New Releases by Mary Lawson

In Blue: Tiny Tales of Friendship, children will learn about the qualities that make a good friend through seven heart-warming stories featuring three animal friends – a small grey mouse, a robin, and a fat ginger cat. Set in a village where magic and mystery abound, these tales follow the characters as they discover the power of kindness and friendship and are changed forever by the events they experience. From helping a stranger with an extraordinary gift to learning to love and respect one another at school, these stories will teach valuable lessons about friendship and the importance of being kind. Along the way, secrets are kept and lives are saved – and kids will even find out what all that blue wool is used for!

Sedmiletá Clara vysedává každý den u okna v obývacím pokoji a doufá, že každou chvíli zahlédne svou starší sestru. Rose, teenagerka plná vzdoru, utekla z domu bez jediného slova a už celé týdny o ní nikdo neslyšel. Útěchu Clara nachází jen v kocourovi Mojžíšovi, o kterého se stará, protože jeho majitelka paní Orchardová před několika týdny odešla do nemocnice, a ještě pořád se nevrátila. Do sousedního domu paní Orchardové se nastěhuje třicátník Liam Kane. Ve městě je nový, právě se rozvedl a aktuálně je nezaměstnaný. Claru jeho příchod překvapuje, současně ji však i zneklidňuje. Neuplyne ani pár hodin od jeho příjezdu a Liamovi zaklepe na dveře policista. Je snad z něčeho podezřelý? Elizabeth Orchardová, jejíž život se pomalu chýlí ke konci, v nemocnici rekapituluje nejvýznamnější okamžiky svého života. Postupně se tak odhaluje tajemný vztah, který s nově příchozím cizincem měla. Podmanivě poetický román Než napadne první sníh je vyprávěný ze tří různých úhlů pohledu: z pohledu Clary, paní Orchardové a Liama Kanea. Jejich příběhy se navzájem prolínají a oni sami se dostávají čtenáři pod kůži: odkrývají trápení a smutky, výčitky, ale i lásku, která všechny spojuje jak s těmi, k nimž je váže rodinné pouto, tak s těmi, které si vybrali. Než napadne první sníh je mistrovský, napínavý, především však laskavý příběh od jedné z nejlepších vypravěček naší doby.

本书讲述了:动物学家凯特·莫里森是家族中唯一一个通过求学走出乡村的人,在通往未来的坦途上,她试着埋藏苦涩的过去,不愿提起故乡乌鸦湖的一切.但一封来自乌鸦湖的信,迫使她北上而归,回到那片冰蓝色的天空下,面对自己人生的原点:她的家,她的三兄妹,他们在一场死亡和一连串悲剧之后所做的抉择.而那些抉择背后的真相,她并不像自己以为的那样了解.

3 PROTAGONISTI DI ETÀ DIVERSE, 3 DESTINI INCROCIATI «Una storia di infanzie difficili e di resa dei conti con il passato, sul peso di emozioni represse e sulle conseguenze terribili del troppo amore o della sua mancanza. Con pennellate asciutte Lawson crea dei personaggi alle cui vite ci appassioniamo, e ci mostra come riflettere sul nostro passato e venire a patti con i nostri errori può portarci inaspettate ricompense.» The Times «Un romanzo ricco di sfumature, che s''interroga su cosa significhi essere una famiglia.» Internazionale Solace, Ontario. Clara, sette anni, è sconvolta dalla scomparsa di Rose, la sorella adolescente che è fuggita di casa dopo l’ennesimo litigio con la madre. Elizabeth Orchard è in ospedale, in fin di vita, ed è tormentata dal ricordo di un crimine compiuto in gioventù e che ha avuto conseguenze devastanti per due famiglie. Ma ormai forse è troppo tardi per rimediare... Il quarantenne Liam Kane, divorziato e disoccupato, è appena arrivato nella piccola Solace dalla grande Toronto e si sistema nella casa di Mrs Orchard, accanto a quella di Clara. Ma Liam sembra rifuggire da qualsiasi contatto umano, come se sul suo animo gravasse un peso indicibile... Tre personaggi in tre diversi momenti della vita, che devono fare i conti con una realtà fitta di silenzi, rimorsi e reticenze, ma che riusciranno a capire come un nuovo inizio sia sempre possibile.

