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Niccolo Ammaniti Anna
FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part....
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Michel Houellebecq Submission
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Lori Benton The wood's edge
a novel
Een rouwende vader ruilt in een opwelling zijn pasgeboren dode zoontje met de helft van een indiaanse tweeling; niemand heeft dat in de gaten en het blijft geheim totdat de broers onverwacht oog in oog met elkaar komen te staan.
Fictie
Engels | 388 pagina's | Waterbrook Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado | 2015
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Sylvan Greenfield Seven of druids
an archeology student makes a mystical voyage to save his girl from the Voidshapers - or so he believes
An archeology student makes a mystical voyage to save his girl from the Voidshapers - or so he believes. Seven of Druids – Sylvan Greenfield For hundreds of years, the druids of Eresa have been training in secret. The seven clans are battle-hungry. But nothing could have prepared them for what is coming. Aaron Bishop, an archaeology student from Oxford, is on a holiday trip with his girlfriend Denise, when they are suddenly transported to a mystical realm. Gifted and cursed at the same time, Aaron...
Fictie
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Pixel Perfect Publications, Den Haag | 2015
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N.K. Jemisin The fifth season
Het continent The Stillness heeft te kampen met uitbarstingen van de aarde, die bedwongen kunnen worden door Orogenes, personen met speciale krachten, die daardoor echter ook angst oproepen en daarom onderdrukt worden.
Fictie
Engels | 465 pagina's | www.orbitbooks.net, London | 2016
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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 | 192 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2015
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Paula McLain Circling the sun
a novel
Het levensverhaal van Beryl Markham (1902-1986), die in koloniaal Kenia een vrijgevochten leven leidde, racepaarden trainde en als eerste vrouwelijke piloot solo de oceaan overvloog.
Fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Ballantine Books, New York | 2016
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Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
A beautiful edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his fellow man. Quentin Blake's colourful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition contains a foreword by the illustrator...
Engels | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 21 MB) | Pavilion Books, [Nederland] | 2015
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Lindsey Kelk A girl's best friend
Tess is gedumpt door haar vriend en keert terug naar Londen. Wanneer haar beste vriendin haar vraagt kerst in New York door te komen brengen, krijgt haar leven een positieve draai.
Engels | 384 pagina's | Harper, London | 2015
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Michael Cunningham A wild swan and other tales
Tien verhalen waarin een nieuwe kijk wordt gegeven op bekende sprookjes of klassieke verhalen.
Engels | 134 pagina's | Fourth Estate, London | 2015
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Amanda Prowse A Mother's Story - No Greater Courage
I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control... This is her story. A mother's story. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 5,9 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2015
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R J Palacio Auggie & Me
Three Wonder Stories
WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him.AUGGIE & ME is a new side to the WONDER story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, oldest friend Christopher and classmate Charlotte - giving an insight into how Auggie has touched their own lives. Published previously as digital shorts entitled THE JULIAN CHAPTER, PLUTO and SHINGALING, this collection...
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | RHCP, [Nederland] | 2015
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Elena Ferrante The Story of the Lost Child
The 'stunning conclusion' to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life's great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship...
Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2015
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Tilly Bagshawe The Show - Swell Valley Series, Book 2
Welcome to Swell Valley - where the scandal is in a class of its own...The second book in the Swell Valley series by bestselling author Tilly BagshaweNestled in a glorious patchwork of fields, surrounded by chocolate box villages, Wraggbottom farm means everything to Gabe and Laura Baxter. But love and tradition doesn't pay the bills. Luckily, Laura has an idea that will share the secret of her happy (if sometimes muddy) country life: producing a reality show that will save the farm!Until the interfering...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2015
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J.M. Coetzee Disgrace
A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his...
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2015
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Charlie Lovett The further adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge
In het Londen van Ebenezer Scrooge, twintig jaar na zijn omwenteling tot vriendelijk persoon in Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', is er nog steeds werk aan de winkel. Parodie op de Britse kerstklassieker.
Fictie
Engels | 107 pagina's | Viking, New York, New York | 2015
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Allison Pataki The accidental empress
a novel
Het leven van Elisabeth ‘Sisi’ van Beieren (1837-1898) vanaf haar ontmoeting en huwelijk met keizer Franz Joseph in1853 tot aan de kroning als koningin van Hongarije in 1867.
Fictie
Engels | 495 pagina's | Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York | 2015
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Miranda July The first bad man
Een alleenstaande vrouw lijdt aan diverse obsessies, die zij aan vorige levens wijt, totdat ze eindelijk de realiteit ervaart.
Engels | 276 pagina's | Scribner, New York | 2015
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Sophie Hannah The Visitors Book
Vier grappige verhalen over mensen die op mysterieuze wijze in contact komen met het bovennatuurlijke.
Fictie
Engels | 206 pagina's | Sort Of Books, London | 2015
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Lucy Atkins The other child
Een Engelse pasgetrouwde en zwangere vrouw verhuist met haar man naar Amerika en komt daar achter zijn ware identiteit.
Fictie
Engels | 390 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2015
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2015