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Twee halfzussen, Effia en Esi, groeien apart van elkaar op in het achttiende-eeuwse Ghana. Effia wordt uitgehuwelijkt aan een Engelsman, om vervolgens in weelde te leven. Esi wordt gevangengenomen, verkocht als slaaf en op de boot naar Amerika gezet. Weg naar huis vertelt over de levens van de nakomelingen van Effia en Esi in de daaropvolgende driehonderd jaar. Yaa Gyasi beweegt zich vrijelijk door de geschiedenis en tussen twee continenten - van de stammenstrijd en slavernij in Ghana naar de Bu...

Releasedatum: 2017-01-20 € 9,99

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola's life is about to change in other pa...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-04 € 8,99

In het Mississippi van de jaren zestig wordt aan zwarte vrouwen wel de opvoeding van blanke kinderen toevertrouwd, maar niet het poetsen van het tafelzilver. Drie vrouwen zijn het allesbepalende racisme meer dan zat en besluiten dat de verschillen tussen hen minder belangrijk zijn dan de overeenkomsten. 'Een absolute hit... leest als een trein.' de Volkskrant

Releasedatum: 2010-10-20 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 9,99

Op haar dertigste heeft Elizabeth alles wat een moderne vrouw zich maar kan wensen: een echtgenoot, een huis en een succesvolle carrière. Maar in plaats van gelukkig te zijn wordt ze overspoeld door paniek, verdriet en verwarring. Twee jaar later, na een bittere echtscheiding en een hevige depressie, besluit Elizabeth een radicale stap te nemen: ze gaat een jaar lang alleen op reis. Op haar zoektocht naar evenwicht en geluk doet ze drie landen aan. In Italië leert ze la dolce vita kennen, in I...

Releasedatum: 2010-10-01 € 9,99

In Colson Whiteheads ‘De ondergrondse spoorweg’ is Cora slavin op een katoenplantage in Georgia. Haar helse leven staat op het punt om nog erger te worden: de wrede eigenaar heeft zijn oog op haar laten vallen. Ze besluit om te vluchten, en met hulp van de Ondergrondse Spoorweg (in Amerika het begrip voor het clandestiene netwerk van antislavernijactivisten) begint ze een lange, huiveringwekkende reis door de zuidelijke staten van Amerika richting het vrije Noorden, met de slavenpatrouille o...

Releasedatum: 2016-12-22 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 9,99

AN ACCLAIMED, EMMY-NOMINATED TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND BRAM STOKER AWARDS 'To give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Cliché, Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer Laureate of the Republic of Letters' DAVID MITCHELL 'Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 'Brilliant and unique' GUARDIAN --- 'This is about the soul of America, the idea that everyone came here from som...

Releasedatum: 2011-11-10 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to hold on to a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, in forgiveness and kindness and hope' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ' The Color Purple is my go-to comfort novel. Every single time I read this book, I walk away as a slightly better person th...

Releasedatum: 2011-12-29 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

Rowan had nooit gedacht dat ze haar man en zoontje ooit nog zou terugzien. Volkomen onverwacht loopt ze hen in een Londens hotel tegen het lijf, en het is haar meteen duidelijk dat Isandro Salazar haar veracht. Hij haat haar omdat ze hem en hun baby vlak na diens geboorte heeft verlaten, maar ze kan hem onmogelijk vertellen wat haar ertoe bewoog die afschuwelijke beslissing te nemen. Nu is ze terug en wil ze wanhopig graag het contact met haar kind herstellen - én met Isandro. Want ondanks zijn...

Releasedatum: 2011-11-22 € 1,99

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Praised ...

Releasedatum: 2016-08-02 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 6,49

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019 'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah Magazine ' Favourite book [of the] year' Issa Rae The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of ...

