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Emma Cline The Girls
‘Take it to the beach and savour every page’ Observer
A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction.If you’re lost, they’ll find you…Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It’s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne, black-haired and beautiful.If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. But, intoxicated by her...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Scott Mariani The Devil's Kingdom
HAS BEN HOPE FINALLY MET HIS MATCH?The master bestseller returns with the explosive follow up to STAR OF AFRICA. The second in a two-part series.The adventure began in Star of Africa, now ex-SAS major Ben Hope is in the most desperate situation of his life...Held hostage by a despicable tyrant in the heart of Africa, it's not looking good for Ben Hope.General Khosa's lust for blood is matched only by his lust for power - and he wants to use Ben's superior military skills to turn his rabble of inexperienced...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living 2
In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. ; The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days. ; -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ; The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as...
Engels | PDF, 1,3 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living 1
In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. ; The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days. ; -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ; The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as...
Engels | PDF, 1,3 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Social Responsibility
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure--economic, social, ethical, and religious--invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and act...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Why Do You Live With Stress
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: ; We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure - economic, social, ethical, and religious - invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Markus Zusak The Book Thief
The life-affirming number one international bestseller
Life affirming, triumphant and tragic ... masterfully told... but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the...
Engels | ePub3, 11 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Katherine Wood Blood in the air
Meet Kari True. You'll get along fine with her, as long as you obey the law. Because Kari is an officer of the Watch. Along with her colleagues, she's in charge of keeping the mean streets around the Palace in the City free of troublemakers, wrongdoers and crime, and when the bowstrings begin to sing, the arrows start flying, and the swords start swashing, she's usually there, right in the thick of the action. She's the one you'd want watching your back in a fight. Smart, sassy, and never afraid...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Kings England Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Cassandra Parkin Summer we all ran away
The story is fresh and original, written vividly and with flair. I was completely engrossed!' --Katherine Webb, international best-selling author'Beautiful... A fascinating tale of the meeting of lost souls. Of danger, and trust and self-worth. Read it. ' --Jen Campbell, author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops'A stunning debut... The storyline is original, the characters are fascinating, and over all this is simply a great read. ' --The Bookbag'The characters grabbed my heart, the story...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Nicci French Saturday Requiem
A Frieda Klein Novel (6)
Nicci French's darkest most shocking thriller yet, Saturday Requiem is the stand-alone sixth instalment of the Frieda Klein series, about a young girl accused of murdering her familyThirteen years ago eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family. It was an open-shut case and Hannah's been incarcerated in a secure hospital ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment of her, she reluctantly agrees. What she finds...
Engels | ePub3, 3,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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Hendrik Groen The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old
The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old ... 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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Elizabeth Fremantle The girl in the glass tower
Arbella Stuart is kandidaat voor de troonopvolging van Elizabeth I en wordt daarom opgevoed in complete isolatie uit angst voor complotten tegen haar maar met hulp van dichteres Aemilia Lanyer gaat ze op zoek naar vrijheid.
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Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jonathan Safran Foer Here I Am
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind'Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read' The Times'A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns...
Engels | ePub3, 3,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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Cathy Cassidy Broken Heart Club
De vrienden Eden, Hasmita, Andie, Ryan en Tasha hebben gezworen dat ze voor altijd beste vrienden zullen blijven. Niets kan hun band verbreken. Of toch wel? Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Sophie Duffy This holey life
Een wat recalcitrante Londense predikantsvrouw met drie kinderen weet aan de vele crises in haar leven het hoofd te bieden.
Fictie
Engels | ePub, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:Opens at NightfallCloses at DawnAs dusk shifts to twilight, tiny lights begin to flicker all over the tents, as though the whole circus is covered in fireflies. When the tents are aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the sign lights up:Le Cirque des RêvesThe Circus of DreamsThe gates shudder and unlock, seemingly...
Engels | ePub3, 2,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Ian Rankin The Travelling Companion - Death Sentences
Short Stories to Die For
For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop offers the perfect occupation during a summer abroad in Paris. Working part-time in exchange for room and board leaves plenty of freedom to explore the city once visited by his literary hero, Robert Louis Stevenson, and things only get better when he meets a collector who claims to have the original manuscripts of both the first draft of Jekyll and Hyde and the never-published The Travelling Companion...
Engels | 48 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016
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Andy Griffiths The 52-Storey Treehouse
The Treehouse Series
The 52-Storey Treehouse is the fourth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic comic book-style illustrations. 'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger GangAndy and Terry's incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has thirteen new storeys! It used to be 13, then 26, then 39, but they keep expanding! This time, there's a new watermelon-smashing level,...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 151 MB) | Macmillan Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Andy Griffiths The 65-Storey Treehouse
The Treehouse Series
The 65-Storey Treehouse is the fifth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic comic book-style illustrations.'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger GangAndy and Terry's amazing 65-Storey Treehouse used to be 52 stories, but they keep expanding!Now it has a pet-grooming salon, a birthday room (where it's always your birthday, even when it's not),...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 142 MB) | Macmillan Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
A BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick for 2024
A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping...
Engels | 330 pagina's (ePub3, 2,7 MB) | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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