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Lev Tolstoj War and Peace I

War & Peace

"I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'” is a modern way of saying "keep it short". However, "I am looking for 'War and Peace'" should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a complete semester of Russian and French history, using the zoom button to focus on its impact on families from the aristocracy to the peasants. 'War and Peace I' introduces the five aristocratic families at the heart of the plot. It paints a picture of petty jealousy, pride and forbidden love in the Russian stately homes...

Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022

E-book
James Joyce Ulysses

On 16 June 1904 Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin aimlessly as his wife Molly stays at home sleeping with other men. Having been made an involuntary cuckold, Leopold Bloom lets the soles of his shoes wear out on the pavements between the taverns in which his humiliation is acute, and hides in one memory after another as they haunt him in Dublin's wet fog. Leopold Bloom is the Odyssey of the 20th century, but unlike Homer's ancient warrior hero, Bloom is a modern anti-hero that you can't...

Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2022

E-book
Yvonne Gillissen Building a house

In this series we meet a cheerful, playful little woodsy who gradually discovers itself in a world full of small adventures and wonders. Fiction. Woodsy Dapplefluff is a fantasy figure with distinctive characteristics and human features recognizable to children (from 4-6 years). Each part can be read on its own, but they are all connected. All together they form "THE WORLD OF WOODSY DAPPLEFLUFF" Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Fictie

Engels | 3 pagina's (ePub3, 1,2 MB) | Xpath Design multimedia producties, Amsterdam | 2022

E-book
Emma Leads Claire

historical roman

Claire Hodiamont, just seventeen years old as an unmarried woman, gets on the carriage to Cette, on her way to a new life. She has been offered a job at Maison Hanon. Justine, her employer, makes a design that Freule Coultier wears to the mayor's ball. The design hits like a bomb! Maison Hanon gets more customers and more fame. Claire is knocked over roughly one day as she is walking home. She looks into the most terrifying eyes she's ever seen. When she scrambles to her feet, she finds a package...

Fictie

Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Ambilicious, Breda | 2022

E-book
Carin Vijfhuizen How persistent, that tropical blue sky

poetic verses

'Images that touch us make words redundant.' -- Anne Wil Petterson This collection of poetic verses provides a fascinating insight into everyday life in an African village. By establishing a homestead, we not only enjoy the view from the veranda, but live with the people in the village as they creatively secure a livelihood, consult their spirits, healers and prophets and fear the power of the witches. We experience the remnants of the colonial period and the governance of the village, chieftaincy...

Fictie

Engels | 173 pagina's (ePub3, 11 MB) | Elikser Uitgeverij, Leeuwarden | 2022

E-book
Abraham de Kock Pardidoe

chronicles of a wandering humanitarian

Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...

Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Uitgeverij Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2022

E-book
George Fargo The labyrinth of the soul

The Labyrinth of the Soul - A modern-day parable When Jason Leonard decides to take a few days off for himself to sail on the Mediterranean, he cannot imagine the adventure that awaits him. Stranded after a shipwreck, he enters a magical labyrinth, in which he encounters a series of strange but inspiring "life coaches". A ragtag group of dieties, shamans and shape-shifters, they help the lost but searching Jason find his way out of the maze and back to his family. In doing so, they accompany him...

Fictie

Engels | 124 pagina's (ePub2, 5,4 MB) | Vergouw Publishing, Amsterdam | 2022

E-book
Fritz H. Schröder Memoires of my personal and professional life

1937 - 2017

Fritz Schröder is a retired professor of urology. He functioned as the head of the Department of Urology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 1977 to 2002. He was born, raised and trained in Germany and in the USA. His professional life was determined by his clinical activities, oncological research mainly concerning prostate cancer and the training of young urologists. Next to his professional life he took care of his family together with his wife Maren and continued to play cello which is his...

Non-fictie

Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 5,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book
Octave Mirbeau Calvary

a novel

Years and years have passed. Everything that I loved is now dead. Everything that I knew has taken on a new appearance. The church has been rebuilt. It now has an embellished doorway, arched windows, fancy gutter-spouts representing ﬂaming mouths of demons; its new brick belf-ry laughs gaily into the blue; in place of the old house there now rises an elaborate Swiss cottage built by the new proprietor who, in the enclosure, has increased the number of colored glass balls, small cascades and plaster...

