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Julian Barnes The only story
Een oudere man vertelt in retrospect over de hemelse maar uiteindelijk tragische tienerliefde voor een toen meer dan twee keer zo oude vrouw.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 212 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Sven Hassel Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino, the sacred monastery north west of Naples. The Germans have built massive defense positions. The battle of Monte Cassino in the winter and spring of 1944 turns into an indescribable hell for both the defending and attacking forces. The allies bring into action all planes, artillery and armors from many nations. The German forces are led by the best elite troops. Among them is the 27th Panzer-regiment - the penal regiment. No one expects any of them to survive - but some of them do......
Engels | 8 uur 44 minuten (386 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Martina André Mystery of the Templars
In 1156, the sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar brings a mysterious object from Jerusalem to his homeland in the South of France. "The Head of Wisdom", as the strange artifact is called, ensures that the Order achieves unprecedented wealth. But in October 1307, the French king fights against the Templars. All commanderies of the Templars are closed, all members arrested. Templar Commander Lieutenant Gero of Breydenbach is to flee to Germany with the "Head of Wisdom" to keep their secret. ...
Engels | 25 uur 4 minuten (1118 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Hassel Assignment Gestapo
It feels as if the entire area is blown up. A long rumbling explosion shakes the German position. Then an infernal scream sounds. Through flashes of fire, they see Tiny’s huge silhouette with the light grey bowler on his head. He is standing by the end of the enemy trench with his machine gun resting on his hip. The tracer streak projectiles shoot out of the muzzle. Bewildered shapes flee in panic. - What a bunch of devils, the Russian lieutenant exclaims in admiration. "A BRILLIANT SVEN HAZEL,...
Engels | 12 uur 31 minuten (547 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Hassel The Commissar
Heide wails, jumps up and lands on the other side of the trench, where he slides through the mud like a bulldozer. Our tank starts backing up in full speed. Porta has clearly also spotted the madness lying ahead in wait of spreading death and mutilation. Nothing travels as fast as the rumor that the front troops have hit the dreaded mines. Suddenly everything goes quiet. Even the heavy Maxim gun stops. Everyone holds their breath and waits for the mine to go off. " THE CERTAIN SENSE OF DRAMATIC...
Engels | 11 uur 49 minuten (556 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Hassel Comrades of War
We hear the crawlers closing in. A T-34. They must have seen us, Tiny whispers. - Stay low until it is right here, then we run! The horrible clattering of the crawler comes closer and closer. I know this fear, creeping up the spine. It will mean certain death if they run just one second too soon. How we get up, I don’t know, the legs move automatically. The tank wiggles over the hole and crushes everything in it. Then it rumbles on... "THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS GOTTEN HIS...
Engels | 11 uur 27 minuten (538 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Hassel Marchbattalion
A special command from the convict regiment, wearing Russian uniforms, take over four Russian T-34 tanks. Remote reconnaissance far behind the Russian lines in Caucasus. The year is 1942. Hour for hour, the tanks roll eastward. Several times, Russian departments challenge them. We follow the soldiers in their desperate struggle to find their way back to the German lines. The distances are great, the friends are few and death is always right behind them... "HASSEL IS ONE OF THE BEST EUROPEAN WRITERS,...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Hassel OGPU Prison
At least one battalion of flame-throwers is swinging around like a pack of crazy wild boars. Long, flaming red tongues of fire are hissing from the towers, charring every living thing. From the GPU-prison stream shoals of red prisoners. A barrage of incredible dimensions is hammering down behind the Germans. It seems like the Russians have guessed that they are pondering an escape and want to stop it with an impenetrable wall of fire, spreading as far as the eye can see. " SVEN HASSEL IS AN OUTSTANDING...
Engels | 11 uur 59 minuten (525 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Hassel Court Martial
The Legionnaire swings the MG-muzzle. The smoke eats its way into the officers’ stomachs. They drop to the snow-covered ground, coloring it red. Bestial shrieks sound from the woods as a wave of fur clad soldiers storm out. They are near the Finish-Russian frontline. The machine guns snarl till the magazines are emptied. Old Man’s platoon, with Tiny the giant and Porta in the lead, fights a rough battle behind Russian lines. " AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN – HASSEL TAKES HIS ANTI-MILITARY TENDENCIES...
Engels | 11 uur 23 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Britain Kalai Soderkvist Glass Roses
A chance meeting at a ball introduces the lovely and accomplished Eleanor to a handsome Austrian Baron. He is charmed by her beauty and goodness, but her stepsisters are jealous of her royal suitor, and Eleanor´s dreams of happiness may be swept away forever by their vicious schemes for revenge.... Feisty Isabella, meanwhile, learns that not all is as it seems when she and her father become the guests of a surly and reclusive Scottish Duke. His rough manners hide a kind heart, but his mysterious...
Engels | 11 uur 8 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Saskia Noort Stromboli
a novel
Hundreds of thousands of readers enjoy the joined column by writers' couple Sara and Karel on a daily basis, where they report openly about their life as a family. But behind this facade of their bohemian lifestyle a daily life filled with envy, resentment and even violence is festering. After another nocturnal escalation it's game over: Sara decides to leave Karel. Soon after Sara becomes isolated - nobody wants anything to do with her any longer. In order to get her life back on track she checks...
Fictie
Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Aad van der Klaauw Taste my words
poems from the Netherlands
Aad van der Klaauw, librarian in the Netherlands, lives in Staphorst. A small village in the province Overijssel. Taste me Words Poems published on the world’s largest poetry site Allpoetry. Poems about the seasons, strong people like Nadia Murad, religion, countries and other themes. Read my lines, taste my words. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Boekenbent, Barneveld | 2018
E-book
Han Peeters The Cheetah mystery
faction
ENGLISH EDITION Robin de Graaf and his parents were looking forward to a fun day out with a drive through the wildlife park. Unfortunately, things went differently and their life turned into a nightmare. In front of their eyes people got out of their car, seemingly unaware that uncaged cheetahs are dangerous predators. Robin filmed the event and then posted it on his YouTube channel where it caused mixed excitement among the viewers. The film went viral. The family organized a press conference to...
Fictie
Engels | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018
E-book
Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday
Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Robert Harris Selling Hitler
the story of the Hitler diaries
His classic account of The Hitler Diaries. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . . Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains
NOW A MAJOR FILM
NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Sally Rooney Normal People
** OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD **'The best young novelist - indeed one of the best novelists - I've read in years.' Olivia Laing'Superb . . . a tremendous read, full of insight and sweetness.' Anne Enright'One the best novels I have read in years.' Sheila HetiConnell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Stephen Fry Heroes
The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold; Stephen Fry s Greek Myths
IMAGINE SANDALS ON YOUR FEET, A SWORD IN YOUR HAND, HOT SUN BEATING DOWN ON YOUR BRONZE HELMET. ENTER THE WORLD OF STEPHEN FRY'S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, HEROESOrder TROY now, Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the most legendary story ever toldIn this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry gloriously retells the epic myths of the Greek heroes - which will be loved by young and old alike. 'An odyssey through Greek mythology. Brilliant ... all hail Stephen Fry' Daily Mail___________Few...
Engels | ePub3, 22 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book