Bücher von Sarah Jio

Für Valentina geht ein Traum in Erfüllung: Sie erbt überraschend eine Buchhandlung in London. Der Laden in der Baker Street gehörte ihrer Mutter Eloise, die die Familie vor vielen Jahren verlassen und jeglichen Kontakt abgebrochen hatte. In London angekommen entdeckt Valentina in ihren Lieblingsbüchern »Nachrichten« von ihrer Mutter - und diese enthüllen Unglaubliches. Valentina muss sich nicht nur mit sorgsam gehüteten Familiengeheimnissen auseinandersetzen, sondern steht plötzlich vor den vielleicht größten Herausforderungen ihres Lebens, doch sie erhält unerwartete Hilfe ... Ein Roman über zwei starke Frauen, die sich vom Schicksal nicht unterkriegen lassen, über die Kraft der Liebe ... und der Bücher.

The New York Times bestselling author of Always imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle's Lake Union, home to people of artistic spirit who for decades protect the dark secret of one startling night in 1959. Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street in search of inspiration and new opportunities. When she discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier, she is immediately drawn into this long lost story. Ever-curious, Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but does not suspect that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge...

The New York Times bestselling author of Always and Blackberry Winter takes Goodnight Moon as inspiration for this remarkable story of friendship, love, and the mystery behind this beloved classic. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (Goodnight Songs) is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children's bookstore Ruby founded in the 1940s. Amidst the store's papers, June stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown-and steps into the pages of American literature.

***THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***From the New York Times bestselling author of Always and The Violets of March comes an emotional story of a dreadful storm, a missing child cold case, and a determined reporter who just may have a stronger connection with the past than she realizes.Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son goodnight and departs to work the night shift at a local hotel. She emerges to discover that a May Day snow has blanketed the city, and that her son has vanished. Outside, she finds his beloved teddy bear lying facedown on an icy street, the snow covering up any trace of his tracks-or the perpetrator's.Seattle, 2010. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, assigned to cover the May 1 "blackberry winter" storm and its twin, learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth. In the process, she finds that she and Vera may be linked in unexpected ways.Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels-The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter-taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon-Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time.