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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:58:37 PST

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Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned i ...

Dromen, durven, doen

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 0:07:53 PST

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• Waarom houden we de meeste veranderingen niet vol? • Wat bepaalt 95% van je gedrag (zonder dat je het merkt)? • Hoe ontwikkel je met succes nieuwe, effectieve gewoontes? Wat zijn de geheimen van échte, blijvende verandering? Iedereen heeft dromen op het gebied van werk, relatie, gezondheid en persoonlijke ontwikkeling. Maar wat is er eigenlijk nodig om de stap van DROMEN, na ...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 2:37:54 PST

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Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease? What's coming Next? Get a hint of what Michael Crichton sees on the ...

Eus

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 1:25:51 PST

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The Sacred Stone

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 1:24:46 PST

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1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters discover a strangely-shapedmeteor which has fallen from the sky.

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 5:35:48 PST

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Following the massive complexity of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami's best-selling, award-winning novel--comes this deceptively simple love story, a contemporary rendering of the romance in which a boy finds and then loses a girl, only to meet her again years later. Hajime--"Beginning" in Japanese--was an atypical only child growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb. Shimamot ...

Crime and Punishment

Wed, 6 Mar 2013 2:39:49 PST

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Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and ...

The Road

Wed, 6 Mar 2013 2:37:41 PST

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to b ...

Wie heeft mijn kaas gepikt ?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 4:32:00 PST

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The Calcutta Chromosome

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 4:30:49 PST

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A medical thriller, a Victorian ghost story, a scientific quest--this novel ranges back and forth in time. dramatizes the adventures of an international scientist. By the author of Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace and other major novels.

Gomorra / Midprice

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 4:43:06 PST

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Sputnik Sweetheart

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 3:55:45 PST

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Twenty-two-year-old Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: wh ...

Het scherp van ambon / druk 1

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 4:45:26 PST

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Between the Assassinations

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:08:59 PST

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From a middle-aged Communist to an Islamic terrorist; from the young children of a Tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a Brahmin housemaid, this title presents a microcosm of Indian life in the 80s, the years between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv.

Burchten en kastelen in Europa / druk 1

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:03:04 PST

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Fotoboek over kasteel- en paleiscomplexen in Europa, met historische, bouwkundige en toeristische gegvens.

Beatrice and Virgil

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:16:50 PST

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With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so treasured, this brilliantnew novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey.

Kim

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 20:50:41 PST

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This novel tells the story of Kimball O Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim's life and adventures from street vagabond, to his adoption by his father's regiment and recruitment into espionage.

Little Daughter

Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:44:28 PST

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By turns uplifting, tragic and entirely gripping, this is the extraordinary true storyof the girl from the jungle who became an icon of a suffering land.

The Lost Prophecies

Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:39:05 PST

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A mysterious book of prophecies written by a sixth century Irish monk has puzzled scholars through the ages. Foretelling wars, plagues and rebellions, the Black Book of Bran is said to have predicted the Black Death and the Gunpowder Plot. It is even said to foresee the Day of Judgement. But is it the result of devine inspiration or the ravings of a madman? A hidden hoard of Saxon gold. A poison ...

Racing Through the Dark

Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:37:09 PST

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By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink, and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over ...

From the Land of Green Ghosts

Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:34:49 PST

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In 1988, Dr. John Casey, a professor visiting Burma, meets a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce, and the encounter changes both their lives. Pascal, a member of the Kayan Padaung tribe, was the first member of his community to study English at a university. Within months of his meeting with Dr. Casey, Pascal's world lay in ruins. Burma's military dictatorship forces hi ...

Cuckold

Sat, 6 Oct 2012 22:50:14 PST

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A Quintessentially Indian Story, Cuckold Has An Immediacy And Appeal That Are Truely Universal.

Finding Ultra

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:06:07 PST

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Describes how the author embraced a nutrient-rich lifestyle and incremental fitness plan after realizing the daunting state of his health at age 40, revealing how over the course of two years he overcame physical challenges and alcoholism ...

Ulysses

Sun, 2 Sep 2012 19:36:47 PST

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Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To t ...

Blind willow, sleeping woman

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 2:55:34 PST

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The Falcons of Fire and Ice

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 2:02:11 PST

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1564, Lisbon. The Inquisition displays its power and ruthlessly spreads fear. Heretics are tortured and burned. Any who oppose the Church's will realize that silence is preferable to a slow and agonizing death. Isabela, daughter of the Falconer at the Royal Court, is about to be caught in the Church's terrifying schemes. The slaughter of two of the King's precious white falcons sees her father a ...

Zes miljoen slagen

Tue, 7 Aug 2012 2:59:04 PST

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Verslag van een solo-roeitocht over de Stille Oceaan..

