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Jane Austen Mansfield Park
World Classics
Mr Darcy and Miss Bennet may be one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, but did you know, Fanny Price was Austen’s favourite? She’s also one of literature’s biggest controversies, but, more on that drama later. Sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle from her poverty-stricken home of Portsmouth, Fanny Price struggles to find her place in the upper-class world of Mansfield Park. Never allowing her to forget her true status, she is at the mercy of her cruel aunt, only finding...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Émile Zola Nana
The Rougon-Macquart Series
She is beautiful, charismatic and destroys every man who dares to pursue her. Before the character of femme fatale was coined in American cinema, Émile Zola captured the seductive female power in "Nana": the ninth installment in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. A daughter of an abusive drunk, forced to live on the streest, Nana manages to rise to high-class prostitute. The novel begins with her debute in Théâtre des Variétés causing all Paris to talk about her. Follow the corrupted and tragic...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Toews Miriam Toews Women Talking
The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid''s Tale.†-Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Toews Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly). Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda''s life is enviable (she''s a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi''s a mess (she''s divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf''s desire to end her life. After Elf''s latest attempt,...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Margaret Atwood The Testaments
The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid s Tale
THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best ... To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about...
Engels | ePub3, 2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side
The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen
Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
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Robert Harris Selling Hitler
the story of the Hitler diaries
His classic account of The Hitler Diaries. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . . Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky
From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies
A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018
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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories
Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.
Fictie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Ben Okri Incidents at the shrine
Acht verhalen die zich gedeeltelijk in Afrika en voor een ander deel in Londen afspelen.
Fictie
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains
NOW A MAJOR FILM
NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
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Rosie Thomas All my sins remembered
Terwijl boven Europa zich de donkere wolken van economische depressie en oorlogsdreiging samenpakken, groeit de obsederende jaloezie tussen twee in vriendschap opgegroeide nichtjes.
Fictie
Engels | 818 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Anne Frank The diary of a young girl
the definitive edition
One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide.It is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of human spirit.Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two...
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 5,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Roddy Doyle The commitments
Een groep kansarme jongeren in Dublin richt een popgroep op.
Fictie
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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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
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Tracy Chevalier Falling angels
Twee Londense families reageren totaal verschillend op politieke en sociale veranderingen die plaatsvinden aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw.
Fictie
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Tracy Chevalier Remarkable creatures
De beroemde Engelse fossielenzoekster Mary Anning (1799-1847) sluit in de 19e eeuw vriendschap met een verzamelaarster van fossiele vissen.
Fictie
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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