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

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...

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 bravia madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas mas racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres. Ellas escapan a Tiburon, Carolina del Sur, un pueblo que guarda el secreto del pasado de su madre. Alojadas por un excentrico trio de hermanas negras apicultoras, Lily es introducida al fascinante mundo de las abejas y la miel, y a la...

The New York Times-bestselling second novel by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings
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...

From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and the new novel The Invention of Wings (Viking, January 2014) 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...

New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have compared Merton's reflections with those of Thoreau. New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man, to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our lives. For Merton, "Every moment and...

TheNew York Timesbestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author ofThe Secret Life of Beesandher daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. Look out for Ann's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017.

Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, chronicle their travels together through Greece and France at a time when each was on a quest to redefine herself and rediscover each other....

This text describes how growing concern about the state of our seas is resulting in the development of new approaches to marine planning and management. Adopting a transdiciplinary and holistic approach, the book seeks to promote a broader understanding of the origins and practicalities of these new approaches.

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...

Ein bewegendes Plädoyer für die Kunst des Reisens§Sue Monk Kidd hat mit ihren Romanen "Die Bienenhüterin" und "Die Meerfrau" Millionen Leser weltweit begeistert. Mit "Granatapfeljahre" legt sie ihr bislang persönlichstes Buch vor. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Tochter Ann erzählt sie von ihren inspirierenden Reisen durch Griechenland. Sue steckte in einer Krise: Sie hatte Probleme mit dem Älterwerden, fühlte sich ausgelaugt. Und auch Ann, gerade frisch von ihrem Freund getrennt, den College-Abschluss in der Tasche, wollte ihr Leben neu ausrichten. Gemeinsam brachen die beiden Frauen auf in das...