Anneke Bok Book order (chronological)

Meet Margaret. She's going through all the same things most teenage girls have to face; fitting in, friendship and first bras. Life isn't easy for Margaret. She's moved away from her childhood home, she's starting a new school, finding new friends - and she's convinced she's not normal. For a start she hasn't got a clue whether she wants to be Jewish like her father or Christian like her mother. Everyone else seems really sure of who they are. And, worst of all, she's a 'late developer'. She just knows that all her friends are going to need a bra before she does. It's too embarrassing to talk to her parents about these things. So she talks to God instead - and waits for an answer . . . This is a 50th anniversary of Judy Blume's bestselling classic teen novel, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret featuring a fresh, contemporary cover look and a letter from the author.

Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth.

"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother -- her only family -- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world -- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong."--Jacket

Stephen Lawrence Sutler heeft drie problemen: 1. Er is 53 miljoen dollar verdwenen. 2. Hij moet vluchten. 3. Hij is niet Stephen Lawrence Sutler . ‘Diep onder de indruk.’ – The Telegraph (****) ‘De Man Booker Prize-nominatie voor dit digitaal verrijkte boek over de louche wereld van civiele aanbestedingen in het naoorlogse Irak is meer dan verdiend.’ – The Guardian

Par un beau jour de juillet, Becca et John célèbrent leur mariage. Leur bonheur sera de courte durée : peu après, ils meurent dans un accident de voiture. Comment leurs deux familles brisées et réunies dans ce drame affronteront-elles cette épreuve ? Rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant : des unions vont se défaire, d’autres, surprenantes et belles, vont se nouer... [babelio.com]

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts.

A superb winter/Christmas warming read for the Horse Whisperer market. High in the wastes of northern Canada, a falcon is blown off course by a storm, eventually coming to rest in a sparsely populated region. Her only instinct is to hunt and find a mate; but for the humans who are drawn into her story, she will be a catalyst of spectacular change. A novel of healing, passion, heartbreak and the possiblity of redemption through the unlikeliest of channels, with magical snowy settings, this is commercial fiction at its best.

The story follows Samson Greene, a New York English professor who finds himself disoriented in the desert after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor that erased his memories since age twelve. Struggling to reconnect with his life, including his wife Anna and friends, he receives a call from a charismatic doctor in California about a groundbreaking brain research experiment. This opportunity sparks a journey filled with adventure and self-discovery, exploring themes of loneliness and the essence of human connection, all conveyed with Nicole Krauss's signature poignant humor.

Richard, backpacking around the globe in the great tradition of cheap travel, finds himself bedding down in Khao San Road, Bangkok. But his chance to rest briefly is suddenly and irrevocably destroyed when a perfect stranger called Mister Duck is killed in the room next door. Mister Duck had a secret - now it's Richard's. Armed with a map - and a name of great mystery and legend that possesses a simple majesty: Beach - our protagonist goes in search of a traveller's dream, a place where there are lots of drugs and a tolerant society that works together to maintain a life of inner peace and tranquillity. Only a select few will make it to the blissful seclusion of the Beach (Mister Duck, for one, has died) but in the great tradition of travelling bravado, or sheer stupidity, Richard decides to give it a go . . .

The romantic trials of the owner of a London record shop, after his girlfriend leaves him for another man.

The last person Landon thought he would fall for was Jamie Sullivan, daughter of the town's Baptist minister. A quiet girl, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals and volunteered at the local orphanage. Landon would never have dreamed of asking her out, but a twist of fate threw them together when he found himself without a partner for the school dance. In the months that followed, Landon discovered truths that most people take a lifetime to learn - about the joy of giving, the pain of loss and, most of all, the transforming nature of love. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood . . .

"De haciënda" is de fascinerende en exotische autobiografie van Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, die op zestienjarige leeftijd op straat in Londen de Zuid-Amerikaanse aristocraat en bankrover Don Jaime Terán tegenkwam, met wie ze trouwde en door Italië trok. Later volgde zij haar echtgenoot naar zijn familielandgoed, een haciënda diep in de Venezolaanse Andes. Lisa, die alleen een soort bandieten-Spaans vol krachttermen beheerste, was in eerste instantie te verlegen om haar mond open te doen in het gezelschap van haar schoonfamilie. Die veronderstelde prompt dat ze doofstom was, waardoor Lisa goed kon volgen wat ze van haar vonden. "De haciënda" vertelt hoe Lisa er het beste van maakte, hoe ze La Dona werd en het landgoed bestierde, haar eerste kind kreeg, hoe ze door eenzaamheid en heimwee gedreven haar schrijverscarrière begon, hoe haar echtgenoot steeds geesteszieker en gewelddadiger werd, en hoe ze zeven jaar lang tussen la gente leefde, ongeletterde mensen die volgens haar eigen zeggen 'de grootste invloed op mijn leven en werk hebben uitgeoefend.

Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.

A humorous, uninhibited first novel. Jeremy Acidophilus is recruited as a model by Lady Henrietta, who paints nude men, and is seduced by her precocious 11-year-old daughter. Horrified by what he's done, Jeremy confesses to Henrietta, and sets off a triangle of sexual obsession.