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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cecelia Ahern How to fall in love

Een jonge vrouw krijgt twee weken de tijd om een aantrekkelijke jongeman zover te krijgen dat hij niet opnieuw een zelfmoordpoging doet.

Fictie

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

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Elizabeth Gilbert The signature of all things

De Amerikaanse erfgename van een fortuin gebruikt in de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw haar rijkdom om haar passie voor plantkunde te ontwikkelen en bereist daarvoor de hele wereld.

Fictie

Engels | ePub3, 3,3 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2021

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Albert Camus The plague

Het uitbreken van een pestepidemie in een Noord-Afrikaanse stad met als gevolg het totale isolement stelt de bewoners voor fundamentele vragen over goed en kwaad.

Fictie

Engels | 360 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2020

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Marc Kregting Koffie

een doeboek

Wetenswaardigheden over de bereiding, consumptie en literatuur van en over koffie.

Non-fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 397 pagina's | Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam | 2013

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Linda Boström Knausgård The helios disaster

Een meisje wordt in een pleeggezin geplaatst nadat haar vader in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis is opgenomen; ze trekt zich steeds meer in zichzelf terug.

Fictie

Engels | 125 pagina's | World Editions, London, [Breda] | 2015

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Cynthia Mc Leod Tutuba

the girl from the slave-ship Leusden; historical novella

Als op 1 januari 1738 het slavenschip 'Leusden' in Suriname aan de grond loopt en 664 slaven omkomen, is de jonge Ghanese slavin Tutuba een van de weinige overlevenden. Gebaseerd op ware gebeurtenissen. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 116 pagina's | Uitgeverij Conserve, Schoorl | 2013

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