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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
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Stray Kids
How do homeless kids survive in a big city?
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
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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
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Arne Zuidhoek Normandie
Her novel design and lavish interiors led many to consider her the greatest of ocean liners. Despite this, Normandie was not a commercial success. During service the flagship of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, made 139 westbound transatlantic crossings and held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing at several points during her service career. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 48 pagina's (ePub2, 36 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
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Jantinus Mulder S-class destroyer Piet Hein ex HMS Serapis
Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1941, the destroyers of the 5th Emergency Flotilla became known as S-class and served as fleet and convoy escorts in World War II. In the last months of the war, three were transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy for service in the Far East. HMS Serapis was renamed HNLMS Piet Hein and served in the Indonesian War of Independence and saw action in the Korean War. She was sold for scrap in 1962. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
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Bert Lamers America
The s.s. 'America' was an ocean liner which entered service in 1940 for the United States Lines. She was designed by the famous naval architect William Francis Gibbs. In the 54 years between her introduction and her wrecking in 1994, she had eight different owners (of which one twice) and sailed under the names of 'America' (carrying this name three different times), 'West Point', 'Australis', 'Italis', 'Noga', 'Alferdoss' and 'American Star'. She served most in passenger service as s.s. 'America'...
Engels | 52 pagina's (ePub2, 29 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
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Edwin Hoogschagen Fokker C.11w
The sturdy Fokker C.XIw was designed and built for service in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Development started in early 1934. The biplane scout was the first Dutch aircraft which could be catapult launched. At that time, a new flagship for the Netherlands East Indies Squadron was under construction and would receive a Heinkel K 8 catapult. Fifteen aircraft were ordered and served as long-range reconnaissance for the fleet from 1936 to 1942. It was mainly operated in the Netherlands Indies and stationed...
Engels | 56 pagina's (ePub2, 19 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
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Arne Zuidhoek Achille Lauro
The Italian cruise ship Willem Ruys was built between 1939 and 1947. When it was sold to the Italian Lauro Organization in 1966, it was renamed after the company owner Achille Lauro. After being hijacked by Palestinian warriors (PLO), in October 1985, the blue liner and cruiser made international headlines. Swept by a catastrophic fire Achille Lauro sank December 2, 1994, off the Somalian coast. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 48 pagina's (ePub2, 25 MB) | Lanasta, Amsterdam | 2024
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Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train
The multi-million-copy global phenomenon
THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLER***Includes a preview of Paula''s scorching new thriller, A Slow Fire Burning ***''Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read.'' SJ Watson, bestselling author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEPRachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She''s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ''Jess and Jason'', she calls them. Their...
Engels | ePub3, 4,8 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2024
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Ciara Gavin Beth and Cloud won't change
Een meisje sluit vriendschap met een wolkje. Ze willen allebei niet veranderen, het meisje is bang om naar school te gaan en het wolkje wil een binnenwolkje blijven. Maar dan ontdekken ze dat verandering niet betekent dat alles verloren gaat. Prentenboek met kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 5 jaar.
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Engels | 26 pagina's | Clavis, New York | 2024
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Carolina Búzio Let's go home, baby shark
move the sliding counters around the ocean!
Prentenboek waarin je kindje kleine haai en zijn vriendjes kunt helpen met het vinden van hun weg naar huis. Vanaf ca. 2 jaar.
Fictie | Dierenleven
Engels | 10 pagina's | Nosy Crow, London | 2023
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Sarah J. Maas House of flame and shadow
Een jonge vrouw wil niets liever dan terugkeren naar haar geboorteplaats Midgard. Gestrand in een vreemde nieuwe wereld, zal ze al haar verstand nodig hebben om hier weer weg te komen. Maar dat is niet makkelijk nu ze geen idee heeft wie ze kan vertrouwen.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Science fiction
Engels | 834 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024
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My Mother's Tongues
ENGELS "In a sparkling debut authored by a sixteen-year-old daughter of immigrants, this ode to the power of multilingualism gives voice to the lasting benefits of speaking with more than one tongue. Sumis mother can speak two languages, Malayalam and English. And she can switch between them at the speed of sound: one language when talking to Sumis grandmother, another when she addresses the cashier. Sometimes with Sumi she speaks a combination of both. Could it be she possesses a superpower? With...
Engels | Walker Books, * | 2024
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Holly Jackson The reappearance of Rachel Price
Als Bel 2 jaar oud is verdwijnt haar moeder met Bel als enige getuige en zij heeft er geen herinneringen aan. Bel wil het graag achter zich laten, maar de familie Price besluit mee te doen aan true-crime documentaire. En wonder boven wonder: Rachel Price keert na 16 jaar terug met een onwaarschijnlijk verhaal en Bel gelooft er niks van en gaat op onderzoek.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 433 pagina's | Delacorte Press, New York | 2024
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Heather Fawcett Emily Wilde's map of the otherlands
Emily Wilde gaat in dit tweede deel met haar geliefde Wendell op zoek naar een weg naar huis voor hem. Sfeervol verhaal voor jongeren vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Sprookjes
Engels | 337 pagina's | Orbit, London | 2024
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Kim Verhaeghe Giraffes don't sink and approx. 137 other fantastic insights from science
Een aantal opmerkelijke wetenschappelijke onderzoeken worden besproken in deze Engelstalige paperback. Informatief en met humor. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Non-fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | Houtekiet, Antwerp, Amsterdam | 2024
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Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the turbo toilet 2000
George en Harold zijn twee vrienden die altijd grappen uithalen en hun eigen stripverhalen maken. Samen creëren ze Captain Underpants die door een merkwaardige gebeurtenis tot leven komt en waardoor George en Harold allerlei avonturen beleven. Met veel cartoonachtige illustraties. Vanaf ca. 8 jaar.
Fictie | Humoristische roman | Schoolverhaal
Engels | 220 pagina's | Scholastic Children's Books an imprint of Scholastic, London | 2014
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