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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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Fay Weldon Death of a she devil

Nu Ruth Patchett te oud wordt om haar instituut voor gendergelijkheid nog langer te leiden, strijden haar secretaresse en haar kleinzoon om de opvolging.

Fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 5,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [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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Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago

The perfect gift for Valentine s DayFrom the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled...

Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

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Alice Munro New selected stories

Bundel verhalen uit 1998-2009 over levens van vaak onopvallende vrouwen.

Fictie

Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [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

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

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Martin Amis London fields

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson...

Engels | 480 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

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Åsa Larsson The blood spilt

De moord op een feministische predikante op midzomernacht in Zweden houdt de gemoederen hevig bezig.

Fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Penguin Books, [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

Engels | 672 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

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Edna O'Brien The Country Girls Trilogy

Edna O'Brien's beloved classics reveal the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a foreword by Eimear McBride).'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.' Anne Enright'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett'A treasure.' New York TimesONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up...

Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018

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Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

Svenska Ljud Classica

Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane’s and Rochester’s apparent differences attract them to each other, but little does Jane know that something far more damaging than social statuses will keep them apart. ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a love story that holds up over time,...

Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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Mary Shelley Mathilda

Svenska Ljud Classica

On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme “disgusting and detestable”. The world was,...

Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Svenska Ljud Classica

´It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austen´s second novel Pride and Prejudice, which was first published in 1813. It follows the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five single daughters. The whole town is set aflutter by the arrival of prosperous Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy, and as the prejudice of the latter hurts the pride of headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, friendship, love, and strife enfold....

Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

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Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...

Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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Anne Holt Offline - Hanne Wilhelmsen Series

THE NINTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.Long-awaited sequel to Anne Holt's massive bestseller 1222.It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen's life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne's self-imposed exile is nearing its end. When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police force doubt on the authenticity of the declaration,...

Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub3, 0,7 MB) | Atlantic Books, [Nederland] | 2017

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Shamsie Kamila Shamsie Home Fire

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

_______________WINNER OF THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES_______________''The book for our times'' - Judges of the Women''s Prize''Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'' - Guardian''Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I''ve read in a novel this century'' - New York Times_______________Isma...

Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2017

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Svenska Ljud Classica

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Svenska Ljud Classica

One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...

Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

Svenska Ljud Classica

“Please, sir, I want some more,” Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...

Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned

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Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...

Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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