River of Smoke (A Format Export)

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 2:39:00 PST

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The Geography of Thought

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 2:33:00 PST

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When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment...and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of ...

The House of the Mosque

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:33:39 PST

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Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on the rooftop, Shahbal longs only for a television to watch the first moon landing. But not even the beloved grandmothers can foresee what will happen in the days and months to come. The household is set to exp ...

Lost on Planet China

Wed, 6 Jun 2012 2:49:48 PST

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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: Maarten Troost is a laowai (foreigner) in the Middle Kingdom, ill-equipped with a sliver of Mandarin, questing to discover the "essential Chineseness" of an ancient and often mystifying land. What he finds is a country with its feet suctioned in the clay of traditional culture and a head straining into the polluted stratosphere of unencumbered capitalism, wh ...

Getting Stoned with Savages

Thu, 31 May 2012 4:43:48 PST

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With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world. After two grueling years on the island of Tarawa, battling feral dogs, machete-wielding neighbors, ...

Bel-ami

Wed, 23 May 2012 4:14:46 PST

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Sea of Poppies

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 1:46:51 PST

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On an old slaving ship named the Ibis, fate has thrown together a motley crew of sailors, coolies and convicts, including a bankrupt raja, a French runaway and a widowed opium farmer ... Set against the backdrop of the Opium Wars, this unlikely dynasty is what makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive - a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.

The Sacred Stone

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 2:15:12 PST

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1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. At first, the mysterious 'sky-stone' seems to bring good luck. But the villagers are soon cursed with violence and murder as they fight to gain control of the precious object. Over the next six hundred years, the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading kni ...

The Prince

Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:30:28 PST

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'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experien ...

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 3:43:56 PST

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Decamerone

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 5:21:42 PST

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Uit Florence gevlucht wegens een pestepidemie besluiten tien jongelieden elkaar als afleiding honderd verhalen te vertellen, waar een groot aantal ...

Haar naam was Sarah filmeditie / druk 1

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 3:47:52 PST

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The Satanic Verses

Thu, 1 Mar 2012 4:35:49 PST

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Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphos ...

Les Miserables

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 4:27:58 PST

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Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech"), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is one of the great works of western literature. Now in a new translation from the French by Christine Donougher, "Les Miserables" is at once a t ...

Life of Pi

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 3:22:53 PST

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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.

Secretum

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:14:46 PST

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Rome, 1700. Paus Innocentius XII ligt op sterven. Politici en machtige kardinalen voeren in het geheim onderhandelingen over de belangrijkste pausverkiezing in eeuwen. Abt Atto Melani - voormalige castraatzanger, diplomaat en spion van de Zonnekoning - verschijnt ten tonele om de uitkomst van het conclaaf te manipuleren. Een beeldschone prinses, minnares van vorsten en staatslieden, kent meer geh ...

Creating a World Without Poverty

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 1:42:31 PST

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The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve p ...

The Brothers Karamazov

Wed, 9 Nov 2011 3:06:11 PST

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"The Brothers Karamazov" is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three sons - the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the social and spiritual strivings in what was both a g ...

The Glass Palace

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 2:23:10 PST

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The acclaimed author of 'The Calcutta Chromosome' and 'The Shadow Lines' has burst out on to the big stage with a major saga on that hidden country, Burma. Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese king, queen and all the court into exile. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him ...

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 2:11:24 PST

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Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cul ...

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:35:37 PST

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A timely reissue of this classic collection, formerly titled The Mammoth Book of Explorers, contains over 40 fascinating first-hand accounts of exploration including the first crossing of North America, exploration of the Congo, and adventures in Machu Picchu. With a foreword by Wilfred Thesiger.

The New York Trilogy

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 3:32:58 PST

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It's All about the Bike

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 3:22:52 PST

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En route, he tells the stories of the science, history and culture of bicycles,extracting pertinent and quirky stories the role of the bicycle in women's ...

The Hand of Fatima

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 4:19:34 PST

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1564, Granada. The Moors have unsuccessfully tried to rise up against their Christian oppressors and have painted the town in victims' blood. Our hero Hernando, an Arab with a Christian father, is despised by the townsfolk and by his step-father for his 'tainted' heritage and banished to live in the stables. Hernando has an affinity with horses and becomes an expert muleteer. News of his special ...

De Weduwnaar

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 3:45:27 PST

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Na de dood van zijn vrouw Carmen, dompelt Stijn zich onder in het uitgaansleven van Amsterdam en Ibiza. Aan rouwen komt hij nauwelijks toe. Tot hij met zijn dochtertje naar de andere kant van de wereld vertrekt, voor een rondreis met een gehuurde camper. Geconfronteerd met zichzelf - en met zijn dochter - begint Stijn zijn verlies te verwerken en gaat hij op zoek naar de betekenis van liefde. De ...

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 3:35:49 PST

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Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps they'll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every ...

