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Children who changed the world
Children Who Changed the World What do Malala Yousafzai and Anne Frank have in common? Both opened the eyes of the world to the injustice done to them as children. Malala deliberately set out to fight for her right to education. While Anne Frank unwittingly became a symbol of the effect of war on the lives of children. Children Who Changed the World, tells the stories of more than twenty children who have opened the worlds eyes to serious problems in society, and who have contributed to the solution....
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 21 MB | PixelPerfect Publications, The Hague | 2017
E-book
Pamela Douglas Chimney & Co.
Chimney is a much loved family cat who has chosen to tell her own story in poetic form as only a cat can. She charts her life from mischievous kittenhood to thoughtful maturity in the company of two glorious Irish setters. Cat lovers and owners everywhere will recognise many of her ways and cat philosophy and those, who do not know cats well, will be surprised at their observational skills! Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 46 minuten (47 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Lonely Planet China
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet China is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get lost in the dynastic grandeur of Beijing's Forbidden City, hike along the Great Wall, or take in Shanghai's neon lights from the Bund; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of China and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet China Travel Guide: Colour maps and...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 213 MB) | Lonely Planet Publications, [Nederland] | 2015
E-book
Coppens Pascal China's New Normal
How China sets the standard for innovation
The words 'technology' and 'innovation' are almost automatically linked withAmerican companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Tesla or Amazon in most people's minds. But this association has created a huge blind spot in the West. While the world focuses on what is happening in Silicon Valley, the Chinese innovation train has left the station and is moving forward at high speed. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the well-known standard-bearers of this fast and furious innovation surge, but they are just...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 20 MB) | Pelckmans, Kalmthout | 2019
E-book
Sarah Engell The Chinese Twin
A buried corpse disappears. A child is kidnapped. A woman suddenly vanishes. The only clue - mysterious Chinese symbols; left behind at each of the crime scenes in a provincial town in Northern Denmark. In the eye of the storm is Eva. After suffering a deeply sorrowful tragedy - where her long-awaited daughter is stillborn - Eva is fighting to get her life back on track together with her husband who recently, and inexplicably, became paralyzed and is now unable to take care of himself. In an attempt...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sonal Gupta Vaswani | Shital Choudhary | Ruchi Shah | Kruttika Susarla | Kaveri Gopalakrishnan | Alicia Souza | Sanjana Mitbander The Chocolate Cake
A story about Minu and her Aai's yummy chocolate cake. The story will help children learn about numbers and how to count. 'The Chocolate Cake' (English), written by Sanjana Mitbander, illustrated by Alicia Souza, Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, Kruttika Susarla, Ruchi Shah, Shital Choudhary, Sonal Gupta Vaswani, published under a (© Sanjana Mitbander, 2018) CC BY 4.0 license on StoryWeaver. Read, create and translate stories for free on www.storyweaver.org.in Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 2 minuten (2 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Margaret Mahy Chocolate porridge
Tinothy wil zijn moeder en zussen helpen koken in de keuken, maar dat mag niet. Hij gaat buiten chocoladepap maken. Maar wie zal de pap eten? Met veel kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 8 jaar.
Engels | 60 pagina's | Orion Children's Books, London | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Penny Hancock The Choice
An Emotional and Thought-provoking Story About Love and Guilt
For fans of Jodi Picoult and If Only I Could Tell You, Penny Hancock''s The Choice is an engrossing, thought-provoking novel about family secrets and the way that even the smallest decisions can sometimes have far-reaching consequences.‘Emotional and thought-provoking’ – Jenny Quintana, author of The Hiding PlaceAn estranged daughter.Renee Gulliver appears to have it all: a beautiful house overlooking a scenic estuary on England’s East Coast, a successful career as a relationship therapist,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Tess Gerritsen | Gary Braver Choose me
Als er nog enkele vragen onbeantwoord zijn onderzoeken rechercheurs Loomis en MacClellan de ogenschijnlijke zelfmoord van een studente.
Fictie
Engels | 320 pagina's | Thomas & Mercer, Seattle | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Chaim Potok The chosen
De zoon van een orthodoxe rabbi in New York raakt bevriend met een joodse jongen uit een liberaal-agnostisch milieu.
Fictie
Engels | 291 pagina's | Ballantine Books, New York | 2013
Gedrukt boek
CIVITAS, Forum of Archives and Research on Christian Democracy Christian democracy and the fall of communism
The role of Christian Democracy in the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy's role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking "third-way" options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book's...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 3,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
E-book
Kadoc Christian homes
religion, family and domesticity in the 19th and 20th centuries
Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the 'angel in the house'. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 228 pagina's (PDF, 18 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Helen Pollard Christmas at Fox Farm
Daisy is preparing to spend her first Christmas in the only place she’s ever really felt at home: beautiful Fox Farm. But when tragedy strikes, she will need all her festive cheer, and all the mulled wine, to keep Christmas from being cancelled... Living at Fox Farm, with its cosy café and charming pottery workshop, is a dream come true for thirty-one-year-old Daisy. The kindly owner, Jean, and the close-knit village feel like the family Daisy has never had. She’s been looking forward to finally...
Engels | 9 uur 18 minuten (408 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Kiley Dunbar Christmas at Frozen Falls
Christmas magic can thaw the coldest of hearts... From the author of "One Winter’s Night", an uplifting, feel-good Christmas romance that will captivate readers of Holly Martin, Cathy Bramley and Milly Johnson. Sylvie Magnusson is going to be lonely this Christmas. Instead of jetting off for her honeymoon, she’s freezing at home in Cheshire. Guess that’s what happens when your fiancé dumps you a week before your wedding... Sylvie’s best friend, Nari, plans a trip to see the Northern Lights and...
Engels | 10 uur 20 minuten (458 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Lily Graham Christmas at Hope Cottage
In the little village of Whistling, with its butterscotch cottages and rolling green hills, snow is beginning to fall. Christmas is coming, and Emma Halloway is on her way home. When twenty-eight-year-old food writer Emma Halloway gets dumped then knocked off her bike, she’s broken in more ways than one, and returns to her family’s cosy cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. Emma hasn’t been back in some time, running from her crazy relatives and her childhood sweetheart, Jack Allen. Emma’s grandmother...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (325 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Kiley Dunbar Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop
A heartwarming, cosy, utterly uplifting romcom - the perfect rea
'Tis the season for finding love… and the perfect book! With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive… Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he’s nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix. When Alexandra Robinson winds up stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that’s waiting...
Engels | 10 uur 28 minuten (466 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Sue Watson The Christmas Cake Cafe
Heart-warming and hilarious, a story that will make you laugh, cry and bring a smile to your face. Get ready for another deliciously amazing Christmas treat from Sue Watson... As the Prosecco chills and Bing Crosby croons, Jen Barker just knows that her long-term boyfriend is about to propose. But instead of a diamond ring nestled in her champagne flute, Jen finds cold flat rejection. Her once perfect life and dreams of a husband and family seem even further from reach. A working holiday to...
Engels | 7 uur 7 minuten (313 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Svenska Ljud Classica
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (145 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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