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Jules Verne Eene vlotreis
het raadselschrift; een drijvende stad
Eene vlotreis (1881) is een van de weinige niet-science-fiction romans van Verne. In deze roman reizen de rancher Joam Garral en zijn dochter naar het Braziliaanse Belém, waar zij wil trouwen met Manuel Valdez. Hun reis gaat per houten vlot over de Amazone. Aangekomen in Belém ziet Joam de kans om zijn naam te zuiveren, hij wordt immers al jaren gezocht voor een misdaad die hij niet heeft begaan. Een louche figuur genaamd Torres wil Joam daarmee wel helpen. Die zegt dat hij in het bezit is van...
Fictie
Nederlands | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2018
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Jules Verne Keraban de stijfhoofdige
In Keraban de stijfhoofdige moet de hoofdpersoon, zoals in veel van Verne’s romans, een hachelijke reis ondernemen. In dit geval gaat het om de Turkse tabakshandelaar Keraban. Hij wil naar de Zwarte Zee, maar is het niet eens met een nieuwe tol om de Bosporus over te steken. Hij besluit daarom over land te reizen. Tot zijn reisgezelschap behoren ook twee Rotterdammers, die toevallig bij Keraban op bezoek komen voor zaken, en gedwongen mee op reis gaan. Dit is tekenend voor Keraban, die verschrikkelijk...
Fictie
Nederlands | 220 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Saga Egmont, [København] | 2018
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Jules Verne De avonturen van drie Russen en drie Engelschen
Drie Russische en drie Britse wetenschappers vertrekken naar Zuid-Afrika om metingen te verrichten op de Nulmeridiaan. Terwijl zij hun expeditie uitvoeren breekt de Krimoorlog uit. Nu bevinden zij zich op vijandig terrein. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Nederlands | 251 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2018
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Hugh Lofting Het postkantoor van doctor Dolittle
Dokter Dolittle richt samen met een stel dieren een postkantoor op in Afrika. Omdat Dolittle zo hulpvaardig is komt hij geregeld in de problemen, maar hij wordt altijd trouw bijgestaan door zijn dierenvrienden. De mensen in de verhalen van Lofting zijn vaak stereotypes die niet zonder vooroordeel worden benaderd. Toch is het een fantasierijk boek dat, op dikwijls humoristische wijze de relatie tussen mens en dier schildert. Het boek biedt ook tamelijk veel achtergrondinformatie over dieren, ondanks...
Fictie
Nederlands | 372 pagina's (ePub2, 2,6 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2018
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Cor F. de Bas Jongens, word (toch) katholiek
Als een nog niet tot volle wasdom gekomen schrijver, die zoekende is naar een eigen stijl, geeft de auteur weer wat een zoektocht, in ons land, binnen de niet altijd even heldere wereld van religies en religieuze sekten hem heeft opgeleverd. Verwondering en ontzetting deelt hij met de lezer. Vaak is zijn taalgebruik van een onvoorstelbare grofheid. Echter, soms wordt een woordenspel gebezigd dat van een verfijnde taalvirtuositeit, van een kracht en dichterlijkheid getuigt die men zelden binnen een...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 190 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | U2pi, Voorburg | 2018
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Walter Scott Ivanhoe
Tegen de achtergrond van de Normandische (Franse) heerschappij over het Saksische Engeland in de 11e en 12e eeuw, volgen we een dappere Saks die op een toernooi tegen Normandiërs vecht. Dit is de verstoten Ivanhoe die voor zijn geliefde strijdt, jonkvrouw Rowena. Daarnaast volgen we de belegering van het oude Saksische kasteel Torquilstone dat door de Normandiërs bezet is. Robin Hood is een van de leiders bij het beleg, waarin de Normandiërs weer het onderspit delven. Van Ivanhoe wordt vaak gezegd...
Fictie
Nederlands | 485 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | SAGA Egmont, [København] | 2018
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Kate Manning My Notorious Life
"To the dizzying heights of New York society. But as her fame grows and her name hits the headlines, her reputation as the most scandalous midwife of her time begins to threaten everything she holds dear. And one crusading official will not rest until he has brought about the downfall of `Madame X. It will take all of Axies cunning to save both herself and those she loves from ruin"
Engels | 352 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Susanna Clarke The ladies of Grace Adieu
"Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Helen Cross Spilt milk, black coffee
"Handsome Amir, somewhere in his twenties, somewhere in a Yorkshire town, is torn between duty and lust. While his tradition-bound family urges him to choose a wife from a parade of blank and bashful beauties, he remains a slave to boozy blonde goddess Jackie, his fellow-worker at the department store in town. Pushing forty, with bubblegum hair and a filthy laugh, Jackie is an unlikely muse. She is openly entertained by Amir's teetotalism and moral sincerity, but behind her whip-smart wit is a forgiving...
Engels | 288 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Gene Brewer K-Pax omnibus
"When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself `prot' and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars, government or religion, and where every being co-exists in harmony. It's not...
Engels | 800 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Steven Carter I was Howard Hughes
"Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jane Casey Bet Your Life - Jess Tennant
Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | St. Martin's Griffin, [Nederland] | 2014
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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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Michael Sims Dracula's guest
"Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...
Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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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
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Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness
"Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Juliet Nicolson Abdication
"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders
"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Lucy Wood Diving belles
"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Joyce Dennys Henrietta sees it through
"The war is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late seventies, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself amongst the charming company...
Engels | 208 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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