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Penny Hancock The Choice
An Emotional and Thought-provoking Story About Love and Guilt
For fans of Jodi Picoult and If Only I Could Tell You, Penny Hancock''s The Choice is an engrossing, thought-provoking novel about family secrets and the way that even the smallest decisions can sometimes have far-reaching consequences.‘Emotional and thought-provoking’ – Jenny Quintana, author of The Hiding PlaceAn estranged daughter.Renee Gulliver appears to have it all: a beautiful house overlooking a scenic estuary on England’s East Coast, a successful career as a relationship therapist,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
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Ellery Lloyd The Club
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and Instant New York Times Bestseller''Marple meets Succession'' – Sunday Times''If rich terrible people behaving appallingly is your jam then The Club is the book for you!'' – Marian KeyesThere’s no place like Home . . .The Home Group is a collection of ultra-exclusive private members'' clubs and a global phenomenon, and the opening of its most ambitious project yet – Island Home, a forgotten island transformed into the height of luxury – is billed...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
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Karen Witemeyer A Texas Christmas Carol
2022 Carol Award WinnerFrom the talented pen of bestselling author Karen Witemeyer comes a charming Christmas novella inspired by the holiday classic The Christmas Carol.After the Panic of 1873 ruined his father and impoverished his family, Evan Beazer set a single life goal for himself--security. He would never allow joviality and dreams to send him to the poorhouse. Now a successful businessman, Evan runs a dozen inns throughout Texas from the privacy of his home, keeping locals away with the perpetual...
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Bethany House Publishers, [Nederland] | 2022
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Sue Teddern The Pre-Loved Club
The uplifting rom-com we all need!
A gentle reminder love never gives up on anyone. A funny, charming, warm-hearted story to restore your faith in humanity'' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealNed is in IKEA with his wife, Tanya, when she breaks the news that their marriage is over.For Gemma, it''s when she opens the glove compartment of her husband’s car to find a pair of women’s sunglasses that aren’t hers.When Ned and Gemma meet at a support group for single parents, they don''t exactly hit it off. Ned thinks...
Engels | ePub3, 2,5 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
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Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife
The Graphic Novel; His Dark Materials
Enter the remarkable world of His Dark Materials like never before with this stunning, full-colour graphic novel.Lyra has stepped into a brand-new world. Will has just killed a man.Their paths cross in Città gazze. In a city haunted by soul-eating Spectres, troops of angels and vengeful witches, they find in each other a welcome ally.Both are hoping to find something in this strange world: Lyra must discover the meaning of Dark Matter, while Will is desperately searching for his missing father.What...
Engels | ePub3, 127 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2022
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Burton Jessie Burton The House of Fortune
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which has sold more than two million copies. In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt is coming of age, trying to grapple with her family''s secrets and her own identity as a young Dutch-African woman. She''s drawn to the theater and an artistic life, but with her family in serious financial decline, pressure is on Thea to marry up in society. As her father and...
