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Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains

NOW A MAJOR FILM

NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....

Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Robert Harris Selling Hitler

the story of the Hitler diaries

His classic account of The Hitler Diaries. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . . Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side

The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen

Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...

Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky

From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies

A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...

Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World

A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narratorâ€™s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctorâ€™s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...

Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018

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Anita Brookner A start in life

Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.

Fictie

Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Nicci French The red room

Een vrouwelijke arts die herstellend is van een aanval door een geesteszieke crimineel, wordt door de politie om hulp gevraagd in een zaak van een van huis weggelopen meisje dat vermoord is.

Fictie

Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub, 0,4 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday

Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.

Fictie

Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
John Steinbeck The pearl

De baby van een arm Mexicaans vissersgezin wordt door een schorpioen gestoken. Zijn ouders zijn te arm om een dokter te betalen tot de vader een grote parel opvist.

Fictie

Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub, 9,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Sue Townsend Rebuilding Coventry

Een huisvrouw die per ongeluk haar buurman heeft vermoord, ontdekt tijdens haar omzwervingen op de vlucht voor de politie het positieve gevoel van vrijheid en een nieuw levensperspectief.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,7 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Alice Munro New selected stories

Bundel verhalen uit 1998-2009 over levens van vaak onopvallende vrouwen.

Fictie

Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Josephine Cox Lonely Girl

De 15-jarige Rosie, enig kind, zou het thuis, op het Engelse platteland, aangenaam moeten hebben, maar haar moeders grillige karakter verstoort de harmonie binnen het gezin.

Fictie

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Martin Amis London fields

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson...

Engels | 480 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Hilary Mantel Bring up the bodies

Thomas Cromwell, de belangrijkste raadsheer van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII moet diens vrouw Anna Boleyn het veld laten ruimen voor Jane Semour, op wie de koning zijn oog heeft laten vallen.

Fictie

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Aad van der Klaauw Taste my words

poems from the Netherlands

Aad van der Klaauw, librarian in the Netherlands, lives in Staphorst. A small village in the province Overijssel. Taste me Words Poems published on the world’s largest poetry site Allpoetry. Poems about the seasons, strong people like Nadia Murad, religion, countries and other themes. Read my lines, taste my words. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Fictie

Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Boekenbent, Barneveld | 2018

E-book
Bas Steman Morgan

my love; a novel

'Deeply moving! Many people will be touched by this story.' Adriaan van Dis, international bestselling author. A small town in Wales in 2006. Betrys, now in her late eighties, still longs for Morgan, the love of her life who perished during Operation Market Garden, as the Second World War was winding to a close. A Dutch writer inadvertently gets caught up in this story from long ago, in a way he could have never imagined. Based on a fascinating true story, Morgan, My Love is a surprising, romantic...

Fictie

Engels | 283 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2021

E-book
Saskia Noort Stromboli

a novel

Hundreds of thousands of readers enjoy the joined column by writers' couple Sara and Karel on a daily basis, where they report openly about their life as a family. But behind this facade of their bohemian lifestyle a daily life filled with envy, resentment and even violence is festering. After another nocturnal escalation it's game over: Sara decides to leave Karel. Soon after Sara becomes isolated - nobody wants anything to do with her any longer. In order to get her life back on track she checks...

Fictie

Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2021

E-book
Boundaries

Alleenstaande moeder Laura brengt haar vader Jack per auto van haar woonplaats Portland naar Los Angeles, waar hij mag wonen bij haar zus. Jack neemt echter een grote partij marihuana mee in de auto en betrekt zijn kleinzoon bij zijn handel.

Fictie

Film
A single man

Los Angeles, 1962. Een dag uit het leven van een homoseksuele Engelse professor, die na het verlies van zijn vriend geïsoleerd in het leven staat.

Fictie

Film
Sven Hassel Court Martial

The Legionnaire swings the MG-muzzle. The smoke eats its way into the officers’ stomachs. They drop to the snow-covered ground, coloring it red. Bestial shrieks sound from the woods as a wave of fur clad soldiers storm out. They are near the Finish-Russian frontline. The machine guns snarl till the magazines are emptied. Old Man’s platoon, with Tiny the giant and Porta in the lead, fights a rough battle behind Russian lines. " AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN – HASSEL TAKES HIS ANTI-MILITARY TENDENCIES...

Engels | 11 uur 23 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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