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Elke oorlog heeft zijn eigen, definitieve romans. De Eerste Wereldoorlog heeft Im Westen nichts Neues en A Farewell to Arms. De Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft Catch-22. Het jaar 2012 ziet de komst van de grote roman over de oorlog in Irak: De gele vogels. De gele vogels is het verhaal van de jonge soldaat...

Le plus beau roman sur la musique depuis... Le temps où nous chantions. Un soir, la police sonne à la porte de Peter Els, un compositeur solitaire à la vie bien rangée. La Sécurité nationale veut l'entendre à propos d'une infection bactériologique suspecte dans un hôpital voisin. Bien...

" Un roman d'une rare intensité, d'une puissance ahurissante, aussi bien sur le fond que sur la forme. Ce livre extraordinaire restera hélas, mille fois hélas, le seul ouvrage de son auteur, mais c'est un chef-d'oeuvre, et en tant que tel, je suis sûr qu'il marquera durablement l'esprit de...

Harry Dresden`s life is a mess. His top client (and close friend), Lt. Karrin Murphy, no longer trusts him. Chicago`s underworld and the cops alike think he's mobster Johnny Marcone's supernatural enforcer. And the enigmatic White Council continues to view him with suspicion. If all that weren't enough,...

It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled...

Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers’s comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation...

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENE When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence....

**From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus. "Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter." —Heller McAlpin, NPR** In...

This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother growing up during the Second World War, caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis. Written specially for children, Eva describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind and loving parents and her older brother...

He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The...

**Take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power’s classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale... “There have been other novels in the genre about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates’ unique slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. It’s literally...

In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them. Thieves,...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 "The best novel ever written about trees, and really...

A book about people who work in offices and why we fight. 21 perspectives anyone can use to resolve conflicts and create better relationships with people at work.Doing the Right Thing and Achieving All Your Goals at the Same Time is a book about people and why we fight. Why do we fight? Because...