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  Markus Zusak The Underdog

  My name s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn t really function without tomato sauce. That s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Tove Ditlevsen The Faces

  Penguin Modern Classics

  One of Denmark''s most celebrated writers'' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children''s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2021

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  John Irving Until I find you

  Een filmacteur zoekt vanaf zijn peutertijd naar zijn vader, waarbij hij ontdekt dat het geheugen onbetrouwbaar is.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman

  Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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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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  Sophie Kinsella The Party Crasher

  The joyful, romantic Sunday Times bestseller 2022

  Joyous and funny, [with] emotional hidden depths.'' JILL MANSELLWhat might your family say about you if you weren''t in the room....? Cosy up with the new Sophie Kinsella romcom about family love, family tensions and family secrets.Effie''s still not over her parents splitting up a year ago and her dad and his awful new girlfriend are posting photos everywhere (with the hashtags #viagraworks and #sexinyoursixties). Now they''re selling the beloved family home and holding a ''house-cooling'' party,...

  Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories

  Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...

  Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things

  I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...

  Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob

  In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts...

  Engels | ePub3, 13 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Donoghue Emma Donoghue Room

  Oberon Modern Plays

  Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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  James Joyce Dubliners

  Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita

  Oberon Modern Plays

  A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

  Original Version

  An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...

  Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe

  Underdogs

  I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube. ' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it. 'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Curtis Sittenfeld Sisterland

  The striking Sunday Times bestseller

  BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER -Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children....

  Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Transworld Digital, [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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  Lisa Halliday Asymmetry

  A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Niccolo Ammaniti I'm Not Scared

  Canons

  The international bestselling novel ';of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping reada deft masterpiece with never a false note' (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn't dare...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Canongate Canons, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Niccolo Ammaniti Anna

  FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part....

  Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Mizuki Tsujimura Lonely Castle in the Mirror

  The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight

  For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.''Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides'' GUARDIAN''Genuinely affecting. A story of empathy, collaboration and sharing truths'' FINANCIAL TIMESTranslated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami_______________________________Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend?In a tranquil neighbourhood...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Gabriel Garcia Marquez No One Writes to the Colonel

  Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left'Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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