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Steven Sonneveld Geadopteerd zonder identiteit
het verhaal achter mijn adoptie
Zoektocht van een als baby geadopteerde man naar zijn biologische ouders in Libanon.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 163 pagina's | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2015
Gedrukt boek
John Grisham | Jim McCloskey Framed
astonishing true stories of wrongful convictions
Tien schokkende verhalen over het falen van het Amerikaanse rechtssysteem, waardoor onschuldige mannen veroordeeld werden voor misdaden die ze niet begingen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 346 pagina's | Doubleday, New York | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Michael Van Peel Nordkapp Stories - Engelse editie (e-book)
The North Cape is little more than a car park and a gift shop at a misty end of the European continent. Yet it has been a magnet for travellers and oddballs for centuries. When I reached it myself on my trusty old Vespa one endless summer, I was struck by the atmosphere on that last stretch of road. Little expeditions from all over the world seemed to come together. Weekend warriors, world travellers and asphalt munchers, together en route to the finish line. They had left weeks or months ago, from...
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 111 MB) | Pelckmans uitgevers, Leuven | 2024
E-book
Hans van Manen
meer dan een halve eeuw dans
Portret van de vermaarde choreograaf en danser Hans van Manen (1932) ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzeventigste verjaardag.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 119 pagina's | Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2007
Gedrukt boek
Benjamin Moser Frans Hals op de tweesprong
De tekst van de door de Amerikaanse journalist/biograaf Benjamin Moser (1976) gehouden derde Joost Zwagerman Lezing (2020) over Frans Hals, afgedrukt in het Nederlands en Engels.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 54 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Anne-Marie Kruiper Simply Happy On My Way to Santiago de Compostela
"I walk for weeks. I sleep alone in big dorms. A few items of clothing in my backpack are enough. This is how simple can life be. In Simply Happy, Anne-Marie takes you on a journey to Santiago de Compostela. During this 800-kilometre hike, she learns to let go of certainties and uncertainties, and to accecpt the gifts of life. She meets people from all over the world, but the most beautiful encounter on the pilgrimage is the encounter with herself. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 159 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | AM Books, Schoonhoven | 2024
E-book
Emma Flint Other women
Een alleenstaande vrouw wordt verliefd op een getrouwde man. Ze krijgen een affaire. Als de vrouw dood wordt aangetroffen, wordt de man beschuldigd.
Fictie
Engels | 354 pagina's | Picador, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Abraham de Kock Pardidoe
chronicles of a wandering humanitarian
Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Uitgeverij Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2022
E-book
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis
Ballonstrip.
Fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | Vintage Books, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Salman Rushdie Knife
meditations after an attempted murder
Persoonlijk relaas van de Indiaas-Brits-Amerikaanse schrijver (1947) over hoe hij in 2022 een moordaanslag overleefde en over zijn weg naar lichamelijk en geestelijk herstel.
Non-fictie
Engels | 209 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Maarten A. Oversier The right to be
exposing the surpressed history we still carry within us
Echoes of unresolved trauma from our past, even past lives, can cause physical, psychological, or emotional ailments that present-day humans suffer. But what is the real genesis of these traumas? In the more than 25 years that Maarten Oversier has been a practicing reincarnation and regression therapist, he has discovered that the source can always be found within three specific historical domains. The shocking, and therefore often repressed experiences of our ancestors, the hell of two recent world...
Non-fictie
Engels | 383 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | LondonBooks, [Bodegraven] | 2022
E-book
Laurence Bollen | Mugisha Maisha Safari
The nature of humankind emits light
Mukisa was an inquisitive Muslim boy who was gradually brainwashed from when he was 8 years old to help recruit other children from the Kampala ghettos to become child soldiers. Mukisa has a close relationship with his mother Ayana and his true faith and refuses to accept the situation. When it becomes unbearable, escaping to Europe is his only option. This means leaving everything behind, including his mother and sisters. In Europe, he falls into the hands of human traffickers and is forced to sell...
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Droomvallei Uitgeverij, Breda | 2022
E-book
Hannah Pick-Goslar | Dina Kraft My friend Anne Frank
Memoires van de Joods-Duitse Hannah Pick-Goslar (1928-2022), die in haar jeugd bevriend was met Anne Frank (1929-1945).
Non-fictie
Engels | 327 pagina's | Rider, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Fritz H. Schröder Memoires of my personal and professional life
1937 - 2017
Fritz Schröder is a retired professor of urology. He functioned as the head of the Department of Urology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 1977 to 2002. He was born, raised and trained in Germany and in the USA. His professional life was determined by his clinical activities, oncological research mainly concerning prostate cancer and the training of young urologists. Next to his professional life he took care of his family together with his wife Maren and continued to play cello which is his...
Non-fictie
Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 5,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Cristina Rivera Garza Liliana's invincible summer
a sister's search for justice
Beschrijving van de moord op een 20-jarige studente in Mexico City.
Non-fictie
Engels | 305 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Stijn Bronzwaer | Joris Kooiman | Merijn Rengers The machine
the inside story of Booking.com
Booking.com, one of the richest and most successful internet companies in Europe, has been a mystery for twenty-five years. Everyone knows the website, but no one knows the people and the stories behind this deeply Dutch company in U.S. hands. Until now. Three journalists from the major Dutch NRC newspaper present a detailed reconstruction of the dark internet fairy tale of Booking.com, from an idea built by a group of engineering students in Twente in the late 1990s to its development into the largest...
Non-fictie
Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 11 MB) | Lebowski Publishers, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Jan C. van der Heide Anna
dancing in my mind
ANNA - dancing in my mind For those who knew her, Anna van der Heide had become a household word. Her name stood for love, warmth, humanity and kindness. She was for one and all a large loving mothers heart. Anna, the wife of psychic and hypnotherapist Jan C. van der Heide, has passed away. Jan wrote this book about his dearly beloved Anna. `The flower of his heart, the woman he owes so unprecedented much to. While reading, we can bask in her unlimited love, and in her deep warmth and spirituality....
Non-fictie
Engels | 150 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Citadel, Oegstgeest | 2013
E-book
Eva Vriend Where the Zuiderzee once raged
a story of community spirit, entrepreneurship, and the intimate bond with the water
‘Where the Zuiderzee Once Raged’ by Eva Vriend is a story of the true heroes of the coast, represented by four fisher families from Urk, Volendam, Spakenburg, and Wieringen. Eva Vriend weaves together their family histories into an epic tale of their intimate bond with water, the resilience that has guided them forward, and the fishing tradition in their blood. The charming towns around the IJsselmeer delight visitors with their authentic facades, fishing boats, and picturesque harbors. The people...
Non-fictie
Engels | 359 pagina's (ePub2) | Atlas Contact Publishers, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine
Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...
Non-fictie
Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022
E-book
Stephen Fry Mythos
The Greek Myths Retold; Stephen Fry s Greek Myths
STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRY'S MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, MYTHOSOrder TROY now, Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the most legendary story ever told'A romp through the lives of ancient Greek gods. Fry is at his story-telling best ... the gods will be pleased' TimesDiscover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told ... ___________No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or...
Engels | ePub3, 23 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
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