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Kamila Shamsie Burnt shadows
"In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the...
Engels | 384 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamila Shamsie Kartography
"And lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a"
Engels | 352 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Alan Drew Gardens of water
"Stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. As he becomes a helpless witness to his daughter's dangerous infatuation with a young American, Sinan takes a series of drastic decisions with unforeseeable consequences. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion."
Engels | 352 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness
"Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Sims Dracula's guest
"Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...
Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Lucy Wood Diving belles
"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Juliet Nicolson Abdication
"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Russell Hoban Riddley Walker
"`Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 928 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2013
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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book is a perfect joke book for young children. Full of jokes, limericks, riddles, Knock knock and Doctor, doctor all the jokes are specially themed around Roald Dahl's best-loved characters such as Charlie, George, The BFG, Matilda, James and many others.Roald Dahl was always full of fun and mischief and loved all kinds of jokes - the sillier the better! From chocolate-covered chickens to grizzly grouchy grandmas to the disgusting Twits this marvellous collection has...
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Charles Dickens Great Expectations
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 748 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Pub One Info, [Nederland] | 2010
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Magnus Mills The restraint of beasts
Een kersverse voorman van een Schots bedrijf wordt met een ploegje werkschuwe arbeiders voor een grote opdracht naar Engeland gestuurd, waar hij merkt hoe hij langzaam aan wordt geïndoctrineerd en zo meewerkt aan hun sabotage.
Fictie
Engels | ePub, 0,4 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Javier Cercas The speed of light
Een schrijver probeert een roman te schrijven en slaagt daar ten slotte in wanneer hij een oorlogsverhaal op het spoor komt.
Fictie
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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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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Cecelia Ahern P.S. I love you
Een gelukkig getrouwd jong stel stelt speels een lijst samen van dingen die een van hen moet doen als de ander overlijdt.
Fictie
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Nicholas Petrie Burning bright
Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together...
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Roddy Doyle The commitments
Een groep kansarme jongeren in Dublin richt een popgroep op.
Fictie | Sociale roman
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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John Steinbeck The pearl
De baby van een arm Mexicaans vissersgezin wordt door een schorpioen gestoken. Zijn ouders zijn te arm om een dokter te betalen tot de vader een grote parel opvist.
Fictie
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub, 9,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [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 | Psychologische roman
Engels | 818 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Louise Aronson A history of the present illness
Zestien min-of-meer met elkaar verbonden verhalen over medische zorg aan kwetsbare mensen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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