Bøger om Daisy

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever ... In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.

The brand new series from the author of Magnolia Parks! - Second star to the right and straight on to mourning ... A fairy tale retelling like no other from the imagination of Jessa Hastings! Never ... is an awfully long time. Growing up, Daphne always knew Peter Pan would come for her. The way he'd come for her mother, and her grandmother Wendy before that. The Darling girls. Their stories are all the same: the forever-young boy at their window after their thirteenth birthday, and the shimmering, magical land behind a star. When Peter doesn't show for Daphne until she's seventeen, inexplicably full-grown and with no excuse for his tardiness, Daphne doesn't know what to think. Still, she has always been told that Peter Pan is her destiny. It's beyond choice to take his hand and leap into the stars, no matter what comes next. But in Neverland, Peter's true colours begin to show. One moment, he's making Daphne's heart flutter, and the next, he's forgotten her entirely. So when Daphne stumbles into the path of Jamison Hook, the pirate son of Peter's nemesis, she lets herself get swept up in his vulgar charm, despite the warning signs. Both boys are trouble, and both have dangerous secrets about this strange fantasy land they call home and if she loses her heart to either one, Daphne might just lose herself, too.

DAISY – VI KOM SVÆVENDE Historien om et band! Historien om et band fra 1960’erne – er et tidsbillede på en epoke, som forsvandt lige så hurtig, som den dukkede op. Det er historien om fem knægte fra fem forskellige bands fra Aarhus, med en fællesvision om at skabe noget, der ikke var set eller hørt før i Danmark. Det er historien om bandet, der var glamrock fem år før Glamrocken blev opfundet, som spillede powerpop ti år inden nogen havde tænkt på at den slags fandtes. Det er historien om et band, der for en kort stund satte Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple og Black Sabbath til vægs. Men en uges fængselsophold i 1969 i Israels hårdeste fængsel, Abu Kabir, vendte op og ned på alt. Derefter visnede blomsten! Men nu gror den igen, i en tid, hvor der måske er brug for den! Lars Muhl skriver: ”I dag skal DAISY ingen steder hen. Det eneste og vigtigste for os er at nå de hjerter, der har lyst til at høre fem garvede mænds musik samt deres no-bullshit sange. Vi er døve, har gigt og alt mulig andet flimmer, men der går en lige linje fra alt det, vi har erfaret, til de sange vi synger i dag. I håb om at bæstet stadig kan kysse og bide fra sig! Længere er den egentlig ikke! Og alle er velkomne – også i lårkort!” Hvis ikke os – hvem så? Hvis ikke nu – hvornår så?

I denne store, smukke og billedrige bog tager Lars Muhl dig med på en erindringsrejse gennem fem årtier. Den beskriver ikke kun en ydre rejse, men i høj grad tankevækkende refleksioner fra det indre værksted. En rejse, som byder på møder med magiske mennesker og kulturpersonligheder, han har mødt, og som har haft betydning for hans liv og karriere – fra Lis Sørensen ('Pigen fra Brabrand') til Dalai Lama. Centralt i bogen står nogle helt nyskrevne tekster om Calle de Montsegur, 'Seeren fra Andalusien' - Muhls åndelige vejleder, som han har portrætteret i 'Gralstrilogien' og i filmen 'Seeren'.”Tid har ikke nødvendigvis nogen udstrækning. Den er ikke nødvendigvis horisontal,” skriver Lars Muhl i indledningen til denne anderledes biografi, som er nedslag i forfatterens liv. For LMs fans, men lige så meget for de læsere, der gerne vil have indblik i et specielt liv. * * * * *