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Dennis Lehane Since we fell
De zoektocht van een vrouw naar de identiteit van haar vader en de onverwachte wending in haar leven na haar tweede huwelijk.
Engels | 418 pagina's | ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [New York] | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Chris Petit Pale horse riding
August Schlegel en zijn SS collega Morgen worden in 1943 vanuit Berlijn naar Auschwitz gestuurd om een corruptiezaak te onderzoeken die echter uitmondt in een onderzoek naar moord.
Fictie
Engels | 407 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS company, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Janet Evanovich Dangerous minds
De excentrieke miljardair Emerson Knight en zijn assistente Riley Moon komen in actie als een boeddhistische vriend de diefstal van een eiland rapporteert.
Fictie
Engels | 317 pagina's | H review, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Chibundu Onuzo Welcome to Lagos
Een Nigeriaanse officier is de corruptie en het geweld zat en gaat met een bont gezelschap vanuit een kraakpand in Lagos werken aan een betere wereld.
Fictie
Engels | 358 pagina's | Faber & Faber, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Christopher Wilson The zoo
De 12-jarige Yuri ervaart als vertrouweling en voedseltester van Stalin aan den lijve de geheimen en willekeur van de inner circle rond de Sovjetleider.
Fictie
Engels | 230 pagina's | Faber & Faber, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Fay Weldon Death of a she devil
Nu Ruth Patchett te oud wordt om haar instituut voor gendergelijkheid nog langer te leiden, strijden haar secretaresse en haar kleinzoon om de opvolging.
Fictie
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 5,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Alison Pick Strangers with the same dream
Een groep jonge zionisten, uit Oost-Europa gevlucht voor pogroms, sticht in Palestina een nieuwe kibboets waar ze een ideale samenleving willen opbouwen, maar de werkelijkheid is weerbarstig.
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's | Tinder Press, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Jane Harris Sugar money
a novel
In 1765 op het eiland Martinique krijgt een jonge slaaf smaen met zijn oudere broer de opdracht terug te keren naar zijn geboorte-eiland Grenada om vandaar 42 slaven naar Martinique te halen.
Fictie
Engels | 391 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Helen Peters Evie's Ghost
Compelling period fiction for 9+ readers from the Waterstones Children's Prize shortlisted Helen Peters. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house in the middle of nowhere. It is all monumentally unfair. But on the first night, Evie sees a strange, ghostly figure at the window. Spooked, she flees from the room, feeling oddly disembodied as she does...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Laura Frantz A moonbow night
In het ruige grensgebied van Kentucky zijn een jonge vrouw en man aan elkaar overgeleverd als ze op hun reis vele gevaren moeten trotseren.
Fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Revell, Grand Rapids, MI | 2017
Gedrukt boek
N.K. Jemisin The stone sky
Na het redden van Castrima is Essun met de overlevenden onderweg naar Rennanis, haar dochter Nassun ook. Beide hebben ze een doel en beide hebben hiervoor de krachten van de obelisken nodig.
Engels | 416 pagina's | www.orbitbooks.net, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Auguste van der Molenschot Tears from Brabant
a novel
This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization,...
Fictie
Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
E-book
Liz Trenow The silk weaver
Als een Londense debutante een Franse zijdewever ontmoet, maakt ze kennis met de turbulente 18-eeuwse zijde-industrie.
Fictie
Engels | 399 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Shamsie Kamila Shamsie Home Fire
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
_______________WINNER OF THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES_______________''The book for our times'' - Judges of the Women''s Prize''Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'' - Guardian''Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I''ve read in a novel this century'' - New York Times_______________Isma...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Svenska Ljud Classica
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Svenska Ljud Classica
“Please, sir, I want some more,” Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Svenska Ljud Classica
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow
The worldwide bestseller
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, THE NEW DAZZLING NOVEL BY AMOR TOWLES, OUT NOWOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Ewan McGregor ''A wonderful book'' - Tana French''This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don''t miss it'' - Chris Cleave''No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original'' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year''[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It''s elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.''...
Engels | ePub3, 5 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Anne Holt Offline - Hanne Wilhelmsen Series
THE NINTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.Long-awaited sequel to Anne Holt's massive bestseller 1222.It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen's life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne's self-imposed exile is nearing its end. When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police force doubt on the authenticity of the declaration,...
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub3, 0,7 MB) | Atlantic Books, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Svenska Ljud Classica
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
2017