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The book of requiems
from the earliest ages to the present period
Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. Yet, surprisingly, despite the significance of Requiem settings for our musical culture, the literature concerning them is sparse. The Book of Requiems presents essays on the most important works in this tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as a multi-volume...
Engels | 274 pagina's (PDF, 7,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
KuroDalaiJee Anarchy of the body
undercurrents of performance art in 1960s Japan
In Anarchy of the Body, art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s. A culmination of years of research, Anarchy of the Body draws on an extensive breadth of source material to reveal how the practice of performance by individual artists and art groups during this period formed a legacy of resistance against institutionalization, both within the...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 57 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
A.C. Baantjer DeKok and Variations on Murder
As has been her habit since the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Haesbergen does nightly rounds in the large office building where she resides. Her husband had been the building superintendent, and an apartment on the top floor came with the job. One night she encounters the managing director in the boardroom, sitting in his chair at the head of the table. She hastily walks up to him, and to her horror, she finds him dead. She rushes up to her apartment to call someone, but who? Deciding it better...
Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Margaret O'Hair You are loved
a book about families
Er bestaan veel verschillende gezinnen. Het belangrijkste is dat je familie van je houdt. Prentenboek. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's | Scholastic Inc., New York | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Bal Khabra Collide
Summer Preston, een ambitieuze studente sportpsychologie, wodt door haar professor gedwongen samen te werken met Aiden Crawford, de charismatische aanvoerder van het universiteitshockeyteam. Romantische sportroman. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 405 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Jonny Duddle The pirates of Scurvy Sands
starring the Jolley-Rogers
Mathilda en haar piratenvrienden de Jolley-Rogers gaan op vakantie naar Scurvy Sand. De andere piraten daar vinden Mathilda maar raar. Tot ze het geheim van Scurvy Sand ontdekt. Oblong prentenboek met paginagrote, gedetailleerde kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 5 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's | Templar Books, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Gaite Jansen Ode aan de Onstilbare
Gedichten met herinneringen en beelden van herkenning.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 143 pagina's (ePub3, 2,5 MB) | Hollands Diep, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Jennifer Lynn Barnes The naturals
Fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Meg Shaffer The wishing game
a novel
Een jonge vrouw wil een kind adopteren en doet mee aan een wedstrijd die door haar jeugdheld, een bekende auteur, wordt georganiseerd. Ze reist naar Klokeiland, waar hij de ultieme twist in zijn verhaal beraamt.
Fictie
Engels | 301 pagina's | Ballantine Books, New York | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Alex Aster Nightbane
Isla Crown heeft de vloeken verbroken die de zes rijken eeuwenlang teisterden, Nu, in de nasleep van een verpletterend verraad, worstelt Isla met het winnen van het respect als de pas gekroonde leider van twee rijken. Haar medeheersers hebben de overwinning niet stilletjes uit handen gegeven, en niet iedereen gelooft dat ze haar macht verdiend. Terwijl geheimen uit het verleden beginnen te ontrafelen, moet Isla haar verantwoordelijkheid jegens haar volk afwegen tegen de grillen van de gevaarlijkste...
Fictie
Engels | 403 pagina's | Amulet Books, New York, N.Y | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Parini Schroff The bandit queens
Een groep dorp in een Indiaas dorp zoekt steun bij elkaar om van hun alcoholische, mishandelende mannen af te komen. Dat levert voor een van hen allerlei complicaties op.
Fictie
Engels | 340 pagina's | Allen & Unwin, New York | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Alex Aster Lightlark
Elke honderd jaar verschijnt het eiland Nightlark honderd dagen lang als locatie voor een dodelijk spel, waarin de heersers van zes rijken vechten om hun vloeken te verbreken en om ongeëvenaarde macht te verwerven. Elke heerser heeft iets te verbergen. Elke vloek is uniek. Om deze te breken – en zichzelf en hun rijken te redden – moet één heerser sterven. Om te overleven moet Isla Crown liegen, bedriegen en verraden. Ook er liefde in het spel komt.
Fictie
Engels | 409 pagina's | Amulet Books, New York | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Mack Billy's birthday
Prentenboek over de verjaardag van Billy. Hij krijgt cadeautjes, ze eten taart en feesten tot laat in de avond. Voor kinderen vanaf ca. 2 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 26 pagina's | Clavis, New York | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Steve Kedie Running and Jumping
Two rivals. One winner. Fresh off his fourth-place finish in his first Olympic final, British long jumper Adam Lowe finds himself standing face-to-face with the man who beat him to a medal. Little does he know, this chance encounter will spark a rivalry that, for Lowe, will become all-consuming. Through epic victories and crushing defeats, Lowe pushes himself to the brink, testing his mental, physical, professional, and personal limits. But when this fierce competition spirals out of control,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sara Marchant Becoming Delilah
Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, "Becoming...
Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lina Wolff Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (434 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lina Wolff The Polyglot Lovers
'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover,...
Engels | 7 uur 54 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alison Ragsdale The Child Between Us
When I first met you, darling Marina, you were just five years old. You took my breath away, with your long, dark waves and pink cheeks. You needed me, and I instantly knew I’d do anything to protect you. When six years ago, my heart was shattered, I was left utterly broken – but I didn’t know just how lost I was until you filled that hole in my heart. You quickly became the centre of my world, your sweet laugh my favourite sound. But then things started to change... I put my pain down to work stress,...
Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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