Huit ans après Un hiver long et rude, l''auteure de l''inoubliable Choix des Morrison revient avec un livre bouleversant autour de trois personnages poignants en quête de rédemption et par-dessus tout d''amour. Tour à tour captivant et sombrement drôle, un roman poignant sur les chagrins, les remords et l''amour qui nous lient, une œuvre lumineuse qui démontre qu''une nouvelle vie est parfois possible. Postée comme chaque jour derrière la fenêtre du salon, Clara, sept ans, guette le retour de sa sœur et épie l''inconnu qui a investi la maison de la voisine, Mme Orchard. En plein divorce, au chômage, récemment arrivé dans cette petite ville de Solace et tout juste installé dans la maison que lui a léguée Mme Orchard dont il se souvient à peine, Liam Kane, la trentaine, reçoit la visite de la police. Il semble qu''il soit soupçonné d''un crime. En fin de vie, Elizabeth Orchard repense à une faute commise il y a trente ans, aux conséquences tragiques pour deux familles et en particulier pour un petit garçon. Elle veut désespérément faire amende honorable avant de mourir. Porté par l''écriture poétique de Mary Lawson, Des âmes consolées explore les relations de trois êtres réunis par le destin et les erreurs du passé. Sélection du Man Booker Prize

Kates Kindheit im Norden Ontarios endet jäh, als ihre Eltern tödlich verunglücken. Ihre beiden Brüder Luke und Matt beschließen, sie und die kleine Schwester Bo alleine großzuziehen. Halt findet die verschlossene und bildungshungrige Kate vor allem bei Matt, dessen Liebe zur Tier- und Pflanzenwelt auf sie überspringt. Jahre später arbeitet Kate erfolgreich als Biologin an der Universität von Toronto, weit weg von ihrer Heimat. Doch die Geschehnisse von damals schweben immer noch wie ein Schatten über ihr. Als sie für ein Familienfest nach Crow Lake zurückkehrt, gerät ihre Welt erneut aus den Fugen. »Ein höchst beeindruckendes Debüt. Lassen Sie es sich nicht entgehen.« The New York Times Book Review

Die kanadische Bestsellerautorin verknüpft drei Schicksale zu einem hoffnungsvollen und zutiefst menschlichen Roman In der idyllischen Kleinstadt Solace ist ein Teenager spurlos verschwunden. Die siebenjährige Clara ist untröstlich und wartet seit Tagen am Fenster auf die Rückkehr ihrer Schwester. Zu allem Unglück liegt auch noch ihre geliebte Nachbarin, die alte Mrs. Orchard, im Krankenhaus. Eines Abends zieht nebenan ein Fremder ein. Liam Kane wurde das Haus von Mrs. Orchard geschenkt, obwohl er kaum Erinnerungen an sie hat. Ist hier, im Norden Ontarios, ein Neuanfang für ihn möglich? Nach und nach erinnert sich Liam an seine eigene, von Verlust geprägte Kindheit. Und auch Mrs. Orchard stellt sich ihrer Vergangenheit. Denn vor dreißig Jahren gab es einen Vorfall, der für zwei Familien tragische Folgen hatte. »Es ist eine Freude, Lawsons Bücher zu lesen ... sie sind menschlich, weise und voller Empathie.« The Times

"As Solace opens, we meet a Northern Ontario family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose''s little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, Clara is not only missing Rose; she is also missing her elderly friend and next-door neighbour, Mrs. Orchard, a retired schoolteacher who is away in hospital. While standing at the window, Clara keeps an eye out for Rose and an eye on Mrs. Orchard''s house. Then, one afternoon, a strange young man in a strange car pulls into Mrs. Orchard''s driveway and proceeds to move into the house as if he owns the place. Which it turns out he does: Mrs. Orchard has died and left it to him. Soon we discover that Clara''s beloved Mrs. Orchard has a complicated and tragic past, and the real mystery at the heart of this novel is what happened between her and Liam, the man in the car. Solace is told in three distinct, compelling voices--Clara''s, Mrs. Orchard''s, and Liam''s--cutting back and forth to carefully uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones we''re born into and the ones we choose, and steadily building towards an assured, heart-wrenching and (despite its losses) uplifting ending. A beautifully written, masterful, suspenseful and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers."--

Amber Laura Heard is an American actress. She made her film debut in 2004 in the sports drama Friday Night Lights. After small roles in North Country and Alpha Dog, Heard played her first leading role in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) and appeared in The CW television show Hidden Palms (2007).

