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Michel Houellebecq Submission
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Ann Patchett The Dutch House
Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020
Lose yourself in the story of a lifetime the unforgettable Sunday Times bestseller 'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2020 A STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS, THEIR CHILDHOOD HOME, AND A PAST THAT THEY CAN'T LET GO. Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2021
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Markus Zusak The Underdog
My name s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn t really function without tomato sauce. That s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Tove Ditlevsen The Faces
Penguin Modern Classics
One of Denmark''s most celebrated writers'' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children''s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2021
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John Irving The World According To Garp
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with 'lunacy and sorrow'; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Sophie Kinsella The Party Crasher
The joyful, romantic Sunday Times bestseller 2022
Joyous and funny, [with] emotional hidden depths.'' JILL MANSELLWhat might your family say about you if you weren''t in the room....? Cosy up with the new Sophie Kinsella romcom about family love, family tensions and family secrets.Effie''s still not over her parents splitting up a year ago and her dad and his awful new girlfriend are posting photos everywhere (with the hashtags #viagraworks and #sexinyoursixties). Now they''re selling the beloved family home and holding a ''house-cooling'' party,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories
Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [Nederland] | 2021
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Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...
Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts...
Engels | ePub3, 13 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donoghue Emma Donoghue Room
Oberon Modern Plays
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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James Joyce Dubliners
Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Oberon Modern Plays
A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Original Version
An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...
Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021
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Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Underdogs
I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube. ' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it. 'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's...
Engels | ePub2, 22 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Curtis Sittenfeld Sisterland
The striking Sunday Times bestseller
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER -Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children....
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Liane Moriarty Three Wishes
From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series
Lose yourself in this wickedly addictive exploration of family, relationships and modern love from the bestselling author of the HBO sensation BIG LITTLE LIES'I adored it. Fresh, intelligent and entertaining' MARIAN KEYESThey say trouble always comes in threes ... For sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, the year they turn thirty-three is no exception. Sensible Lyn is struggling to balance being a mother, wife and businesswoman without losing her mind. Cat, whose perfect marriage is the envy of all...
Engels | ePub3, 4,4 MB | Penguin, [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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Niccolo Ammaniti I'm Not Scared
Canons
The international bestselling novel ';of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping reada deft masterpiece with never a false note' (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn't dare...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Canongate Canons, [Nederland] | 2021
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