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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Little Women Series
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Émile Zola Nana
The Rougon-Macquart Series
She is beautiful, charismatic and destroys every man who dares to pursue her. Before the character of femme fatale was coined in American cinema, Émile Zola captured the seductive female power in "Nana": the ninth installment in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. A daughter of an abusive drunk, forced to live on the streest, Nana manages to rise to high-class prostitute. The novel begins with her debute in Théâtre des Variétés causing all Paris to talk about her. Follow the corrupted and tragic...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Marion Zimmer Bradley The Planet Savers and Three More Stories
Four Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Featured stories: The Planet Savers, Year Of The Big Thaw, Year Of The Big Thaw and The Wind People. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Otbebookpublishing, [Nederland] | 2019
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Jenny Colgan The Bookshop on the Shore
A Novel
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Haris dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually...
Engels | ePub3, 1 MB | William Morrow Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2019
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Shafak Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The EconomistA moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun...
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Deborah Levy The Man Who Saw Everything
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 ''An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe'' The Times ''It''s like this, Saul Adler.'' ''No, it''s like this, Jennifer Moreau.'' In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West....
Engels | ePub3, 2,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2019
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Margaret Atwood The Testaments
The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid s Tale
THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best ... To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about...
Engels | ePub3, 2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Toews Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly). Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda''s life is enviable (she''s a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi''s a mess (she''s divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf''s desire to end her life. After Elf''s latest attempt,...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Toews Miriam Toews Women Talking
The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid''s Tale.†-Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Tessa Bailey Fix Her Up
A Novel; Hot and Hammered
"Fix Her Up ticks all my romance boxes. Not only is it hilarious, it's sweet, endearing, heartwarming and downright sexy. It's a recipe for the perfect love story." - Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author of Meet CuteA steamy, hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey, perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne!Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they...
Engels | ePub3, 2 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2019
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Robert Harris The Second Sleep
the Sunday Times #1 bestselling novel
THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and ExpressWHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if possible. ' STEPHEN KING'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative. ' SUNDAY TIMES'Genuinely thrilling. ' DAILY TELEGRAPH_____________________________________ Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax,...
Engels | ePub3, 5,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert City of Girls
The Sunday Times Bestseller
______________**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER****A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT''S READING ROOM** ''Stunning'' - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN''Warm and wise'' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer''Glamorous, sexy, compelling'' - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times''I fell in love with Vivian from page one'' - Daisy Buchanan''An education in love, and an iridescent delight'' - Rowan Pelling, Spectator New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2019
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2019
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Graeme Simsion The Rosie Result
The Rosie Project Series
Incredibly funny, life-affirming and warm-hearted' Heat'This funny novel tackles tough with a light touch and a big heart' Daily Mail'Made me laugh out loud' Bill Gates'Hilarity is the order of the day in this joyful read' Prima A big-hearted, hilarious and life-affirming story of overcoming life's obstacles with a little love and a lot of overthinking. Don Tillman has always been scrupulously logical. But ten years on from meeting his wife Rosie through a scientific experiment, Don is facing a dilemma...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2019
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Anne Frank The diary of a young girl
the definitive edition
One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide.It is one of the most celebrated and enduring books of the last century and it remains a deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of human spirit.Anne Frank and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two...
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 5,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Rosie Thomas All my sins remembered
Terwijl boven Europa zich de donkere wolken van economische depressie en oorlogsdreiging samenpakken, groeit de obsederende jaloezie tussen twee in vriendschap opgegroeide nichtjes.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 818 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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BA Paris Behind closed doors
Nadat Grace getrouwd is met de charmante, elegante Jack blijkt hij een sadistische psychopaat te zijn die haar zo perfect gevangen houdt dat ontsnappen onmogelijk lijkt; Jack heeft het ook gemunt op haar zusje Millie, een meisje met het syndroom van Down.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Stephen Fry Heroes
The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold; Stephen Fry s Greek Myths
IMAGINE SANDALS ON YOUR FEET, A SWORD IN YOUR HAND, HOT SUN BEATING DOWN ON YOUR BRONZE HELMET. ENTER THE WORLD OF STEPHEN FRY'S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, HEROESOrder TROY now, Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the most legendary story ever toldIn this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry gloriously retells the epic myths of the Greek heroes - which will be loved by young and old alike. 'An odyssey through Greek mythology. Brilliant ... all hail Stephen Fry' Daily Mail___________Few...
Engels | ePub3, 22 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2018
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Roddy Doyle The commitments
Een groep kansarme jongeren in Dublin richt een popgroep op.
Fictie | Sociale roman
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Nicholas Petrie Burning bright
Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together...
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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