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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Original Version
An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...
Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [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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Curtis Sittenfeld Sisterland
The striking Sunday Times bestseller
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER -Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children....
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Liane Moriarty Three Wishes
From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series
Lose yourself in this wickedly addictive exploration of family, relationships and modern love from the bestselling author of the HBO sensation BIG LITTLE LIES'I adored it. Fresh, intelligent and entertaining' MARIAN KEYESThey say trouble always comes in threes ... For sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, the year they turn thirty-three is no exception. Sensible Lyn is struggling to balance being a mother, wife and businesswoman without losing her mind. Cat, whose perfect marriage is the envy of all...
Engels | ePub3, 4,4 MB | Penguin, [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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Gabriel Garcia Marquez No One Writes to the Colonel
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left'Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Alice Munro Lives of Girls and Women
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Claire-Louise Bennett Checkout 19
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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
A potent, touching, heart wrenching tale of love, desire and hope.‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ is a tale composed in the form of letters from the young Werther himself, to his friend Wilhelm, documenting the pains of the emotion he feels from his unrequited love. Having fallen in love with village of Wahlheim, Werther falls hopelessly head over heels for beautiful Charlotte, a local girl who is already engaged to another man. This is a story that is familiar to all of us and indeed the author himself...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 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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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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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
World Classics
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.” Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better than...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Inez Corbi Een nieuw begin
Een jonge vrouw onderzoekt de geschiedenis van de 'Verloren Tuinen van Heligan' en ontdekt het verhaal van twee weeskinderen die in 1781 opgroeiden op het landgoed van hun neef Henry Tremayne, die ervan droomt een grote tuin aan te leggen.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | A.W. Bruna Uitgevers, Amsterdam | 2023
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Lupko Ellen Als een mot
roman
Een 66-jarige man met terminale kanker slijt zijn laatste, levendige dagen in een klein Engels stadje.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Nederlands | 264 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Passage, Groningen | 2022
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Anne van Zwieten De setarspeler
Een Koerdische vluchteling uit Iran probeert in Nederland zijn draai te vinden.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 2,4 MB | Uitgever J, Gopher, Harderwijk | 2022
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Beverly Lewis Een nieuw begin
Amish-roman
'Ik wilde dat er iets was wat ik kan doen,' zei nicht Verena, en toen brak haar stem. 'Maar wat?' fluisterde Susie, terwijl ze over haar ogen veegde. 'De jongen van wie ik al zo lang houd, ziet me als zijn zus... en dat is altijd zo geweest.' Susie Masts leven in Lancaster County is gevormd door de tragische dood van haar vader en haar broer, die maar weinig met haar in leeftijd scheelde. Nu, op tweeëntwintigjarige leeftijd, is Susie nog steeds ongetrouwd, ondanks dat ze al lange tijd verliefd is...
Fictie
Nederlands | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 4,9 MB) | Uitgeverij De Parel, Doornenburg | 2022
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Emily Henry People we meet on vacation
Na hun laatste, rampzalige vakantie besluit een jonge vrouw haar vroegere beste vriend over te halen om nog één keer samen op vakantie te gaan en alles bij te leggen. Wat kan er misgaan?
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | ePub2, 3,8 MB | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2023
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Toon Tellegen Als we samen
‘Als we samen nu eens in een boom klimmen, dacht de egel, toen de olifant voor de zoveelste keer uit de top van een boom was gevallen. Dan sla ik mijn voorpoten om zijn middel. Hij gaat op één been staan en draait om zijn as. Hij maakt een hele pirouette, en misschien nog wel een! Hij zal wankelen. Maar hij valt niet. Ik houd hem vast en laat hem niet los.’ Als we samen mogen dansen, als we samen ergens kunnen gaan eten, als we samen zullen feesten, dan komt alles helemaal goed. Om hoop te houden...
Fictie
Nederlands | 62 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, Amsterdam | 2021
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James Clammer Van geen betekenis
Het is loodgieter Joseph Forbes’ eerste werkdag na een lang ziekteverlof en hij zou een boiler moeten vervangen. Dat is makkelijker gezegd dan gedaan als je steeds wordt afgeleid door gedachten aan wat er is gebeurd met je vrouw, met je zoon. En door de twijfel of je wel ongeschonden de dag doorkomt. De lezer kruipt in het hoofd van de worstelende Joe, die ook nog onverwacht zijn zoon Edward op bezoek krijgt, net vrijgelaten uit de gevangenis. Intussen bezoekt Joes vrouw Alison een reisbureau, al...
Fictie
Nederlands | 136 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, Amsterdam | 2022
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