Releasedatum: 2020-06-02 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 0,99

De onderwereld van Harlem in de jaren ’60 frustreert de ambities van een (deels) keurige meubelverkoper in dit verhaal vol roofovervallen, afpersing en zwendel, gesitueerd in een roerig New York. ‘Harlem Shuffle’ van Colson Whitehead gaat over Ray Carney, een beschaafde meubelverkoper die voor zijn klanten en buren in 125th Street een fatsoenlijk leven probeert te leiden. Zijn vrouw is in verwachting van hun tweede kind, en ook al wonen ze in een krap appartement te dicht bij het metrospoo...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-14 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 7,99

'No one does it better than Grisham' - Telegraph He was betrayed by the FBI. Now he wants revenge . . . Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. ...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-23 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020 Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019 ________________________________________________________________________ Author of The Underground Railroad , Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida. Elwood Curtis has taken the words...

Releasedatum: 2019-07-16 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

'Hoe duur was de suiker ?' is het succesvolle romandebuut van Cynthia Mc Leod. In deze historische roman heeft zij met veel verve een stukje geschiedenis van Suriname tot leven gebracht. De roman speelt in de periode 1765-1779. Het is de bloeitijd van de suikercultuur en ook de periode van de Boni-oorlogen. De plantage-eigenaren leven in voortdurende vrees voor de aanvallen die marrons onder leiding van Boni uitvoeren op de plantages. Tegen dit decor beschrijft Cynthia Mc Leod in meeslepende sti...

Releasedatum: 2017-01-01 € 7,99

'I adored The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention Of Wings , which were both wise , charming and sensual ' SANTA MONTEFIORE STAGE VERSION COMING TO LONDON'S ALMEIDA THEATRE! The Secret Life of Bees : The multi-million-copy bestselling novel ab out a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings . Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four years old. Now, at fourteen, she yea...

Releasedatum: 2011-02-03 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

_________________ A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird . Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-k...

Releasedatum: 2015-07-14 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 8,99

'Hoe duur was de suiker ?' is het succesvolle romandebuut van Cynthia Mc Leod. In deze historische roman heeft zij met veel verve een stukje geschiedenis van Suriname tot leven gebracht. De roman speelt in de periode 1765-1779. Het is de bloeitijd van de suikercultuur en ook de periode van de Boni-oorlogen. De plantage-eigenaren leven in voortdurende vrees voor de aanvallen die marrons onder leiding van Boni uitvoeren op de plantages. Tegen dit decor beschrijft Cynthia Mc Leod in meeslepende sti...

Releasedatum: 2017-01-01 € 7,99

‘A delicious, important novel’ The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.’ Guardian As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feel...

Releasedatum: 2013-04-06 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 6,49

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTION Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brave and resourceful woman. Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata ...

Releasedatum: 2009-02-01 € 8,99

'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ 'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin. When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she rememb...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-27 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

Een ongekend debuut van een nieuwe literaire ster - gebaseerd op zijn eigen jeugd Het is 1992 en de tienjarige Gabriel woont met zijn Franse vader, Rwandese moeder en zusje Ana in een van de betere expatbuurten van Burundi. Zijn gelukkige jeugd wordt ruw verstoord, eerst door de scheiding van zijn ouders en vervolgens door de burgeroorlog en het gruwelijke drama in buurland Rwanda. De onrust doet Gabriel beseffen dat hij niet alleen kind is, maar ook halfbloed, Frans, Tutsi... Klein land is een ...

Releasedatum: 2017-09-05 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 9,99

With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 'This is a wonderful novel - the prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE 'Ann Petry's first novel, The Street, was a literary event in 1946, praised and translated around the world - the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies . . . Her work endures not merely because of the strength of its message but its artistry' NEW YORK TIMES 'My fa...

Releasedatum: 2019-12-17 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 4,49

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and ...

Releasedatum: 2022-09-13 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 3,99

_______________ 'Essential. This year's hit debut' - Guardian 'A biting tale of race and class' - Sunday Times 'I couldn't put this down' - Jojo Moyes _______________ The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the Booker Prize A Times, Guardian, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Red, Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan Book of the Year _______________ When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the white chi...

