Lael Tucker Wertenbaker 276298

The Afternoon Women

Bantam Books, 1966. Pocket. Pp: 281. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald 215787

Afternoon of an Author

Scribner, 1957. Paperback. Pp: 226. ISBN: 9780684127347. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Susan Abulhawa 66657

Against the Loveless World

Simon and Schuster, 2020. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 384. From the internationally bestselling author of the �"œterrifically affecting�"� (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East, for readers of international literary bestsellers including Washington Black, My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Her Body and Other Parties. As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she`s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Nahr`s subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado`s Her Body and Other Parties. Written with Susan Abulhawa`s distinctive �"œrichly detailed, beautiful, and resonant�"� (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim. ISBN: 9781982137038. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Ismail Kadare 35432

Agamemnon's Daughter

Canongate, 2007. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 226. In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young worker for the Albanian state-controlled media agency narrates the story of his ill-fated love for the daughter of a high-ranking official. When he witness the ghostly image of Agamemnon-the Ancient Greek king who sacrificed his own daughter for reasons of State-on the reviewing stand during a May Day celebration, he begins to suspect the full catastrophe of his devotion. Also included are "The Blinding Order," a parable of the Ottoman Empire about the uses of terror in authoritarian regimes, and "The Great Wall," a chilling duet between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of the Tamerlane. ISBN: 9781847672230. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Janet Morgan 140185

Agatha Christie. A biography

Harper Collins, 1985. Paperback. Pp: 393. ISBN: 9780006369615. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Gavin Scott 169753

The Age of Exodus

Titan Books Limited, 2018. Pp: 399. "It's 1947, and Duncan Forrester is called upon to investigate the bizarre killing in the British Museum of a Foreign Office official who had consulted him about an ancient Sumerian seal. Then terrorists target the Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin himself, and Forrester is asked to join his security detail in New York, where the fate of British Palestine is to be decided at the newly founded United Nations. But as yet more diplomats die, and rumours grow of an occult conspiracy, Forrester begins to suspect the deaths are part of a much larger plan."-Back cover. ISBN: 9781783297849. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Karen Thompson Walker 218355

The Age of Miracles

Simon & Schuster, 2012. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 384. 'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life.' One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness and despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family and on herself. ISBN: 9780857207234. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Edith Wharton 26807

The Age of Innocence

Everyman's Library, 1993. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 308. Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to do so, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this dark comedy of manners which was immediately recognized as one of her greatest achievements. ISBN: 9781857152029. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Karine Tuil 82988

The Age of Reinvention

SCRIBNER, 2016. Paperback. Pp: 399. An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France`s most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham. Top Manhattan criminal defense attorney Sam Tahar seems to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two wonderful children. But his success is built on a lie"he isn`t the person he pretends to be. Growing up a poor Tunisian immigrant, crammed inside the walls of a grimy Paris apartment tower, Samir Tahar seemed destined for life as either a drug dealer or a delivery man"until he decided �"œhe was going to cut through the bars of his social jail cell, even if he had to do it with his teeth.�"� At law school in Montpelier, France, he became fast friends with Jewish student Samuel Baron. The two were inseparable until the irresistible Nina, torn between the men, ultimately chose Samuel. Samir fled to America, where he assumed Samuel`s identity and background while his former friend remained stuck in a French suburb, a failed, neurotic writer seething at Samir`s overseas triumphs. Decades later, the three meet again in this dark, powerful story of a deeply tangled love triangle that becomes subsumed by the war on terror. Called �"œa masterful novel.unquestionably one of the season`s best�"� (Paris Match) and �"œa work of great magnitude�"� (Le Figaro), The Age of Reinvention is an intriguing tale about the wonderful possibilities and terrible costs of remaking oneself. ISBN: 9781471153969. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Maurice Leblanc 11842

L'agence Barnett et Cie - Arsène Lupin

Le Livre de Poche, 1974. Pocket. Pp: 187. Les enquêtes de l'inspecteur Béchoux piétinaient. Surgit un détective privé, de l'agence Barnett et Cie, qui, en un clin d'Å“il, démasque le coupable, sauve les innocents. et tout cela gratuitement! Arsène Lupin, il n'y a que lui pour réussir ces exploits, oublierait de se payer, resterait insensible aux jolies choses? Charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même. Lupin sait mieux que personne où trouver l'argent et les objets de valeur, un fabuleux collier de perles, une lettre d'amour du roi George iv, une lettre de chantage, un titre de propriété. Espiègle et généreux, d'une adresse et d'une intuition diaboliques, Arsène Lupin nous séduit encore dans ces huit aventures criminelles où le méchant est toujours puni et Barnett toujours enrichi. ISBN: 9782253004080. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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John Le Carré 232102

Agent Running in the Field

Viking, 2019. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 281. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age. ISBN: 9780241401231. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Ben Macintyre 38269

Agent Zigzag. Lover Traitor Hero Soy

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 2007. Paperback. Pp: 372. One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent. ISBN: 9780747592839. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Roald Dahl 10998

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life

Knopf, 1990. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 179. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life is a collection of seven hilariously creepy Roald Dahl stories published in various magazines and collections in the '40s and '50s, and gathered here for the first time. With the classic Dahl mixture of charm and charmingly perverse, these stories remind us that the mystery of life isn't always as sweet as it seems. ISBN: 9780394582658. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Michael McDowell 66264

Les aiguilles d'or

Monsieur Toussaint Louverture, 2023. Pocket. Pp: 520. Dans le New York de la fin du XIXe siècle coexistent deux mondes que tout oppose. D'un côté, l'opulence et le faste. De l'autre, le vice monnayé et l'alcool frelaté. C'est à leur frontière, au coeur de l'infâme Triangle Noir, qu'une famille fortunée va chercher à asseoir sa notoriété en faisant mine de débarrasser la ville de sa corruption. Les Stallworth, dirigés d'une main de fer par leur patriarche, l'influent et implacable juge James Stallworth, assisté de son fils Edward, pasteur aux sermons incendiaires, et de son gendre Duncan Phair, jeune avocat à la carrière prometteuse, ont un plan impeccable : déraciner le mal en éradiquant une lignée corrompue de criminelles : les Shanks. (Payot). ISBN: 9782381961361. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Luciano de Crescenzo 246684

Ainsi parlait Bellavista

Ed. de Fallois, 2002. Paperback. Pp: 260. ISBN: 9782877064354. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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