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In de laatste maand van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Duitsland neemt de strijdlustige Amerikaanse tankcommandant Wardaddy een jonge onervaren bemanningslid onder zijn hoede.

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Helen Chandler To have and to hold

Drie gezinnen met jonge en opgroeiende kinderen uit de middenklasse van Liverpool kampen elk met hun eigen levensfaseproblematiek.

Engels | 330 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2014

Gedrukt boek
Ali Harris Written in the stars

Op weg naar het altaar, waar haar knappe verloofde wacht, ziet een jonge vrouw ineens haar boeiende ex tussen de bruiloftsgasten staan.

Fictie

Engels | 453 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS Company, London | 2014

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Charlotte Williams Black valley

Een psychotherapeute raakt tijdens de behandeling van een vrouw die sinds de moord op haar moeder aan claustrofobie lijdt, betrokken bij de speurtocht naar een mysterieuze opkomende kunstschilder.

Fictie

Engels | 342 pagina's | Macmillan, London | 2014

Gedrukt boek
Blomlêzing út 'e Spaanse poëzij

"Mar in hantsjefol oersettings besteane der yn it Frysk fan Spaanstalige poëzij. Dizze bondel foeget dêr gâns in tal fersen oan ta. Klaas Bruinsma lit de lêzer yn ús eigen memmetaal genietsje fan al it prachtige dat Spaanse dichters troch de ieuwen hinne skreaun hawwe, yn krêftige, linige fersrigels. De earste gedichten binne al út it iere begjin fan de sechstjinde ieu, en geande troch de tiid hinne einet de oersetter mei in noch libbene dichter út Nicaragua, dyt yn syn eigen lân sjoen wurdt...

Fictie

Westerlauwers Fries | 135 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2014

E-book
Marten Toonder Los altos mandos

El cuento Los Altos Mandos se desarrolla en Ribaburgueña, una pequeña ciudad ubicada entre las Montañas Negras y la Selva Oscura. Esta pequeña ciudad está poblada por animales que se asemejan mucho a seres humanos, así que el cuento toma su lugar en una larga tradición de fábulas animales. El héroe es el caballero Bómel, un señor acaudalado con buenas intenciones, que procura, de forma impulsiva y sin consideraciones racionales, luchar contra los abusos sociales. El dinero no es ningún...

Fictie

Spaans | 221 pagina's (ePub3, 20 MB) | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2014

E-book
Hilda Talsma Brekber

Een jonge vrouw heeft veel meer met paarden dan met mensen. Dan ontmoet ze een man die een heel andere kijk op paarden heeft.

Fictie

Westerlauwers Fries | 278 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2014

E-book
Margryt Poortstra Minskebern

Twee mensenkinderen, een dementerende oude vrouw en haar pasgeboren achterkleinkind, staan aan de beide uiteinden van het leven.

Fictie

Westerlauwers Fries | 114 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2014

E-book
Akky van der Veer Koartsluting

Een jongen heeft geld geleend en dat vergokt in het casino. Nu heeft hij schulden en moet die aflossen door fietsen te stelen.

Fictie

Westerlauwers Fries | 69 pagina's (ePub2, 3,6 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2014

E-book
Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still

"It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college...

Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2014

E-book
Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014

E-book
Christine Sneed Little known facts

"Life as one of Hollywood's most handsome, charismatic and critically-acclaimed movie stars seems like a glitzy fairytale to the people who orbit around Renn Ivins. But for his grown children, Anna and Will, their father's fame threatens to permeate every aspect of their lives. For Anna - a diligent medical student with a promising future ahead of her but not so promising romantic prospects - the exploits of her celebrity father are a source of embarrassment and, at best, bemusement. Her brother...

Engels | 304 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Manil Suri The city of Devi

"Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking...

Engels | 400 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Simon Scarrow Gladiator

Vengeance

The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....

Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014

E-book
Gideon Defoe The pirates! in an adventure with the romantics

"Beautiful young fiancée, Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford, and finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the"

Engels | 320 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book
Isabel Losada The Battersea Park road to enlightenment

"`You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.' So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges discuss their `inner beauty', Isabel journeyed through a gruelling...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

E-book
Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths

"As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...

Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

E-book
Cynan Jones The Dig

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2014

E-book
Anne Michaels The winter vault

"Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...

Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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