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Tracy Chevalier Remarkable creatures

De beroemde Engelse fossielenzoekster Mary Anning (1799-1847) sluit in de 19e eeuw vriendschap met een verzamelaarster van fossiele vissen.

Fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book
Marc Fitten Valeria's last stand

Wanneer een schoorsteenveger zich vestigt in een afgelegen Hongaars dorpje en al gauw twee liefdesrelaties onderhoudt, volgen de dorpelingen dit vol verontwaardiging.

Fictie

Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Colum McCann Let the great world spin

In de ochtend van 7 augustus 1974 loopt een koorddanser op honderden meters hoogte tussen de twee torens van het WTC in New York.

Fictie

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Laleh Khadivi The age of orphans

Nadat zijn dorp in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw is uitgemoord, wordt een Koerdische weesjongen verplicht om te vechten voor een verenigd Iran.

Fictie

Engels | ePub, 1,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

E-book
Charles Bukowski Factotum

One of Charles Bukowski''s best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant...

Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charles Bukowski Pulp

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer''s seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski''s own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [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 & 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 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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Mark Billingham Lifeless - Tom Thorne Series

Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious police detective has been reduced to pushing papers . . . and is being encouraged to take a prolonged leave of duty.But someone is stalking the city's most destitute citizens. Three homeless men have recently been kicked to death, each brutalized corpse discovered with a banknote pinned to its chest. With nothing to lose, Thorne volunteers...

Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Mark Billingham The Burning Girl - Tom Thorne Series

Some fires never go out ...X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. It's morbid and messy -- but it's a mystery with plenty of clues. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Organized crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's territory, and that someone is ready to stand up for what he believes is his.Thorne's...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Mark Billingham Lazybones - Tom Thorne Series

The first corpse was found hooded, bound, and naked, kneeling ona bare mattress in a seedy hotel room. This was no ordinary murder but rather the work of a killer driven by something special, somethingspectacular. The fact that the dead man was a convicted rapist recently released from prison only increases the bizarre nature of the gruesome crime ... and the police's reluctance to apprehend the perpetrator. It's the body count that troubles Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, as brutal slaying follows...

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charlotte Bronte The Professor

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously. It follows the journey of William Crimsworth into maturity, showing his loves and the path to his eventual career as Professor at an all-girl's school. The novel was largely influenced by Bronte's time in Brussels, where she fell passionately in love with her married language professor. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 280 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | The Floating Press, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charlotte Brontë Villette

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness

Engels | 963 pagina's | Floating Press, [Waiheke Island] | 2009

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Het moerasmonster

Ballonstrips.

Fictie

Nederlands | 254 pagina's | Sanoma, Hoofddorp | 2009

Gedrukt boek
De robotoorlog

Ballonstrips.

Fictie

Nederlands | 254 pagina's | Sanoma, Hoofddorp | 2009

Gedrukt boek
Henk Kooijman Waar ik ook ben, ik draag mijn weiland mee

het Groene Hart in 654 gedichten

Non-fictie

Nederlands | 246 pagina's | Thoth, Bussum | 2009

Gedrukt boek
Bride wars

Als Liv en Emma, die al jaren beste vriendinnen zijn, hun huwelijk op dezelfde datum blijken te hebben gepland, staan ze op voet van oorlog

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Film
Melvin Burgess Nicholas Dane

Nicholas (14) komt na de dood van zijn moeder in een kindertehuis terecht. Als de adjunct-directeur hem seksueel misbruikt, besluit Nicholas te vluchten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 408 pagina's | Andersen Press, London | 2009

Gedrukt boek
Youth in revolt

De 16-jarige verlegen Nick verzint een alter ego om zich los te maken van zijn ouders en indruk te maken op zijn vriendinnetje

Fictie

Film