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Philibert Schogt Einde verhaal
roman
Een tweetalig opgevoede vertaler belandt in een identiteitscrisis ten gevolge van een problematische vertaalopdracht.
Fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 281 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2015
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Leo Vroman Die vleugels II
gedichten
Toen Leo Vroman op 22 februari 2014 stierf, lagen op zijn werkkamer drie mappen met het opschrift ‘Die vleugels II’. In 2013 is Die vleugels verschenen , zijn gedichten tot de zomer van 2012, maar alles wat hij daarna schreef hoorde daar zijns inziens nog bij. Die gedichten verschijnen nu: het finale werk. Stap voor stap treedt de dood erin naderbij, totdat hij aanklopt en Vroman zijn allerlaatste gedicht schrijft, op 10 februari: ‘Einde’. De bundel verschijnt op 10 april 2015, de dag waarop Vroman...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 236 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Querido, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Esther J. Ending Ibiza's child
IBIZA, THE EIGHTIES. At the dawn of the techno and ecstasy era a lonely teenager sees her world going into a tailspin. Marianne, born on the island to a hippie mother and a drug dealing father, is trying to keep the pieces of her life together while one of her parents is in prison in Liverpool and the other is chasing her spiritual endeavours. When an officer from the notorious Guardia Civil offers her a ride and shelter, Marianne becomes deeply fascinated by him. Embarking on a vodka and drug fueled...
Fictie
Engels | ePub | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Lydia Muijen Love heals
why not do it more
“Love Heals, why not do it more” is filled with inspirational short poems of timeless truths and with her personal experiences. Lydia Muijen wrote a new collection of poems about a world that could use a little more kindness. With a bubbling curiosity for nature, Lydia indirectly raises questions as: How can we start to heal the world we live in; what would the world look like if there were a little more kindness in it; and what would the world look like from the perspective of a tree? She poses...
Fictie
Engels | 65 pagina's (ePub2, 8,1 MB) | Nederlandse Auteurs Uitgeverij, Blaricum | 2015
E-book
Eric Kollen The Amsterdam Tinkerbells
an erotic LGBT tale
Fifteen-year-old Fabian is on his way from New York to Düsseldorf with his father. When one of the passengers becomes ill, the aircraft has to land in Amsterdam, a city under the spell of the imminent Gay Pride. Together with the handsome blond doctor Rodric and the flamboyant Brazilian Rafaela, they decide to postpone their journey to Düsseldorf and instead to throw themselves into the festivities. Fabian is bursting with excitement, for the next day is his sixteenth birthday. Not just any age,...
Fictie
Engels | 58 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Eric Kollen, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Jenny Colgan Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery
A Novel
For fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Jojo Moyes, and Jane Green, Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery is an irresistible novelmoving and funny, soulful and sweetabout happiness, heartache, and hope. And recipes. A thriving bakery. A lighthouse to call home. A handsome beekeeper. A pet puffin. These are the things that Polly Waterford can call her own. This is the beautiful life she leads on a tiny island off the southern coast of England. But clouds are gathering on the horizon. A stranger threatens to...
Engels | ePub3, 1,3 MB | William Morrow Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Niccolo Ammaniti Anna
FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part....
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Michel Houellebecq Submission
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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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 | Familieroman
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Julia Quinn The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue
Bridgertons
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better... --Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry--he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older...
Engels | ePub3, 1,8 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
A beautiful edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his fellow man. Quentin Blake's colourful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition contains a foreword by the illustrator...
Engels | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 21 MB) | Pavilion Books, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
R J Palacio Auggie & Me
Three Wonder Stories
WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.AUGGIE & ME is a new side to the WONDER story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, oldest friend Christopher and classmate Charlotte - giving an insight into how Auggie has touched their own lives. Published previously as digital shorts entitled THE JULIAN CHAPTER, PLUTO and SHINGALING, this collection...
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | RHCP, [Nederland] | 2015
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Cathy Cassidy Looking glass girl
Alice Beech begint sinds ze op de middelbare school zit steeds meer een buitenbeentje te worden. Door een ongeluk bij een feestje komt Alice in het ziekenhuis terecht. Ze is bewusteloos en bevindt zich in een Wonderland-achtige omgeving. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Schoolverhaal
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
Elena Ferrante The Story of the Lost Child
The 'stunning conclusion' to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life's great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship...
Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
J.R.R. Tolkien Smith of Wootton Major
A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings.What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P.G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the ‘Silmarillion’ was winding down, Smith of Wootton Major was...
Engels | ePub2, 6,4 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
Amanda Prowse A Mother's Story - No Greater Courage
I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control... This is her story. A mother's story. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 5,9 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
Tilly Bagshawe The Show - Swell Valley Series, Book 2
Welcome to Swell Valley - where the scandal is in a class of its own...The second book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly BagshaweNestled in a glorious patchwork of fields, surrounded by chocolate box villages, Wraggbottom farm means everything to Gabe and Laura Baxter. But love and tradition doesn't pay the bills. Luckily, Laura has an idea that will share the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show that will save the farm!Until the interfering...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2015
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Karin Fossum The Drowned Boy - Inspector Sejer
He'd just learnt to walk, she said. He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone. A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2015
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