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Karin Fossum He Who Fears The Wolf - Inspector Sejer

A twelve-year-old boy runs into his local police station claiming to have seen a brutally dismembered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was spotted at the scene before he disappeared into the woods. The next morning the local bank is robbed at gunpoint. Making his escape, the robber takes a hostage and also flees into the woods.As the search for Halldis Horn's killer continues all fingers of suspicion point to Errki - except one. Errki's doctor refuses to...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Karin Fossum When The Devil Holds The Candle - Inspector Sejer

Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But as much as the police question him, its not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time he saw his friend: following an old woman into her home, brandishing his knife. Zipp waited anxiously outside but Andreas failed to reappear.Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre are baffled but while the confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling and heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the...

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Karin Fossum Don't Look Back - Inspector Sejer

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But when a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquillity is disturbed forever. Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is tinged by sadness, is called in to investigate. As the suspense builds, and the list of suspects grows, Sejer's determination to discover the truth leads him to peel away...

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2008

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Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

Robert Langdon

The masterwork of a great genius' William Makepeace ThackerayA novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom on her own terms. Its heroine Jane endures loneliness and cruelty in the home of her heartless aunt and the cold charity of Lowood School. Her natural independence and spirit prove necessary when she takes a position as governess at Thornfield...

Engels | ePub3, 1,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2006

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George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party....

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2004

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Zadie Smith White Teeth

Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union'BELIEVE THE HYPE' The TimesThe international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship,...

Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2001

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Michel Faber Under The Skin

With an introduction by David MitchellIsserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2000

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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

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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

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen A courtyard full of finds

A man with an old Landrover and an invalid son has settled in a remote town in northern France. The war elsewhere and the closure of the cement works have driven out many of the inhabitants and summer visitors. The man is interested in just one thing: an estate where perhaps no one has lived for a century. He sets out to investigate and discovers some disturbing things in the courtyard. On the terrace of the only restaurant open, a young psychologist is fascinated by the way father and son communicate....

Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | [Artscience], [Nederland] | 2024

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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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Ella Smith Billionaire brushstrokes

a modern love story

In the bustling city of New York, where ambition and passion collide, Damian Blackwood, a formidable CEO with a heart guarded by walls of success, finds himself captivated by the enigmatic Amber Wilson, a free-spirited artist whose every brushstroke tells a story of untamed creativity. Their paths cross at Amber's art exhibition in a sophisticated gallery, where Damian is instantly captivated by her artwork. Despite their differences, they are drawn to each other. As they embark on a unique art commission,...

Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | [Ella Smith], [Afferden] | 2024

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Anita Brookner A start in life

Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.

Fictie

Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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Philibert Schogt Einde verhaal

roman

Een tweetalig opgevoede vertaler belandt in een identiteitscrisis ten gevolge van een problematische vertaalopdracht.

Fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 281 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2015

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Kathryn Scanlan Kick the latch

Sonia is dol op paarden. Ze werkt zich op van hulpje tot een bekende paardentrainer.

Fictie

Engels | 189 pagina's | Uitgeverij Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2024

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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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Herman Adèr Father, mother

In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how very evocative various scenes are. It could be said that the novella deals with Death. With the sudden death of the father, and with the slow, painful deterioration of the mother into her dementia, followed...

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Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2) | Johannes van Kessel Publishing, Huizen | 2017

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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

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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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Ravelli The flycatcher

love me - leave me

The Flycatcher by Ravelli- an inspiring novel My name is M. Ravelli. Ive been deceived. Two men stole my name. I loved one of them, this is the story of the other. `Keep your eye on God, and your fly zipped up. This is the fascinating story of a seminary student who loves a girl and falls in love with a boy. The leaders of the monastery judged him for this double `fault. Peter is banished from the Roman Catholic community. Ashamed, the failed clergyman flees the country, where he leads a tempestuous...

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Engels | 349 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | TVF International, Blaricum | 2014

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