Book type: fiction (6505)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father and his young son. A story of love and fear -- of growth, discovery, and acceptance -- that becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental question... continue
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Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
They stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them. It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whispers from her neighbours, she has struck a rare friendship with D.H. Lawrence and his German wife, who are hoping to escape the war-fever of London. In between painting and visits to her new friends she whiles away the warm days with her cousin John, who is on leave from the trenches, harbouring secrets she couldn't begin to understand. But... continue
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Zero by Gine Cornelia Pedersen EN
NorwayDescription:
"Gina Cornelia Pedersen debuted with this explosive novel, which won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award. Compared, in its home country of Norway, with a 'punk rock single', the unique lyrical style and frank description of life with mental health problems have come together to create on of the most exciting works of fiction from Scandinavia in recent years."--Cover
6474.
BelgiumDescription:
Een tienermeisje praat met haar studiebegeleider over haar depressieve vader en haar moeder wier minnaar de vader van haar vriendje is.
6475.
Zij by Maaike Neuville NL
Description:
Een uitzonderlijk debuut over machtsverhoudingen waarin de rol van dader en slachtoffer diffuus is Welke nacht heeft zich ongemerkt kunnen plooien rondom alles wat ik doe zodat ik, als vrolijk opgevoede volwassen vrijgevochten vrouw, alsnog met strakke boeien in deze trein zit? De 39-jarige actrice Ada Peeters neemt de trein naar de stad waar ze die avond op het podium zal staan met een zelfgeschreven monoloog. Herinneringen aan de oudere theaterdocent met wie ze als studente een verhouding had, wellen ongewild in haar op. Het is zijn stad waar ze gaat spelen. Ook op het podium, terwijl ze oog... continue
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Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie EN
NigeriaDescription:
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant, he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding, self-possessed mother, in town for the birth, who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart, Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Prepa... continue
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Zile liniştite la Clichy by Henry Miller RO
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
raducere din limba engleză de Alexandru Vlad
Rescrisă la cincisprezece ani de la prima versiune, Zile liniștite la Clichy dezvăluie o latură nouă a lui Miller, în care verva din Tropicul Capricornului lasă loc boemiei din perioada tinereții la Paris.
Zile liniștite la Clichy, un roman în miniatură, și continuarea sa, Mara-Marignan, cuprinse în volumul de față, au fost publicate în 1956. Sunt două povești nostalgice, despre un timp în care lumea era mai simplă și se învârtea cu lentoare, iar Henry Miller era abia un tânăr scriitor obscur, fă... continue
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Zofloya : or The Moor by Charlotte Dacre EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
This is the first edition for nearly 200 years of an unduly neglected work, originally published in 1806, by an intriguing and unconventional woman writer. A Gothic tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in fifteenth-century Venice, the novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of the central character, Victoria's, intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, it contradicts idealized stereotypes in women's writing and challenges the received idea of the Gothic genre's representatio... continue
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Zonder Grenzen by Kristien Hemmerechts NL
Description:
De echtscheiding van Petra en Victor scheurt het gezin letterlijk en figuurlijk in tweeën. Niet alleen de spullen worden onderling verdeeld, maar ook hun tweeling Emilia en Simon. Vader en zoon gaan samen met zijn nieuwe vrouw in Parijs wonen en Petra en Emilia wonen in Brussel. Wat betekenen de nieuwe grenzen binnen het gezin voor de familieleden? Hoe ontwikkelt de tweeling zich afzonderlijk van elkaar? In ‘Zonder Grenzen’ neemt Kristien Hemmerechts je mee in een verhaal over leegte, maar ook over verbintenis en ouder-kind relaties. Kristien Hemmerechts (1955) is een Vlaamse schrijfster van v... continue
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Zonia's Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in an illustrated story that's complemented by back matter about the Ashâaninka community.