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B A Paris Bring me back

Als de vriendin van een Britse man plotseling verdwijnt en de politie meezoekt, blijkt na twaalf jaar zonder resultaat ineens uit kleine tekenen dat zij misschien nog in leven is.

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Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | HQ, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jennifer L. Armentrout The problem with forever

Na een heftige start van haar leven in gewelddadige pleeggezinnen komt een meisje als ze 17 is op een high school haar enige vriend en beschermer uit haar jeugd tegen, waarna een romance volgt.

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Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | MIRA Ink, [Nederland] | 2021

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James Joyce Dubliners

Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop

From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation....

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021

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T.C. Boyle After the plague

Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.

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Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michael Crichton The Lost World

Something has survived. THE BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO JURASSIC PARKSix years have passed since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park. In the years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end, the island has been indefinitely closed to the public, its park dismantled, the dinosaurs themselves destroyed. Or so it was thought. But something has survived. And when a team led by maverick scientist Ian Malcolm enters the mysterious 'Site B' to investigate, they are determined...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michael Crichton Timeline

Sometimes, it seems like you can reach out and touch the past... An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. In France, Professor Edward Johnston and his students are studying the ruins of a medieval town. Suspicious of the knowledge of the site shown by their mysterious financier,...

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Danielle Steel The Mistress

Natasha Leonova s beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection. Believing his generosity will always keep her safe, Natasha is careful not to dwell on Vladimir s ruthlessness or the deadly circles he moves in. Until she meets Theo Luca. The son of a famous and difficult artist, Theo and his mother own a restaurant filled with his late father s artwork. There, on a warm June evening, Theo first encounters...

Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Sue Townsend The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back in the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny, touching and bestselling Adrian Mole series. 'If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault. 'Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my...

Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jane Fallon Tell me a secret

Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.

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Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...

Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021

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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...

Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Alice Munro Runaway

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling...

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Donna Leon The jewels of paradise

Een uit Venetië afkomstige musicologe wordt gevraagd de nalatenschap van de Venetiaanse barokcomponist Agostini Steffani (1654-1728) te inventariseren.

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

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George R.R. Martin A Feast for Crows

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate...

Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021

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George R.R. Martin A Clash of Kings

HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A CLASH OF KINGS is the second volume in the series. Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts...

Engels | ePub2, 3,5 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021

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Lisa Halliday Asymmetry

A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackhamâ€™s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Charles Dickens David Copperfield

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood...

Engels | ePub3, 7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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