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The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Engels -

A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. In The Art of Fielding, we see young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College are all that remain...Lees meer

Those in Peril

Smith, Wilbur,

Engels - | januari 2012

This is an another outstanding adventure from one of the world's best loved storytellers. Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major global oil producers. While cruising...Lees meer

The Sense of an Ending

Barnes, Julian,

Engels - | januari 2012

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form...Lees meer

Help (Mti)

Stockett K

Engels -

Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused...Lees meer

Before I Go to Sleep

Watson, S. J.,

Engels - | januari 2012

'As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me...'...Lees meer

Colonel

Dowlatabadi M

Engels -

A new novel by a master of Iranian letters¿often rumored to be a contender for the Nobel Prize¿that directly engages politics in Iran today. Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel¿so...Lees meer

River Of Smoke

Ghosh A

Engels -

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind....Lees meer

Invisible Circus

Egan J

Engels - | april 2012

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is...Lees meer

Mr Fox

Oyeyemi H

Engels - | april 2012

It's a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn't seen her in six years. He's unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least...Lees meer

This Is How It Ends

Macmahon K

Engels - | april 2012