Dans un hameau de fermiers du nord de l''Ontario, quatre enfants luttent pour rester ensemble après le décès accidentel de leurs parents. Illuminé par de subtiles notes d''humour et de tendresse, ce magnifique roman littéraire retrace l''histoire dramatique d''une famille unie, lentement consumée par l''incompréhension et le ressentiment. Récit dramatique illuminé par de subtiles notes d''humour et de tendresse, Le Choix des Morrison interroge l''incidence du poids des origines sur le destin individuel. Un formidable hymne à l''amour et au courage. Crow Lake, au nord de l''Ontario, une terre magnifique et rude où vit une petite communauté de fermiers régie par une austérité toute presbytérienne qui n''a d''égale que la solidarité s''exerçant en cas de coup dur. Après le décès accidentel de leurs parents, Kate Morrison, sept ans, ses grands frères, Luke et Matt, et sa petite sœur Bo voient leur destin basculer. Si Luke, l''aîné rebelle, renonce à ses études pour s''occuper tant bien que mal de ses cadets, c''est Matt que la fillette idolâtre comme un héros. Matt, porteur de tous les espoirs d''une famille destinée à s''élever par l''instruction, mais avant tout un adolescent fragilisé par la tragédie. Une fois adulte, Kate, professeur de biologie à l''université de Toronto, appréhende son retour à Crow Lake et ses retrouvailles avec Matt. Devenue une étrangère parmi les siens, elle devra affronter les conséquences des choix douloureux faits vingt ans plus tôt...

One of Australia''s leading biblical scholars offers a wonderful guide to the Church to help Catholics and other Christians celebrate the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis. In this book, she combines deep scholarship and insight into the biblical text with an enthusiasm to uncover the richness of the ''mercy texts'' that abound in the books of Old and New Testaments. The Blessing of Mercy is also an ecological exploration of mercy in the Bible, connecting intentionally with Pope Francis'' encyclical Laudato Si and his proclamation of an Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. The first chapter of The Blessing of Mercy focuses on the five main word groups used to express mercy in the Hebrew Scriptures: mercy as liberation and compassion; mercy as looking with the eye of pity and sparing the guilty; mercy as steadfast love or loving kindness; mercy as womb-compassion; mercy as grace or graciousness. The chapter closes with a brief account of how the Hebrew terms were translated into Greek. The second chapter considers the mercy word groups in the Greek text of the Christian Scriptures and then examines selected mercy-related texts in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew as informed by the language of mercy in the Hebrew Scriptures. Chapter three explores the mercy language in the Gospel of Luke and in the Acts of the Apostles, taking account of Earth elements that function as agents of mercy in the text. The Afterword invites us to reenact or retell these stories of mercy in contemporary and ecological key so that they might find expression in our lives. Throughout, we are invited to reread the biblical texts in light of the Pope''s invitation to listen to the cry of the Earth and the Earth''s poor. Above all, we are compelled by mercy to embrace the Earth as God''s creation and our common home. This is not a book that one takes up and reads in one or two sittings and then leaves aside. Rather, it is a rich source of biblical perspectives on mercy interwoven with related biblical themes. It is a book for pondering, for savouring. It will draw its readers deep into the multifaceted mercy of God. Here they will be enabled to "gaze even more attentively on mercy," in response to the call that Pope Francis identifies in his proclamation of the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Professor Elaine Wainwright Veronica Lawson is an Australian Sister of Mercy. She studied Scripture at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem and at Trinity College, Dublin. For many years, she lectured in Biblical Studies at the Australian Catholic University and its predecessor institutions before spending seven years as leader of her congregation. Her weekly reflections on the Sunday Gospel Readings have a global circulation and she regularly presents biblical workshops and lectures within Australia and throughout the world.

Dans le décor grandiose du Grand Nord canadien, un roman d''une grande finesse, dont la construction subtile mêle intimement deux époques. Une œuvre sobre et sensible sur l''ambiguïté des rapports fraternels, la rivalité, l''obsession amoureuse et la confusion des sentiments. À Struan, Ontario, dans les années trente. La famille Dunn mène la vie rude des fermiers du Nord. Les deux fils, Arthur et Jake, sont aussi différents que possible. Le premier est effacé, taciturne : tout le portrait de son père. Le plus jeune, Jake, est brillant, rusé et choyé par sa mère. Tyrannique et insolent, il ne cesse de provoquer Arthur, qui cède, immanquablement. Jusqu''au jour où la situation dérape... Années cinquante. La guerre est finie. Arthur a repris la ferme familiale et a épousé la fille du pasteur, Laura. Il s''est pris d''affection pour Ian, le fils du médecin. Ce dernier travaille à la ferme pour être près de Laura, dont il est amoureux. Jake, lui, a quitté la région quinze ans plus tôt. Un jour, Ian découvre Laura dans les bras d''un autre homme : Jake. Le retour du frère honni et redouté va faire éclater le drame qui couvait depuis longtemps déjà...

