Acid Row

Macmillan, 2001. Paperback. Pp: 352. Sophie Morrison is a doctor on and errand of mercy when she trapped in riot on Acid Row. Acid Row is a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children, where angry teenagers rule the streets. ISBN: 9780333907498. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Donna Leon 21310

Acqua alta

Diogenes, 1997. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 370. Wie jeden Winter bedroht Hochwasser das größte Museum der Welt: Venedig. Eine Archäologin wird vor ihrer Wohnung zusammengeschlagen, ein renommierter Museumsdirektor wird ermordet. Ganz Venedig ist entsetzt. Commissario Brunetti will beide Fälle mit der ihm eigenen Hartnäckigkeit aufklären. Und bald steht das Wasser auch denjenigen bis zum Hals, die so falsch sind wie die Kunst, mit der sie handeln. ISBN: 9783257061505. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Lian Hearn 33373

Across the Nightingale Floor

Picador, 2003. Paperback. Pp: 309. In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard. But Otori Takeo, his family murdered by Iida's warriors, has magical skills that allow him to enter Samadu's lair. ISBN: 9780330493345. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Ernest Hemingway 11392

Across the River and Into the Trees

Vintage. Paperback. Pp: 220. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for "Across the River and into the Trees, " the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, "Across the River and into the Trees" stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War. Hemingway's last full-length novel published in his lifetime, it moved John O'Hara in "The New York Times Book Review" to call him "the most important author since Shakespeare.". ISBN: 9781784872038. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.

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Louise Malatesta 311390

Across my Lady's Knee

AKS Books, 1997. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 186. When three teenage daughters of the 21st century bellemonde " Faustina, Melissa and Lystistaetia " each decide to acquire a pageboy as the latest fashion accessory, life changes drastically for the youths most closely concerned. Well-fed, well-housed and (particularly) well-dressed, the three pageboys are nevertheless also extremely well-disciplined, subject to frequent and humiliating corporal punishment at their young mistresses' whims. What follows over the next eighteen months is a prolonged"and profound" learning experience for all concerned, in which each of the pageboys, all too often for his own taste, finds himself. Across My Lady's Knee. ISBN: 9781899861118. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Robert Harris 14295

Act of Oblivion

Cornerstone, 2022. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 480. From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail-an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other. 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, "They killed the King." 1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I-a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture-dead or alive. Robert Harris's first historical novel set predominantly in America, Act of Oblivion is a novel with an urgent narrative, remarkable characters, and an epic true story to tell of religion, vengeance, and power-and the costs to those who wield it. ISBN: 9781529151756. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Robert Harris 14295

Act of Oblivion

HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 480. "A galloping adventure." - The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail-an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other. 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, "They killed the King." 1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I-a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture-dead or alive. Robert Harris's first historical novel set predominantly in America, Act of Oblivion is a novel with an urgent narrative, remarkable characters, and an epic true story to tell of religion, vengeance, and power-and the costs to those who wield it. ISBN: 9780063248007. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Jean Starobinski 42625

Action et réaction. Vie et aventures d'un couple

Seuil, 1999. Paperback. Pp: 450. En historien des mots, des idées et des littératures, J. Starobinski met en lumière les grands épisodes de la vie du couple action/réaction, depuis le rôle que lui attribua la scolastique jusqu'aux interrogations qui entourent aujourd'hui la notion de progrès, sans laquelle la réaction politique ne peut être pensée. ISBN: 9782020217958. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Anne Enright 41860

Actress. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020

Vintage UK. Paperback. Pp: 224. From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter`s search to understand her mother`s hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O`Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London`s West End. Katherine`s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine`s past, or the world`s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother`s secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.Actress is about a daughter`s search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. ISBN: 9781529112139. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Lillian Fishman 268188

