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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Cycling
What do you do with sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of energy? Theo went cycling. Just as lonely as working from home, but at least while cycling there was a landscape passing by. A near collision earned him a cycling buddy. This will be something... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 74 pagina's (PDF, 0,4 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen A courtyard full of finds
A man with an old Landrover and an invalid son has settled in a remote town in northern France. The war elsewhere and the closure of the cement works have driven out many of the inhabitants and summer visitors. The man is interested in just one thing: an estate where perhaps no one has lived for a century. He sets out to investigate and discovers some disturbing things in the courtyard. On the terrace of the only restaurant open, a young psychologist is fascinated by the way father and son communicate....
Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Artscience, [Nederland] | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Oldtimers
A lonely widower inherits his mother's remote farmhouse. To have something to do, he applies to the local Volunteer Center. He goes to work in his old style, park maintenance, with an old lady who lives alone on an estate. One day he enters a barn ... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 44 pagina's (PDF, 0,3 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Stray Kids
How do homeless kids survive in a big city?
Tramps. How can it come to this with anyone anyway? Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them. Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy. Sometimes something happens to them that...
Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2024
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal Bushcraft
Living in the wild from the wild
What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...
Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen When the climate goes feral
Coming of age in a tipping world
All the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside. She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world is tipping and they must make it on their own. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 262 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Anita Brookner A start in life
Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.
Fictie
Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
a story
Symbolisch verhaal over een zeemeeuw in wiens gedachten en levenswijze de vlieger Bach zich tracht te verplaatsen.
Fictie | Dierenleven
Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | Harper Thorsons, [Nederland] | 2021
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T. Coraghessan Boyle After the plague
Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Josephine Cox Lonely Girl
De 15-jarige Rosie, enig kind, zou het thuis, op het Engelse platteland, aangenaam moeten hebben, maar haar moeders grillige karakter verstoort de harmonie binnen het gezin.
Fictie | Familieroman
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sue Townsend Rebuilding Coventry
Een huisvrouw die per ongeluk haar buurman heeft vermoord, ontdekt tijdens haar omzwervingen op de vlucht voor de politie het positieve gevoel van vrijheid en een nieuw levensperspectief.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,7 MB) | Penguin Books, [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 | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories
Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Marian Keyes Anybody out there?
Als een jonge vrouw na een revalidatieproces bij haar ouders in Ierland terugkeert naar New York, blijkt haar leven ingrijpend veranderd te zijn.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 608 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Marian Keyes The other side of the story
Drie vrouwen gaan op zoek naar liefde, persoonlijk geluk en succes in de uitgeverswereld.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 656 pagina's (ePub, 4,5 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Cecelia Ahern How to fall in love
Een jonge vrouw krijgt twee weken de tijd om een aantrekkelijke jongeman zover te krijgen dat hij niet opnieuw een zelfmoordpoging doet.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Jonathan Franzen The corrections
Als de bejaarde vader van een Amerikaans gezin gaat dementeren, worden zijn drie uit zeer uiteenlopende milieus afkomstige kinderen gedwongen hun levens opnieuw te evalueren.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 672 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Philibert Schogt Einde verhaal
roman
Een tweetalig opgevoede vertaler belandt in een identiteitscrisis ten gevolge van een problematische vertaalopdracht.
Fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 281 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2015
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