann Kidd Taylor

"On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-traveling marine biologist studying and swimming with the very animals that once threatened her life. Known among her peers as the 'shark whisperer,' Maeve is fearless in the water. On land, however, Maeve is dogged by unresolved wounds and indecisive about the path her life will take"

The Shark Club

Sue Monk Kidd

'Travelling with Pomegranates' is an engrossing, touching and uplifting travel memoir from the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, Sue Monk, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor.

Traveling with Pomegranates

The award-winning author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions.

A Mother-daughter Story

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017. Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter. A wise and involving book about feminine thresholds, spiritual growth, and renewal, Traveling with Pomegranates is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter, a writer in the making, and a momentous story that will resonate with women everywhere.

A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Shark Club - Eine Liebe so ewig wie das Meer

Ein bewegendes Plädoyer für die Kunst des Reisens Sue Monk Kidd hat mit ihren Romanen „Die Bienenhüterin“ und „Die Meerfrau“ Millionen Leser weltweit begeistert. Mit „Granatapfeljahre“ legt sie ihr bislang persönlichstes Buch vor. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Tochter Ann erzählt sie von ihren inspirierenden Reisen durch Griechenland. Sue steckte in einer Krise: Sie hatte Probleme mit dem Älterwerden, fühlte sich ausgelaugt. Und auch Ann, gerade frisch von ihrem Freund getrennt, den College-Abschluss in der Tasche, wollte ihr Leben neu ausrichten. Gemeinsam brachen die beiden Frauen auf in das Land der Granatäpfel – einer Frucht, die seit jeher für Leben und Fruchtbarkeit steht. Dieses Buch ist mehr als ein Reisebericht: Es ist eine Suche nach dem Glück, ein Plädoyer für die Weiblichkeit, das Zeugnis einer tiefen Mutter-Tochter-Verbindung. Es gibt uns ein Rezept an die Hand, wie wir den Weg zu uns selbst am besten beschreiten. Es handelt vom Glück, unterwegs zu sein.

Vom Glück, unterwegs zu sein

Granatapfeljahre

'A delicious summer read' Redbook; 'An easy, breezy read set in a stunning location' Daily Mail A captivating romance 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. How do you choose between your first love and a sizzling new romance? On a summer day in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-travelling biologist, swimming with the animals that once threatened her life. She is on the brink of a relationship with a fellow diver. Yet, as she returns to the idyllic island where she grew up, she is haunted by memories of Daniel, her first love, and what might have been. A meeting with a sweet six-year-old girl fascinated by sharks draws Maeve back into Daniel's life. Suddenly she's awash in old feelings. Will she forgive Daniel for the mistakes of their youth? Or will she open her heart to Nicholas, the handsome colleague who shares her passion for the ocean? What readers are saying about The Shark Club: 'This book is brilliant - read now...This is an author who knows how to write a good story' chloedouglasblog.wordpress.com 'I loved everything about this glorious book' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'The most perfect book to read during the summer' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I completely adored this novel' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'The romance was beautifully done... Loved it!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

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