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    To Paradise
    Golden Hill
    Head Over Heels
    SEAL Team Six
    Ik heb je liefde nodig, is dat waar?
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    • Después de recibir la noticia de que padece un cáncer terminal, un profesor universitario imparte una última conferencia, en la que reflexiona sobre las cosas importantes que ha aprendido en la vida y quiere transmitir a sus hijos antes de morir. Un libro que contagia la alegría de vivir y una actitud positiva ante la adversidad. "Gran parte de mi conferencia en Carnegie Mellon se centró en el lado profesional de mi vida: mis alumnos, mis colegas y mi carrera. El libro es una mirada personal a mis sueños de infancia y a todas las lecciones que he aprendido. Al escribir he descubierto que esta es una buena manera de compartir los sentimientos hacia mi mujer, mis hijos, o aquellos a los que quiero. Sabía que no podría hablar de estos temas en el escenario sin emocionarme." Randy Pausch.

      La última lección
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    • Ik heb je liefde nodig, is dat waar?

      • 216 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Ik wil dat je van me houdt. Ik wil dat je mijn vrienden aardig vindt. Ik wil weten wat je denkt. Ik wil dat je me kust. Ik wil dat je me geeft wat ik nodig heb. Ik wil dat je uit jezelf weet wat ik nodig heb. Ik wil, ik wil, ik wil… Wij willen zo veel en meestal wenden wij ons tot onze geliefde, want hij of zij kan alles regelen, moet alles regelen, vinden wij. Maar als onze geliefde niet voldoet aan onze verwachtingen, dan zijn frustratie, weerzin, wanhoop ons deel. Om ervoor te zorgen dat we toch krijgen wat we willen gaan we dan de gekste dingen doen. Alles hebben we over voor liefde, voor goedkeuring, voor waardering. Als u Ik heb je liefde nodig, is dat waar? leest, leert Byron Katie je hoe je prettiger en gelukkiger kunt leven, maar zij zal geen spaan heel laten van je zorgvuldig opgebouwde romantisch ideaal (Boekerij).

      Ik heb je liefde nodig, is dat waar?
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    • SEAL Team Six

      • 331 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.

      SEAL Team Six
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    • Head Over Heels

      • 608 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      Five unforgettable women. One beloved yoga studio. A million tales to tell. Yoga teacher Lee is facing a tough decision. Struggling to make ends meet at her treasured studio she's given a helping hand in the form of an invitation to participate in the biggest yoga event of the year . . . but to do so means going against everything she believes in. Masseuse Katherine is being evicted from the only home she's ever known, while actress Imani fights to make her film comeback. And as Graciela plays with fire - or rather a famous baseball player - right under the nose of her volatile boyfriend, Stephanie finds herself in a very unexpected relationship. Yoga may be all about the glamorous celebrity teachers these days, but for five women the small humble Edendale studio remains a place for true friendship - and right now that's exactly what these women need . . .

      Head Over Heels
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    • Golden Hill

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      I've no history here, and no character: and what I am, is all in what I will be...

      Golden Hill
      3,7
    • The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A Little Life. To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Hanya Yanagihara's understanding of our desire to protect those we love - lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens - and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love as they please (or so it seems). In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. In 2093, in a world torn apart by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him - and solve the mystery of her husband's disappearance. What unites these characters, and these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human - fear, love, shame, loneliness - and the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise. 'I'm not sure I've ever missed the world of a book as much' - Observer 'Not only rare . . . revolutionary' - Michael Cunningham 'Prepare to weep in public and be utterly transformed' - Stylist

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    • In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest-a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay a troupe of acrobats to carry mother and child away. In the bustling trade center of Venice, merchant Paul Pindar is the subject of his colleagues' concern. Since his return from Constantinople, they have found him changed; raging over the loss of his beloved, Celia, he has gambled away his fortune at the gaming tables. But when a priceless blue diamond surfaces in the city, Pindar recognizes the opportunity to regain everything he has lost-including, perhaps, the woman he loves. A celebrated writer of history and travel books, Katie Hickman has always been a master of evoking time and place. With The Pindar Diamond, her follow-up to The Aviary Gate, she brings early-seventeenth-century Italy vividly to life, and also demonstrates her maturity as a novelist. A tale of love and avarice, with a touch of the mystical, The Pindar Diamond is rich with historical detail, and unfolds with urgency and grace. It is accomplished, wholly satisfying historical fiction.

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    • Blindganger

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A novel that tells a story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey—through facts, recollection, and imagination.

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