New Releases by Sue Monk Kidd

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.

Lilys Mutter ist vor zehn Jahren umgekommen. Ihr Vater herrscht wie ein grausamer Rachegott über die inzwischen 14-jährige. Eines Tages flieht Lily aus der bedrückenden Atmosphäre ihres Elternhauses, wandert über die staubigen Straßen der Südstaaten, um ein neues Zuhause zu finden. Sie begegnet wunderbaren Menschen, rettet mit Mut und Klugheit ein Leben und findet bei drei Frauen Unterschlupf, die, wie im Märchen, in großer Eintracht zusammenwohnen. Die drei Schwestern geben dem Mädchen alles, was es braucht: Liebe, Halt, und Geborgenheit. Sie nehmen Lily in ihre Familie auf und weihen sie in die Geheimnisse weiblichen Wissens ein. Lily lernt alles über die Bienenzucht. Sie erfährt, wer ihre Mutter, die sie so schmerzlich vermisst, wirklich war, und sie verliebt sich. Doch eines Tages steht ihr Vater am Gartentor ...

Eine idyllische Insel vor South Carolina: Nach langen Jahren kehrt die 40-jährige Jessie Sullivan in ihre alte Heimat zurück, weil ihre Mutter sie braucht. Schon bald gerät ihr geordnetes Leben aus der Bahn: Die verheiratete Frau verliebt sich in einen Mönch, der kurz davor steht, sein ewiges Gelübde abzulegen. Jessie will ihre Ehe nicht aufs Spiel setzen. Doch die Sehnsucht nach einem Seelenverwandten, nach Sinnlichkeit und Spiritualität, droht über die Vernunft zu siegen ...

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and the new novel The Book of Longings comes a thoughtful, revelatory book of writings on self and spirit Before she won an international readership with her novels, Sue Monk Kidd was best known for her smart, passionate spiritual writings. Now many of those early stories and essays (most of which first appeared in Guideposts) are collected in one volume, organized around thirteen spiritual motifs. In Firstlight, Kidd charts her emergence as a writer and seeker; reflects on her roles as wife, mother, daughter, nurse, and artist; and assesses what she has learned in settings as far-flung as Africa and her own home. The result is an intimate, uplifting book, filled with moments of recognition and discovery.

Traditional Chinese edition of The Mermaid Chair. The mythical mermaid chair sits in the monastery. It is believed that anyone who sits in the chair is promised happiness. But the price for that happiness can paradoxically destroy. The story tackles the ambiguous line between social norms and our physical and spiritual desires. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Roman psychologique (intime). Roman d''amour.

"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 Kidd For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, Kidd experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, author of When the Heart Waits tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women– one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women''s experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman''s life– her marriage, her career, and her religion. This Plus edition paperback includes a recent interview with the author conducted by the book''s editor Michael Maudlin.

A transcendent tale of a woman''s self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. When Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother’s seemingly inexplicable behavior, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life “molded to the smallest space possible.” Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk about to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right, and with the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie’s life? What happens will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, it will allow Jessie to discover selfhood and a place of belonging as she explores the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic.

" Nous vivions pour le miel. Nous en avalions une cuillerée le matin pour nous réveiller et une autre le soir pour nous aider à dormir. Nous en prenions à chaque repas pour apaiser notre esprit, nous donner du tonus et prévenir les maladies mortelles. " En 1964, Lily a quatorze ans et vit en Caroline-du-Sud avec son père, un homme brutal, et Rosaleen, sa nourrice noire. Le décès de sa mère dans d''obscures conditions la hante. Lorsque Rosaleen se fait molester par des Blancs, Lily décide de fuir avec elle cette vie de douleurs et de mensonges. Elles trouvent refuge chez les sœurs Boatwright, trois apicultrices tendres et généreuses dont l''emblème est une Vierge noire. À leurs côtés, Lily va être initiée à la pratique quasi mystique de l''apiculture, à l''affection, à l''amour et à la tolérance. Sue Monk Kidd signe ici un roman touchant sur une époque où le racisme faisait force de loi, sur la magie de la nature et de la vie, et la puissance de l''amour maternel.

Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la bravía madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres. Ellas escapan a Tiburón, Carolina del Sur, un pueblo que guarda el secreto del pasado de su madre. Alojadas por un excéntrico trío de hermanas negras apicultoras, Lily es introducida al fascinante mundo de las abejas y la miel, y a la Virgen Negra. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.

43-årige Jessie Sullivan, som lever et begivenhedsløst liv i Atlanta med mand og en datter, bliver kaldt hjem til sin barndoms ø Egret, da moderen Nelle Skærer sine fingre af; hun konfronteres med minderne om faderens død i en bådulykke, som hun altid har følt sig delvis ansvarlig for, og moderen har hun aldrig stået særlig nær.

The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl''s journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily''s fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother''s past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of Black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

All Things Are Possible gives you encouragement through Psalms and verses of the Bible.

«Sou a Ana. Fui a mulher de Jesus» Criada numa família rica de Séforis, Ana é uma jovem rebelde com uma mente brilhante e um espírito ousado. Ela estuda em segredo e escreve histórias sobre as mulheres da sua época, negligenciadas e silenciadas. Até que um encontro casual com Jesus muda tudo: o pacifista que se opõe ao domínio de Roma e que ajuda os pobres e as prostitutas cativa Ana, que abandona tudo para viver com ele em Nazaré. Contudo, os desejos reprimidos que Ana guarda dentro de si colocam-na em perigo. Durante a turbulenta resistência à ocupação de Israel por Roma, ela é forçada a fugir para Alexandria, onde revelações surpreendentes, perigos ainda maiores e um ambiente inesperado a aguardam. Ana determina o seu próprio destino durante uma excecional convergência de acontecimentos, decisivos para a História da Humanidade. Com base em pesquisa meticulosa e escrito com uma abordagem reverente da vida de Jesus que realça a sua natureza humana, O Livro da Saudade é o relato da luta corajosa de uma mulher para seguir as suas paixões e fazer ouvir a sua voz num tempo, lugar e cultura projetados para a silenciar.

Inspirado pela figura histórica de Sarah Grimke, o romance começa no 11o aniversário da menina, quando é presenteada com uma escrava - Hetty ''Encrenca'' Grimke, que tem apenas dez anos. Acompanhamos a jornada das duas ao longo dos 35 anos seguintes. Ambas desejam uma vida própria e juntas questionam as regras da sociedade em que vivem.