Midnight's Children

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 3:05:37 PST

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Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirro ...

The Sex Lives of Cannibals

Tue, 31 May 2011 3:15:11 PST

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The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati—possibly The Worst Place on Earth. At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and mov ...

It's Not About the Bike

Wed, 18 May 2011 3:42:02 PST

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Winner of the William Hill sports book of the year. 'Having nearly lost his life Lance Armstrong serves up his story for the rest of the world to wonder at, shudder at and learn from' Guardian. 'I want to die at a hundred years old after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I don't do anything slow, not even breathe. I do everything at a fast cadence: eat fast, slee ...

The Gallows Curse

Fri, 13 May 2011 2:08:42 PST

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1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. A ...

Oliver Twist

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 2:36:04 PST

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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 feature ...

The Enchantress of Florence

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:13:43 PST

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En je ziet nog eens wat

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 0:10:45 PST

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"En je ziet nog eens wat" gaat over vrijwilligers in Afrika.

The Book Thief

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:57:36 PST

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Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during the funeral for her brother, she manages to steal a macabre book: it is, in fact, a gravediggers’ instruction manual. This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the Secon ...

De vliegeraar

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 1:25:12 PST

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Amir en Hassan zijn gevoed door dezelfde min en groeien samen op in de hoofdstad van Afghanistan. Als blijk van hun verbondenheid kerft Amir hun namen in een granaatappelboom: 'Amir en Hassan, de sultans van Kabul'. Maar sultans zijn ze alleen in hun fantasie, want Amir hoort tot de bevoorrechte bevolkingsgroep en Hassan en zijn vader zijn arme Hazaren, in dienst van Amirs vader. Bij de jaarlij ...

Spaans vuur

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 5:06:01 PST

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In het Maastricht van 1635 sluipt een Spaanse moordenaar rond, verkleed alsmonnik.

Een onafwendbaar einde

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 5:04:08 PST

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Beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen die in 'In volmaakte stilte' leidden tot demoord op inspecteur Lynleys vrouw.

In het maanlicht

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 5:01:18 PST

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Gaby brengt haar zoon naar de universiteit. Tegen haar gewoonte in keert ze die ochtend echter niet direct terug naar haar man en huis in Londen, maar springt ze op de trein. Deze voert haar naar een afgelegen dorp waar ze op zoek gaat naar Nancy, een vriendin die ze lang geleden uit het oog is verloren. Ongeveer twintig jaar geleden verdween Nancy op mysterieuze wijze uit Gaby's leven. Maar deze ...

Dochter van Isfahan

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:59:45 PST

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Een arm meisje uit het 17e eeuwse Perzië ontwikkelt zich tot een succesvoltapijtontwerpster.

De voorlaatste droom / druk 1

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:58:08 PST

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Een man en een vrouw doen onderzoek naar de onmogelijke liefde die hun ouders ertoebracht samen voor het einde te kiezen.

Waar het de tijd aan ontbreekt

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:56:37 PST

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Zij die gaan sterven

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:54:51 PST

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Terroristen vernietigen een kleine stad in de Verenigde Staten en dreigen hetzelfde tedoen met New York, Londen en Parijs.

Uitgelaten!

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:54:06 PST

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Een hondenuitlaatster in New York snuffelt in de spullen van hun baasjes en wordtverliefd op een van hen, terwijl ze hem nog nooit heeft ontmoet.

Dagboek van een call girl

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:53:10 PST

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Autobiografisch getint relaas van een jonge vrouw die een dubbeleven leidt als keurigeverloofde en call girl.

De historicus

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:49:55 PST

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Equinox / druk 1

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:48:38 PST

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Nadat in Oxford twee gruwelijke moorden zijn gepleegd, legt een schrijfster een verband met een 17e eeuws complot rondom alchemisten bloot.

Chaos

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:44:26 PST

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Thriller.

25 wereldroutes

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:36:24 PST

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Floortje Dessing gaat opnieuw de wereld over. Voor iedereen die van reizen houdt heeft ze wederom een keuze gemaakt uit alle bijzondere en indrukwekkende reizen die ze tot nu toe gemaakt heeft. Soms dichtbij, maar vaak ver weg. En daar waar de ene reis slechts een kleine afstand beslaat, gaat de andere de halve wereld over. Wereldroutes per luxe trein, minibus of terreinwagen, maar ook per speedb ...

De Vaticaanse moorden

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:33:35 PST

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Wanneer in Rome een seriemoordenaar actief is die de vroege martelaren van hetchristendom imiteert, leidt het spoor al gauw naar het Vaticaan.

Duizend schitterende zonnen

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:32:18 PST

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Tegen de achtergrond van Afghanistan vanaf 1960 tot nu (vooral de roerige tijden van de Sovjet-overheersing en de Taliban-dictatuur) ...

