Joris Tulkens Nicolaes Cleynaerts

christenhond tussen moslims

Beschrijving van het leven van de 16e-eeuwse Vlaamse theoloog Nicolaes Cleynaerts, die Latijns, Grieks, Hebreeuws en Arabisch kende en probeerde moslims en christenen dichter bij elkaar te brengen, maar uiteindelijk door beide godsdiensten verketterd werd.

Fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 265 pagina's | Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, Antwerpen | 2018

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Britain Kalai Soderkvist Glass Roses

A chance meeting at a ball introduces the lovely and accomplished Eleanor to a handsome Austrian Baron. He is charmed by her beauty and goodness, but her stepsisters are jealous of her royal suitor, and Eleanor´s dreams of happiness may be swept away forever by their vicious schemes for revenge.... Feisty Isabella, meanwhile, learns that not all is as it seems when she and her father become the guests of a surly and reclusive Scottish Duke. His rough manners hide a kind heart, but his mysterious...

Engels | 11 uur 8 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Saskia Noort Stromboli

a novel

Hundreds of thousands of readers enjoy the joined column by writers' couple Sara and Karel on a daily basis, where they report openly about their life as a family. But behind this facade of their bohemian lifestyle a daily life filled with envy, resentment and even violence is festering. After another nocturnal escalation it's game over: Sara decides to leave Karel. Soon after Sara becomes isolated - nobody wants anything to do with her any longer. In order to get her life back on track she checks...

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Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2021

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Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman

Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories

Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.

Fictie

Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

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Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...

Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018

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Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains

NOW A MAJOR FILM

NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....

Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018

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John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky

From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies

A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...

Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018

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Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World

A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...

Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018

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Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side

The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen

Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...

Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018

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Martin Amis London fields

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson...

Engels | 480 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

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Sue Townsend Rebuilding Coventry

Een huisvrouw die per ongeluk haar buurman heeft vermoord, ontdekt tijdens haar omzwervingen op de vlucht voor de politie het positieve gevoel van vrijheid en een nieuw levensperspectief.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 1,7 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book

Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday

Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.

Fictie

Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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Anita Brookner A start in life

Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.

Fictie

Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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Alice Munro New selected stories

Bundel verhalen uit 1998-2009 over levens van vaak onopvallende vrouwen.

Fictie

Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018

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Josephine Cox Lonely Girl

De 15-jarige Rosie, enig kind, zou het thuis, op het Engelse platteland, aangenaam moeten hebben, maar haar moeders grillige karakter verstoort de harmonie binnen het gezin.

Fictie

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

E-book

Miranda van Gaalen In search of Kyle

Fictie

Engels | 309 pagina's | Philamonk, [Arnhem] | 2018

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