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Katharine Kerr The Spirit Stone
Book thirteen of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years. 'A dagger laid against our throat. 'So Prince Dar of the Westlands calls Zakh Gral, a new fortress built by the Horsekin, the ancient enemies of his people. To help him destroy this threat, the elven prince has called upon his allies: the dwarven folk of the northern mountains and the human men of Deverry to the east. Their leaders...
Engels | ePub2, 1,5 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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Ann Patchett The Dutch House
Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020
Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN'T LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2021
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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at CanterburyThis selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these...
Engels | ePub2, 36 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Liane Moriarty Apples Never Fall
The enthralling No 1 Sunday Times bestseller
THE DELICIOUSLY DARK NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NINE PERFECT STRANGERS AND HBO''S BIG LITTLE LIES''Perfect holiday reading'' GUARDIAN''Smart, sharp and utterly riveting'' DAILY MAIL''Stunning'' SUNDAY TIMES''A tour de force'' GRAZIA''A masterclass'' SUN**SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING SAM NEILL AND ANNETTE BENING**________Joy and Stan Delaney have four grown-up children, a successful family business and their golden years ahead of them.Then Joy vanishes.Questions are asked. The police get involved.Scratch...
Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [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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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz
In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. On the way, she meets the brainless Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. The four friends set off to seek their heart's desires,...
Engels | ePub2, 7,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [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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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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Sue Townsend The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back in the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny, touching and bestselling Adrian Mole series. 'If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault. 'Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my...
Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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John Irving The World According To Garp
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with 'lunacy and sorrow'; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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John Irving Until I find you
Een filmacteur zoekt vanaf zijn peutertijd naar zijn vader, waarbij hij ontdekt dat het geheugen onbetrouwbaar is.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | ePub2, 1,2 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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Sophie Kinsella The Party Crasher
The joyful, romantic Sunday Times bestseller 2022
Joyous and funny, [with] emotional hidden depths.'' JILL MANSELLWhat might your family say about you if you weren''t in the room....? Cosy up with the new Sophie Kinsella romcom about family love, family tensions and family secrets.Effie''s still not over her parents splitting up a year ago and her dad and his awful new girlfriend are posting photos everywhere (with the hashtags #viagraworks and #sexinyoursixties). Now they''re selling the beloved family home and holding a ''house-cooling'' party,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Michael Crichton The Lost World
Something has survived. THE BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO JURASSIC PARKSix years have passed since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park. In the years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end, the island has been indefinitely closed to the public, its park dismantled, the dinosaurs themselves destroyed. Or so it was thought. But something has survived. And when a team led by maverick scientist Ian Malcolm enters the mysterious 'Site B' to investigate, they are determined...
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas The Chalk Circle Man
Commissaire Adamsberg
Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop. When strange blue chalk...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas This Poison Will Remain
Commissaire Adamsberg
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Sarah Pearse The Sanatorium
The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick; Detective Elin Warner Series
The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you''ll never see coming. A must-read.'' Richard Osman''An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.'' Reese WitherspoonYOU WON''T WANT TO LEAVE... UNTIL YOU CAN''T.*WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH**ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOKCLUB PICK**CRIME BOOK OF THE...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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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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Robert Harris Munich
Edge of War; Soon to be a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons
Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the...
Engels | ePub3, 6,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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