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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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Jane Fallon Tell me a secret
Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.
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Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century...
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Alice Munro Runaway
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donna Leon The jewels of paradise
Een uit Venetië afkomstige musicologe wordt gevraagd de nalatenschap van de Venetiaanse barokcomponist Agostini Steffani (1654-1728) te inventariseren.
Fictie
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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George R.R. Martin A Feast for Crows
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate...
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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George R.R. Martin A Clash of Kings
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A CLASH OF KINGS is the second volume in the series. Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts...
Engels | ePub2, 3,5 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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Lisa Halliday Asymmetry
A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [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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Maarten A. Oversier Daseinsrecht
Licht in die verdrängte Geschichte, die wir noch in uns tragen
Das Echo unverarbeiterer Traumata aus vergangenen Zeiten und sogar früheren Leben belastet den modernen Menschen - körperlich, seelisch oder emotional. Doch welche Entstehungsgeschichte steht wirklich hinter diesen Traumatisierungen? In seiner gut 25-jährigen Tätigkeit als Reinkarnations- und Rückführungstherapeut stellt Maarten Oversier fest, dass die Ursachen der Probleme seiner Klienten eigentlich immer in drei typischen Bereichen der Geschichte liegen: in schockierenden und darum oft verdrängten...
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Duits | 420 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | London Books, [Bodegraven] | 2022
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Thijs De Cloedt | Jelle De Beule Jommeke in de knel én de penarie
Jommeke heeft in zijn leven zó veel schatten gevonden, dat hij door meneer Geldmans van de belastingdienst een aanslag krijg voor diverse miljarden. En binnen veertien dagen moet hij dat bedrag ophoesten. Dus moet Jommeke heel snel op zoek naar nóg een schat! Ballonstrip.
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Nederlands | 43 pagina's | Standaard Uitgeverij, Antwerpen | 2021
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#Powerbook zomer
in verbinding; inspiratie & bemoediging voor moeder, vrouw én gezin
Overdenkingen over het thema ‘verbinding’ en een verzameling columns rond de thema’s moederschap en (geloofs-)opvoeding, gericht op de christelijke moeder.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 126 pagina's | Uitgeverij Plateau, Amersfoort | 2021
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Henricus de Gandavo Henrici de Gandavo Summa
(Quaestiones ordinariae), art. LX-LXII
Henry of Ghent was the most important thinker of the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. This critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 60-62 deals with the Trinity. The respective articles are based upon this scholastic philosopher's lectures in the theology faculty at the university in Paris and can be dated to slightly after Advent 1290. For Henry and his contemporaries, Trinitarian...
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Engels | Latijn | 322 pagina's (PDF, 3,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Astrid Desbordes | Marc Boutavant Edzio i tajemniczy pokoj
Bij het opruimen van de kastanjeboom ontdekt Edzio een luik onder het vloerkleed. Met zijn vrienden gaat hij op onderzoek. Prentenboek. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Pools | 24 pagina's | Wytwórnia, Warszawa | 2021
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Gabriella Nugent Colonial legacies
contemporary lens-based art and the democratic republic of Congo
In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 51 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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Rosa Swann Blossoming of fate collection
an omegaverse mates world romance
Two best friends, one Alpha, one Omega, reunite after having been apart for the first time in their lives, finding out that everything they knew about the other has changed. Are they ready to face their future? Destin The plan was that I would pick my life-long best friend Seb up from the train station, we'd have a week of wild antics as he takes a break from his university work and that life would go back to normal after that. Of course, we all know what happens to plans... Instead, the moment...
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Engels | 450 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Easily Distracted Media, [Groningen] | 2021
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Orpheus Institute Sound work
composition as critical technical practice
The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both expert and...
Non-fictie
Engels | 376 pagina's (PDF, 23 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
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2021