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Jennifer L. Armentrout Fall With Me
Jennifer L. Armentrout (also known as J. Lynn), New York Times bestselling author of the Wait for You saga, delivers a new novel of first love, second chances, and scorching chemistry. Eleven months ago, bartender and weird-shirt-wearing extraordinaire Roxy and Officer Reece Anders had a one night stand. Well, kind of. Shes been in love with him since she was fifteen, and he wishes that night they shared never happened. Shes sworn him off forever, but the past and future collide, forcing her to rely...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2021
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jennifer L. Armentrout The problem with forever
Na een heftige start van haar leven in gewelddadige pleeggezinnen komt een meisje als ze 17 is op een high school haar enige vriend en beschermer uit haar jeugd tegen, waarna een romance volgt.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | MIRA Ink, [Nederland] | 2021
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William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it's love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?William Shakespeare's masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Paulo Coelho Manuscript Found in Accra
Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the townspeople to address their fears with truth, hope and comfort. They begin with questions about defeat and struggle; they contemplate the virtues of loyalty...
Engels | ePub2, 8,5 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Rachel Gibson Simply Irresistible
Chinooks Hockey Team
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fianc at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of thema night too sultry to resist temptation. Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2021
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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. 'An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Tove Ditlevsen The Faces
Penguin Modern Classics
One of Denmark''s most celebrated writers'' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children''s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jos Saramago The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil a kindly and necessary evil but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. An original, wild and beautiful book Times Literary Supplement Bron:...
Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (Collins Classics)
A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women pursue love and life in London, against the background of the...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks
Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability...
Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect
The Rosie Project Series
Sink into the joyously weird and wonderful next chapter of Don and Rosie, in Graeme Simsion's unmissable sequel to the bestselling The Rosie Project!'Touching and entertaining' Mail on Sunday Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie. Now, living in New York City, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage, even if Don has had to sacrifice standardised meals and embrace unscheduled sex. But then Rosie drops the mother of all bombshells....
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Curtis Sittenfeld Sisterland
The striking Sunday Times bestseller
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER -Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children....
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Lisa Halliday Asymmetry
A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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Dinah Jefferies The Daughters of War
The first book in the new sweeping historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.France, 1944.Deep in the river valley of the Dordogne, in an old stone cottage on the edge of a beautiful village, three sisters long for the end of the war.Hélène, the eldest, is trying her hardest to steer her family to safety, even as the Nazi occupation becomes more threatening.Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost.And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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T. Coraghessan Boyle After the plague
Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021
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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Original Version
An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...
Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021
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Danielle Steel Rushing waters
De bewoners van New York krijgen orkaan Orphelia te verwerken; het merendeel evacueert maar sommige weigeren dat.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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