Engels | ePub3, 2,9 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2022
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Ann Henning The Connemara Champion
Connemara Trilogy
‘The Connemara Champion’ is the third and final book in the series about wild young pony Cuaifeach. His owner Doreen is struggling to look after the spirited stallion – but she knows he has it in him to be a champion. Cuaifeach is taken to Dublin to see if he can behave himself as a performance pony, before being entered into the prestigious Ballinalee Show. Will Cuaifeach become the prize-winning champion Doreen knows he can be? There are plenty more mischievous adventures ahead in this delightful...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Ann Henning The Connemara Stallion
Connemara Trilogy
‘The Connemara Stallion’ is the second in a trio of books by author Ann Henning about a wild young pony named Cuaifeach. Set in the west of Ireland, Cuaifeach is now in the care of pony-mad Doreen. Spring is approaching, and it’s time to break Cuaifeach in – but the spirited creature is near-impossible to tame, exasperating even the most experienced of handlers. Will anyone ever be able to tame this wild stallion? Full of fun, humour, and hijinks, this is a delightful children’s tale from the best-selling...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Ann Henning The Connemara Whirlwind
Connemara Trilogy
Marty MacDonagh is the proud owner of a beautiful, champion Connemara mare named Veronica, who is due to give birth to her very first foal. Just as Veronica gives birth however, a wild whirlwind named the Cuaifeach envelops the stable – and the new foal seems to have inherited the personality of the wild weather which surrounded his birth. A whirlwind from the very start, the young foal gets into all sorts of humorous mischief and causes all kinds of trouble. Will the pony-mad young Doreen be the...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Ann Henning Honeylove the Bearcub
‘Honeylove the Bear Cub’ was written by Ann Henning when she was just seven years old, but the story was first published forty years later, when Henning was living in Connemara, Ireland. A sweet tale, ‘Honeylove the Bear Cub’ is suitable for all young readers. Ann Henning Jocelyn was born in Sweden in 1948. Following the death of her father, Ann and her siblings were raised by their mother in remote and beautiful Ed on the Norwegian border. Ann thrived here - by the age of four she was reading,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Jeffrey Archer Willy and the Killer Kipper
Willy series
The world’s largest submarine The Neptune is missing, lost somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. When Willy hears about it, he sets out right away with rambunctious Randolph, his fuzzy teddy, to rescue the crew of The Neptune. Along the way he’ll meet Sybil Seagull, The Rightaway Bird and Boris the Blue Whale, who will help him take on Konrad the Killer Kipper who has taken the crew of the Neptune hostage. Can Willy and his new found friends save the crew before they become Konrad’s lunch?...
Engels | ePub3, 10 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Lev Tolstoj War and Peace I
War & Peace
"I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'” is a modern way of saying "keep it short". However, "I am looking for 'War and Peace'" should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a complete semester of Russian and French history, using the zoom button to focus on its impact on families from the aristocracy to the peasants. 'War and Peace I' introduces the five aristocratic families at the heart of the plot. It paints a picture of petty jealousy, pride and forbidden love in the Russian stately homes...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022
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Bert Koene The world of our grandchildren
The future looks brighter than most people think! That is the conclusion of this book after a thorough investigation of present facts, trends and promises of science and technology. The world population will soon stop growing. The consequences of climate change will be far-reaching, but surmountable. Science and technology will, in the 21st century, make enormous progress. They are the shaping forces of the future. This book clearly explains the potential benefits and dangers of innovations from...
Engels | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2015
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Han Peeters The last prophet
In this exciting novel Emile van Straten, a historic scientist, is sailing around the world with his girlfriend Jenny on their sailing yacht the Davy Jones. During their journey UNESCO assigns him to investigate a document that was found on the island Terceira. Then Emile discovers the magical diamond, a tour de force in geometry. A mysterious symbol that turns out to be the key to the unravelling of world mysteries, such as the pyramids of Giza, the Nazca-plain in Peru and the mysterious Moai-statues...
Fictie
Engels | 230 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2016
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Amy Tan The bonesetter's daughter
Als een Chinees-Amerikaanse vrouw wordt geconfronteerd met de dementie van haar Chinese moeder, ontdekt ze dier aantekeningen over haar veelbewogen leven.
Fictie
Engels | 355 pagina's | Putnam, New York | 2001
Gedrukt boek
Orson Scott Card Wakers
Luz (17) heeft een bijzondere gave. Hij kan 'opzijstappen', en naar een andere werkelijkheid gaan. Maar op een dag wordt hij wakker als bijna de enige overlevende op aarde. Al snel ontdekt Luz wat er aan de hand is. Kan hij ook aan deze situatie ontsnappen? Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York | 2022
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Elizabeth Acevedo Inheritance
a visual poem
Een jonge vrouw wil de vrijheid om zichelf te kunnen zijn. Inspirerende poëzie voor een nieuwe generatie. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Non-fictie
Engels | 48 pagina's | Quill Tree Books, New York, NY | 2022
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Holly Miller What might have been
Wat doe je als jonge vrouw wanneer er opeens twee geweldige mannen in je leven komen?
Fictie
Engels | 393 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2022
Gedrukt boek
States of emergency
architecture, urbanism, and the First World War
More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from...
Non-fictie
Engels | 351 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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Olga Smith Contemporary photography in France
between theory and practice
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography's development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy - the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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2022