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Michel Faber Under The Skin
With an introduction by David MitchellIsserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2000
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Sophie Kinsella Mini Shopaholic - Book 6
Like mother, like daughter...!Shopaholic Becky Brandon (n e Bloomwood)'s two-year-old is ... spirited. She knows what she wants, whether it's a grown-up Prada handbag or a toy pony (40% off, so a bargain, surely?) When yet another shopping trip turns to mayhem, Becky decides it's time to give Minnie her own pocket money. Is it a bad sign when Minnie goes instantly overdrawn?Minnie isn't the only one in financial crisis. As the Bank of London collapses, people are having to Cut Back. Everyone needs...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2010
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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic & Baby - Book 5
Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual...
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic Abroad - Book 2
For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, and when it comes to spending money, her new motto is Buy Only What You Need - and she's really (sort of) sticking to it. The icing on the brioche is that she's been offered a chance to work in New York.New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to them all. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic Ties The Knot - Book 3
For once in Becky Bloomwood s life, things are going smoothly. She s got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people s money and getting paid for it). She s got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They ve even opened a joint bank account (although they can t quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense).Then Luke proposes and all of a sudden life gets hectic. Becky s mum in rural Surrey wants one thing, Luke s mother in New York wants the...
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Anita Brookner A start in life
Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.
Fictie
Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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T. Coraghessan Boyle After the plague
Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
a story
Symbolisch verhaal over een zeemeeuw in wiens gedachten en levenswijze de vlieger Bach zich tracht te verplaatsen.
Fictie | Dierenleven
Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | Harper Thorsons, [Nederland] | 2021
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Emma Leads Claire
historical roman
Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...
Fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022
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Philibert Schogt Einde verhaal
roman
Een tweetalig opgevoede vertaler belandt in een identiteitscrisis ten gevolge van een problematische vertaalopdracht.
Fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 281 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2015
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Ravelli The flycatcher
love me - leave me
The Flycatcher by Ravelli- an inspiring novel My name is M. Ravelli. Ive been deceived. Two men stole my name. I loved one of them, this is the story of the other. `Keep your eye on God, and your fly zipped up. This is the fascinating story of a seminary student who loves a girl and falls in love with a boy. The leaders of the monastery judged him for this double `fault. Peter is banished from the Roman Catholic community. Ashamed, the failed clergyman flees the country, where he leads a tempestuous...
Fictie
Engels | 349 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | TVF International, Blaricum | 2014
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Tijn Touber Time bender
the man who came to save the earth
Time Bender beschrijft de ontdekkingstocht van een jongeman die wordt meegesleept in een Galactische strijd die zijn weerga niet kent. De mensheid - zo ontdekt hij - bevindt zich in een sleutelpositie om de Kosmische conflicten voor eens en voor altijd op te lossen. De vraag is alleen: worden wij op tijd wakker? 'Ik heb je boek met open mond gelezen. Dit is echt next level.' Karen van Holst-Pellekaan 'Geen woorden die mijn geluksgevoel kunnen beschrijven. Mijn hart bubbelt. Eindelijk antwoorden!'...
Fictie
Engels | 250 pagina's (ePub2) | London Books, Bodegraven | 2019
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Herman Adèr Father, mother
In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how very evocative various scenes are. It could be said that the novella deals with Death. With the sudden death of the father, and with the slow, painful deterioration of the mother into her dementia, followed...
Fictie
Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2) | Johannes van Kessel Publishing, Huizen | 2017
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Ben Okri Incidents at the shrine
Acht verhalen die zich gedeeltelijk in Afrika en voor een ander deel in Londen afspelen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sue Townsend Rebuilding Coventry
Een huisvrouw die per ongeluk haar buurman heeft vermoord, ontdekt tijdens haar omzwervingen op de vlucht voor de politie het positieve gevoel van vrijheid en een nieuw levensperspectief.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,7 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Josephine Cox Lonely Girl
De 15-jarige Rosie, enig kind, zou het thuis, op het Engelse platteland, aangenaam moeten hebben, maar haar moeders grillige karakter verstoort de harmonie binnen het gezin.
Fictie | Familieroman
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories
Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Cecelia Ahern How to fall in love
Een jonge vrouw krijgt twee weken de tijd om een aantrekkelijke jongeman zover te krijgen dat hij niet opnieuw een zelfmoordpoging doet.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Jonathan Franzen The corrections
Als de bejaarde vader van een Amerikaans gezin gaat dementeren, worden zijn drie uit zeer uiteenlopende milieus afkomstige kinderen gedwongen hun levens opnieuw te evalueren.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 672 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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