J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the prisoner of Azkaban

Onderweg naar Hogwarts wordt Harry aangevallen door Dementors. Op school aangekomen, blijkt hij het doelwit te zijn van een ontsnapte moordenaar. Gelukkig krijgt Harry hulp van zijn vrienden en van een nieuwe leraar. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Fictie | Humoristische roman | Sprookjes

Engels | 317 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 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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Anton van den Dungen | Coen Dirkx When management is your profession

basic skills of good management

Managers today seem to have to be jacks-of-all-trades. Delegating, co-operating, motivating, planning and even keeping up to date with developments as well as taking training courses: this is what is expected of managers today. But who can possibly do all of these things at one time? Dirkx en Van den Dungen show us which skills you need to be a manager, how you can obtain these skills and how you can put them into practice without becoming completely snowed under. Using models, recommendations and...

Non-fictie

Engels | 194 pagina's (ePub2, 2,4 MB) | Thema, Zaltbommel | 2010

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Markus Zusak The Underdog

My name s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn t really function without tomato sauce. That s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl...

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michael Crichton Timeline

Sometimes, it seems like you can reach out and touch the past... An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. In France, Professor Edward Johnston and his students are studying the ruins of a medieval town. Suspicious of the knowledge of the site shown by their mysterious financier,...

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Tracy Chevalier Girl with a pearl earring

Nadat haar vader blind is geworden, wordt de 15-jarige Griet in 1664 dienstmeisje in het grote gezin van de Delftse schilder Johannes Vermeer, waardoor haar leven ingrijpend verandert. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.

Fictie | Historische roman

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

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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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Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune

A Novel

From theNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,...

Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2014

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Ahdaf Soueif The map of love

Een Egyptische vrouw vindt een koffer met spullen van een Engelse vrouw die honderd jaar eerder leefde.

Fictie

Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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