Des hivers rudes et immaculés du Canada au Londres frémissant des sixties, la destinée de trois membres d''une famille malmenée par les drames. Après Le Choix des Morrison, Mary Lawson signe un roman tout en finesse, plein de tendresse, de colère et d''amour. Rien ne va plus chez les Cartwright. Alors qu''Emily s''apprête à donner naissance à son huitième enfant, qu''Edward, le père, cherche dans son bureau une échappatoire au chaos ambiant, que Tom, le fils aîné, s''enferme dans la dépression, Megan, fille unique de la fratrie et mère de substitution de chacun, décide de voler de ses propres ailes. À vingt et un ans, l''heure est venue pour la jeune fille de se libérer des siens. Adieu le Grand Nord canadien, bonjour le swinging London ! Pendant que Megan se cherche dans la Vieille Europe, les Cartwright, eux, tentent de survivre. Qui pour s''occuper du foyer, désormais ? Pour remplir le frigo ? Pour protéger Adam, quatre ans, et ses frères de la folie douce d''Emily, uniquement absorbée par son nourrisson et négligeant tout le reste ? Qui pour arracher Edward aux ruminations d''un passé qui le hante ? Accablé par la culpabilité depuis le décès de son meilleur ami, Tom, brillant étudiant, renonce chaque jour un peu plus à ses rêves... Et si le moment était venu pour lui d''assumer son rôle d''aîné ? Le silence qui étouffe les Cartwright peut-il être conjuré ? Et si le plus difficile, parfois, était l''espoir ?

From an acclaimed writer whose work invites comparisons to Elizabeth Strout, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford comes a brilliantly layered novel about self-sacrifice, family relationships, and the weight of our responsibility to those we love. The New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Crow Lake and The Other Side of the Bridge returns with a brilliantly layered novel about self-sacrifice, family relationships, and the weight of our responsibility to those we love. Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been outside Struan, Ontario, a small town of deep woods and forbidding winters. The second oldest in a house with seven brothers, Megan is the caregiver, housekeeper, and linchpin of the family, but the day comes when she decides it’s time she had a life of her own. Leaving everything behind, Megan sets out for London. In the wake of her absence, her family begins to unravel. Megan’s parents and brothers withdraw from one another, leading emotionally isolated lives while still under the same roof. Her oldest brother, Tom, reeling from the death of his best friend, rejects a promising future to move back home. Emily, her mother, rarely leaves the room where she dreamily dotes on her newborn son, while Megan’s four-year-old brother, Adam, is desperate for warmth and attention. And as time passes, Megan’s father, Edward, stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that his household is coming undone. Torn between her independence and family ties, Megan must make an impossible choice. Nuanced, compelling, and searingly honest, Road Ends illuminates how we each make peace with the demands of love. Mary Lawson delivers compassion and heartbreak in equal measure in her most stunning novel to date. Praise for Road Ends “Mary Lawson’s story of a dysfunctional family in a northern Ontario logging town is told in scenes that are as palpably tender and surprising as they are quietly disturbing. . . . [Lawson] has an uncanny talent for evoking the textures of her characters’ moods while moving them unsentimentally through London and Struan.”—The New York Times Book Review “Like all great writers—and Lawson is among the finest—she tells her story in a deceptively simple and straightforward way, but one that resonates with anyone who has ever struggled with doing the right thing by a family member despite a desperate longing to escape that burden.”—The Star “[Lawson] can justifiably lay claim to an oeuvre as well as a personal geography. If the part of Ontario west of Toronto is Munro country, then the area northwest of New Liskeard and Cobalt—where her fictional towns of Struan and Crow Lake are roughly located—may well end up being dubbed Lawson Country.”—National Post “A beautiful novel, with the psychological twists and turns of each character gently and poignantly unfurled.”—The Globe and Mail

This is a story of a little boy who loved going to the neighborhood ice cream truck every day. His fascination with this truck resulted in a special surprise at the end of the story.

Mary Lawson’s #1 internationally bestselling novels are stunning in their storytelling appeal, for their unforgettable characters who have become beloved to many thousands of readers, for their depth of feeling, and in their nuanced depiction of life in small-town rural Canada. Set in the rough-hewn heart of the Canadian Shield, Crow Lake brings us into the lives of a young family, orphaned and bound close by loss. Mary Lawson pays out their gripping, emotionally and morally subtle story with heartbreaking humour and consummate control, overturning one’s expectations to the end. In The Other Side of the Bridge, Lawson weaves a slow-burning tale of two brothers’ jealousy and rivalry, and also of the community they live in, decimated after World War II. Deeply engaging in its tenderness, this is a compellingly humane novel with a shocking climax.

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father’s character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know – the family misfit. When a beautiful young woman comes into the community, the fragile balance of sibling rivalry tips over the edge. Then there is Ian, the family’s next generation, and far too sure he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the fifties, and the world has changed – a little, but not enough. These two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men – its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. With her astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, Lawson builds their story to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising us with moments of tenderness and humour, The Other Side of the Bridge is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.