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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Little Women Series
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Jane Austen Mansfield Park
World Classics
Mr Darcy and Miss Bennet may be one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, but did you know, Fanny Price was Austen’s favourite? She’s also one of literature’s biggest controversies, but, more on that drama later. Sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle from her poverty-stricken home of Portsmouth, Fanny Price struggles to find her place in the upper-class world of Mansfield Park. Never allowing her to forget her true status, she is at the mercy of her cruel aunt, only finding...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Émile Zola Nana
The Rougon-Macquart Series
She is beautiful, charismatic and destroys every man who dares to pursue her. Before the character of femme fatale was coined in American cinema, Émile Zola captured the seductive female power in "Nana": the ninth installment in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. A daughter of an abusive drunk, forced to live on the streest, Nana manages to rise to high-class prostitute. The novel begins with her debute in Théâtre des Variétés causing all Paris to talk about her. Follow the corrupted and tragic...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Toews Miriam Toews Women Talking
The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid''s Tale.†-Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Toews Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly). Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda''s life is enviable (she''s a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi''s a mess (she''s divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf''s desire to end her life. After Elf''s latest attempt,...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Margaret Atwood The Testaments
The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid s Tale
THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best ... To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about...
Engels | ePub3, 2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Ann Patchett The Dutch House
A Novel
Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeNew York TimesBestseller |A Read with JennaTodayShow Book Club Pick |ANew York Times Book ReviewNotable Book |TIMEMagazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR,TheWashington Post;O: The Oprah Magazine,Real Simple,Good Housekeeping, Vogue,Refinery29, andBuzzfeedAnn Patchett, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofCommonwealth,delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2019
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Patchett Ann Patchett The Dutch House
Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020
Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN'T LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2019
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2019
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Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side
The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen
Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
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John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky
From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies
A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018
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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories
Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.
Fictie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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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
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains
NOW A MAJOR FILM
NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [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
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Marian Keyes The other side of the story
Drie vrouwen gaan op zoek naar liefde, persoonlijk geluk en succes in de uitgeverswereld.
Fictie
Engels | 656 pagina's (ePub, 4,5 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday
Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.
Fictie
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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