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Nic Stone Dear Justyce
Quan woont in een zwarte achterstandwijk en heeft het thuis zwaar. Zijn stiefvader mishandelt zijn moeder en is wreed tegen hem. Zijn vader zit in de gevangenis. Als Quan uiteindelijk zelf ook in de gevangenis belandt, schrijft hij brieven aan zijn oude vriend Justyce, waarin hij vertelt hoe hij daar terecht is gekomen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Sociale roman
Engels | 266 pagina's | Ember, New York | 2022
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Annabel Pitcher Ketchup clouds
Zoe (15) heeft een verschrikkelijk geheim dat ze aan niemand durft te vertellen. Ze besluit haar geheim in brieven toe te vertrouwen aan een Texaan die de doodstraf heeft gekregen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Indigo, London | 2013
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Natasha Illum Berg Tea on the Blue Sofa
A compelling and poetic deep dive into the intricacies of a love cut short, "Tea on the blue Sofa" dissects Natasha Illum Berg's reflections on her childhood in Sweden and her life in Africa. This autobiographical love letter is an ode to the beauty and brutality of life in which Natasha tries to come to terms with the violent loss of her great love. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel...
Engels | 3 uur 12 minuten (145 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Natasha Illum Berg All Will Be Well
Letters to My Daughter
In a series of letters addressed to her daughter, Natasha Illum Berg reflects on her child's forthcoming journey into a world of love, death, and big game hunting. A gorgeous and powerful introduction to the beauty and brutality of the cycle of life, "All Will Be Well: Letters to My Daughter" poetically examines life's greater values. ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut novel "Floder af Rød" released...
Engels | 4 uur 39 minuten (204 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Zindzi Mandela | Pelle Hvenegaard Dear Zoe Ukhona
a Journey through Infertility and Adoption
In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials...
Engels | 11 uur 14 minuten (495 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Jeffrey Archer A Prison Diary III - Heaven
A flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston, Lincolnshire, a D-category prison. Under a less strict regime, the prisoners can enjoy a more relaxed set of rules, while slowly preparing to someday rejoin the world outside the walls. However, a minor breach of conditions gets him sent off to the notorious HMP Lincoln facility for twenty-two days, where more traumatic experiences await. "Heaven" is the third book...
Engels | 9 uur 38 minuten (460 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer A Prison Diary I - Hell
Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred windows of his cell. Within the thick prison walls separating society from its dangerous criminals, a multitude of harrowing fates unfold, seldomly explored by the public. First-time offenders thrown in cells with hardened criminals, several inmates becoming heroin addicts and a system riddled with flaws. However, even in prison the sunlight cannot be kept out....
Engels | 7 uur 5 minuten (312 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer A Prison Diary II - Purgatory
Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The tediousness of prison life kicks in for prisoner FF8282, also known as author Jeffrey Archer, in the second volume of his best-selling series The Prison Diaries. Still his fellow inmates show inspiring spirit and courage, amid an otherwise gloomy prison landscape, revealing that even in the darkest hours light can always be found. In 2001 August 9th, Jeffrey Archer...
Engels | 7 uur 27 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Rudyard Kipling American Notes
"In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a mockery of American democracy, and whilst exhibiting the racist attitude that has made him controversial...
Engels | 2 uur 45 minuten (119 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde De Profundis
"But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...
Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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John Milton John Milton, Epistolarum familiarium liber unus and Uncollected letters
John Milton holds an impressive place within the rich tradition of neo-Latin epistolography. His Epistolae Familiares and uncollected letters paint an invigorating portrait of the artist as a young man, offering insight into his reading programme, his views on education, friendship, poetry, his relations with continental literati, his blindness, and his role as Latin Secretary. This edition presents a modernised Latin text and a facing English translation, complemented by a detailed introduction...
Non-fictie
Latijn | Engels | PDF, 6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
E-book
Brigid Kemmerer Letters to the lost
Juliet legt brieven op het graf van haar moeder. Declan werkt op het kerkhof vanwege een taakstraf. Wanneer hij een van Juliets brieven vindt, ontstaat er een bijzondere briefwisseling tussen hen. Maar dan blijkt dat ze bij elkaar op school zitten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 393 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2017
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E. Zürcher Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
W. Bilderdijk Mr. W. Bilderdijk's briefwisseling 1795-1797
Brieven van de Nederlandse letterkundige (1756-1831).
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | Italiaans | Latijn | 710 pagina's | HES, Utrecht | 1988
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Ernest Hemingway Selected letters 1917-1961
Engels | 948 pagina's | Granada, London [etc.] | 1981
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Jan van Ruusbroec Vanden blinkenden steen
Latijn | Nederlands | Engels | 649 pagina's | Lannoo, Tielt | 1991
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Isa. Titsingh De particuliere correspondentie van Isaac Titsingh (1783-1812)
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | Frans | 951 pagina's | Canaletto/Repro-Holland, Alphen aan de Rijn | 2009
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Koninklijke Bibliotheek De gekaapte kaper
brieven en scheepspapieren uit de Europese handelsvaart
Historische artikelen naar aanleiding van Nederlandse scheepspapieren en zakenbrieven uit de zeventiende, achttiende en negentiende eeuw, die als oorlogsbuit in Britse archieven belandden.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 142 pagina's | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2011
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 391 pagina's | Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse [etc.] | 1999
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 395 pagina's | Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse | 1996
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