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Zindzi Mandela | Pelle Hvenegaard Dear Zoe Ukhona
a Journey through Infertility and Adoption
In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials...
Engels | 11 uur 14 minuten (495 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Charles Rivers The Earp Brothers
"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created...
Engels | 2 uur 46 minuten (123 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Oscar Wilde De ballade van Reading Gaol
Gedicht van de Ierse letterkundige over de terechtstelling van een medegevangene.
Fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 119 pagina's | Boom, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Chris Spriet We werden honderd jaar ouder
dichters over de Eerste Wereldoorlog
Non-fictie
Duits | Engels | Frans | Nederlands | 355 pagina's | Davidsfonds, Leuven | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Eva Vriend Where the Zuiderzee once raged
a story of community spirit, entrepreneurship, and the intimate bond with the water
‘Where the Zuiderzee Once Raged’ by Eva Vriend is a story of the true heroes of the coast, represented by four fisher families from Urk, Volendam, Spakenburg, and Wieringen. Eva Vriend weaves together their family histories into an epic tale of their intimate bond with water, the resilience that has guided them forward, and the fishing tradition in their blood. The charming towns around the IJsselmeer delight visitors with their authentic facades, fishing boats, and picturesque harbors. The people...
Non-fictie
Engels | 359 pagina's (ePub2) | Atlas Contact Publishers, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Auguste van der Molenschot Tears from Brabant
a novel
This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization,...
Fictie
Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
E-book
L.J. Giebels Sukarno
a biography
Sukarno – a biography is the first English language biography on Sukarno (1901-1970) – the founding father and first president of Indonesia. The book is both a biography of Sukarno and an account of the birth and ascent of the state of Indonesia. The author reveals many little-known facts and events. He makes the reader realize that to understand the character of its first president is to understand today’s Indonesia.. Sukarno was born in 1901 as the son of a schoolteacher in a country that had been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 572 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Primo Levi Auschwitz-rapportage
Rapport van de Italiaanse schrijver (1919-1987) over de medische omstandigheden in concentratiekamp Auschwitz.
Non-fictie
Engels | 95 pagina's | Meulenhoff, Amsterdam | 2008
Gedrukt boek
Ineke Bosman Chuck was in Den Haag
Levensbeschrijving van de Haagse straatmuzikant (1954-2017)
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 225 pagina's | Uitgeverij U2pi, Den Haag | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | 440 pagina's | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens
a brief history of mankind
Geschiedenis van de evolutionaire ontwikkeling van de mensheid vanaf de homo sapiens tot in de 21ste eeuw.
Engels | 498 pagina's | Vintage Books, London | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Marguerite J.N. Brouwer Van Polen naar Nederland, en terug...
verhaal over een Poolse combattant (1921-2003) gebaseerd op het feitenrelaas van de hoofdpersoon Wladyslaw Kaduk; portrait of a Polish combatant (1921-2003) based on the factual account of the protagonist Wladyslaw Kaduk; opowieść o polskim kombatancie (1921-2003) oparta na wspomnieniach głównego bohatera Władysława Kaduka
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | Pools | 160 pagina's | Stichting Pools-Nederlands Centrum voor Educatie en Integratie (Pools schooltje Utrecht), [Utrecht] | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Rudolph Agricola
six lives and Erasmus's testimonies
Non-fictie
Engels | Latijn | 264 pagina's | Royal van Gorcum, Assen | 2012
Gedrukt boek
Alexander J.P. Raat The life of governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)
a personal history of a Dutch virtuoso
Non-fictie
Engels | 829 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Rutger Bregman Utopia for realists
Non-fictie
Engels | 316 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Petrus Camper in context
science, the arts, and society in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic
Opstellen over de hoogleraar theoretische geneeskunde, anatomie, chirurgie en botanie aan de RUG, gezien in het licht van de Republiek in de 18de eeuw.
Non-fictie
Engels | 316 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2015
Gedrukt boek
Simon Groot Traces of Tollius
the life and work of the Amersfoort musician Joannes Tollius (c. 1550-c. 1620)
Non-fictie
Engels | 337 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Marcel van den Broecke Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598
life, works, sources and friends
Non-fictie
Engels | 379 pagina's | Cartographica Neerlandica, Bilthoven | 2015
Gedrukt boek
Romans