Releasedatum: 2020-01-07 € 9,99

Jane Green's The Accidental Husband is a powerful story about two women connected by an earth-shattering secret. Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women have beautiful children on the verge of flying the nest, the home they worked hard to build and always longed for, and a handsome and devoted husband they can't believe belongs to them. Both women thin...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-14 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 6,99

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his shattered sense of self, he unearths the courage he thought he’d lost forever. It is with incantatory power that Morr...

Releasedatum: 2012-05-03 € 8,99

THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND COMPANION NOVEL TO AMERICAN GODS. HIGHLY ANTICIPATED TELEVISION SERIES JUST ANNOUNCED - COMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO. 'Neil could never have known that he was writing for a confused Jamaican kid who, without even knowing it, was still staggering from centuries of erasure of his own gods and monsters' MARLON JAMES 'A warm, funny, immensely entertaining story about the impossibility of putting up with your relations - especially if they happen to be Gods' SU...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-11 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020 'A masterpiece' Attica Locke 'Strong, beautiful and beguiling' Observer 'Destined to become a future classic ... that rare book that should appeal to every kind of reader' Guardian When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of them. The ec...

Releasedatum: 2018-08-02 € 5,99

In het Nigeria van de jaren zestig, een land dat verscheurd wordt door een burgeroorlog, komen drie levens samen. Ugwu, een jongen uit een arm dorp werkt als huisknecht voor een universiteitsprofessor. Olanna heeft haar luxeleventje in de Nigeriaanse hoofdstad Lagos achter zich gelaten om bij de charismatische professor te gaan wonen. De derde hoofdpersoon is Richard, een verlegen Engelsman die in de ban raakt van Olanna's geheimzinnige tweelingzus. Tegen de achtergrond van de gruwelijke burgero...

Releasedatum: 2017-02-16 € 12,99

THE INSPIRATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ... until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination ...

Releasedatum: 2013-10-31 € 6,99

' Unforgettable ' New York Times ' Impressive ' Observer ' Remarkable ' Independent ' Important ' Guardian ' Captivating ' Mirror ' Luminous ' Daily Mail ' Sparkling ' Harper's Bazaar ' Beautiful ' Herald THE NEW YORK TIMES AND TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR FICTION RECOMMENDED BY MALALA YOUSAFZAI, ELIZABETH DAY, ANDI OLIVER AND DOLLY PARTON ___________________________________________________ I don't just want to be having any kind voice . . . I want a lou...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-05 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

A collection of wisdom and life lessons, from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: it's part guidebook, part memoir, part poetry - and pure delight...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-04 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,49

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles. But when Easy is approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran- a young white man who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man- he knows he shouldn't take the case. Though he sees nothing but trouble in the brooding ex-soldier's eyes, Easy, a vet ...

Releasedatum: 2021-02-04 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 5,99

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half . The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most. All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season. It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-st...

Releasedatum: 2019-05-16 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 3,99

I want to bend her over my desk and make her scream, but I shouldn't. LINCOLN I want my secretary. Those tight skirts she wears leave little to the imagination. I can see every luscious curve. She has the face of an angel and curves that could tempt a choirboy into sinning. CAMILLA I have a crush on my boss, who happens to be best friends with my dad. He's stern and bossy, with a handful of silver streaks in his hair. Gorgeous, yes, but also demanding as hell. Strict but fair. One day, he asks m...

Releasedatum: 2017-04-27 € 4,99

Book 2 Description Mr Pierce was kissing me, he was actually kissing me and it felt good. Then he started caressing my cheek slowly, then my neck. I was not even sure how to react. This cold boss of mine was kissing me, touching my face and neck. Then he was caressing my side. He caress was magical. It sent shivers down my spine and ripples of pleasure around my body. He pulled me closer to me and deepened the kiss. My hands hung at my side awkwardly. I was not sure if I was supposed to touch hi...

