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Zindzi Mandela | Pelle Hvenegaard Dear Zoe Ukhona
a Journey through Infertility and Adoption
In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials...
Engels | 11 uur 14 minuten (495 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Memphis Depay | Simon Zwartkruis Heart of a lion
Autobiografie van de Nederlandse voetballer Memphis Depay (1994).
Non-fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | Vip, Amsterdam | 2019
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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 | 2 uur 44 minuten (392 MB) | Das Mag, Amsterdam | 2023
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Hans den Hartog Jager Brave New World
zestien schilders voor de eenentwintigste eeuw
Catalogus met her werk van zestien jonge kunstenaars.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 199 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2023
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Danny White BRITNEY
Breaking Free
She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe and starred in iconic music videos but Britney Spears’ success has come at an almost unbearable price. As she enters her third decade in the spotlight, read the story of how a church-going girl from the Deep South became an objectified teenage sensation and the Princess of Pop. Go behind the scenes of Britney’s battle to free herself from her notorious conservatorship and the impact it has had on a highly talented...
Engels | 6 uur 40 minuten (290 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide
At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...
Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Carlo Gébler I, Antigone
"I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my eyes." The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will...
Engels | 9 uur 3 minuten (401 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | 10 uur 12 minuten (445 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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William Blake Poems of William Blake
Poems of William Blake includes; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and The Book of Thel. All three are books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen syllable line. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter...
Engels | 55 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Rudyard Kipling American Notes
"In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a mockery of American democracy, and whilst exhibiting the racist attitude that has made him controversial...
Engels | 2 uur 45 minuten (119 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ilyon Woo Master slave husband wife
Waargebeurd verhaal over het jonge slaafgemaakte echtpaar Ellen en William Craft dat in 1848 uit de slavenstaat Georgia vlucht naar het vrije Philadelphia in Noord-Amerika.
Non-fictie
Engels | 410 pagina's | Ithaka, London | 2024
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Hunter Biden Beautiful things
a memoir
Hunter Biden, zoon van de Amerikaanse president, doet autobiografisch verslag van zijn verslaving aan alcohol en drugs die hem aan de rand van de afgrond bracht.
Non-fictie
Engels | 255 pagina's | Gallery Books UK, London | 2021
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Gary Schwartz Rembrandt
an audio course on the artist's life and work
In this lecture series, art historian Gary Schwartz surveys the life, time and work of Rembrandt van Rijn. He reflects on both the 17th century historical context in which Rembrandt emerged as an artist, as well as on his superb techniques. Schwartz presents the listener with a unique re-introduction to the artist's biography in which he gives a vivid description of Rembrandt's life and his rich and varied drawings, etchings and paintings, such as the Nightwatch. Inhoud College 1. A Dutch artist's...
Engels | 4 uur | Home Academy, The Hague | 2008
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Gerrit Benner Gerrit Benner
Monografie van de Nederlandse schilder en tekenaar (1897-1981), maker van expressionistische kleurige landschappen.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 134 pagina's | Flevodruk, Harlingen | 2005
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John Grisham | Jim McCloskey Framed
astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions
Tien schokkende verhalen over het falen van het Amerikaanse rechtssysteem, waardoor onschuldige mannen veroordeeld werden voor misdaden die ze niet begingen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 346 pagina's | Doubleday, New York | 2024
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Klaas Gubbels Het ongelijke van hetzelfde
Overzicht van het werk van Klaas Gubbels, bekend geworden door stillevens van koffiekannen en meubels.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 305 pagina's | nai010 publishers, Rotterdam | 2023
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Hans van Manen
meer dan een halve eeuw dans
Portret van de vermaarde choreograaf en danser Hans van Manen (1932) ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzeventigste verjaardag.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 119 pagina's | Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2007
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Benjamin Moser Frans Hals op de tweesprong
De tekst van de door de Amerikaanse journalist/biograaf Benjamin Moser (1976) gehouden derde Joost Zwagerman Lezing (2020) over Frans Hals, afgedrukt in het Nederlands en Engels.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 54 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2020
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Marjane Satrapi Persepolis
Ballonstrip.
Fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | Vintage Books, London | 2024
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Emma Flint Other women
Een alleenstaande vrouw wordt verliefd op een getrouwde man. Ze krijgen een affaire. Als de vrouw dood wordt aangetroffen, wordt de man beschuldigd.
Fictie
Engels | 354 pagina's | Picador, London | 2024
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Romans