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Anne Rogers Ben
Diary of A Heroin Addict
As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all.... but then he found drugs. As his life descended into chaos and despair, Ben began to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that...
Engels | PDF, 1,8 MB | M-Y Books ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Fischel Witchwild - Witchworld
Flo is a thoroughly modern witchgirl. She has a spellstick, travels about in her skyrider and wouldn't know a cauldron if she fell into one. But when her grandmother turns up on an actual boomstick, warning that ghouls are about to attack Witchworld, Flo realises that everything she's been told about being a witch is just hocus pocus... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 9,7 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
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Alexandra Singer Tea At The Grand Tazi
Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is lured in by her new surroundings, promising excitement and, more importantly, freedom. In the final days of a North African summer, a sense of boredom and unease pervades the city. Maia is drawn unwillingly into the ways in which the clientele of the renowned Grand Tazi pass their increasingly long, hot evenings. As the intense heat wears down her resistance,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Harry Sidebottom Fire and Sword - Throne of the Caesars, Book 3
'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMESThe third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors.The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne.The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Claire Sweeney Owl Song at Dawn
As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'[A] quirky, moving novel' -- The Daily Mail'Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else' -- Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel' -- Carys Bray, Costa Prize-shortlisted author'It crept under my skin and will stay there for a long time' -- Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Matt Wilven Blackbird Singularity
Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star AwardLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist... an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief and his heroic fight to find his way back home. ' -- Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash LandingVince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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William Thacker Lingua Franca
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often. ' -- Matt Haig, author'Remarkable. ' -- Caroline Smailes, author'This is bloody brilliant. ' -- Heydon Prowse, writer of the Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be TelevisedThere's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness... Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
A beautiful edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his fellow man. Quentin Blake's colourful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition contains a foreword by the illustrator...
Engels | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 21 MB) | Pavilion Books, [Nederland] | 2015
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René van Rooij The virus of God
25 years after covid-19; a novel
Towards the middle of the twenty-first century, the Covid-19 ('Corona') crisis of the early twenties, which killed millions, is forgotten. Yet the virus has changed Planet Earth irreversibly. It laid bare the naked fact that the world had become too dependent on traditional forms of nutrition, communication and transportation. When the virus had finally been defeated, brilliant minds applied themselves to developing innovative techniques to elevate what remained of humanity to an entirely different...
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Engels | 610 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2022
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Sylvia Duijm My Escape to Love
'Sylvia Duijm was not born as Master of Passion, it is what she became when she combined her studies, interests and experience of life'. In an outspoken way, Sylvia Duijm tells of her quest for acknowledgement, love and friendship. As a daughter in an ex-pat family, she moved seven times before she was seven years old, living on four different continents. Her parents' unstable marriage, her temperament, the rules that applied in the various environments, and repeated changes of school resulted in...
Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub2, 3,1 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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Captain Frederick Marryat Het koningskind
In de zeemansklassieker Het koningskind (1830) groeit William Seymour op aan boord van de Royal Navy, als gevolg van de dood van zijn vader, die werd opgehangen tijdens de Muiterij van Nore (1797), een collectieve Britse opstand ten tijde van de Napoleontische oorlogen in de baai waarin de Thames vanaf Londen uitmondt in de Noordzee. Later in het verhaal wordt William opgenomen in de bemanning van een smokkelaar. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Nederlands | 349 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2019
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Captain Frederick Marryat Pieter Simpel
In 1834 schreef Marryat een roman over het leven van een marineofficier in spe tijdens de Napoleontische Oorlogen. Het verhaal begin met een vertelling over zijn vroege leven, als ‘dwaas van de familie’, domineeszoon en erfgenaam van een vermogende en invloedrijke Lord. Deze intrige speelt in de rest van het verhaal een rol op de achtergrond. De hoofdmoot van het boek bevat de ontwikkelingen van de jonge man, die we van puber volwassene zien worden tijdens zeeslagen. Een belangrijk element van de...
Fictie
Nederlands | 37 pagina's (ePub2) | Saga, [København] | 2019
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Louisa May Alcott Rozeknop
In Rozeknop keren we weer terug naar het weesmeisje Rosa, dat ook de hoofdrol speelde in Een nichtje met zeven neven. In dat boek lazen we hoe Rosa na het overlijden van haar ouders intrekt bij haar oom en tante, die al zeven kinderen hebben: alleen maar jongens. In dit tweede deel is Rosa al wat ouder, en begint ze wat meer de wereld in te trekken. Ze leert de leuke en minder leuke kanten van het leven als een ontluikende volwassene kennen, compleet met allerlei verwikkelingen op liefdesgebied....
Fictie
Nederlands | 330 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | SAGA, [København] | 2019
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Annemarie Braun Monddood
aan een narcist ontsnapt
Veel mensen belanden in relaties met personen die hen slaan, kleineren of die andere vormen van geestelijke en lichamelijke mishandeling toepassen. Annemarie schreef dit boek over hoe het is om acht jaar in zo'n hel te leven. Wat ze beschrijft, tart elk voorstellingsvermogen, maar het is allemaal waargebeurd. Hoe is het om een kind te krijgen van een narcist? Waarom is het zo lastig om weg te gaan? 'Monddood' is niet slechts een huiveringwekkend verhaal en een spannende page-turner, maar dit boek...
Fictie | Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,2 MB | ParisBooks, [Bodegraven] | 2023
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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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