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    Breathing Lessons
    New Canadian Library: The Edible Woman
    Vintage Contemporaries: Reservation Road
    Bezeten van mij AH special / druk 57
    Blue highways
    De nieuwe stad
    • Killing Me Softly

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Alice Loudon is a young woman who seems to have it all: close friends, a loving boyfriend, and a successful career. Then she meets a stranger and immediately embarks upon a passionate and dangerous affair.

      Killing Me Softly2011
      3.5
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      Drievoudig winnaar van de Gouden Strop

      • 313 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Alex Duffield heeft net zijn overleden vader als directeur van Duffield Chemicals opgevolgd. Eigenlijk tegen wil en dank. Hij heeft niet veel op met chemie. En met gerotzooi met chemisch afval al helemaal niet. Alex is vastbesloten Duffield Chemicals schoon te maken. Maar dan moet hij wel afrekenen met een internationale criminele organisatie.

      Dump2009
      3.3
    • Vintage Contemporaries: Reservation Road

      • 367 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      A cycle of violence and retribution is set in motion as two haunted men are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession for revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, fleeing his crime yet hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men's lives unravel, Reservation Road moves to its startling conclusion.

      Vintage Contemporaries: Reservation Road2000
      3.7
    • The safe house

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Samantha Laschen, a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex coast with her small daughter, Elsie, to escape the problems of her London life. Or so she thinks. Fiona Mackenzie barely survived the savage, murderous attack which left her parents dead. Now she is in need of sanctuary and the police see Sam as the ideal person to offer her a safe house. Already overburdened with the demands of a new job and her mercurial lover Danny, Sam reluctantly agrees to take her in. But as Fiona makes her way into the hearts of her hosts, Sam discovers that the risks she has foreseen are nothing compared to the terrifying danger she actually faces . . .

      The safe house1998
      3.5
    • The Memory Game

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories, Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child - and what happened to Natalie.

      The Memory Game1997
      3.5
    • New Canadian Library: The Edible Woman

      • 281 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fiancé, Peter, who likes shooting rabbits. She can cope with her job in market research, and the antics of her roommate. She can even cope with Duncan, a graduate student who seems to prefer laundromats to women. But not being able to eat is a different matter. Steak was the first to go. Then lamb, pork, and the rest. Next came her incapacity to face an egg. Vegetables were the final straw. But Marian has her reasons, and what happens next provides an unusual solution. Witty, subversive, hilarious, The Edible Woman is dazzling and utterly original. It is Margaret Atwood’s brilliant first novel, and the book that introduced her as a consummate observer of the ironies and absurdities of modern life.

      New Canadian Library: The Edible Woman1995
      3.7
    • Breathing Lessons

      • 327 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      This novel records the journey that a married couple make to the funeral of one of their closest friends. The story is interspersed with flashbacks to their past so the reader has a full picture of this couple's lives as the story unfolds. The author also wrote "The Accidental Tourist".

      Breathing Lessons1994
      3.6
    • De pijl van de tijd

      • 164 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Het leven van een nazi-arts, die na de oorlog heeft weten ontvluchten, wordt achterstevoren verteld.

      De pijl van de tijd1991
    • Blue highways

      A Journey Into America

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.

      Blue highways1987
      4.2