• 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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• Lydia Muijen Love heals

  why not do it more

  “Love Heals, why not do it more” is filled with inspirational short poems of timeless truths and with her personal experiences. Lydia Muijen wrote a new collection of poems about a world that could use a little more kindness. With a bubbling curiosity for nature, Lydia indirectly raises questions as: How can we start to heal the world we live in; what would the world look like if there were a little more kindness in it; and what would the world look like from the perspective of a tree? She poses...

  Fictie

  Engels | 65 pagina's (ePub2, 8,1 MB) | Nederlandse Auteurs Uitgeverij, Blaricum | 2015

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• Eric Kollen The Amsterdam Tinkerbells

  an erotic LGBT tale

  Fifteen-year-old Fabian is on his way from New York to Düsseldorf with his father. When one of the passengers becomes ill, the aircraft has to land in Amsterdam, a city under the spell of the imminent Gay Pride. Together with the handsome blond doctor Rodric and the flamboyant Brazilian Rafaela, they decide to postpone their journey to Düsseldorf and instead to throw themselves into the festivities. Fabian is bursting with excitement, for the next day is his sixteenth birthday. Not just any age,...

  Fictie

  Engels | 58 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Eric Kollen, Amsterdam | 2015

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• Geert Mak The angel of Amsterdam

  seven city stories

  Many people star in this Amsterdam chronicle but the one and only protagonist is the city itself. The Angel of Amsterdam combines the dissection of the Dutch capital with a series of personal portraits. It brilliantly reveals the magic, the feel, the rituals and the forgotten world behind and beneath present-day Amsterdam. This special edition of The Angel of Amsterdam offers the international audience not only stellar writing by one of the finest of Dutch authors, but also a unique glimpse into...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 177 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014

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• Ravelli The flycatcher

  love me - leave me

  The Flycatcher by Ravelli- an inspiring novel My name is M. Ravelli. Ive been deceived. Two men stole my name. I loved one of them, this is the story of the other. `Keep your eye on God, and your fly zipped up. This is the fascinating story of a seminary student who loves a girl and falls in love with a boy. The leaders of the monastery judged him for this double `fault. Peter is banished from the Roman Catholic community. Ashamed, the failed clergyman flees the country, where he leads a tempestuous...

  Fictie

  Engels | 349 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | TVF International, Blaricum | 2014

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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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• 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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• Paulo Coelho Manuscript Found in Accra

  Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the townspeople to address their fears with truth, hope and comfort. They begin with questions about defeat and struggle; they contemplate the virtues of loyalty...

  Engels | ePub2, 8,5 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Julia Quinn It's In His Kiss

  Bridgertons

  Meet Our Hero ... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem isit's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine ... All the ton agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken, and according...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Julia Quinn On the Way to the Wedding

  Bridgertons

  A funny thing happened... Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except... She wasnt the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers to help Gregory win her...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2021

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• William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (Collins Classics)

  A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women pursue love and life in London, against the background of the...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Haruki Murakami 1Q84

  Book 3

  Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves. But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever. Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much. He must find her before someone else does. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [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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• Charles Dickens David Copperfield

  Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood...

  Engels | ePub3, 7 MB | Penguin, [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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• Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha

  This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Tim Burton The Nightmare Before Christmas

  Jack Skellington is the most important figure in Halloween Town and for years he has delighted in organising macabre tricks and frights for Halloween. But this year he doesn''t feel right - there must be more to life than scaring people? Then Jack stumbles upon a cheerful, colourful place called Christmas Town and he knows what he must do - he will bring Christmas to Halloween!This is the first book written and illustrated by the incomparable visionary Tim Burton. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub3, 80 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Dean Koontz The Neighbour

  An original short story from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A prequel to THE CITY, his gripping and moving new novel. Every city has its wonders and mysteries. For the Pomerantz family, the most disturbing mystery at the moment is the identity and the intentions of their new neighbour... The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other's best friend, united by a...

  Engels | ePub2, 2,9 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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