• Donna Leon Falling in Love

  A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

  An opera singer is terrified by an obsessive fan in this ';stunning' mystery in the New York Timesbestselling series set in Venice, Italy (Library Journal, starred review). Years ago, Guido Brunetti cleared the opera star Flavia Petrelli in the murder of a renowned conductor. Now the soprano is returning to Veniceand its celebrated opera house, La Feniceto sing the lead in Tosca. Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing...

  Engels | ePub2, 3 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway

  A New York Times Number One Bestseller

  THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW''Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre'' OBSERVER''An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again'' TANA FRENCH''Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast'' ANN PATCHETTIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger...

  Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Alice Munro Runaway

  **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things

  I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...

  Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect

  The Rosie Project Series

  Sink into the joyously weird and wonderful next chapter of Don and Rosie, in Graeme Simsion's unmissable sequel to the bestselling The Rosie Project!'Touching and entertaining' Mail on Sunday Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie. Now, living in New York City, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage, even if Don has had to sacrifice standardised meals and embrace unscheduled sex. But then Rosie drops the mother of all bombshells....

  Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [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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• Jane Fallon Faking Friends

  THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

  THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A deftly plotted, witty tale of revenge. It's a romcom with attitude' Mail on Sunday 'A fabulous gossipy read' 5***** reader review Best friend, soulmate ... backstabber?Amy thought she knew everything about her best friend Melissa. And she also thought she was about to marry the man of her dream. Until she discovers he has been having an affair ... and Melissa is The Other Woman. In one disastrous weekend she has lost her home, her fianc and her best friend. But instead...

  Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Jane Fallon Tell me a secret

  Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Robyn Carr A Virgin River Christmas (A Virgin River Novel, Book 4)

  A Netflix original seriesA Christmas Miracle in Virgin RiverLast Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life, and gave her three more years with him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby to safety in Fallujah four years ago then disappeared. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered. When Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River she finds a man haunted by his...

  Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | Mills & Boon, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Robyn Carr Second Chance Pass (A Virgin River Novel, Book 5)

  A Netflix original seriesA second chance at love at first sightWhen Paul first saw Vanessa it was love at first sight. Unfortunately it was the same for his best friend Matt, who took the initiative, and eventually married her. Now Vanessa finds herself a widow with a newborn baby, relying heavily on her husband's best friend. But as Vanessa heals from her tragedy and looks to the future she realises Paul has evoked more than friendly feelings in her. Feelings she fears he does not return. Paul has...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Mills & Boon, [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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• Donoghue Emma Donoghue Room

  Oberon Modern Plays

  Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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• James Joyce Dubliners

  Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [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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• 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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• Danielle Steel The Mistress

  Natasha Leonova s beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection. Believing his generosity will always keep her safe, Natasha is careful not to dwell on Vladimir s ruthlessness or the deadly circles he moves in. Until she meets Theo Luca. The son of a famous and difficult artist, Theo and his mother own a restaurant filled with his late father s artwork. There, on a warm June evening, Theo first encounters...

  Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Danielle Steel Rushing waters

  De bewoners van New York krijgen orkaan Orphelia te verwerken; het merendeel evacueert maar sommige weigeren dat.

  Fictie | Romantische verhalen

  Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Danielle Steel The Cottage

  On a sunny day in Hollywood, a gleaming Rolls-Royce convertible pulls through the gates of the magnificent estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow, a star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is the stuff of legend. But today Coop Winslow is in for a surprise - he's broke. With no major roles coming his way, Coop is faced with the heartbreaking prospect of selling his beloved home. His new tenants, Mark Friedman...

  Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Transworld Digital, [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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• Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

  Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's...

  Engels | ePub2, 22 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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