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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

WithÂ 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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Ben Okri Incidents at the shrine

Acht verhalen die zich gedeeltelijk in Afrika en voor een ander deel in Londen afspelen.

Fictie

Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [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 narratorâ€™s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctorâ€™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

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Marian Keyes The other side of the story

Drie vrouwen gaan op zoek naar liefde, persoonlijk geluk en succes in de uitgeverswereld.

Fictie

Engels | 656 pagina's (ePub, 4,5 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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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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Cecelia Ahern How to fall in love

Een jonge vrouw krijgt twee weken de tijd om een aantrekkelijke jongeman zover te krijgen dat hij niet opnieuw een zelfmoordpoging doet.

Fictie

Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018

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Fay Weldon Death of a she devil

Nu Ruth Patchett te oud wordt om haar instituut voor gendergelijkheid nog langer te leiden, strijden haar secretaresse en haar kleinzoon om de opvolging.

Fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 5,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [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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Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago

The perfect gift for Valentine s DayFrom the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled...

Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [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

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Åsa Larsson The blood spilt

De moord op een feministische predikante op midzomernacht in Zweden houdt de gemoederen hevig bezig.

Fictie

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Svenska Ljud Classica

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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