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William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (Collins Classics)
A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women pursue love and life in London, against the background of the...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Dean Koontz The Neighbour
An original short story from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A prequel to THE CITY, his gripping and moving new novel. Every city has its wonders and mysteries. For the Pomerantz family, the most disturbing mystery at the moment is the identity and the intentions of their new neighbour... The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other's best friend, united by a...
Engels | ePub2, 2,9 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Leif Davidsen The Sardine Deception
In a series of complex double-crosses a menacing mystery builds: Who is the "Sardine" behind the killing?"The Sardine Deception" is Leif Davidsen's author debut book from 1984. The novel takes place in the Basque Country, where a young Danish woman has been killed during an ETA attack. Her husband, Poul, travels to Spain to retrieve the coffin and is involuntarily drawn into political intrigues involving Basque freedom fighters, the Spanish government, civil guards and fascist infiltrated police....
Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Katharine Kerr The Gold Falcon (The Silver Wyrm, Book 1)
Book twelve of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years. The powerful dweomermaster Nevyn has been reincarnated, but young Neb knows nothing of his previous life. Orphaned following a cholera epidemic, Neb and his younger brother arrive at the desolate farm of their last living relative and soon learn that a worse plague lurks beyond the western border of Deverry. The savage Horsekin tribes,...
Engels | ePub2, 1,4 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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Tim Burton The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington is the most important figure in Halloween Town and for years he has delighted in organising macabre tricks and frights for Halloween. But this year he doesn''t feel right - there must be more to life than scaring people? Then Jack stumbles upon a cheerful, colourful place called Christmas Town and he knows what he must do - he will bring Christmas to Halloween!This is the first book written and illustrated by the incomparable visionary Tim Burton. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub3, 80 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it's love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?William Shakespeare's masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | HarperCollins, [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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Liane Moriarty Apples Never Fall
The enthralling No 1 Sunday Times bestseller
THE DELICIOUSLY DARK NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NINE PERFECT STRANGERS AND HBO''S BIG LITTLE LIES''Perfect holiday reading'' GUARDIAN''Smart, sharp and utterly riveting'' DAILY MAIL''Stunning'' SUNDAY TIMES''A tour de force'' GRAZIA''A masterclass'' SUN**SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING SAM NEILL AND ANNETTE BENING**________Joy and Stan Delaney have four grown-up children, a successful family business and their golden years ahead of them.Then Joy vanishes.Questions are asked. The police get involved.Scratch...
Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2021
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
World Classics
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.” Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better than...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Alex Kava A Necessary Evil
When a monsignor is found knifed to death in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in to profile the ritualistic murder of a priest, the latest in a series of killings. Maggie soon discovers a disturbing Internet game that's popular among victims of abuse by Catholic priests. With this first real lead in the investigation, she wonders if the group has turned cyberspace justice into reality. Then Maggie gets a second lead-one that leaves her stunned. For the past four...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | MIRA, [Nederland] | 2021
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Alex Kava The Soul Catcher
For FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, there is nothing routine about being called in to work these two cases. As an expert criminal profiler, Maggie provides psychological insight on cases that involve suspected serial killers. She can't understand, then, why her boss, Assistant Director Cunningham, has assigned her to these two seemingly unrelated crimes. But as Maggie and her partner, Special Agent R. J. Tully, delve into the two cases, they learn that there is a connection between the crimes: Reverend...
Engels | ePub2, 1,6 MB | MIRA, [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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Rachel Gibson Simply Irresistible
Chinooks Hockey Team
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fianc at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of thema night too sultry to resist temptation. Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Austen Emma
World Classics
Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." Emma Woodhouse is perhaps Jane Austen’s most seductive and complicated character, filled with intrigue and uniqueness. Despite having decided to never marry, precocious Emma Woodhouse is a self proclaimed cupid that has taken it upon herself to help her friends find eligible matches. As it becomes evident that the judgement of her matchmaking abilities is misplaced, Emma finds herself at the heart of...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Austen Persuasion
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is well past the bloom of her youth. Having been persuaded by her friends and family to break off her happy engagement with the young naval officer Wentworth, whose station lies beneath her own, Anne is seemingly destined for spinsterhood. However, when Wentworth later reappears in Anne’s life, tension...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Camilla Lackberg Truth or Dare
A gripping new novella from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla LackbergFour friendsLiv, Martina, Max and Anton have been best friends for years. So on New Year’s Eve, they’re more than happy to spend it together – drinking, flirting, and playing games.Four terrifying secretsBut each of them is keeping a terrible secret. And when a game of truth or dare takes a dark turn, it’s not long before the shocking truth emerges.A night that will end in murderNow...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Camilla Lackberg Women Without Mercy
A gripping new novella from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla LackbergThree women. Three destructive marriages.Ingrid gave up a promising career to support her husband. Then she finds out he’s having an affair.Birgitta is skipping her medical appointments. That way no-one will discover the bruises her husband leaves.Victoria left her life in Russia to marry a man she met online. But her new husband is nothing like she imagined.Maybe the only way out is to commit...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Julia Quinn On the Way to the Wedding
Bridgertons
A funny thing happened... Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except... She wasnt the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2021
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George R.R. Martin A Dance With Dragons
Part 2 After The Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series. 'Vivid, rich, multi-layered and utterly addictive' Daily ExpressThe future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In King's Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the eastern...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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