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Ulrich Boschwitz The passenger
a novel
Als woning en gezin van een joodse koopman tijdens de pogroms van 1938 worden belaagd, slaat hij al reizend op de vlucht.
Fictie
Engels | 266 pagina's | Metropolitian Books, Henry Holt and Company, New Yrok | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Carol Ann Lee Anne Frank's story
The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated in six clearly written chapters, this biography for children answers the many detailed questions about Anne that readers of the Diary often have, and includes interesting anecdotes from friends who survived her. There is an Historical Note at the beginning of the book and a map of Europe, so that children...
Engels | 96 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Doyle Catherine Doyle The Storm Keeper s Island
Storm Keeper Trilogy 1; The Storm Keeper Trilogy
WINNER OF THE BAMB YOUNG READERS – MIDDLE GRADE AWARD 2018WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK BOOK AWARD 2019''Magical in every way'' - EOIN COLFERWhen Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it begins to stir beneath his feet ...Once in a generation, Arranmore Island chooses a new Storm Keeper to wield its power and keep its magic safe from enemies. The time has come for Fionn''s grandfather, a secretive and eccentric old man, to step down. Soon, a new Keeper will rise.But, deep underground,...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Bloomsbury Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Alex Scarrow TimeRiders - Book 1
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand . . .'But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose - to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That's why the TimeRiders exist:...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Robert Harris Selling Hitler
the story of the Hitler diaries
His classic account of The Hitler Diaries. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . . Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [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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D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author's life and works, notes and a bibliographic section. Lawrence's determination to explore every aspect - sexual, social, psychological - of Lady Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors makes...
Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Alma Classics, [Nederland] | 2018
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John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky
From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies
A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday
Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sophie Kinsella Mummy Fairy and Me
Fairy-in-Waiting
Hello. I''m called Ella Brook and I live in a town called Cherrywood. I have blue eyes and dark brown hair. My best friends at school are Tom and Lenka. My worst enemy is Zoe. And then there is my mummy. She looks normal, like any other mummy . . . but she''s not. Because she can turn into a fairy. She just has to shut her eyes tight, say ''Marshmallow'' . . . and POOF! She''s Mummy Fairy.Ella''s family has a big secret - her mummy is a fairy! She can do amazing spells with her computawand. Only,...
Engels | ePub3, 64 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sophie Kinsella Mummy Fairy and Me
Hello. I''m called Ella Brook and I live in a town called Cherrywood. I have blue eyes and dark brown hair. My best friends at school are Tom and Lenka. My worst enemy is Zoe. And then there is my mummy. She looks normal, like any other mummy . . . but she''s not. Because she can turn into a fairy. She just has to shut her eyes tight, say ''Marshmallow'' . . . and POOF! She''s Mummy Fairy.Ella''s family have a big secret . . . her mummy is a fairy! She can do amazing spells with her computawand to...
Engels | ePub3, 58 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2018
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Ruth Ware The Death of Mrs Westaway
A modern-day murder mystery from The Sunday Times Bestseller
I read this in two lightning-quick sittings...I absolutely adored it'' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family UpstairsHAL MUST KEEP GOING OR RISK LOSING EVERYTHING...EVEN HER LIFE. When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she''s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. There''s just one problem - Hal''s real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. Hal desperately needs the cash and makes a choice that...
Engels | ePub3, 6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Jojo Moyes Still Me
Discover the love story that captured 21 million hearts
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING LOVE STORY THAT CAPTURED 21 MILLION HEARTS''Immensely readable and enjoyable'' Sunday Times''Jojo Moyes is a phenomenal storyteller . . . beautiful'' 5***** Reader Review________Fall in love with the perfect heartwarming read . . .Lou Clark knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London.She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.But what Lou doesn''t know is she''s about...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
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Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018
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Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side
The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen
Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
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Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The cult New York Times bestseller
**THE TIKTOK SENSATION**Read THE razor-sharp satire that everyone is talking about...On the surface ,our narrator has everything you could want in life. She''s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance.But there is a vacuum in her life and she''s got the perfect solution. She''s going to take a year under sedation to relax and hide away from the world.What could possibly go wrong?Blackly...
Engels | ePub3, 5,8 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
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Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains
NOW A MAJOR FILM
NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Rachel Kushner The Mars Room
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers – a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker. Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where...
Engels | ePub3, 4,8 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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