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Lucy Strange The ghost of Gosswater
1899. Als de graaf is overleden, moet lady Agatha (12) van haar wrede neef Clarence het statige landhuis verlaten. Ze moet bij een arme ganzenhoeder gaan wonen, die beweert dat hij haar echte vader is. Hij woont ook nog in een vervallen hutje. Dan verschijnt de geest van een jonge vrouw. Heeft zij iets te maken met Agatha's afkomst? Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 309 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2020
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Adam Stower Silly Doggy!
Als Lily 's morgens uit het raam kijkt, ziet ze in de tuin iets wat ze altijd al wilde hebben, een hondje. Maar is het wel een hondje? Prentenboek met paginagrote aquarellen. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 39 pagina's | Templar, Dorking | 2011
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Adam Stower | David Walliams Marmalade
the orange panda
De panda Marmalade heeft een oranje vacht. Daarom sluiten de andere panda's Marmalade buiten. De jonge panda probeert aansluiting te vinden bij andere dieren. Maar dan gebeurt er iets waardoor de panda's van mening veranderen. Prentenboek met aandoenlijke illustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's | HarperCollins Children's Books, London | 2022
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Louie Stowell A bad god's guide to ruling the world
Juist nu hij wilde proberen te laten zien dat hij ook goed kan zijn, wordt Loki gecast als slechterik in het toneelstuk op school. Natuurlijk is zijn broer Thor weer de held. Maar dan vindt Loki een vervloekte ring. Vanaf ca. 8 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 282 pagina's | Walker Books, London | 2023
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly
Op ware gebeurtenissen berustend verhaal over het leven van een zwarte slaaf in Amerika in de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw.
Fictie
Engels | 629 pagina's | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1986
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Rebecca Stott The coral thief
Een Schotse student komt in het Parijs van direct na de val van Napoleon terecht in een wereld van wetenschappers die het geld voor hun passie verdienen met het stelen van kunstschatten en rariteiten.
Fictie
Engels | 248 pagina's | Phoenix, London | 2010
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Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts
"Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
novel
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal bushcraft
living in the wild from the wild; novel
What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...
Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen When the climate goes feral
coming of age in a tipping world; novel
All the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside. She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world is tipping and they must make it on their own. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 262 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
novel
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen A courtyard full of finds
A man with an old Landrover and an invalid son has settled in a remote town in northern France. The war elsewhere and the closure of the cement works have driven out many of the inhabitants and summer visitors. The man is interested in just one thing: an estate where perhaps no one has lived for a century. He sets out to investigate and discovers some disturbing things in the courtyard. On the terrace of the only restaurant open, a young psychologist is fascinated by the way father and son communicate....
Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Artscience, [Nederland] | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Oldtimers
A lonely widower inherits his mother's remote farmhouse. To have something to do, he applies to the local Volunteer Center. He goes to work in his old style, park maintenance, with an old lady who lives alone on an estate. One day he enters a barn ... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 44 pagina's (PDF, 0,3 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Cycling
novella
What do you do with sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of energy? Theo went cycling. Just as lonely as working from home, but at least while cycling there was a landscape passing by. A near collision earned him a cycling buddy. This will be something... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 74 pagina's (PDF, 0,4 MB) | published by the Boekencoöperatie, [Amsterdam] | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Stray Kids
how do homeless children survive a big city; novel
Tramps. How can it come to this with anyone anyway? Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them. Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy. Sometimes something happens to them that...
Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2024
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Rachel Stone Mindfulness
How many times have we been encouraged to see the cup half-full instead of half-empty? Oftentimes in western society, the push to be optimistic and to think positive is drilled into us from a young age. However, if one is beginning to become more mindful, the transition to mindfulness may feel a little jarring. Instead of focusing just on the positive aspect of life, mindfulness encourages a realistic outlook on life that embraces the good and the bad, the positive, the negative, and the neutral....
Engels | 2 uur 26 minuten (108 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Nic Stone Dear Martin
Justyce is een van de acht zwarte studenten op een prestigieuze witte school. Justyce’ kijk op de maatschappij verandert als zijn beste vriend zonder aanleiding wordt doodgeschoten. Hij begint een dagboek, gericht aan zijn held Martin Luther King. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 210 pagina's | Crown, New York | 2017
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Michel Stone Border child
a novel
Een Mexicaanse vader gaat op zoek naar zijn dochtertje van wie hij gescheiden is geraakt bij een immigratiepoging naar de Verenigde Staten.
Fictie
Engels | 254 pagina's | Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random Houde LLC, New York | 2018
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Michael H. Stone The anatomy of evil
Psychiater Michael H. Stone onderzocht de persoonlijkheidskenmerken en gedragingen van meer dan 600 gewelddadige criminelen. Wat waren de overeenkomstige kenmerken van al deze daders?
Engels | 486 pagina's | Prometheus Books, New York | 2017
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Leia Stone House of light and ether
Vervloekt meisje slaat op de vluchet om haar omgeving in bescherming te nemen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 265 pagina's | Bloom Books, Naperville, Illinois | 2024
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