Gaudi in Manhattan

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:28:39 PST

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Kort verhaal van Carlos Ruiz Zafón, auteur van bestseller De schaduw van de wind. De nog jonge architect Miranda ? hartstochtelijk bewonderaar van het werk van Antoni Gaudí ? maakt kennis met de grote meester omdat deze zijn hulp nodig heeft. Een rijke magnaat in New York wil van Gaudí een ontwerp voor een wolkenkrabber op Manhattan. In ruil daarvoor neemt de magnaat de kosten op zich voor het ...

Ik omhels je met duizend armen

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:25:11 PST

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Een jonge schrijver gaat zich zorgen maken als hij het gevoel heeft gelukkig tezijn.

Animal Farm

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:22:45 PST

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Onmacht

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:20:20 PST

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In de relatie tussen Ellen en Victor is het stadium van de kleine irritaties ruimschoots gepasseerd. Op een onverwacht moment barst de bom. Een scheiding lijkt onvermijdelijk. Maar dan neemt het geheel een gruwelijke wending.

Echopark

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:17:59 PST

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Wanneer een gevangene een oude moord bekent, krijgt een rechercheur in Los Angeles eenvan zijn onopgeloste zaken terug.

Villa Dante

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:14:57 PST

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Vier mensen die elkaar niet kennen, krijgen van een hen onbekende vrouw na haar dood deoproep om voor de afwikkeling van haar erfenis naar Italië te komen.

Imprimatur

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:13:45 PST

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Het is 11 september 1683. In Europa dreigt een nieuwe grote oorlog: de Turken belegeren Wenen. Angst voor de moslims houdt christelijk Europa in haar greep. Tien gasten uit verschillende Europese landen logeren in herberg De Schildknaap in Rome. Als een oude heer in de herberg om het leven komt, vermoedelijk ten gevolge van de pest, moeten alle gasten in quarantaine. Maar het blijft niet bij di ...

Tromps Armada

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:09:08 PST

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Historische Thriller:Gelezen Dec-Jan 2009-10 Terschelling-Overland Park, Kansas;Matig 6 <br />Zomer 1639. De Spaanse oorlogsvloot nadert Duinkerken. In de Rotterdamse haven verdwijnt een scheepsbouwer van de aardbodem. Aan Evan Sharpe de taak dit raadsel op te lossen...

By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:07:31 PST

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A Fable About Opening Your Heart to Miracles By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tells of Pilar, a frustrated scholar looking for some greater meaning in the endless cycle of her days. When a childhood friend contacts her, she is surprised to learn that her former playmate is now a charismatic spiritual leader, someone revered as a miracle worker. She is even more astonished when he reveals t ...

An Indian Summer

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 4:04:43 PST

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James Cameron was no stranger to India when he travelled there with his wife in 1972. His work as journalist and his new family brought him a closer understanding of the country he already loved. He also met new people, travelled to unfamilar areas and witnessed the changes that Independence had brought. With this fresh eye he saw kindness and corruption, beauty and filth, impossible bureaucracy ...

Wolf Hall

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:52:18 PST

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Southeast Asia on a Shoestring

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:49:53 PST

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The biggest selling travel guide book in Australia. Covers the most popular destinations in Asia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Lonely Planet Sri Lanka

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:48:51 PST

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Lonely Planet knows Sri Lanka. With our 11th edition we help you board the train to the lush tea plantations of Ella, show you where the spotten leopards hide, lead you to Sigiriya's mysterious ancient ruins and when your adventuring is done, reveal the nation's most-secluded beaches. Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully up ...

Southeast Asia

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:48:05 PST

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Lonely Planet India

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:47:21 PST

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Discover India Shield your eyes as the desert sun ignites the sandstone of Jaisalmer Fort, p. 245 Sway side-to-side as you lumber through the jungle tiger-spotting on the back of an elephant in Corbett Tiger Reserve, p. 472 Head for the hills and the heavens: adventure out from Darjeeling on a trek with stunning Himalayan views, p. 542 Align your chakras and get bent into a new position a ...

Lonely Planet China

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:31:15 PST

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Walk the watchtowers at Badaling, where President Nixon once said, 'this is a great wall,' p. 163 Knock back a shot of Confucius baijiu firewater in Qufu, hometown of the sage, p. 218 Find out how a local farmer first uncovered the Army of Terracotta Warriors, p. 428 Perfect your Monkey Offers Peach strike at Wudang Shan, birthplace of taichi, p. 481 12 authors and 483 days of in-country ...

The Swan Thieves

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:26:22 PST

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The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art topreserve hope.

Dance, Dance, Dance

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:18:48 PST

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High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Da ...

Zeitoun

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:15:58 PST

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:14:11 PST

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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation f ...

After Dark

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 3:12:35 PST

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