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Josephine Cox The Broken Man
Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Phil decides to accompany him...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #14
Deadly
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe fourteenth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have all done horrible thingsthings that would put them behind bars if anyone ever found out. And their stalker "A" knows everything. So far A has kept their secrets, using them to torture the girls. But now A's changed the game. Suddenly the girls are hauled in for questioning, and all...
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Daniela Sacerdoti Tide - The Sarah Midnight Trilogy
Sarah Midnight is no ordinary teenager. She is a demon hunter, caught up in one of the deadliest wars unknown to man. Orphaned at the age of sixteen, Sarah learned the family trade of hunting without her parents to guide her but under the watchful eye of her 'cousin', who was revealed to be Sean Hannay, no relative at all, but a dear friend of the real Harry Midnight. Now, in the exciting sequel to Dreams, the fight continues. Sarah and Sean may have defeated the Scottish Valaya, but the rest of...
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Black & White Publishing, [Nederland] | 2013
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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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James Joyce Ulysses
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2013
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Melvin Burgess Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot's tough, funny and heart-warming story is given new depth by best-selling author, Melvin Burgess. Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in a bitter miners' fight that has split the local community. Billy's father wants his son to learn boxing, like he did and his father before him. But Billy is fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet and is determined to dance his way to a different future. Told from the differing viewpoints of Billy, his father...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Chicken House, [Nederland] | 2013
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Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 928 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2013
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Simon Scarrow Gladiator
Son of Spartacus
FREE from slavery, Marcus is determined to find and save his kidnapped mother.Meanwhile, his master Julius Caesar wants Marcus to help destroy the bands of rebel slaves and their leader Brixus, who plans to unite a slave army and resurrect the cause of Spartacus.But Marcus and Brixus are old allies who share a life-threatening secret. Marcus is torn between his friend and master. Can he convince Brixus now is not the time for a deadly revolt - and ask Caesar to negotiate a slave surrender before...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 1,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Dan Brown Inferno
(Robert Langdon Book 4)
A swirl of big ideas and non-stop action' New York TimesFlorence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city. Only Langdon s knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save...
Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2013
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Julia Quinn The Bridgertons
Happily Ever After
New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor the first time in print, New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents a collection of second epilogues to her Bridgerton series (previously published as e-originals), plus a new bonus Bridgerton novella. Julia Quinns Bridgerton series remains one of the most beloved among historical romance readers, and this collection of second epiloguesstories that take place after the original books endoffer fans more from their favorite characters. Previously published...
Engels | ePub3, 2,7 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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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
E-book
Gillian Price Walking on Corsica
25 mountain and coastal day walks
Non-fictie
Engels | 134 pagina's | Cicerone, Kendal, Cumbria | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Albert Camus The plague
Het uitbreken van een pestepidemie in een Noord-Afrikaanse stad met als gevolg het totale isolement stelt de bewoners voor fundamentele vragen over goed en kwaad.
Fictie
Engels | 360 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Jan van Diemen | Marc Couwenbergh Jan van Diemen
vijfendertig jaar sportschilder
Overzicht in woord en beeld van werk van de Nederlandse sportschilder (1954- ).
Non-fictie
Duits | Engels | Nederlands | 206 pagina's | Jan van Diemen, [Amstelveen] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Wijnanda Deroo Rijks museum
Verzameling foto's van de verbouwing van het Rijkmuseum Amsterdam, gemaakt tussen 2004 en 2013.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 188 pagina's | Rijksmuseum, [Amsterdam] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
2013