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Sue Teddern The Pre-Loved Club
The uplifting rom-com we all need!
A gentle reminder love never gives up on anyone. A funny, charming, warm-hearted story to restore your faith in humanity'' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealNed is in IKEA with his wife, Tanya, when she breaks the news that their marriage is over.For Gemma, it''s when she opens the glove compartment of her husband’s car to find a pair of women’s sunglasses that aren’t hers.When Ned and Gemma meet at a support group for single parents, they don''t exactly hit it off. Ned thinks...
Engels | ePub3, 2,5 MB | Mantle, [Nederland] | 2022
E-book
Sue Grafton N is for Noose
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
N is for Noose is the fourteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance . . . Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop. 2356)...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Pan, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Sue Grafton O is for Outlaw
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
O is for Outlaw is the fifteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.First there was a phone call from a stranger, then a letter showed up fourteen years after it was sent. That''s how I learned I''d made a serious error in judgement and ended up risking my life . . .'' The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last weekend he bought a stack. They had stuff in them – Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks, he''ll sell her the lot....
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Pan, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Sue Grafton P is for Peril
Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series
P is for Peril is the sixteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away – never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal – a former stripper forty years his junior – is just as sure he is dead. Enter...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Pan, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Rick Stroud | Victor Gregg Rifleman
"Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape, but was caught and became a prisoner of war; sentenced to death in Dresden for attempting...
Engels | 1,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Robert Stromberg | Linda Woolverton Maleficent
Uit wraak omdat de koning haar verraden heeft, spreekt feeënkoningin Maleficent een vloek uit over het pasgeboren prinsesje Aurora. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Film
August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lucy Strange The ghost of Gosswater
1899. Als de graaf is overleden, moet lady Agatha (12) van haar wrede neef Clarence het statige landhuis verlaten. Ze moet bij een arme ganzenhoeder gaan wonen, die beweert dat hij haar echte vader is. Hij woont ook nog in een vervallen hutje. Dan verschijnt de geest van een jonge vrouw. Heeft zij iets te maken met Agatha's afkomst? Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 309 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts
"Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
novel
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal bushcraft
living in the wild from the wild; novel
What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...
Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen When the climate goes feral
coming of age in a tipping world; novel
All the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside. She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world is tipping and they must make it on their own. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 262 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.
novel
Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen A courtyard full of finds
A man with an old Landrover and an invalid son has settled in a remote town in northern France. The war elsewhere and the closure of the cement works have driven out many of the inhabitants and summer visitors. The man is interested in just one thing: an estate where perhaps no one has lived for a century. He sets out to investigate and discovers some disturbing things in the courtyard. On the terrace of the only restaurant open, a young psychologist is fascinated by the way father and son communicate....
Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Artscience, [Nederland] | 2024
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Oldtimers
A lonely widower inherits his mother's remote farmhouse. To have something to do, he applies to the local Volunteer Center. He goes to work in his old style, park maintenance, with an old lady who lives alone on an estate. One day he enters a barn ... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 44 pagina's (PDF, 0,3 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Cycling
novella
What do you do with sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of energy? Theo went cycling. Just as lonely as working from home, but at least while cycling there was a landscape passing by. A near collision earned him a cycling buddy. This will be something... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 74 pagina's (PDF, 0,4 MB) | published by the Boekencoöperatie, [Amsterdam] | 2024
E-book
Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Stray Kids
how do homeless children survive a big city; novel
Tramps. How can it come to this with anyone anyway? Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them. Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy. Sometimes something happens to them that...
Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2024
E-book
Rachel Stone Mindfulness
How many times have we been encouraged to see the cup half-full instead of half-empty? Oftentimes in western society, the push to be optimistic and to think positive is drilled into us from a young age. However, if one is beginning to become more mindful, the transition to mindfulness may feel a little jarring. Instead of focusing just on the positive aspect of life, mindfulness encourages a realistic outlook on life that embraces the good and the bad, the positive, the negative, and the neutral....
Engels | 2 uur 26 minuten (108 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Nic Stone Dear Martin
Justyce is een van de acht zwarte studenten op een prestigieuze witte school. Justyce’ kijk op de maatschappij verandert als zijn beste vriend zonder aanleiding wordt doodgeschoten. Hij begint een dagboek, gericht aan zijn held Martin Luther King. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 210 pagina's | Crown, New York | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Bram Stoker Dracula
Graaf Dracula uit Transsylvanië̈ is een vampier en dit zorgt voor grote opschudding als hij Londen bezoekt. Met zwart-witillustraties en opdrachten. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 79 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2019
Gedrukt boek
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