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Esther J. Ending Ibiza's child

IBIZA, THE EIGHTIES. At the dawn of the techno and ecstasy era a lonely teenager sees her world going into a tailspin. Marianne, born on the island to a hippie mother and a drug dealing father, is trying to keep the pieces of her life together while one of her parents is in prison in Liverpool and the other is chasing her spiritual endeavours. When an officer from the notorious Guardia Civil offers her a ride and shelter, Marianne becomes deeply fascinated by him. Embarking on a vodka and drug fueled...

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Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016

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Michel Houellebecq Submission

As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged...

Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Niccolo Ammaniti Anna

FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part....

Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Amanda Prowse A Mother's Story - No Greater Courage

I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control... This is her story. A mother's story. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 5,9 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2015

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Elena Ferrante The Story of the Lost Child

The 'stunning conclusion' to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life's great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship...

Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2015

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R J Palacio Auggie & Me

Three Wonder Stories

WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.AUGGIE & ME is a new side to the WONDER story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, oldest friend Christopher and classmate Charlotte - giving an insight into how Auggie has touched their own lives. Published previously as digital shorts entitled THE JULIAN CHAPTER, PLUTO and SHINGALING, this collection...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | RHCP, [Nederland] | 2015

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Tilly Bagshawe The Show - Swell Valley Series, Book 2

Welcome to Swell Valley - where the scandal is in a class of its own...The second book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly BagshaweNestled in a glorious patchwork of fields, surrounded by chocolate box villages, Wraggbottom farm means everything to Gabe and Laura Baxter. But love and tradition doesn't pay the bills. Luckily, Laura has an idea that will share the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show that will save the farm!Until the interfering...

Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2015

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J.M. Coetzee Disgrace

A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2015

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Sjieuwe Borger Eksamenjier

As Dario nei de grutte fakânsje op skoalle weromkomt liket alles by it âlde bleaun te wêzen. Mar is dat wol sa? Wêrom hinget Joyce sa oan Miklas. Is it omdat Dario yn Portugal bealgje moast foar syn heit, foar straf sûnder snoadfoan siet en gjin kontakt hawwe koe mei Joyce? Of is der wat oars? It wurdt der al net makliker op as Joyce en Dario yn de favorite hangout fan de eksamenkandidaten wurden krije en Miklas Joyce nei hûs bringt. En dan geane de heit en mem fan Dario ek noch ris útinoar....

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Westerlauwers Fries | 130 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2015

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