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D.W. Wilson Once you break a knuckle

Twaalf korte verhalen die zich afspelen in West-Canada met als thema hoe de beste bedoelingen verkeerd kunnen uitpakken.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Toni Morrison Beloved

Discover Toni Morrison s most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. An American masterpiece AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her...

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2014

E-book
Stella Rimington Rip tide

MI5-agent Liz Carlyle doet onderzoek naar de achtergronden van een Britse Pakistaan die bij een poging om een schip van een grote hulporganisatie door een Frans marineschip is gearresteerd.

Fictie

Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Stephen May Life! Death! Prizes!

Na de moord op hun moeder zijn twee halfbroers van 19 en 6 jaar op elkaar aangewezen.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness

"Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...

Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Patrick McGrath Constance

Als een gescheiden poëzieprofessor van Engelse afkomst in New York trouwt met een jonge vrouw die hem fescineert, vermoedt hij niet welke moeilijkheden hij zich op de hals haalt.

Fictie

Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.Including a new story The School of English.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes...

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014

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Ambrose Bierce The devil's dictionary

"A word book, straight up, with a twist The Devil's Dictionary is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, gained from seeing the world early and cynically as it really was, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America's first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against hypocrisy is perfectly complemented by Ralph Steadman's equally incisive pen and ink illustrations. Adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly. Bride,...

Engels | 192 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Veronica Roth Four

A Divergent Collection

Fans of the Divergent series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton's point of view.DIVERGENT - also a major motion picture series.Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent...

Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014

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Cecily Von Ziegesar A gossip girl novel

"`Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep - sometimes with each other. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, and we know how to party. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it.'The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and...

Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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Susanna Clarke Jonathan strange and Mr Norrell

"SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me... The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead...

Engels | 1024 pagina's (5,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Jenny Han To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for every boy she's ever loved. When she writes, she can pour out her heart and soul and say all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 4,9 MB | Scholastic, [Nederland] | 2014

E-book
Nick Lake In darkness

Terwijl Shorty onder de restanten van een ziekenhuis ligt na de aardbeving in Haïti, denkt hij terug aan de gebeurtenissen die ertoe leidden dat hij daar terechtkwam. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
David Baldacci Vega Jane and the secrets of sorcery

Vega Jane (14, ik-figuur) woont in een klein dorp, omgeven door een dodelijk moeras. Als Vega ziet dat een vriend het moeras in vlucht, vraagt ze zich af of de leiders van het dorp wel de waarheid vertellen over het moeras. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Engels | 404 pagina's | Macmillan Children's Books, London | 2021

Gedrukt boek
Toon Tellegen The hedgehog's dilemma

Een egel is vaak eenzaam omdat zijn stekels andere dieren afschrikken.

Fictie

Engels | 169 pagina's | Pushkin Press, London | 2025

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Richard Ford Let me be frank with you

Een oudere Amerikaan vertelt wat hij meemaakt in de eerste dagen na de orkaan Sandy.

Fictie

Engels | 240 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024

Gedrukt boek
Kim van Norren | Wilma Sütö You tell me words don't matter?

Overzicht in woord en beeld van werk van de Nederlandse kunstenares (1980- ) uit de periode 2009-2014.

Non-fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 142 pagina's | Uitgeverij de Kunst, Zwolle | 2014

Gedrukt boek
Jos Deenen | Pascal van Spijk Art is like religion

preaching to people of the same faith

Overzicht in woord en beeld van het werk van de Nederlandse kunstenaar (1956- ).

Non-fictie

Duits | Engels | Nederlands | 815 pagina's | VanSpijk/Rekafa Publishers, [Venlo] | 2014

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Maarten Schets Schoonheid

Selectie uit het werk van fotograaf Maarten Schets.

Non-fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 320 pagina's | Uitgeverij Terra, Houten | 2014

Gedrukt boek
Piet Mulder | Reinjan Mulder Piet Mulder

de zee is saai

Overzicht in woord en beeld van leven en werk van de Nederlandse zeeschapsschilder (1919-2001).

Non-fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 48 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Weideblik, Varik | 2014

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