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Malinda Lo Last night at the Telegraph Club
San Francisco, 1954. Lily Hu (17) woont met haar ouders in de wijk Chinatown. Lily kan goed leren en is geïnteresseerd in ruimtevaart. Haar moeder hoopt dat ze trouwt en kinderen krijgt. Maar Lily wordt verliefd op een meisje. Samen onderzoeken ze hun seksualiteit en relatie. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 409 pagina's | Dutton Books, New York | 2021
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Kendare Blake All these bodies
Verenigde Staten, jaren '50. Michael (17) is de zoon van de sherriff en interviewt Marie (15) die in de gevangenis zit. Zij wordt verdacht van een reeks moorden maar beweert dat een vampierachtige seriemoodenaar de dader is. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Engels | 287 pagina's | MacMillan, London | 2021
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Susan Glaspell B.J. Harrison Reads A Jury of Her Peers
"A Jury of Her Peers" is a short story by Susan Glaspell, adapted from her one-act play "Trifles" exploring a murder mystery. The detectives trying to solve the crime are two women, making it one of the first pieces feminist detective fiction. It targets the vainglorious and absent-minded decisions of men, and highlights female’s psychology and powerfulness of feeling. It is a crime and mystery short story that is both fast-paced entertaining, a must read. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Karla Zimmerman | Kate Armstrong | Carolyn Bain | Amy C. Balfour | Ray Bartlett | Loren Bell USA's best trips
51 amazing road trips
Engelstalige reisgids met 51 autoroutes in de Verenigde Staten.
Non-fictie
Engels | 679 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Dublin] | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune
Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...
Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Political exile in the global twentieth century
Catholic Christian democrats in Europe and the Americas
This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common national approach, the present volume puts transnational perspectives at center stage and in doing so aspires to be a genuinely global and longitudinal study. Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century includes chapters on continental European exile in the United Kingdom and North America through...
Non-fictie
Engels | 319 pagina's (PDF, 5,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads When the World Was Young and Moon-Face
"When the World Was Young" introduces us to a thief named Dave Slotter, who intends to steal from James Ward - a famous and wealthy businessman. However, while Slotter walks through Ward’s property, he encounters a wild barbarian and is forced to fight for his life. Will Slotter escape from the wild man who wants to kill him? Who is the barbarian and what is he doing on Ward’s lands? Will the thief succeed in his plan? "Moon-Face" introduces us to John Claverhouse, a man who is unreasonably despised....
Engels | 1 uur (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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T.A. Williams Second Chances in Chianti
Alice thought her future was set in stone until her past came knocking... Alice Butler starred in a successful US sitcom until tensions in the cast and crew caused the show to be cancelled. Now, five years later and working towards her dream job in art history, she’s called back for a revival of the show. It can only end in disaster, surely? Flown to a villa in Chianti to meet with the rest of the cast, Alice must decide where her future lies – with her boyfriend, David, who laps up the Hollywood...
Engels | 7 uur 35 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Leopard Man's Story
"King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with mysterious scars on his arms. He finds out that the murderer attended every performance of the lion-tamer in hope of seeing the lion tear his trainer apart. Who is the murderer and why did he hate the lion trainer so much? Who does the "Leopard Man" suspect and will he be able to reveal the truth? What will happen to...
Engels | 10 minuten (7,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Felice Picano The Lure
Shocking and controversial, The Lure has become a classic of gay fiction with its candid description of New York’s gay subculture. The works of Felice Picano need little introduction. As one of the founding members of The Violet Quill, the foremost post-Stonewall gay writing movement, (other members included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), Picano has published many acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction. First published in 1979, The Lure rocketed Picano to commercial literary fame....
Engels | 15 uur 23 minuten (671 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer The Eleventh Commandment
Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer,...
Engels | 10 uur 51 minuten (475 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Infernal Trap
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Fifty thousand francs are stolen from Nicolas Dugrival’s jacket and Arsène Lupin is the main suspect. When Dugrival commits suicide, his widow swears revenge and sets an inescapable trap for our hero... The fourth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic detective series perfect for readers who love Arthur Conan Doyle’s...
Engels | 52 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Catherine Steadman De verdwijning
Actrice Mia Eliot is vanuit Londen naar LA gekomen om auditie te doen – haar kans om definitief door te breken. Ze voelt zich een buitenbeentje in de stad vol beroemde filmsterren en meedogenloze competitie, tot ze Emily ontmoet. Ook zij is actrice, maar ze is vriendelijk en oprecht en Mia kan het onmiddellijk goed met haar vinden. Maar dan verdwijnt Emily plotseling en Mia blijkt de laatste persoon te zijn die haar heeft gezien. Er duikt een vrouw op die beweert dat ze Emily is, maar Mia weet meteen...
Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller
Engels | 291 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Xander, Haarlem | 2021
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Mary L. Trump The reckoning
America's trauma and finding a way to heal
Beschrijving van de wijze waarop racisme en discriminatie de hele geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten hebben beheerst, waaraan president Trump mede debet is.
Non-fictie
Engels | 193 pagina's | Allen & Unwin, London | 2021
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Luke Meddings What they heard
how The Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan listened to each other and changed music forever
Engels | 271 pagina's | Weatherglass Books, [Verenigd Koninkrijk] | 2021
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Kathryn Kolbert | Julie F. Kay Controlling women
what we must do now to save reproductive freedom
Engels | 296 pagina's | Hachette Books, New York | 2021
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Matter of black lives
writings from The New Yorker
Beschouwende artikelen over racisme in de Verenigde Staten vanaf 1925 tot heden.
Non-fictie
Engels | 828 pagina's | William Collins, London | 2021
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Stephanie Grisham I'll take your questions now
what I saw at the Trump White House
Persoonlijk portret van een perschef van de Amerikaanse president Trump, met interessante achtergrondinformatie.
Non-fictie
Engels | 329 pagina's | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY | 2021
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Steven Rosefielde | D. Quinn Mills Beleaguered superpower
Biden's America adrift
Engels | 380 pagina's | World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ | 2021
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Joshua Cohen The Netanyahus
an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family
Een Joods historicus aan het Corbin College wordt eind jaren vijftig gevraagd deel te nemen aan een sollicitatiecommissie. Wanneer de sollicitant, een Joods geleerde in ballingschap, voor het gesprek verschijnt in gezelschap van zijn gehele gezin, neemt de historicus tegen wil en dank de rol van gastheer op zich.
Fictie | Sociale roman
Engels | 239 pagina's | Fitzcarraldo Editions, London | 2021
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