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A book to shake the world anew Sebastian Barry
A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection ''Extraordinary . . . radiant'' Sunday Times''An existential tour-de-force'' Eimear McBride''Elatingly risky'' Guardian ''We read in order to come to life.''With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers'' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature.Fusing fantasy with...
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Albert Camus The Plague
Penguin Modern Classics
A story for our, and all, times' Guardian Set in a town consumed by a deadly virus, The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror....
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Robyn Carr Whispering Rock (A Virgin River Novel, Book 3)
A Netflix original seriesBook 3 in the Virgin River seriesCan Mike and Brie face their past, and find their future?When Mike Valenzuela agrees to become the town's first policeman, he does so knowing it's time he settled down. With his fellow ex-marine buddies happily married, he longs for the same commitment and believes he may have found it in Virgin River. Lawyer, Brie Sheridan has come to Virgin River to find a safe haven after nearly losing her life at the hands of a criminal. She finds a kindred...
Engels | ePub2, 2,6 MB | Mills & Boon, [Nederland] | 2021
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Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Oberon Modern Plays
A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mattel Barbie - Spy Squad
Barbie and her friends star as world-class gymnasts who are recruited as top-secret spies!Powerful gems have been stolen, and it’s up to Barbie and her friends to use their dazzling disguises, high-tech glitter gadgets, and trusty teamwork to stop a notorious jewel thief.Come on an amazing adventure with Barbie and all her friends! Solve mysteries with secret doors, sea monsters and messages in a bottle, catch the baddies as a secret agent, sing in Barbie’s rock band, celebrate Chelsea’s birthday...
Engels | ePub3, 39 MB | Saga Kids, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jennifer L. Armentrout Fall With Me
Jennifer L. Armentrout (also known as J. Lynn), New York Times bestselling author of the Wait for You saga, delivers a new novel of first love, second chances, and scorching chemistry. Eleven months ago, bartender and weird-shirt-wearing extraordinaire Roxy and Officer Reece Anders had a one night stand. Well, kind of. Shes been in love with him since she was fifteen, and he wishes that night they shared never happened. Shes sworn him off forever, but the past and future collide, forcing her to rely...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Austen Emma
World Classics
Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." Emma Woodhouse is perhaps Jane Austen’s most seductive and complicated character, filled with intrigue and uniqueness. Despite having decided to never marry, precocious Emma Woodhouse is a self proclaimed cupid that has taken it upon herself to help her friends find eligible matches. As it becomes evident that the judgement of her matchmaking abilities is misplaced, Emma finds herself at the heart of...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Austen Persuasion
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is well past the bloom of her youth. Having been persuaded by her friends and family to break off her happy engagement with the young naval officer Wentworth, whose station lies beneath her own, Anne is seemingly destined for spinsterhood. However, when Wentworth later reappears in Anne’s life, tension...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. 'An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Julie Kagawa The Iron Knight (The Iron Fey, Book 4)
My name - my True Name - is Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl... He gave up everything. All for her... and all for nothing. To emotionless faery prince Ash, love was a weakness for mortals and fools. His own love had died a horrible death, killing any gentler feelings the Winter prince might have had. Or so he thought. Then Meghan Chase a half human, half fey smashed through...
Engels | ePub2, 1,4 MB | HQ Young Adult, [Nederland] | 2021
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Julie Kagawa The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey, Book 3)
From New York Times bestselling author, Julie Kagawa... In less than twenty-four hours I'll be seventeen. Although, technically, I won't actually be turning seventeen. I've been in the Nevernever too long. When you're in Faery, you don't age. MY NAME IS MEGHAN CHASE. I thought it was over. That my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices of those I loved, was behind me. But a storm is approaching, an army of Iron fey that will drag me back, kicking and screaming. Drag...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | HQ Young Adult, [Nederland] | 2021
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Julie Kagawa The Iron Daughter (The Iron Fey, Book 2)
Step back into the Faery realm... Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fitted in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey - ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her. Worse, Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting...
Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | HQ Young Adult, [Nederland] | 2021
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Doyle Catherine Doyle The Storm Keepers' Battle
Storm Keeper Trilogy 3; The Storm Keeper Trilogy
A truly epic finale to one of the best trilogies of recent years'' KIRAN MILLWOOD-HARGRAVE''Magical in every way'' EOIN COLFER, author of Artemis FowlFionn Boyle, Storm Keeper of Arranmore, is facing the fight of his life.The terrifying all-powerful sorceress Morrigan has been raised from the dead and has sealed off the island from all help. Fionn is the only thing that stands between her and a dark future.He''s got to find a way to defeat her.But there are some terrible choices in store for Fionn...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Bloomsbury Children's Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Rachel Gibson Simply Irresistible
Chinooks Hockey Team
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fianc at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of thema night too sultry to resist temptation. Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jos Saramago The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil a kindly and necessary evil but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. An original, wild and beautiful book Times Literary Supplement Bron:...
Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts...
Engels | ePub3, 13 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2021
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Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Underdogs
I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube. ' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it. 'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Niccolo Ammaniti I'm Not Scared
Canons
The international bestselling novel ';of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping reada deft masterpiece with never a false note' (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn't dare...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Canongate Canons, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mizuki Tsujimura Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight
For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.''Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides'' GUARDIAN''Genuinely affecting. A story of empathy, collaboration and sharing truths'' FINANCIAL TIMESTranslated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami_______________________________Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend?In a tranquil neighbourhood...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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