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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book is a perfect joke book for young children. Full of jokes, limericks, riddles, Knock knock and Doctor, doctor all the jokes are specially themed around Roald Dahl's best-loved characters such as Charlie, George, The BFG, Matilda, James and many others.Roald Dahl was always full of fun and mischief and loved all kinds of jokes - the sillier the better! From chocolate-covered chickens to grizzly grouchy grandmas to the disgusting Twits this marvellous collection has...
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 928 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2013
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Liane Moriarty The Husband's Secret
The multi-million copy bestseller that launched the author of HBO s Big Little Lies
She finds an envelope: 'To be opened in the event of my death'. It's her husband's handwriting. But he's still alive ... THE ENTHRALLING MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER ABOUT SECRETS, FAMILY AND THE DANGER OF THE TRUTH'STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT' Sophie Hannah'ANOTHER MASTERCLASS' Grazia _________ Cecilia Fitzpatrick thought she knew her husband. That is until she finds an envelope with his writing on: 'to be opened in the event of my death'. She opens it, and learns a shocking truth he has never dared...
Engels | ePub3, 3,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2013
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Amanda Prowse A Christmas Wish
A Short Story - No Greater Love
A special Christmas short story from Amanda Prowse: a wonderful, warm festive treat from a bestselling author. Poppy is trying to make sure her children have the perfect Christmas. The fields are sparkling with snow, the turkey is roasting, and the tree is groaning with presents. But Poppy's beloved husband is fighting in Afghanistan, and the kids are missing their Dad. Can all their wishes come true without him? Or will they have the perfect Christmas after all? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 62 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2013
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Jane Casey The Stranger You Know - Maeve Kerrigan 4
The latest crime thriller featuring detective Maeve Kerrigan - winner of the Mary Higgins Clark AwardHe meets women.He gains their trust.He kills them.That s all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in.But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve s colleague.Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Ebury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf Jacob's Room - Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.JACOB'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf's third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob's childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams....
Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely...
Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Josephine Cox The Broken Man
Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Phil decides to accompany him...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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James Joyce Ulysses
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Louise Doughty Apple tree yard
Een intelligente, getrouwde vrouw van middelbare leeftijd heeft in een opwelling seks met een onbekende man en ervaart de desastreuze gevolgen ervan.
Fictie
Engels | 418 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2017
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Tatiana de Rosnay The other story
Wanneer een jongeman zijn paspoort wil verlengen ontdekt hij dat zijn vader officieel een Russische naam draagt. Hij gaat op zoek naar zijn ware identiteit en komt uiteindelijk in Sint-Petersburg terecht.
Engels | 307 pagina's | St. Martin's Press, New York | 2014
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Carole Matthews A cottage by the sea
Tijdens een weekje vakantie met vrienden valt een jonge getrouwde vrouw als een blok voor de nieuwe lover van haar beste vriendin.
Fictie
Engels | 445 pagina's | Sphere, London | 2013
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Helen Chandler Two for joy
Een jongeman en een jonge vrouw zijn al jaren dikke vrienden, maar als hij aankondigt met een andere vrouw te trouwen, is zij niet blij.
Fictie
Engels | 310 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2013
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Pippa Wright The foster husband
Wanneer een jonge vrouw haar echtgenoot en Londen verlaat voor een lang verblijf in het huis van haar oma op het platteland, gaat ze anders tegen zichzelf en haar leven aan kijken.
Fictie
Engels | 429 pagina's | Pan Books, London [etc.] | 2013
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Elisabeth Eybers Tydverdryf
Gedichten in het Engels en Zuidafrikaans.
Non-fictie
Afrikaans | Engels | 42 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013
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Elisabeth Eybers Winter-surplus
Winter-surplus bevat `verse in haar vadertaal, het Afrikaans, en `verse in het Engels, haar moedertaal. Wij mogen raden wat het origineel is, en wat de vertaling of kun je daar bij een tweetalige dichter niet van spreken? In ieder geval merken we al doende dat ook op het eerste gezicht eenvoudige poëzie erbij wint wanneer die van twee kanten wordt belicht; nu eens wordt de ironie wrang van narigheid, dan weer verzacht de humor het schrijnen.
Non-fictie
Afrikaans | Engels | 56 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013
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Elisabeth Eybers Verbruikersverse
Gedichten in het Engels en Zuidafrikaans.
Non-fictie
Afrikaans | Engels | 54 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013
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2013