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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
E-book
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
E-book
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
E-book
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
E-book
Patrick Modiano Ballerina
De hoofdpersoon mijmert over Parijs, een balletstudio in de herfst- en wintermaanden en een danseres, lopend door de stoffige straten.
Fictie
Engels | 101 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven, London | 2025
Gedrukt boek
Catherine Walsh Snowed in
Een jonge vrouw die haar verloofde bij het altaar liet staan en een man die opziet tegen alweer een eenzame kerst, sluiten een deal om als nepdates de feestdagen door te komen. Ze spelen verliefd voor elkaars families, maar oude gevoelens en een vleugje kerstmagie gooien alles overhoop.
Fictie
Engels | 403 pagina's | Bookouture, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Alana S. Portero Bad habit
Een transgender meisje in het Madrid van de jaren tachtig en negentig probeert zichzelf te ontdekken in een wereld die geen ruimte voor haar heeft.
Fictie
Engels | 224 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2024
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Laura Spence-Ash Beyond that, the sea
Een elfjarig meisje wordt tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog geëvacueerd van Engeland naar Amerika, waar ze wordt opgenomen in een welvarende familie. Jaren later keert ze terug naar Londen, maar de herinnering aan haar Amerikaanse familie laat haar niet los
Fictie
Engels | 351 pagina's | Celadon Books, New York | 2023
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Kenny Curtis | Jillian Hughes Greeking out
epic retellings of classic Greek myths; an official podcast tie-in
Vereenvoudigde hervertelling van een aantal Griekse mythen, aangevuld met weetjes. Gebaseerd op de gelijknamige podcast.
Non-fictie
Engels | 191 pagina's | National Geographic, Washington, D.C | 2023
Gedrukt boek
2023