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Dean R. Koontz De stad
Tijdens van de woelige jaren zestig in Amerika wordt de jonge Jonah Kirk gezien als één van de grootste pianotalenten van het land. Met zijn muziek leert Jonah de harde lessen van het leven, maar van jongs af aan beschikt hij ook over een heel andere vaardigheid. Hij heeft mysterieuze visioenen waarin hij altijd wordt vergezeld door Pearl, een lieve vrouw die als een mentor voor Jonah zorgt. Wanneer Jonah ouder wordt, raakt hij verstrikt in een meedogenloze samenzwering. Zullen zijn lessen uit...
Fictie
Nederlands | 343 pagina's (ePub3, 0,5 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2021
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Charles Dickens Nelly
In het koude en brute Londen worstelen kleine Nelly en haar opa om te overleven. Haar opa wil het beste voor Nelly, maar in zijn poging om haar toekomst veilig te stellen, verliest hij het kleine beetje geld dat ze hebben. Dit zorgt ervoor dat Nelly en haar opa straatarm achter blijven. Ze zwerven rond als bedelaars en ontmoeten verschillende mensen, die allemaal worden achtervolgt door vrienden en vijanden uit hun verleden. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Nederlands | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | SAGA Egmont, [København] | 2018
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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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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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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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Kate Manning My Notorious Life
"To the dizzying heights of New York society. But as her fame grows and her name hits the headlines, her reputation as the most scandalous midwife of her time begins to threaten everything she holds dear. And one crusading official will not rest until he has brought about the downfall of `Madame X. It will take all of Axies cunning to save both herself and those she loves from ruin"
Engels | 352 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Susanna Clarke The ladies of Grace Adieu
"Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour
"Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"
Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still
"It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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Ciarán Collins The gamal
"Something unspeakable happened and someone chose to turn a blind eye? This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for"
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Helen Cross Spilt milk, black coffee
"Handsome Amir, somewhere in his twenties, somewhere in a Yorkshire town, is torn between duty and lust. While his tradition-bound family urges him to choose a wife from a parade of blank and bashful beauties, he remains a slave to boozy blonde goddess Jackie, his fellow-worker at the department store in town. Pushing forty, with bubblegum hair and a filthy laugh, Jackie is an unlikely muse. She is openly entertained by Amir's teetotalism and moral sincerity, but behind her whip-smart wit is a forgiving...
Engels | 288 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths
"As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...
Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Anne Michaels The winter vault
"Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...
Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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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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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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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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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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Steven Carter I was Howard Hughes
"Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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