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Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
A BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick for 2024
A BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping...
Engels | 330 pagina's (ePub3, 2,7 MB) | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Andy Griffiths The 39-Storey Treehouse
The Treehouse Series
The 39-Storey Treehouse is the third book in Andy Griffith's and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations.'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger GangAndy and Terry's amazing treehouse has thirteen new levels! It used to be 13 storeys, then 26, but they keep expanding!They've added a chocolate waterfall you can swim in, a volcano for toasting...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 172 MB) | Macmillan Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2015
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Kristin Hannah The Nightingale
The Multi-Million Copy Bestseller from the author of The Women
The bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club PickSoon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale is a multi-million copy bestseller across the world. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women.This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women's stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub3, 2,1 MB) | Pan, [Nederland] | 2015
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Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life
The Million-Copy Bestseller; Picador Collection
I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever.' - Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book AwardsShortlisted for the Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Women's PrizeFinalist for...
Engels | 752 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Picador, [Nederland] | 2015
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Fumio Obata Just So Happens
Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far awayuntil her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of lifefish bars, bullet trains, pagodasas she confronts the question of where her future really...
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub3, 155 MB) | Abrams ComicArts, [Nederland] | 2015
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O. T. Nelson The Girl Who Owned a City
The Graphic Novel
A deadly virus killed every adult on Earth, leaving only the kids behind. With her parents gone, Lisa is responsible for her little brother, Todd. She has to make sure they stay alive. Many kids are sick or starving, and fierce gangs are stealing and destroying everything they find. Lots of people have given up, but on Grand Avenue, some kids are surviving. Because of Lisa. Lisa figured out how to give the kids on Grand Avenue food, homes, and protection against the gangs. But Tom Logan and his army...
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub3, 34 MB) | Graphic Universe â„¢, [Nederland] | 2013
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Trina Robbins Lily Renee, Escape Artist
From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
In 1938, Lily Renee Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents behind and travels alone to England. Escaping the Nazis is only the start of Lily's journey. She must escape many more times—from servitude, hardship, and danger. Will she find a way to have her own sort of...
Engels | 96 pagina's (ePub3, 26 MB) | Graphic Universe â„¢, [Nederland] | 2013
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Zeina Abirached A Game for Swallows
To Die, To Leave, To Return
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world...
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub3, 36 MB) | Graphic Universe â„¢, [Nederland] | 2013
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Delphine Dubos The Planet of Wind
Book 1
The wind itself provides all the energy the Eolians need for warming their planet, which is ever in danger of being covered by ice. But each day the winds they rely on grow weaker-stolen by pirates, and no one knows how. Can the Little Prince and Fox discover the real root of the problem and save a whole planet from disappearing into darkness? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 56 pagina's (ePub3, 16 MB) | Graphic Universe â„¢, [Nederland] | 2013
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Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge
The Beloved Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel
The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge from the author of Olive, Again and Oh William! Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate, and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as Olive grows older, she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies. A penetrating, vibrant exploration of the human soul, the story of Olive Kitteridge will make you laugh,...
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub3, 2,6 MB) | Simon & Schuster UK, [Nederland] | 2013
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2012
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Patti Smith Just Kids
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Maxs...
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub3, 1,7 MB) | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2010
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Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway...
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Faber & Faber, [Nederland] | 2008
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Yann Martel Life of Pi
A Novel
A MODERN CLASSIC AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE"A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction."Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAfter the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutanand a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow...
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub3, 1,3 MB) | Mariner Books, [Nederland] | 2002
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Sarah Harman All the other mothers hate me
anovel
Een voormalig popzangeres leeft voor haar 10-jarige zoon, maar raakt in de problemen als het jongetje dat hem steeds pest op mysterieuze wijze verdwijnt tijdens een schoolreisje. Terwijl ze probeert de onschuld van haar zoon te bewijzen, krijgt ze alle andere moeders tegen zich.
Fictie
Engels | 373 pagina's | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York | 2025
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Harlan Coben Nobody's fool
2000, Malaga. Sami Pierce, Amerikaanse backpacker, wordt bebloed wakker met een mes in zijn hand en het lichaam van zijn vriendin naast hem. Tweeëntwintig jaar later is hij rechercheur en ontdekt hij dat zijn vriendin van toen nog leeft. Hij moet haar vinden om erachter te komen wat er is gebeurd.
Fictie
Engels | 418 pagina's | Century, London | 2025
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Emilia Voortman Poveglia's plague doctor
"Fransisco is a plague doctor, whose master Servius has just died. At his deathbed, Servius gave Fransisco his last wish; to take his ring alongside his ashes to his wife. Fransisco goes on a journey to fulfil his master’s last wish, but realizes only then how little he truly knows about his master."-- Achtrflap
Fictie
Engels | 214 pagina's | Donkey Books, [Heemskerk] | 2024
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