Fictie

Engels | 304 pagina's (PDF, 0,9 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book
René van Rooij The virus of God

25 years after covid-19; a novel

Towards the middle of the twenty-first century, the Covid-19 ('Corona') crisis of the early twenties, which killed millions, is forgotten. Yet the virus has changed Planet Earth irreversibly. It laid bare the naked fact that the world had become too dependent on traditional forms of nutrition, communication and transportation. When the virus had finally been defeated, brilliant minds applied themselves to developing innovative techniques to elevate what remained of humanity to an entirely different...

Fictie

Engels | 610 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book
Laurence Bollen | Mugisha Maisha Safari

The nature of humankind emits light

Mukisa was an inquisitive Muslim boy who was gradually brainwashed from when he was 8 years old to help recruit other children from the Kampala ghettos to become child soldiers. Mukisa has a close relationship with his mother Ayana and his true faith and refuses to accept the situation. When it becomes unbearable, escaping to Europe is his only option. This means leaving everything behind, including his mother and sisters. In Europe, he falls into the hands of human traffickers and is forced to sell...

Engels | 196 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Droomvallei Uitgeverij, Breda | 2022

E-book
William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida is set during the later years of the Trojan War, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to participate in battle to Hector's death. Essentially, two plots are followed in the play. In one, Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam), woos Cressida, another Trojan. They profess their undying love, before Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner of war. As he attempts to visit her in the Greek camp, Troilus glimpses Diomedes flirting with his beloved...

Fictie

Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book
Andrew Miller The slowworm's song

Een Britse Oud-militair ontvangt een dagvaarding voor een onderzoek naar een incident dat veertig jaar eerder plaatsvond in Noord-Ierland.

Fictie

Engels | 276 pagina's | Sceptre, London | 2022

Gedrukt boek
Frances Liardet Think of me

In de jaren ’70, tien jaar na de dood van zijn vrouw, stuit een Britse oud-gevechtspiloot op een sjaal die hem vreemd bekend voorkomt. Als hij vervolgens de dagboeken van zijn overleden echtgenote vindt, komt zijn leven in een heel ander daglicht te staan.

Fictie

Engels | 373 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2022

Gedrukt boek
William Boyd The romantic

the real life of Cashel Greville Ross; a novel

De dagboeken van een fictieve Britse man (1799-1882) weerspiegelen de politieke en culturele geschiedenis van de 19e eeuw.

Fictie

Engels | 450 pagina's | Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, UK | 2022

Gedrukt boek
Julie Myerson Nonfiction

a novel

Met een verslaafde dochter, een lastige jeugd en een huwelijk onder druk kijkt een auteur naar haar leven. Wat gebeurt er allemaal en hoe heeft het zover kunnen komen?

Fictie

Engels | 278 pagina's | Corsair, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Graham Brown Clive Cussler's Dark vector

Kurt Austin en Joe Zavala zijn op zoek naar een schat in een Chinees scheepswrak. Ze onderbreken de zoektocht omdat er een schip met geheime supercompters is verdwenen.

Fictie

Engels | 401 pagina's | Michael Joseph, UK | 2022

Gedrukt boek
Mary Jayne Baker The 24 Hour Dating Agency

Tinder, Hinge, Bumble – thirty-something journalist Saffie has tried them all but now she's wondering whether it's time to throw in the towel and give up on love for good – and she's not alone... Saffie's boss Tamara has been single since her divorce four years ago, but at forty-five, running her own magazine and with three kids at home, she doesn't feel she has the time, energy or confidence to go through the dating mill again. Meanwhile, Saffie's best friend Milo has just been dumped – again....

Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Emma Davies The Little Shop on Silver Linings Street

Daisy Turner has worked at Buchanan’s Family Jewellers since the day she finally escaped her troubled home. With a unique talent for matching the perfect piece of jewellery to any romantic milestone, she painstakingly polishes each stunning creation every morning and safely locks them away each night, longing for the day she’ll have a love story to call her own... But everything changes one day in December when the owner announces she is retiring. She will leave the shop to whichever of her three...

Engels | 8 uur 46 minuten (403 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Donna Ashcroft The Little Guesthouse of New Beginnings

‘Lovely and heart-warming!... I was hooked on this book from the very first page...Grab it now and settle down to enjoy the loveliness that this book gives!... Wonderful!!’ Stardust Book Reviews, 5 stars The Sunshine Hideaway, with its big bay windows, fresh-baked scones, and stunning view of Sunflower Island’s golden beaches, is the only place Madison Skylar has ever truly thought of as home. But returning to the guesthouse might not be as easy as she first thought... Twenty-three-year-old Madison has...

Engels | 7 uur 53 minuten (351 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

Luisterboek (digitaal)