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Stefano Rizzo Ze zei flik tegen me
Het zijn woelige tijden voor Johnny Wroetmans, een verdwaalde politieman die niet weet van welk hout pijlen maken. Zijn seksleven is zo vruchtbaar als de Sahel, en zijn obsessie voor forse boezems - alsmede de dames die eraan hangen - is enorm. Hij zoekt zijn heil in verslavende medicatie en in die ene vrouw die wel oren heeft naar zijn lustgevoelens, met alleen maar meer sappige ellende tot gevolg. Met thema's als middelenverslaving, vluchtgedrag, netelig politiewerk en seksuele obsessies zou je...
Fictie
Nederlands | 188 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Schrijverspunt, [Almelo] | 2020
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Maria Boonzaaijer Het litteken van Vossensteyn
een familieroman
Als een succesvol auteur door haar stervende oma wordt gevraagd een roman te schrijven naar aanleiding van een oorlogsdagboek, komen oude familiegheimen boven.
Fictie | Familieroman
Nederlands | 362 pagina's (ePub3, 6,2 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2020
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Selma Lagerlöf Gösta Berling
Gösta Berling is de debuutroman van de Zweedse schrijver Selma Lagerlöf. De eerste hoofdstukken vormden Lagerlöfs inzending voor een romanwedstrijd, die ze won, en het boek is sindsdien uitgegroeid tot een van de bekendste Zweedse romans. In het boek komt de voormalige minister Gösta Berling in een pension voor ouderen terecht. Onder leiding van Gösta nemen de bewoners de macht over in het pension, en beleven allerlei avonturen. Lagerlöf verwerkte veel Zweedse volksverhalen in het boek, en...
Fictie
Nederlands | 345 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Saga Egmont, [København] | 2018
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Felix Timmermans Adriaan Brouwer
Geromantiseerde biografie van de 17e-eeuwse schilder (ca. 1605-1638).
Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 75 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | SAGA Egmont, [København] | 2018
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Guido Strobbe Odium
een intens vuur dat je verteert... haat
Een Gentse politieman raakt verwikkeld in een na-oorlogse wraakneming voor door nazi's gepleegde kunstroven.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 172 pagina's (ePub2, 4,9 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2015
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Guido Strobbe Deceptio
niets is wat het lijkt
De secretaresse van een oneerlijke makelaar, een manipulerende advocaat en een vrouw met wie ze een verhouding heeft gehad gaat met pensioen zonder haar werkgevers daarvan op de hoogte te stellen.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 147 pagina's (ePub2, 6,8 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2015
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Guido Strobbe Ultio
wraak, een alles overwoekerend kwaad
Tijdens de renovatie van het Atomium, dat ter gelegenheid van de Wereldtentoonstelling in 1958 in Brussel werd opgericht, worden enkele mensen die betrokken waren bij de bouw ervan vermoord.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 284 pagina's (ePub, 8,1 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2015
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Annelies Lafleur (On)gewenst
De dagelijkse afspraak met Thuis op Eén blijft superpopulair. Elke dag stemmen 1,2 tot 1,4 miljoen mensen af op Thuis: kinderen, tieners, studenten, jonge moeders en vaders, vijftigers, senioren... Vlaanderen kijkt massaal. Die populariteit uitte zich ook in het succes van Doodgezwegen, het Thuis-boek dat het verhaal van Lowie in Mexico vertelde. Een boek dat méér vertelde dan je op televisie op dat moment al wist. Meer dan tienduizend exemplaren gingen er over de toonbank. In het voorjaar wordt...
Fictie
Nederlands | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Gent | 2015
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Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders
"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Patricia Duncker The strange case of the composer and his judge
"On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one...
Engels | 272 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Joyce Dennys Henrietta sees it through
"The war is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late seventies, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself amongst the charming company...
Engels | 208 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Trevor Grove The juryman's tale
"Every year a quarter of a million people are selected at random from the electoral register for jury service. They are given no training and are forbidden to discuss their verdicts after the trial. Despite the high-profile trials of Louise Woodward and O.J. Simpson, astonishingly little is known about what it's like to serve on a jury: this book is the first to reveal it."
Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax
"Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...
Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Tomas Eloy Martinez Purgatory
"Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, `Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jane Casey Bet Your Life - Jess Tennant
Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | St. Martin's Griffin, [Nederland] | 2014
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Isabel Losada The Battersea Park road to enlightenment
"`You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.' So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges discuss their `inner beauty', Isabel journeyed through a gruelling...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Parker Bilal The golden scales
"Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...
Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Simon Scarrow Gladiator
Vengeance
The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014
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T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw
"This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...
Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Manil Suri The city of Devi
"Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking...
Engels | 400 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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