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Louise Glück Marigold and Rose
a fiction
Het eerste levensjaar van een eeneiige tweeling beschreven vanuit de twee individuen.
Fictie
Engels | 55 pagina's | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2022
Gedrukt boek
René van Rooij The virus of God
25 years after covid-19; a novel
Towards the middle of the twenty-first century, the Covid-19 ('Corona') crisis of the early twenties, which killed millions, is forgotten. Yet the virus has changed Planet Earth irreversibly. It laid bare the naked fact that the world had become too dependent on traditional forms of nutrition, communication and transportation. When the virus had finally been defeated, brilliant minds applied themselves to developing innovative techniques to elevate what remained of humanity to an entirely different...
Fictie
Engels | 610 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Yvonne Gillissen Building a house
In this series we meet a cheerful, playful little woodsy who gradually discovers itself in a world full of small adventures and wonders. Fiction. Woodsy Dapplefluff is a fantasy figure with distinctive characteristics and human features recognizable to children (from 4-6 years). Each part can be read on its own, but they are all connected. All together they form "THE WORLD OF WOODSY DAPPLEFLUFF" Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 3 pagina's (ePub3, 1,2 MB) | Xpath Design multimedia producties, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida is set during the later years of the Trojan War, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to participate in battle to Hector's death. Essentially, two plots are followed in the play. In one, Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam), woos Cressida, another Trojan. They profess their undying love, before Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner of war. As he attempts to visit her in the Greek camp, Troilus glimpses Diomedes flirting with his beloved...
Fictie
Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Octave Mirbeau Calvary
a novel
Years and years have passed. Everything that I loved is now dead. Everything that I knew has taken on a new appearance. The church has been rebuilt. It now has an embellished doorway, arched windows, fancy gutter-spouts representing flaming mouths of demons; its new brick belf-ry laughs gaily into the blue; in place of the old house there now rises an elaborate Swiss cottage built by the new proprietor who, in the enclosure, has increased the number of colored glass balls, small cascades and plaster...
Fictie
Engels | 304 pagina's (PDF, 0,9 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Emma Leads Claire
historical roman
Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...
Fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022
E-book
Paul Auster Man in the dark
Wanneer een Amerikaanse man 's nachts wakker ligt en verdrietige gedachten op afstand wil houden, bedenkt hij een alternatief Amerika en een alter ego.
Fictie
Engels | 180 pagina's | Holt, New York | 2008
Gedrukt boek
Dolly Alderton Dear Dolly
on love, life and friendship: collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style column
Adviezen over liefde, leven en vriendschap aan briefschrijvers.
Non-fictie
Engels | 229 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Hanna Bervoets We Had To Remove This Post
Does what you see change who you are?‘A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling’ - Ian McEwan, author of AtonementKayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2022
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Julian Barnes Elizabeth Finch
From the Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Winner of the Booker PrizeShe will change the way you see the world . . . ''I''ll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I''ve met this year have faded'' The TimesElizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration. Neil is just one of many who fell under her spell during his time in her class. Tasked with unpacking her notebooks after her death, Neil encounters once again Elizabeth''s astonishing ideas on the past and on how to make sense of...
Engels | ePub3, 2,7 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2022
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / F Faust
Goethe’s ‘Faust’ is considered to be his Magnum Opus and one of the best works of German literature ever completed. It is a universal tale of belonging, love, despair and finding ones purpose. Faust is a man in anguish; having dedicated his life to the sciences, to understanding the world around him he now sees that he has learnt all that he can. He is distraught by the notion that he cannot be at one with the cosmic universe and attain the highest form of knowledge. Seeing this, The Devil wagers...
Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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James Joyce Ulysses
On 16 June 1904 Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin aimlessly as his wife Molly stays at home sleeping with other men. Having been made an involuntary cuckold, Leopold Bloom lets the soles of his shoes wear out on the pavements between the taverns in which his humiliation is acute, and hides in one memory after another as they haunt him in Dublin's wet fog. Leopold Bloom is the Odyssey of the 20th century, but unlike Homer's ancient warrior hero, Bloom is a modern anti-hero that you can't...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Jessamine Chan The School for Good Mothers
‘Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere’ ELLE
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN OBAMA''S 2022 SUMMER READING PICKA BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK''Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng''s Little Fires Everywhere'' ELLE''Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at night'' PANDORA SYKES''The Handmaid''s Tale for the Squid Game generation'' TELEGRAPHFrida Liu had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline - an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread, a file she''d left in the office. She would go get it. Harriet...
Engels | ePub3, 1,6 MB | Penguin (Cornerstone), [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Lev Tolstoj War and Peace I
War & Peace
"I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'” is a modern way of saying "keep it short". However, "I am looking for 'War and Peace'" should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a complete semester of Russian and French history, using the zoom button to focus on its impact on families from the aristocracy to the peasants. 'War and Peace I' introduces the five aristocratic families at the heart of the plot. It paints a picture of petty jealousy, pride and forbidden love in the Russian stately homes...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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George Fargo The labyrinth of the soul
The Labyrinth of the Soul - A modern-day parable When Jason Leonard decides to take a few days off for himself to sail on the Mediterranean, he cannot imagine the adventure that awaits him. Stranded after a shipwreck, he enters a magical labyrinth, in which he encounters a series of strange but inspiring "life coaches". A ragtag group of dieties, shamans and shape-shifters, they help the lost but searching Jason find his way out of the maze and back to his family. In doing so, they accompany him...
Fictie
Engels | 124 pagina's (ePub2, 5,4 MB) | Vergouw Publishing, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Jayci Lee Booked on a feeling
Een succevol advocaat uit Los Angeles berblijft drie weken in een kleine stad waar ze hoopt uit te zoeken wat ze verder met haar leven wil.
Fictie
Engels | 312 pagina's | Headline Eternal, London | 2022
Gedrukt boek
A.M. Homes The unfolding
De steenrijke Big Guy is geschokt als Barack Obama in 2008 de verkiezingen wint. Hij verzamelt een groep gelijkgestemden om 'iets te doen'. Ondertussen zorgt de verkiezingsuitslag er ook voor dat het wankele bouwwerk van zijn gezin een duwtje krijgt.
Fictie
Engels | 396 pagina's | Viking, New York | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Thrity Umrigar Honor
a novel
Een journaliste wordt herinnerd aan het gedwongen vertrek van haar eigen familie uit India als ze voor een opdracht naar een klein Indiaas dorp moet. Daar klaagt een jonge gemutileerde vrouw haar hindoe broers aan voor de moord op haar islamitsiche man.
Fictie
Engels | 326 pagina's | Swift, Great Britain | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Laurence Bollen | Mugisha Maisha Safari
The nature of humankind emits light
Mukisa was an inquisitive Muslim boy who was gradually brainwashed from when he was 8 years old to help recruit other children from the Kampala ghettos to become child soldiers. Mukisa has a close relationship with his mother Ayana and his true faith and refuses to accept the situation. When it becomes unbearable, escaping to Europe is his only option. This means leaving everything behind, including his mother and sisters. In Europe, he falls into the hands of human traffickers and is forced to sell...
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Droomvallei Uitgeverij, Breda | 2022
E-book
Victoria Lee A lesson in vengeance
Een achttienjarige kostschoolleerlinge is geobsedeerd door de dood van haar beste vrienden en door hekserij.
Fictie
Engels | 381 pagina's | Titan Books, London | 2022
Gedrukt boek
2022