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Dinah Jefferies The Hidden Palace
An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise…A rebellious daughter1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer’s job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets.A sister with a secret1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request: to find her vanished sister, who...
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2022
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Jessamine Chan The School for Good Mothers
‘Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere’ ELLE
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN OBAMA''S 2022 SUMMER READING PICKA BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK''Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng''s Little Fires Everywhere'' ELLE''Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at night'' PANDORA SYKES''The Handmaid''s Tale for the Squid Game generation'' TELEGRAPHFrida Liu had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline - an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread, a file she''d left in the office. She would go get it. Harriet...
Engels | ePub3, 1,6 MB | Penguin (Cornerstone), [Nederland] | 2022
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Mieko Kawakami All The Lovers In The Night
From literary sensation and International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Mieko Kawakami, the bestelling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven comes All the Lovers in the Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.''A brief, compelling study of alienation and friendship; I binge-read it in one sitting.'' - Rebecca F Kuang, bestselling author of BabelFuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone in an overwhelming city and unable to...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2022
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Julie Otsuka The Swimmers
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction''Exquisite'' The New York Times''A tale of grief and memory awash with dark humour and wit'' Spectator "Up there," she says, "I''m just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I''m myself."For the people who swim there each day, the local pool is a haven of unexpected kinship and private solace. For Alice, her daily laps have become the ritual that gives her life meaning, even though she may not remember the combination to...
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2022
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Burton Jessie Burton The House of Fortune
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which has sold more than two million copies. In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt is coming of age, trying to grapple with her family''s secrets and her own identity as a young Dutch-African woman. She''s drawn to the theater and an artistic life, but with her family in serious financial decline, pressure is on Thea to marry up in society. As her father and...
Engels | ePub3, 2,9 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2022
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Hanna Bervoets We Had To Remove This Post
Does what you see change who you are?‘A superbly poised, psychologically astute and subtle novel of mental unravelling’ - Ian McEwan, author of AtonementKayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a group of friends, even a new girlfriend. For the first time in her life, the future seems bright . . . But soon the job begins...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2022
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Karen Witemeyer A Texas Christmas Carol
2022 Carol Award WinnerFrom the talented pen of bestselling author Karen Witemeyer comes a charming Christmas novella inspired by the holiday classic The Christmas Carol.After the Panic of 1873 ruined his father and impoverished his family, Evan Beazer set a single life goal for himself--security. He would never allow joviality and dreams to send him to the poorhouse. Now a successful businessman, Evan runs a dozen inns throughout Texas from the privacy of his home, keeping locals away with the perpetual...
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Bethany House Publishers, [Nederland] | 2022
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James Joyce Ulysses
On 16 June 1904 Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin aimlessly as his wife Molly stays at home sleeping with other men. Having been made an involuntary cuckold, Leopold Bloom lets the soles of his shoes wear out on the pavements between the taverns in which his humiliation is acute, and hides in one memory after another as they haunt him in Dublin's wet fog. Leopold Bloom is the Odyssey of the 20th century, but unlike Homer's ancient warrior hero, Bloom is a modern anti-hero that you can't...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Lev Tolstoj War and Peace I
War & Peace
"I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'” is a modern way of saying "keep it short". However, "I am looking for 'War and Peace'" should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a complete semester of Russian and French history, using the zoom button to focus on its impact on families from the aristocracy to the peasants. 'War and Peace I' introduces the five aristocratic families at the heart of the plot. It paints a picture of petty jealousy, pride and forbidden love in the Russian stately homes...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / F Faust
Goethe’s ‘Faust’ is considered to be his Magnum Opus and one of the best works of German literature ever completed. It is a universal tale of belonging, love, despair and finding ones purpose. Faust is a man in anguish; having dedicated his life to the sciences, to understanding the world around him he now sees that he has learnt all that he can. He is distraught by the notion that he cannot be at one with the cosmic universe and attain the highest form of knowledge. Seeing this, The Devil wagers...
Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Ravelli The flycatcher
love me - leave me
The Flycatcher by Ravelli- an inspiring novel My name is M. Ravelli. Ive been deceived. Two men stole my name. I loved one of them, this is the story of the other. `Keep your eye on God, and your fly zipped up. This is the fascinating story of a seminary student who loves a girl and falls in love with a boy. The leaders of the monastery judged him for this double `fault. Peter is banished from the Roman Catholic community. Ashamed, the failed clergyman flees the country, where he leads a tempestuous...
Fictie
Engels | 349 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | TVF International, Blaricum | 2014
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Geert Mak The angel of Amsterdam
seven city stories
Many people star in this Amsterdam chronicle but the one and only protagonist is the city itself. The Angel of Amsterdam combines the dissection of the Dutch capital with a series of personal portraits. It brilliantly reveals the magic, the feel, the rituals and the forgotten world behind and beneath present-day Amsterdam. This special edition of The Angel of Amsterdam offers the international audience not only stellar writing by one of the finest of Dutch authors, but also a unique glimpse into...
Non-fictie
Engels | 177 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
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Yolinda Vixen My sultry confessions
Erotische schetsen en foto's.
Fictie | Erotische verhalen | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 82 pagina's (ePub2, 26 MB) | CP Romance, Capelle ad IJssel | 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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Elisabeth Eybers Valreep
Gedichten in het Afrikaans en Engels.
Non-fictie
Afrikaans | Engels | 31 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 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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Jan Siebelink In my father's garden
Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced he has...
Fictie
Engels | 465 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Publishing house De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013
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Frank de Zanger A ring
a novella
Novel 'A RING' is a captivating and romantic story about Yara and her young daughter Sasha. Yara is a young Russian woman, who works in St. Petersburg as a call girl to make ends meet. A foreign architect pops up in her life and makes it even more complicated than it already is. She receives a gift that turns her life upside down. A ring plays a major role in the novel - a ring as symbol for friendship, happiness, confidence, and personal initiative. The setting of novella 'A RING' is partly in New...
Fictie
Engels | 105 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Tournesol, Soest | 2012
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Charles Dickens A tale of two cities
Roman over de Franse Revolutie, zich beurtelings afspelend in Londen en Parijs.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010
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