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Brenda Meuleman Engel van Mesopotamië

Engel van Mesopotamië van Brenda Meuleman gaat over de lotgevallen van de excentrieke en eigenzinnige Helen King. Helen is een vrouw die bijna alles wat ze onderneemt tot een succes maakt, maar ze draagt een zware last met zich mee. Toen ze jong was stierf haar broertje in haar bijzijn als gevolg van een ongeluk. Deze gebeurtenis, versterkt door haar moedige karakter en tomeloze ambitie, brengt haar ertoe verre reizen naar desolate, gevaarlijke gebieden te ondernemen. Na de hoogste bergtoppen van...

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Nederlands | 249 pagina's (ePub2, 4,2 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2021

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Marco Knauff Vals spel

Rechercheurs Marieke de Zwart en Robin Groeneveld onderzoeken twee zaken: een verdacht overlijden in een verzorgingshuis en de moord op een café-uitbaatster.

Fictie

Nederlands | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Pageturner, [Papendrecht] | 2021

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Ronald Giphart Nachtangst

roman

De van oorsprong Nederlandse schrijver P.J. Weber kan in New York niet van zijn pen alleen leven. Om in zijn levensonderhoud te voorzien, doet hij administratieve klussen voor een bedrijf. In de nachtelijke uren stuurt hij vanuit het kantoor waar hij werkt per mail lange brieven aan zijn Amerikaanse agente. Op een avond wordt er ingebroken in het afgelegen pand. Terwijl de angst te worden ontdekt hem in een wurggreep houdt en de inbrekers steeds dichterbij komen, begint Weber aan een testament, een...

Fictie

Nederlands | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2021

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Titia Muizelaar Postzegelaffaire

Een postzegelhandelaar, die meedoet met een reality tv-programma, krijgt te maken met duistere praktijken.

Fictie

Nederlands | 166 pagina's (ePub2, 1,8 MB) | Godijn Publishing, Hoorn nh | 2021

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Edith Brouwer De letterkast

roman over het leven van Fré Cohen

Fré Cohen (1903-1943) is een bijzondere Amsterdamse vrouw van Joodse afkomst, sociaal bewogen en met feministische opvattingen, die aan de weg timmert als grafisch kunstenaar tot zij op haar onderduikadres wordt ontdekt.

Fictie

Nederlands | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Orlando, Amsterdam | 2021

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Richard Osinga Arc

roman

Ons geheugen is alles voor ons - de Amerikaanse bioloog Neil Canterbury drukt het zijn studenten elk jaar weer op het hart. Zonder onze herinneringen zou het zijn alsof ons leven niet heeft plaatsgevonden. Neil weet waar hij het over heeft, want hij promoveerde ooit op de vernieuwende theorie dat de mens oorspronkelijk geen herinneringen kon opslaan, tot een virus dat vermogen op ons overbracht. Neils theorie heeft inmiddels al jarenlang stof liggen te vergaren, wanneer hij naar de Indiase stad Varanasi...

Fictie

Nederlands | 240 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam | 2021

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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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Herman Koch Denken aan Bruce Kennedy

Een vrouw van een jaar of veertig met twee kinderen, getrouwd met een idealistische filmregisseur die dus altijd geldgebrek heeft, raakt in een fikse midlifecrisis.

Nederlands | 207 pagina's | Anthos, Amsterdam | 2010

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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

With an essay by George Orwell. 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four inches and an half high, were employed to draw me towards the Metropolis, which, as I said, was half a Mile distant'A savage and hilarious satire, Gulliver's Travels sees Lemuel Gulliver shipwrecked and adrift, subject to bizarre and unnerving encounters with, among others, quarrelling Lilliputians, philosophizing horses and the brutish Yahoo tribe, that change his view of humanity - and himself - for...

Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, enlists the help of a native...

Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at CanterburyThis selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these...

Engels | ePub2, 36 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Original Version

An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...

Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021

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Mizuki Tsujimura Lonely Castle in the Mirror

The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight

For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.''Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides'' GUARDIAN''Genuinely affecting. A story of empathy, collaboration and sharing truths'' FINANCIAL TIMESTranslated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami_______________________________Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend?In a tranquil neighbourhood...

Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Niccolo Ammaniti I'm Not Scared

Canons

The international bestselling novel ';of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping reada deft masterpiece with never a false note' (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn't dare...

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Canongate Canons, [Nederland] | 2021

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther

A potent, touching, heart wrenching tale of love, desire and hope.‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ is a tale composed in the form of letters from the young Werther himself, to his friend Wilhelm, documenting the pains of the emotion he feels from his unrequited love. Having fallen in love with village of Wahlheim, Werther falls hopelessly head over heels for beautiful Charlotte, a local girl who is already engaged to another man. This is a story that is familiar to all of us and indeed the author himself...

Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021

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Donoghue Emma Donoghue Room

Oberon Modern Plays

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Underdogs

I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube. ' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it. 'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey...

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Paulo Coelho Manuscript Found in Accra

Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the townspeople to address their fears with truth, hope and comfort. They begin with questions about defeat and struggle; they contemplate the virtues of loyalty...

Engels | ePub2, 8,5 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. 'An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom...

Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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