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Max Porter Grief is the thing with feathers
Twee broertjes en hun vader vinden, na de dood van hun moeder en echtgenoot, bij hun rouwverwerking steun bij de kraai Crow uit de gedichten van Ted Hughes.
Engels | 114 pagina's | Faber & Faber, London | 2015
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Bal Khabra Collide
Summer Preston, een ambitieuze studente sportpsychologie, wodt door haar professor gedwongen samen te werken met Aiden Crawford, de charismatische aanvoerder van het universiteitshockeyteam. Romantische sportroman. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 405 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024
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Patrick deWitt The librarianist
Een gepensioneerde bibliothecaris krijgt weer wat kleur in zijn leven als hij vrijwilliger wordt in een verzorgingstehuis.
Fictie
Engels | 342 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2023
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Madeleine Gray Green dot
Affaire van een jonge vrouw met een oudere man.
Fictie
Engels | 376 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2024
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Hugo Grotius Annals of the war in the Low Countries
The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a contrarian view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Grotius...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 63 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-gang all-stars
a novel
Wanneer een van de twee populairste gladiatoren uit de geprivatiseerde gevangenisindustrie bijna vrij komt, proberen de financiële grootmachten haar tegen te houden om hun eigen belangen te beschermen.
Fictie
Engels | 411 pagina's | Vintage Books, New York | 2024
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Sam Bettens All I am
After the release of their hit song 'Not an addict' in 1996, the Belgian band K' Choice started a wild ride along some of the world's biggest festivals. Being an unconventional band right from the start, they forged their own path in the music industry with Sam Bettens as their rebellious leader. But how much space for your true identity is there when you're standing in front of thousands of people? Sam Bettens has spent his entire life searching for who he is and how he was shaped that way. Is he...
Engels | 83 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Das Mag Publishers, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Fifth Wave 2023/1
Fifth Wave offers a platform for the free and independent Russian voice. All contributions are by literary authors from Russia and abroad who are united in their rejection of war and totalitarianism. Vasily Antipov Karine Arutyunova Mihail Ayzenberg Yuli Gugolev Alexander Ilichevsky Oleg Lekmanov Boris Nikolsky Maxim Osipov Dmitry Vedenyapin Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Uitgeverij G.A. Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2023
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Yvonne Gillissen The ducks
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
Engels | 3 pagina's (ePub3, 3,2 MB) | Xpath Design, Amsterdam | 2023
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
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen When the climate goes feral
coming of age in a tipping world; novel
All the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside. She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world is tipping and they must make it on their own. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 262 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
novel
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Tim O'Brien America fantastica
a novel
Komische reis door Amerika door een bankrover en zijn gekidnapte metgezel.
Fictie
Engels | 449 pagina's | Mariner Books, New York | 2023
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Alexis Hall Mortal follies
Een jonge vrouw uit de society-kringen van London en Bath moet in 1814 worden verlost van een uitgesproken vloek.
Fictie
Engels | 392 pagina's | Gollancz, London | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
novel
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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John Keats De nachtegaal
oden en sonnetten
Bundeling Nederlandse vertalingen van sonnetten en lofdichten van John Keats (1795-1821), met inleiding en de Engelse originelen.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 57 pagina's | Uitgeverij Vleugels, Bleiswijk | 2023
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Sophie Keetch Morgan is my name
Eerste deel van een trilogie over Morgan le Fay, halfzus van koning Arthur waarin een feministische herinterpretatie wordt gegeven van de Arthurlegende.
Fictie
Engels | 377 pagina's | Magpie, London | 2024
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Laura Purcell The whispering muse
Een geheimzinnig horloge geeft de eigenaren een bijzondere macht om alles wat men maar wenst werkelijkheid te maken.
Fictie
Engels | 293 pagina's | Raven Books, London | 2024
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Jacqueline Crooks Fire rush
In het Engeland van eind jaren '70- begin jaren '80 wordt een verliefde jonge Jamaicaanse vrouw met muzikaal talent geconfronteerd met Babylon, wat in haar gemeenschap staat voor de kapitalistiche koloniale wereld.
Fictie
Engels | 339 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
2023