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Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy
Now a Major Motion Picture
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction******Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019***Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers...
Engels | ePub2, 6,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dinah Jefferies The Daughters of War
The first book in the new sweeping historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.France, 1944.Deep in the river valley of the Dordogne, in an old stone cottage on the edge of a beautiful village, three sisters long for the end of the war.Hélène, the eldest, is trying her hardest to steer her family to safety, even as the Nazi occupation becomes more threatening.Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost.And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | HarperCollins, [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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Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You
'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards*Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [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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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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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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Tove Ditlevsen The Faces
Penguin Modern Classics
One of Denmark''s most celebrated writers'' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children''s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2021
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William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it's love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?William Shakespeare's masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Shafak Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees
A Novel
A REESE''S BOOK CLUB PICKWinner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia AvenueA rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish...
Engels | ePub3, 7 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [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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