Sue Monk Kidd

"I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus." So begins the new novel from the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny in a time of great despair and great hope. In her fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes secret narratives about neglected and silenced women. When she meets the eighteen-year-old Jesus, each is drawn to and enriched by the other's spiritual and philosophical ideas. He becomes a floodgate for her intellect, but also the awakener of her heart. Their marriage unfolds with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, James and Simon, and their mother, Mary. Here, Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to the Roman occupation of Israel, partially led by her charismatic adopted brother, Judas. She is sustained by her indomitable aunt Yaltha, who is searching for her long-lost daughter, as well as by other women, including her friend Tabitha, who is sold into slavery after she was raped, and Phasaelis, the shrewd wife of Herod Antipas. Ana's impetuous streak occasionally invites danger. When one such foray forces her to flee Nazareth for her safety shortly before Jesus's public ministry begins, she makes her way with Yaltha to Alexandria, where she eventually finds refuge and purpose in unexpected surroundings. Grounded in meticulous historical research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus's life that focuses on his humanity, The Book of Longings is an inspiring account of one woman's bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place, and culture devised to silence her.

The Book of Longings

Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self. By the best-selling author of The Secret Life of Bees.

The Invention of Wings

Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.

The Mermaid Chair

The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening. Sue Monk was a "conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother" with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question her role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of her awakening. Retaining a meaningful connection "with the deep song of Christianity," she opens the door for traditional Christian women to discover a spirituality that speaks directly to them and provides inspiring wisdom for all who struggle to embrace their full humanity.

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

Ann Kidd Taylor

'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

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.

The Secret Life of Bees

Die Erfindung der Flügel

From the Bestselling Author of The Secret Life of Bees, an Inspiring Autobiographical Account of Personal Pain, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Grace Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." This PLUS edition includes a reader's guide.

Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions

When the Heart Waits

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

Roman

Das Buch Ana

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

Witte vleugels zwarte vleugels

Virsta recomandata: 14+ Traducere din limba engleza si note de Victor Ghica Roman ecranizat in 2008, intr-o productie cu Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys si Paul Bettany in rolurile principale, in regia Ginei Prince-Bythewood. "Povestea unei tinere orfane care descopera ca dragostea poate fi gasita in cele mai neasteptate locuri." (The Washington Post) Lily Owens are paisprezece ani si o singura prietena de cind mama ei nu mai e: o servitoare de culoare doldora de idei trasnite, Rosaleen. Sa fii afro-american in Carolina de Sud a anilor 1960 nu-i deloc usor, asa ca, in ziua in care Rosaleen nu mai poate rabda si ii insulta pe citiva rasisti inversunati din tinut, Lily se hotaraste: au sa fuga amindoua in oraselul Tiburon, unde s-ar putea sa existe ceva care sa lamureasca disparitia misterioasa a mamei. Gasesc adapost in casa unui trio excentric: trei surori afro-americane care cresc albine si se inchina la Madona Neagra. De acum, calatoria lui Lily poate sa inceapa. "O carte fantastica, cu aura unui roman detectivistic si impregnata de magia povestilor cu fantome ale lui Joanne Harris." (The Telegraph) "Capitolele danseaza pe marginea realismului magic si amesteca fabulosul cu realitatea, dind nastere unei calatorii minunate." (Richmond Times Dispatch) "O saga plina de caldura despre o tinara aflata in cautarea adevarului."

Viata secreta a albinelor

After her mother's death, Lily Owens and her African-American maid seek refuge from the racism of their South Carolina hometown with eccentric beekeeping sisters in a coming of age story. Read by Jenna Lamia.

Księga tęsknot

A adolescência de Lily Owens tem sido complicada. Ela não se lembra da morte da mãe, há mais de dez anos, e sua relação com o pai é mais que difícil. Em 1964, quando completa catorze anos, ela decide fugir junto com sua babá Rosaleen. Lily sai a caminho de Tiburon, a cidade que parece esconder alguma resposta sobre a vida de sua mãe. Chegando lá, ela e Rosaleen são acolhidas por três irmãs. Aos poucos, Lily descobre um mundo mágico de abelhas, mel e da Madona Negra. Com a ajuda das irmãs Boatwright - August, May e June -, Lily tenta desvendar sua história. Será que ela conseguirá enfrentar os demônios de seu passado e se tornar uma jovem independente?

A vida secreta das abelhas

Em O livro dos anseios, Sue Monk Kidd apresenta uma inspiradora história de amor, sonhos e perseverança, a narrativa de uma mulher que nunca perde a esperança de se tornar mais do que aquilo que a sociedade gostaria que ela fosse. "Meu nome é Ana. Fui esposa de Jesus." Ana sempre soube que seu destino ultrapassava as fronteiras do limitado espaço destinado às mulheres na Galileia do século I. Nascida em uma rica família de Séforis, ela é rebelde e ambiciosa, dotada de um espírito ousado e uma voz que anseia por ser ouvida. Desafiando as regras da época, Ana estuda e escreve narrativas secretas sobre mulheres silenciadas ao longo da história. Quando conhece Jesus, encontra nele um raro estímulo para seu intelecto e também uma faísca capaz de despertar seu coração. Depois de casados, Ana passa a viver com a família dele em Nazaré, onde o cotidiano doméstico sufoca seus desejos e a truculenta resistência ao domínio romano ameaça a tranquilidade de sua vida conjugal. Pouco antes de Jesus começar seu ministério público, um ato de rebeldia força Ana a fugir para Alexandria, no Egito. Lá, ela encontra refúgio e propósito — mas é apagada da história de seu grande amor. Amparado em meticulosa pesquisa histórica, O livro dos anseios é a narrativa de uma mulher que busca realizar seus sonhos mais profundos e atingir o potencial que tem dentro de si, enquanto vive em uma época, uma cultura e um lugar determinados a calá-la a qualquer custo.

O livro dos anseios

A Ilha das Garças

Draws largely from the author's early writings for "Guideposts," featuring inspirational stories and essays that reflect various aspects of Monk's early writing career and quest for spiritual awareness.

Early Inspirational Writings

Firstlight

I «Bursdagsgaven» følger vi to helt spesielle kvinner fra barndom til voksenliv. Sarah Grimké kommer fra en rik og velstående familie, og på elleveårsdagen sin får hun overrakt slavedatteren Hetty Handful som sin egen private tjener. Men Sarah vil ikke ta imot «gaven», selv om hun vet at avgjørelsen kommer til å skape oppstandelse. Handlingen i romanen er lagt til sørstatene i USA på 1800-tallet og er basert på virkelige hendelser. Romanen skildrer en verden av sjokkerende kontraster, men også kraften av vennskap og søsterskap mot alle odds.

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