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Jenny Colgan The Bookshop on the Shore
A Novel
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Haris dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually...
Engels | ePub3, 1 MB | William Morrow Paperbacks, [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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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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Robert Harris The Second Sleep
the Sunday Times #1 bestselling novel
THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and ExpressWHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible. ' STEPHEN KING'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative. ' SUNDAY TIMES'Genuinely thrilling. ' DAILY TELEGRAPH_____________________________________ Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax,...
Engels | ePub3, 5,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2019
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B A Paris The Dilemma
Knowing the truth will destroy her.Keeping it secret will destroy him.‘A powerful, beautifully crafted story that ratchets up the tension with every page and packs a huge emotional punch’ TM Logan, bestselling author of The CatchIt’s Livia’s 40th birthday and she’s having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But although Livia loves Marnie, she’s secretly glad she...
Engels | ePub3, 6,3 MB | HQ, [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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Sarah E. Ladd The Governess of Penwythe Hall
The Cornwall Novels
Perfect for fans of Poldark and Bridgerton, this Regency romance is rich with family secrets, lingering danger, and the captivating allure of new love, all taking place on the Cornish coast. Cornwall, England, 1811Blamed for her husband's death, Cordelia Greythorne fled Cornwall and accepted a governess position to begin a new life. Years later her employer's unexpected death and his last request for her to watch over his five children force her to reevaluate. She can't abandon the children now that...
Engels | ePub3, 7,6 MB | Thomas Nelson, [Nederland] | 2019
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Tessa Bailey Fix Her Up
A Novel; Hot and Hammered
"Fix Her Up ticks all my romance boxes. Not only is it hilarious, it's sweet, endearing, heartwarming and downright sexy. It's a recipe for the perfect love story." - Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author of Meet CuteA steamy, hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey, perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne!Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they...
Engels | ePub3, 2 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2019
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Peppa Pig Peppa Pig
Peppa's Frosty Fairy Tale
Peppa and George are in their very own frosty fairy tale! Once upon a time, it was a snowy day and Granny and Grandpa Pig had a surprise for Peppa and George - they were all going to Frosty Kingdom! They set off in the sleigh and met the Sugar Plum Fairy on the way! Who else will they see on their wonderful wintery journey?With a very glittery cover, this new Peppa magical picture book is the perfect gift for sharing with little fairy tale fans.Also available: Peppa''s Fairy Tale 9780241371602 Bron:...
Engels | ePub3, 11 MB | Ladybird, [Nederland] | 2019
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Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert City of Girls
The Sunday Times Bestseller
______________**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER****A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT''S READING ROOM** ''Stunning'' - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN''Warm and wise'' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer''Glamorous, sexy, compelling'' - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times''I fell in love with Vivian from page one'' - Daisy Buchanan''An education in love, and an iridescent delight'' - Rowan Pelling, Spectator New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2019
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Beatrix Potter The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
Little Lucie meets the hedgehog Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in her tiny cottage, and together they deliver fresh laundry to all the animals. This is the original first edition from 1905 of Beatrix Potter’s much beloved, whimsical classic “The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle”.Beatrice Potter (1866-1943) was an English writer, illustrator, and scientist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” (1902) and “The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle” (1905). Bron: Flaptekst,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,2 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2019
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Graeme Simsion The Rosie Result
The Rosie Project Series
Incredibly funny, life-affirming and warm-hearted' Heat'This funny novel tackles tough with a light touch and a big heart' Daily Mail'Made me laugh out loud' Bill Gates'Hilarity is the order of the day in this joyful read' Prima A big-hearted, hilarious and life-affirming story of overcoming life's obstacles with a little love and a lot of overthinking. Don Tillman has always been scrupulously logical. But ten years on from meeting his wife Rosie through a scientific experiment, Don is facing a dilemma...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2019
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Luc Vanacker On that war
reflections on a century of historiography on the origins of the Great War
‘The time of the great debates about the origins of the Great War is over,’ German historian Oliver Janz wrote in 2013; but nothing proved less true. German historian Fritz Fischer had already, in the 1960s, caused a ‘controversy’ by attributing to Germany a ‘substantial’ and even a ‘decisive’ share in the outbreak of the war; but his work was only based on German sources. We had to wait till the early 21st century before academic studies appeared about the Russian (in 2011) and the French (in 2015)...
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Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2019
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CIVITAS, Forum of Archives and Research on Christian Democracy Christian democracy and the fall of communism
The role of Christian Democracy in the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy's role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking "third-way" options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book's...
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Engels | PDF, 3,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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Kayo Matsushita When news travels east
translation practices by Japanese newspapers
Journalism and unique translation practices by Japanese media today International news stories provided to the public basically rely on translation. Most of this translation is done not by translators, but by journalists with practically no training in translation. What happens when the norms of journalism and those of translation clash? In this book, the author, a trained conference interpreter and former international journalist, investigates translator decisions in the practice of Japanese news...
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Engels | PDF, 3,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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J.B. te Boekhorst A fairy tale to read out about Little Jill, the girl who saved her country with her gold coloured voice
Once upon a time long long ago, there was a very small country. A country with thousands of little inhabitants, where once everybody lived a happy life. Yes, lived, because for the last eight long years, everybody was very sad. For all that time there had been a large dark cloud hovering above the enormous palace of the king, Big King. This was because the evil Big Witch had cast a spell on the yearly singing contest, so her daughter Little Twitch had won eight years in a row. Until then, Little...
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Engels | 39 pagina's (ePub3) | CD publishers, Zutphen | 2019
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Orpheus Institute Aberrant nuptials
Deleuze and artistic research 2
Unique focus on the relation between artistic research and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Aberrant Nuptials explores the diversity and richness of the interactions between artistic research and Deleuze studies. "Aberrant nuptials" is the expression Gilles Deleuze uses to refer to productive encounters between systems characterised by fundamental difference. More than imitation, representation, or reproduction, these encounters foster creative flows of energy, generating new material configurations...
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Engels | PDF, 59 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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Orpheus Institute Futures of the contemporary
contemporaneity, untimeliness, and artistic research
Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations of "the contemporary" in music, visual arts, art theory, and philosophy. In particular, the authors in this collection of essays scrutinise the role of artistic research in critical and creative expressions of contemporaneity. When distinguished from "the contemporaneous" of a given historical time, "the contemporary" becomes a crucial concept, promoting or excluding objects and practices according to their ability to diagnose...
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Engels | PDF, 4,4 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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Sarah Gensburger Memory on my doorstep
chronicles of the Bataclan neighborhood, Paris 2015-2016
In-depth case study of memorialisation processes after the November 2015 Paris attacks. On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and subsequently held the venue under a three-hour siege. This was the largest in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that eventually killed 130 people and injured 500. During the aftermath of these attacks, expressions of mourning and trauma marked and invariably transformed the urban landscape....
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Engels | PDF, 17 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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