Acts of Service

Random House, 2022. Hardcover. Pp: 240. A �"œbold and unflinchingly sexy�"� (Vogue) debut novel about a young woman who follows her desires into a world of pleasure, decadence, and privilege, unraveling everything she thought she knew about sex. and herself.   �"œOne of the most entertaining books about sex I`ve ever read. The perfect read for fans of Raven Leilani and Ottessa Moshfegh, this is a book that will have people talking.�"�"BuzzFeed �"œA sex masterpiece.�"�"The Guardian A Kaia Gerber Book Club Pick �"¢Â Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker and The Hollywood Reporter �"œAnytime I want, I can forsake this dinner party and jump into real life.�"�"Eve Babitz Eve has an adoring girlfriend, an impulsive streak, and a secret fear that she`s wasting her brief youth with just one person. So one evening she posts some nudes online. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia the charismatic Nathan. Despite her better instincts, the three soon begin a relationship"one that disturbs Eve as much as it enthralls her.  As each act of their complicated, three-way affair unfolds across a cold and glittering New York, Eve is forced to confront the questions that most consume her: What do we bring to sex? What does it reveal of ourselves, and one another? And how do we reconcile what we want with what we think we should want?  In the way only great fiction can, Acts of Service takes between its teeth the contradictions written all over our ideas of sex and sexuality. At once juicy and intellectually challenging, sacred and profane, Lillian Fishman`s riveting debut is bold, unabashed, and required reading of the most pleasurable sort. ISBN: 9780593243763. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Saul Bellow 28741

The Actual

Viking, 1997. Paperback. Pp: 103. Harry Trellman doesn't belong. Not in the Chicago orphanage where he is sent by his mother, not in high school (too brainy), not even on the streets. Human attachments? Yes, he has them, but they are like everything else in his life, singular and irregular. People who know him say that he "drowns his feelings in his face, " and that he has a Mongolian "masked look." But though Harry stands apart, he has always been a most keen observer, listener, recorder and interpreter, and none of this is lost on the Chicago billionaire, Sigmund Adletsky, who takes Harry into his "brain trust." He retains Harry to advise him. They discuss ordinary things - they gossip together. Old Adletsky has set feelings aside while he amassed his vast fortune. The old man is so apt that he divines the secrets behind Harry's mask, and brings him together with the one person Harry has loved dumbly for forty years. Amy Wustrin has not exactly stood apart from the sexual revolution while waiting for Harry to come wooing. Far from remaining the static object of his fantasy, she has moved about in the real world, from one marriage to another, from rich to broke, from hot high-school girl to correct matron. Still, in Amy, Harry sees what he calls his "actual." Harry has had his opportunities with Amy, but it is not until he finds himself at the cemetery with her for the exhumation and reburial of her husband that he feels free to speak out. ISBN: 9780140274998. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Vladimir Nabokov 14404

Ada ou l'ardeur

1983. Paperback. Pp: 699. ISBN: 9782253033172. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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George Eliot 17362

Adam Bede

David Campbell Publishers, 1992. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 612. This novel uses the hero, Deronda, to come to terms with the English Jews, a society-within-a-society. The book's heroine, Gwendolen Harleth, marries for power rather than love, uncovering a vein in human relations that could lead, through the best intentions, to despair. ISBN: 9781857150599. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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George Eliot 17362

Adam Bede

Könemann, 1999. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 624. The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861-her last revision ofthe book. The introduction locates the genesis of the novel in Eliot's family history, her travels, and her reading of literature and biography, and describes the composition process, including her debate with the publisher John Blackwood about the suitability of the subject-matter for a familyaudience. ISBN: 9783829030052. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Peter Prince 302182

Adam Runaway

Groothandel / BESTEL, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 480. The year is 1721 and handsome young Adam Hanaway has arrived in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune that was devastated the previous year. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top is thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk, Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and swagger, an immediate success with fellow merchants. Of course there are many pretty distractions around, such as the incomparably sweet Gabriella. Then darker forces intervene and Adam is expelled from the family firm for a crime of which he is innocent. Somehow he must clear his name, win his love, and make his fortune. ISBN: 9780747579410. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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