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Saunders George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH'A masterpiece' Zadie Smith'Extraordinary' Daily Mail'Breathtaking' Observer'A tour de force' Sunday TimesThe extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil WarThe American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter...
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub3, 1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2017
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Andy Griffiths The 52-Storey Treehouse
The Treehouse Series
The 52-Storey Treehouse is the fourth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic comic book-style illustrations. 'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger GangAndy and Terry's incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has thirteen new storeys! It used to be 13, then 26, then 39, but they keep expanding! This time, there's a new watermelon-smashing level,...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 151 MB) | Macmillan Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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Andy Griffiths The 65-Storey Treehouse
The Treehouse Series
The 65-Storey Treehouse is the fifth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic comic book-style illustrations.'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger GangAndy and Terry's amazing 65-Storey Treehouse used to be 52 stories, but they keep expanding!Now it has a pet-grooming salon, a birthday room (where it's always your birthday, even when it's not),...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub3, 142 MB) | Macmillan Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2016
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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
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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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Patricia Snel The expat
Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul's telescope to spy on Dave across the pool in their luxury Singapore condominium. Despite their mutual attraction there is something about the man that makes Julia uneasy. When Dave's maid, Angelica, dies in suspicious circumstances, Julia gets pulled into a world of secrets and discovers a less visible Singapore of exploitation and prostitution. The Expat is a gripping story of greed, love, infidelity and crime in Singapore. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 223 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2015
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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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Matthew Gregory Lewis The monk
a romance
Een schijnheilige monnik wordt door de duivel van de ene schanddaad tot de andere gebracht.
Fictie
Engels | 436 pagina's | Alma Classics, Richmond, Surrey | 2019
Gedrukt boek
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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Cedar Wang Codebreaker Charlotte
Charlotte moet allerlei codes en raadsels oplossen. Zo ontdekt ze meer over geheimschrift en het belangrijke werk van haar overgrootmoeder in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Prentvertelling met gekleurde illustraties. Vanaf ca. 6 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 26 pagina's | Clavis, New York | 2024
Gedrukt boek
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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Simon Hammelburg Broken on the inside
the war never ended
WWII did not end in 1945 when the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust were released from the concentration camps or came out of their hiding places. Often no longer welcome in their former homes they were forced to leave behind, stripped of their belongings and dignity, they had to move on regardless. Their children suffered too, as there was always fear, anxiety and sadness about countless relatives that were killed during this unrivalled genocide. Simon Hammelburg compiled the accounts of...
Fictie
Engels | 274 pagina's (PDF, 0,5 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
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