Beskrivelsen vil ofte være på engelsk da mange av bøkene jeg ønsker meg ikke er oversatt til norsk, men der det finnes en norsk beskrivelse vil jeg selvsagt poste denne. OBS! Enkelte av bøkene på listen denne gangen er ikke utgitt enda.
Forfatter Ally Carter er kanskje mest kjent for sin ungdomsserie Gallagher Girls(første bok I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You), den 10.de februar kom Heist Society som er bok nummer en i en ny serie av forfatteren.
Ande bok fra ønskelisten min i dag er en historisk roman ved tittelen Saras nøkkel. Den omhandler en tragisk hendelse i fransk historie kjent som Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv(oppsamling av franske jøder 16.juli 1942). Dette er en del av den franske historien som har vært lite snakket om i Frankrike. Så sent som i 1995 annerkjente Jacques Chirac Frankrikes rolle i denne tragiske julidagen i 1942. Forfatterens budskap er at vi aldri må glemme. Boken har blitt filmatisert og skal vises på franskekinoer i 2010.
When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own--scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a normal life proves harder than she'd expected.
Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring her back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat's dad needs her help.
For Kat there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in history-or at least her family's (very crooked) history.
Paris, 16. juli 1942. Sara er en ti år gammel jødisk jente som er tvunget til å låse inn lillebroren sin i et skap, for å gjemme han fra det franske politiet. Resten av familien blir arrestert. I 2002 kommer journalisten Julia Jarmond tilfeldigvis over historien om Sara og familien i forbindelse med at hun skal skrive en artikkel i anledning 60-årsmarkeringen av Vichy-aksjonen. Oppdagelsen tvinger etter hvert Julia til å stille en rekke spørsmål ved sitt eget liv.
Hva kan jeg si om neste bok? Hadde det ikke vært spennende om man faktisk hadde funnet en dagbok skrevet av Jane Austens beste venninne?
When shy Jenny Cooper goes to stay with her cousin Jane Austen she knows nothing of the world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip and romance that Jane inhabits. But Jane is already a sharp observer of the customs of courtship, and when Jenny falls utterly in love with the dashing Captain Thomas Williams, who better than Jane to help her win the heart of this most eligible of men?
Plain Kate kommer ut engang i løpet av 2010. Falt for beskrivelsen, aldri lest en bok om noen som var skyggeløs før(men jeg har sett episoden hvor spøkelset Laban mistet skyggen sin sammen med min lille sønn ;)).
The drizzle had broken into patches as they walked. As Drina scooped up the pale sand, Kate found herself standing in the smudge of shadow cast by the deadfall. She had never before noticed the way shadows gave things weight, made them look heavy and real and connected to the ground. Without hers...
She edged into the light.
Her shadow looked strange and thinned. It seemed not cast against the ground, but floating above it, like a fog. What Linay had said was true: No one would notice this, at first. It was just an uneasy little change, like the half-felt movement of a boat that slowly induces a great sickness.
Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden talismans are so fine that some even call her “witch-blade”: a dangerous nickname in a country where witches are hunted and burned in the square.
For Kate and her village have fallen on hard times. Kate’s father has died, leaving her alone in the world. And a mysterious fog now covers the countryside, ruining crops and spreading fear of hunger and sickness. The townspeople are looking for someone to blame, and their eyes have fallen on Kate.
Enter Linay, a stranger with a proposition: In exchange for her shadow, he’ll give Kate the means to escape the angry town, and what’s more, he’ll grant her heart’s wish. It’s a chance for her to start over, to find a home, a family, a place to belong. But Kate soon realizes she can't live shadowless forever -- and that Linay's designs are darker than she ever dreamed.
