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Nicci French Thursday's Child
A Frieda Klein Novel (4)
Thursday's Child by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday. Two crimes, generations apart ... Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - not the police, not her mother, not her friends. She left town, trained as a psychologist and never went back. Now an old classmate has shown up. She wants help with her daughter, who claims to have been attacked...
Engels | ePub3, 3,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2014
E-book
Hans Christian Andersen Thumbelina
Charlotte Rampling reads "Thumbelina", the story of a woman who desperately wants a child but not knowing how to go about it, asks a witch for help. The witch gives her a barley seed and tells her to plant it. No sooner has she done so that a large tulip starts to grow. When it blooms, the woman discovered a tiny girl inside of the flower, no bigger than her thumb. She calls her Thumbelina. Charlotte Rampling is a British actress, singer, and model who has starred in blockbuster such as "Red Sparrow"...
Engels | 4 minuten (3,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Svenska Ljud Classica
Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to ‘Alice Adventures in Wonderland’, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everything is reversed, like a reflection – including logic. It makes for another absurdly funny story full of wonder and snark that, like the first book, never talks down to its young audience. The popular Tim Burton movie, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (2010), starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway, to name is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
E-book
Lewis Carrol Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everything is reversed, like a reflection – including logic. It makes for another absurdly funny story full of wonder and snark that, like the first book, never talks down to its young audience. The popular Tim Burton movie, `Alice in Wonderland‘ (2010), starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway, to name is...
Engels | 3 uur 6 minuten (139 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Kees Klomp | Shinta Oosterwaal Thrive
fundamentals for a new economy
While the world speculates about its post-pandemic state within the traditional economic narrative, unprecedented ecological and social damage prove the current neoclassical economic model to be untenable. In Thrive. Fundamentals for a New Economy, Kees Klomp and Shinta Oosterwaal provide insights into alternative approaches to economics that are sustainable and just for both society and the planet in the long term. In twenty-four essays, internationally renowned economic thinkers like Kate Raworth,...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Deep dive into Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling historical adventure tale of honour and chivalry, set during the backdrop of the French monarchy’s slow demise, ´The Three Musketeers´. Kickstarting the epic trilogy, ´The Three Musketeers´ follows D’Artagnan's desperate attempt to leave home and join the elite Musketeers of the Guard in Paris. When he befriends three other formidable musketeers his age, the group soon take it upon themselves to save the state and control the courts! But when rogue...
Engels | 26 uur 17 minuten (1158 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Erik Zürcher Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Deborah Jackson Three in a bed
"Parents benefit by getting virtually a full night's sleep.;The author explains the advantages of this radical form of baby care, including its benefits for breastfeeding mothers, reviews the history of babies in the bed and, through interviews with parents, explores attitudes to the idea. The book also contains a fresh perspective on the tragedy of cot death, as well as practical advice on how to sustain your sex life, hints on safety in the bed and"
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Martin McDonagh Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Gefrustreerd omdat het politieonderzoek naar de moord op haar dochter niet vordert laat een vrouw drie grote reclameborden plaatsen, net buiten haar woonplaats Ebbing, Missouri. Een ervan is een beschuldiging aan de politiechef, wat leidt tot veel ophef in het stadje.
Fictie
Film
Khaled Hosseini A thousand splendid suns
Tegen de achtergrond van Afghanistan vanaf 1960 tot nu (vooral de roerige tijden van de Sovjet-overheersing en de Taliban-dictatuur) ontrollen zich de levens van twee vrouwen.
Fictie
Engels | 419 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2008
Gedrukt boek
Kiera Cass A thousand heartbeats
Prinses Annika zal binnenkort moeten trouwen met iemand van wie ze niet houdt, alleen om politiek gewin. Lennox’ leven staat in het teken van het leger. Als de twee elkaar ontmoeten, is liefde onvermijdelijk. Vanaf 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 564 pagina's | HarperCollins Children's Books, London | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college...
Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2014
E-book
Alan Taylor Thor
the dark world
Wanneer Jane, de aardse geliefde van Thor, in gevaar komt, moet hij hulp vragen aan zijn onbetrouwbare broer Loki.
Fictie
Film
Alice Oseman This winter
a heartstopper novella
Roman over de relaties binnen een gezin in ongemakkelijke situaties. De oudste zoon is gay en heeft een eetstoornis. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 101 pagina's | HarperCollins Children's books, London | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Emily Barr This summer's secrets
Bijzonder verhaal waarin geheimen uit het verleden de hoofdrol spelen en waarin alles samenkomt in een sprankelende zomder vol mooie, jonge mensen in Cliff House. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 421 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Fred Vargas This Poison Will Remain
Commissaire Adamsberg
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
This obscure thing called transparency
politics and aesthetics of a contemporary metaphor
Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure...
Non-fictie
Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Marieke Nijkamp This is where it ends
De vier Amerikaanse tieners Autumn, Claire, Sylvia en Tomas worden gevolgd tijdens een 54 minuten durende schietpartij op hun highschool in Alabama. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 285 pagina's | Sourcebooks Fire, Naperville, Illinois | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Lorraine Wilson This is Our Undoing
Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister...
Engels | 13 uur 50 minuten (606 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sven Biscop This Is Not a New World Order
Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics. Without geopolitical awareness, crafting good strategy is impossible. But not every problem is geopolitical, and strategy covers...
Engels | 101 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Owl press, Edegem | 2024
E-book
Engels