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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
Herman Adèr Father, mother
In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how very evocative various scenes are. It could be said that the novella deals with Death. With the sudden death of the father, and with the slow, painful deterioration of the mother into her dementia, followed...
Fictie
Engels | 80 pagina's (ePub2) | Johannes van Kessel Publishing, Huizen | 2017
E-book
Jan Siebelink In my father's garden
Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced he has...
Fictie
Engels | 465 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Publishing house De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013
E-book
Hilary Mantel Bring up the bodies
Thomas Cromwell, de belangrijkste raadsheer van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII moet diens vrouw Anna Boleyn het veld laten ruimen voor Jane Semour, op wie de koning zijn oog heeft laten vallen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
William Shakespeare De tragedie van Koning Lear
Eigentijdse vertaling van de tragedie van de Engelse toneeldichter (1546-1616) met een weergave in stripvorm. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | 93 pagina's | De Harmonie, Amsterdam | 2012
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Karen Thompson Walker The age of miracles
Julia groeit op in een wereld die als gevolg van een steeds langzamer draaiende aarde geleidelijk desintegreert. Hoe lang kan de mens zijn bestaan nog rekken? Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 269 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London [etc.] | 2012
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