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Peace Adzo Medie Zijn enige vrouw

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Een jonge Ghanese vrouw wordt ten huwelijk gevraagd door de familie van een rijke man, die zelf weinig interesse in haar toont. Als ze na de huwelijksceremonie naar Accra verhuist, opent zich een volledig nieuwe wereld voor haar.

Fictie

Engels | Nederlands | Pelckmans, Kalmthout | 2022

Gedrukt boek
Judith Lennox Stilte voor de storm

In het 20e eeuwse Engeland staat een gezin voor een groot probleem als een oud geheim uit het leven van de vrouw des huizes aan het licht komt.

Fictie

Engels | 358 pagina's | Stichting Uitgeverij XL, Den Haag | 2009

Grootletterboek
Susan Wiggs Family tree

De dertiger Annie, die met haar beroemde vriend een kookprogramma heeft, raakt door een ongeluk dit alles en haar ongeboren kind kwijt, maar probeert met behulp van vrienden en familie een nieuw leven op te bouwen.

Fictie

Engels | 356 pagina's | Harper, London | 2016

Gedrukt boek
Alexis Hall Boyfriend material

Zowel Luc als Oliver, beide dertigers, hebben ieder hun eigen redenen om hun neprelatie voor de buitenwereld in stand te houden.

Fictie

Engels | 448 pagina's | Sourcebooks Casablanca, Naperville, Illinois | 2020

Gedrukt boek
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi The first woman

Een jonge Oegandese vrouw is op zoek naar zichzelf en haar plaats in de wereld en vindt haar weg via mythische verhalen van haar grootmoeders.

Fictie

Engels | 437 pagina's | Oneworld, London | 2020

Gedrukt boek
Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only fruit

Een meisje komt in conflict met haar streng-christelijke omgeving als ze ontdekt dat ze lesbisch is.

Fictie

Engels | 224 pagina's | Vintage Books, London | 2013

Gedrukt boek
James Joyce Finnegans Wake

Radicaal woordspelige beschrijving van een nacht uit het leven van een Ierse kastelein.

Fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 657 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2002

Gedrukt boek
Eva Weaver The puppet boy of Warsaw

De 14-jarige Mika biedt iedereen in het getto van Warschau troost met zijn poppenspel. Als een Duitse soldaat hem ziet, moet hij ook voor de vijand optreden. Daardoor raakt Mika bij het verzet betrokken. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 340 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2013

Gedrukt boek
Garvin Pouw Shadow nymphs

In the Valta, a vast enchanted forest assaulted by a dark curse, the local population of nymphs try to make best of what is left of their lost civilization. The dark warlord Isinger uses his mastery of magic to seduce powerful nymph sorcerers and enthrall them. On a quest for his own dark master, Isinger tasks Fellkra, his strongest shadow nymph, to track down a stray nymph that happens to survive his onslaught. Fellkra finds herself pitted against Nîve, a poisoned river nymph, who should be the...

Engels | 430 pagina's (ePub3, 2,7 MB) | Godijn Publishing, [Hoorn] | 2023

E-book
Han Peeters The Cheetah mystery

faction

ENGLISH EDITION Robin de Graaf and his parents were looking forward to a fun day out with a drive through the wildlife park. Unfortunately, things went differently and their life turned into a nightmare. In front of their eyes people got out of their car, seemingly unaware that uncaged cheetahs are dangerous predators. Robin filmed the event and then posted it on his YouTube channel where it caused mixed excitement among the viewers. The film went viral. The family organized a press conference to...

Fictie

Engels | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018

E-book
Connie Palmen Your story, my story

a novel

Fictieve autobiografie van de Engelse dichter Ted Hughes (1930-1998), echtgenoot van dichteres-schrijfster Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).

Fictie

Engels | 186 pagina's | Amazon Crossing, Seattle | 2021

Gedrukt boek
Iris Pinson California dreaming

career, eroticism, and tragedy

Who doesn't want to become rich and achieve fame? A dream that surpasses reality? Isn't that what many people strive for in life? Or does the cherished dream end in a nightmare? Micky and Dana form an ambitious couple. They are at the beginning of their careers and are willing to make sacrifices for it. Dana is a beautiful young woman who has her fair share of admirers but is also critical. She has mapped out a career path for herself, cleverly using her charms. This approach proves to be highly...

Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2) | Pinson Publisher, [Maassluis] | 2023

E-book
Iris Pinson Isn't it time

Isn't it time is about the life story of a woman who distances herself from her origins and pursues a successful career. Sonja Plattel is an independent woman who has learned from an early age to stand up for herself and manage her own affairs. Her appearance attracts men who find her attractive. She realizes that she can wrap them around her finger when it suits her. It is their problem that they fall in love with her, and she consumes them as if enjoying a meal. She carefully weighs how much she...

Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Pinson Publisher, [Maassluis] | 2023

E-book
Iris Pinson Black-box testing

Black-box Testing An erotic triptych depicting sin, starting with the original sin, ending in hell. Inspired by the Haywain Triptych by the Dutch painter Jheronimus Bosch. How does the paradisiacal innocence relate to guilt? Lila, Péar, and Victoria Van Gelre are three sisters who have it all. They are attractive, highly intelligent, articulate, and have a strong appeal to men of status. However, the ladies are selective and only receptive to men of good lineage, who also have wealth to spare. The...

Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Pinson Publisher, [Maassluis] | 2023

E-book
Lily Mitchell One for the birds

From a deal with the devil to heads in boxes and even a computer that goes on a rampage, One for the birds is a unique collection of short stories that makes you feel a bit uneasy in the end. In One for the birds, Lily Mitchell gives you surrealism, betrayal and some macabre situations in which the main characters find themselves lost or trapped. But that's not all. Here and there a main character learns valuable life lessons a little too late. Besides death and suspense you'll find a good dose of...

Fictie

Engels | 186 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Godijn Publishing, Hoorn nh | 2021

E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Oldtimers

A lonely widower inherits his mother's remote farmhouse. To have something to do, he applies to the local Volunteer Center. He goes to work in his old style, park maintenance, with an old lady who lives alone on an estate. One day he enters a barn ... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 44 pagina's (PDF, 0,3 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2024

E-book
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

E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal bushcraft

living in the wild from the wild; novel

What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...

Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023

E-book
Han Peeters Planet X

English edition

Planet X, a planet that is part of our solar system, circles in an orbit around our Sun and the star Nemesis. The Sun and its sister star are a great distance from each other. The orbital period of Planet X is 3600 years. One of the last times it passed our planet, it caused a worldwide flood as described in the Old Testament, where it is called Wormwood. Every culture in ancient times had another name for it. Regardless of what it is called, the planet is an instigator of evil as told in The Revelation...

Fictie

Engels | 158 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018

E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Stray Kids

how do homeless children survive a big city; novel

Tramps. How can it come to this with anyone anyway? Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them. Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy. Sometimes something happens to them that...

Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2024

E-book