Releasedatum: 2015-12-16 € 3,49

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon 'Milkman' Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the white world around him, Milkman strives to make sense of his conflicting identities. Always seeking flight in some way, he leav...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-04 € 8,99

With his witty, humorous, and heartfelt writing style that took the social media world virally by storm, Derrick Jaxn delivers another lesson in love wrapped in the emotionally transparent perspective of a troubled man. Shawn Fletcher, a former college football phenom turned successful entrepreneur, is in need of the very thing he's never proven to be ready for; love. To finally get to the heart of the issue, his therapist goes digging into a closet full of skeletons that neither of them were re...

Releasedatum: 2014-11-05 € 9,49

“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”— The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years) “Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies   ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR • WINNER: PEN/Hemingway Award, Rosenthal Foundation Award, New York City Book Award   Alon...

Releasedatum: 2011-02-08 € 9,99

'More than lives up to the hype' Observer 'Set to become a publishing sensation' Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row 'An astounding achievement' Sunday Times 'The lost giant of American literature' New Yorker June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leav...

Releasedatum: 2018-11-01 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 3,99

'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up part of Jacob's household, along with his wi...

Releasedatum: 2010-01-26 € 8,99

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read . Renowned hip-hop artist, writer, and activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel. I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves ...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-30 € 14,99

Hoezeer de in ‘Zwart’, samengesteld door Vamba Sherif en Ebissé Rouw, opgenomen auteurs ook van elkaar verschillen, qua thuisland, qua cultuur, qua taal, ze hebben met elkaar gemeen dat ze het continent van hun (voor)ouders hebben moeten verlaten en dat hun identiteit hybride is. Dat maakt de verhalen – fictie én non-fictie – van deze schrijvers gelaagd, grenzeloos en uitermate urgent. De bijdragen in deze bundel zijn vrijgevochten, geëngageerd en geestig, net als de schrijvers, en to...

Releasedatum: 2018-02-03 € 6,99

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” — Vanity Fair Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor,...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-18 € 10,99

Veertig jaar geleden publiceerde Astrid H. Roemer in Paramaribo haar debuutroman Neem mij terug, Suriname. In die tijd was het geworstel van veel Surinamers om zich een plek te verwerven in de Nederlandse samenleving en tegelijk trouw te blijven aan het Surinamerschap een actueel literair thema. Surinamers zijn tegenwoordig zo thuis in Nederland dat Roemers confronterende roman nu kan worden gelezen als een intrigerende klassieker (niet voor niets deel 7 in de Surinaamse Klassiekenreeks van uitg...

Releasedatum: 2016-01-01 € 7,99

De vijftienjarige Nigeriaanse Kambili is de dochter van een rijke en fanatiek religieuze man die voor de buitenwereld de reputatie heeft van een filantroop. Maar hij regeert zijn gezin met harde hand en het leven van Kambili wordt bepaald door zijn strenge regels. Tijdens een logeerpartij bij een vrijgevochten tante ontdekken zij en haar broer dat het ook anders kan: overal staan boeken, heerlijke etensgeuren overheersen en gelach weerklinkt door het huis. Als ze naar hun vader terugkeren, escal...

Releasedatum: 2016-10-14 € 7,99

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 PICK A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The best books make you see differently. This is one of them. The eye-opening new novel from Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility. When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child ...

Releasedatum: 2016-10-11 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 6,49

IS GOD SOVEREIGN OVER LOVE STORIES? Amara Ikezie is a new grad nurse who is thrilled to start her dream job in Atlanta's biggest children's hospital. But when her best friend gets engaged, Amara is faced with the looming pressure from her mom to find her own man. Determined to escape the pressure to marry, Amara takes on a task to find the 'perfect' man who ticks all the boxes on her list. Raymond Aderinto is a pediatric cardiologist with a wall of accolades and a string of failed relationships....

Releasedatum: 2022-05-21 € 3,99

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and of what we’re prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. ‘We all do what we gotta do to become American, abi?’ New York, 2007: a city of dreamers and strivers, where the newly-arrived and the long-established...

Releasedatum: 2016-08-23 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 6,49

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America * Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post ! “Historical fiction at its best!” *   A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie B...

Releasedatum: 2021-06-29 Genre:Fictie en literatuur € 9,99