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Ali Hazelwood Love on the brain

Een wetenschapster die de leiding krijgt bij een project van de NASA ondervindt veel hinder van haar medewerkers.

Fictie

Engels | 354 pagina's | Sphere, London | 2022

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Emily Henry Book lovers

Nora gaat naar het romantische plattelandsdorpje Sunshine Falls om alles even achter zich te laten, maar loopt daar haar rivaal tegen het lijf.

Fictie

Engels | 377 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2022

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John Boyne All the broken places

Een oude vrouw moet haar herinneringen aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog onder ogen komen om iets recht te zetten wat haar al levenslang achtervolgt.

Fictie

Engels | 373 pagina's | doubleday, London | 2022

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Colleen Hoover It starts with us

Lily en haar ex-man hebben een goed ritme gevonden in hun co-ouderschap, maar dan verschijnt plots haar eerste liefde Atlas weer in haar leven.

Fictie

Engels | 323 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2022

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Jane Austen Pride and prejudice

De familie Bennet bestaat uit vader, moeder en vijf dochters. Deze vijf dochters zoeken een man in het Engeland rond de eeuwwisseling van de 18e en 19e eeuw. Die zoektocht zit vol trots en vooroordeel. Met opdrachten en zwart-witillustraties. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 79 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2019

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The last duel

Frankrijk, 14e eeuw. Als een ridder terugkomt van een expeditie vertelt zijn vrouw hem dat zij is verkracht door een vriend van hem. Als die ontkent, en ieder zijn eigen lezing van het gebeuren heeft, leidt dat tot een duel tussen de vrienden.

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Vier Chinese vrouwen schetsen in zestien verhalen hun leven in de eerste helft van deze eeuw, hun vier Chinees-Amerikaanse dochters vertellen over de conflicten en tegenstellingen die ontstaan doordat zij in twee werelden leven.

Fictie

Engels | 287 pagina's | Heinemann, London [etc.] | 1989

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West Side Story

Als Tony op een schoolfeest in 1957 Maria ziet, is het liefde op het eerste gezicht, wederzijds. Er is maar één probleem: hij is blank en zij van Puerto Ricaanse afkomst en die groepen bestrijden elkaar.

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Denise Mina Rizzio

Hervertelling van een overval op koningin Mary van Schotland in 1566, waarbij haar vriend wordt vermoord.

Fictie

Engels | 118 pagina's | Polygon, Edinburgh | 2021

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Jeffrey Archer Tell tale

De burgemeester van een Italiaans stadje wordt vermoord, een man heeft een affaire met de vrouw van zijn beste vriend en een Engelse soldaat ontmoet zijn leraar Duits in de loopgraven: bundel met dertien verhalen die spelen in diverse landen.

Fictie

Engels | 233 pagina's | Macmillan, London | 2017

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Ellen Alpsten The tsarina's daughter

Historische roman over Elisabeth Petrovna (1709-1761).

Fictie

Engels | 444 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2022

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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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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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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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther

A potent, touching, heart wrenching tale of love, desire and hope.‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ is a tale composed in the form of letters from the young Werther himself, to his friend Wilhelm, documenting the pains of the emotion he feels from his unrequited love. Having fallen in love with village of Wahlheim, Werther falls hopelessly head over heels for beautiful Charlotte, a local girl who is already engaged to another man. This is a story that is familiar to all of us and indeed the author himself...

Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [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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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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Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey...

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Paulo Coelho Manuscript Found in Accra

Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the townspeople to address their fears with truth, hope and comfort. They begin with questions about defeat and struggle; they contemplate the virtues of loyalty...

Engels | ePub2, 8,5 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. 'An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom...

Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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