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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Stray Kids

how do homeless children survive a big city; novel

Tramps. How can it come to this with anyone anyway? Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them. Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy. Sometimes something happens to them that...

Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2024

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Herman Adèr Father, mother

In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how very evocative various scenes are. It could be said that the novella deals with Death. With the sudden death of the father, and with the slow, painful deterioration of the mother into her dementia, followed...

Fictie

Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2) | Johannes van Kessel Publishing, Huizen | 2017

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter

novel

It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...

Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023

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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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Louis Couperus Psyche

Psyche is based on Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche. It tells us about the king's daughter of that name and her two sisters, Emeralda and Astra. After the death of their father, Emeralda, the eldest sister, ascends to the throne of the Kingdom of the Past. Fearing her unscrupulous sibling, Psyche flees the castle on the back of the flying steed Chimera. She plunges into the unknown world outside the castle walls. On her magical journey she comes into contact with a Satyr, the Sphinx, weeps a river,...

Fictie

Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 24 MB) | Reith|Hendriks & partners, Rotterdam | 2021

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Emma Leads Claire

historical roman

Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...

Fictie

Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022

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George Fargo The labyrinth of the soul

The Labyrinth of the Soul - A modern-day parable When Jason Leonard decides to take a few days off for himself to sail on the Mediterranean, he cannot imagine the adventure that awaits him. Stranded after a shipwreck, he enters a magical labyrinth, in which he encounters a series of strange but inspiring "life coaches". A ragtag group of dieties, shamans and shape-shifters, they help the lost but searching Jason find his way out of the maze and back to his family. In doing so, they accompany him...

Fictie

Engels | 124 pagina's (ePub2, 5,4 MB) | Vergouw Publishing, Amsterdam | 2022

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Xandra Lammers The woman who vanished

“When a woman enters a forest alone, there is always someone who sees her …” Lisa Small, the mother of Chloe, is married to Henry, university researcher working on his dissertation entitled “The Growth of a Cucumber Without Light.” Following a marital fight, she leaves their home, not knowing whether she will ever return. After driving around for some time, she ends up in a hotel near a river, where she books a room. That night she dines with Gerald, who she has met in the hotel restaurant. Gerald...

Fictie

Engels | 105 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Boekenbent, Barneveld | 2016

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Django Mathijsen RoboRights

Een robottenprogrammeur in de nabije toekomst wordt verdacht van betrokkenheid bij een terroristische aanslag en komt in allerlei moeilijke situaties terecht als hij probeert klaarheid in deze zaak te brengen.

Fictie

Engels | 146 pagina's (ePub2, 5,2 MB) | Zilverspoor, [Naaldwijk] | 2022

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Jan Siebelink In my father's garden

Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced he has...

Fictie

Engels | 465 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Publishing house De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.

novel

Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...

Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023

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Michael Berg Nightmare in Paris

Chantal Zwart is a freelance journalist living in the beautiful city of Paris. Her life is turned upside down when she receives a phone call from Naomi in the middle of the night. Naomi went home with an attractive French man, who died of a heart attack that same night. She panicked and fled, leaving the man for dead. Chantal soon finds out that the man was a famous politician and that this will be major news. This is her big chance for a scoop, handed to her on a silver platter. She tracks down...

Fictie

Engels | ePub2 | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2021

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Peter Römer DeKok and the kiss of death

Rechercheur DeKok onderzoekt de moord op een geliefde Amsterdamse, wiens man banden met de onderwereld blijkt te onderhouden.

Fictie

Engels | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 5,6 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2024

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Esther J. Ending Ibiza's child

IBIZA, THE EIGHTIES. At the dawn of the techno and ecstasy era a lonely teenager sees her world going into a tailspin. Marianne, born on the island to a hippie mother and a drug dealing father, is trying to keep the pieces of her life together while one of her parents is in prison in Liverpool and the other is chasing her spiritual endeavours. When an officer from the notorious Guardia Civil offers her a ride and shelter, Marianne becomes deeply fascinated by him. Embarking on a vodka and drug fueled...

Fictie

Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2016

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G.K. van het Reve Gossamer

Fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 143 pagina's | Stichting 'De Roos', Utrecht | 2012

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Esther Gerritsen Craving

Een moeder en een dochter die elkaar lang niet hebben gezien, komen elkaar tegen op straat. Dan vertelt de moeder dat zij ongeneeslijk ziek is en niet lang meer heeft.

Fictie

Engels | 187 pagina's | World Editions, London | 2015

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Baantjer DeKok and the geese of death

DeKok takes on Igor Stablinsky, a man accused of bludgeoning a wealthy old man and his wife. To DeKok’s unfailing eye the killing urge is visibly present in the suspect during questioning, but did he commit this particular crime? All signs point to one of the few remaining grand estates in Holland. The answer lies within a strange family, suspicions of incest, deadly geese, and a horrifying mansion. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

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.. Baantjer DeKok and murder on Blood Mountain

At the request of the Belgian police, Inspectors DeKok and Vledder attend the funeral of a murder victim. The body was fished out of Antwerp’s Scheldt River, but brought back to Amsterdam to be laid to rest there. During the service DeKok spies the face of a man long known to be dead. Further bodies are discovered, apparently they too were poisoned and dumped in the river. DeKok is forced to venture from his beloved Amsterdam and travel to Bloedberg (“Blood Mountain”), a notorious neighborhood in...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

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Baantjer DeKok and the death of a clown

Without the slightest trace, an antique jewel collection disappears from a house along one of the great canals in Amsterdam. Inspector DeKok feels compelled to help the victim of the theft, unknowingly signing up for a homicide case, as well. Soon after commencing his investigation into the robbery, DeKok and his partner Vledder are called to the foot of The Criers’ Tower. A clown lies dead along the canal with a large, shining knife protruding from his back, creating a blossom of blood around the...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

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Baantjer DeKok and murder by installment

Although at first it seemed to be a case for the narcotics division, this latest crime soon evolves into a series of sinister murders, which seem almost impossible to solve. Never before have inspectors DeKok and Vledder been so involved in a case where murder, drug smuggling, and child prostitution are almost daily occurrences. Blackmail enters the picture, and meanwhile bodies continue to be found. In the past even a single murder used to dominate the front pages of the newspapers for weeks, but...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

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