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After years of living in France, Astrid returns to the Netherlands. She temporarily stays with her mother. Here she meets old school friends and girlfriends, soon it turns out that she is still in love with one of them. He has remained the man of her dreams. How to proceed? Continue with her life or tell the truth, which could turn his whole life but also hers, upside down. She may even lose him as a result. This problem must be solved, but how many friends should Astrid help? A party, this time without liquor, becomes the turning point in the lives of Astrid and her lover.
Two friends -Tineke/Catherine and Angelique- start an ICT company, they have a lot of success with it. Both ladies meet the man of their lives. More first they have to overcome many difficulties, such as an assault, fights and a hostile takeover of their company. In the end everything works out.
Na jaren in Frankrijk te hebben gewoond, gaat Astrid terug naar Nederland. Ze verblijft tijdelijk bij haar moeder. Hier komt zij oude schoolvrienden en vriendinnen tegen, al snel blijkt dat zij op een van hen nog steeds verliefd is. Hij is de man van haar dromen gebleven. Hoe nu verder? Doorgaan met haar leven of de waarheid vertellen, die zijn hele leven maar ook die van haar, overhoop kan gooien. Zij kan hem zelfs daardoor kwijt raken. Dit probleem moet worden opgelost, maar hoeveel vrienden moeten Astrid helpen? Een feest, dit keer zonder drank, wordt de ommekeer in het leven van Astrid en haar geliefde.
De relatie van Lucas en Paula loopt niet echt lekker. Als Paula met een vriendin naar een bruiloft in Spanje gaat, blijft ze onaangekondigd weg. Lotte, hun dochtertje van 8 jaar is ontroostbaar. Hij krijgt na een paar maanden later een bericht dat ze wil scheiden. Langzaam komt er regelmaat in hun leven. Als Paula een advocaat op hen afstuurt voor de voogdij staat zijn wereld op zijn kop. Voor welke keuzes komt hij nog meer te staan.
Als een naakte man zichzelf ophangt in het midden van een brug en in het midden tussen het water en de brug, gebeuren daarna allerlei vreemde dingen. Een auto ontploft. Iemand met een hersentumor wordt doodgeslagen. Een man verbrand in zijn huis en een andere man ontvangt kogels in zijn buik en benen en vier mensen in een bejaardentehuis vinden op een onnatuurlijke wijze de dood. Wat heeft dat allemaal met elkaar te maken en wie heeft dat gedaan en vooral waarom? Twee rechercheurs doen hun best, zodra er een vrouw in het spel meedoet komt er eindelijk wat opheldering, maar is dat wel zo?
The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and has permitted that grief to enlarge him. Michael Reed is living a posthumous life. In spite of outward appearances -- he holds a respectable university teaching position; he is an articulate and attractive addition to local social life -- he's a dead man walking. Nothing can touch Reed, nothing can move him, although he observes with a mordant clarity the lives whirling vigorously around him. Of his r...
USA TODAY BESTSELLING BOOK! Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends. Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him. Alone, with nothing but drugs to keep him company, darkness closed in, and the light inside him--the last flicker of hope--began to dim. His dreams, potential, and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight. Despair filled him as he realized he wasn't going to survive. Somehow, he did... HE NOT ONLY SURVIVED, HE THRIVED. Now he's a social media personality with millions of followers, and an entrepreneur, marketer, podcaster, YouTuber, and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim. This is his story.
The LEGO® BOOST® Idea Book contains dozens of ideas for building simple robots with the LEGO BOOST set. The LEGO® BOOST® Idea Book explores 95 creative ways to build simple robots with the LEGO BOOST set. Each model includes a parts list, minimal text, screenshots of programs, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without step-by-step instructions. You'll learn to build robots that can walk and crawl, shoot and grab objects, and even draw using a pen! Each model demonstrates handy mechanical principles that you can use to come up with your own creations. Models come with building hints and ideas for putting your own spin on things. Best of all, every part you need to build these models comes in the LEGO BOOST Creative Toolbox (set #17101).
Jørn Lier Horst is one of Norway's most successful crime writers, and his Willliam Wisting series has already sold one million copies worldwide. Closed for Winter is the second book translated into English in this addictive series. Police inspector William Wisting has encountered grotesque murders before. Nonetheless, he finds the savagely beaten corpse in a holiday cottage on the Vestfold coast particularly ugly. His daughter Line, finally coming out of a dangerous relationship, finds another body in a boat close by. There will be more, and a dangerous journey into Euro-crime for Wisting before the case comes to its breathtaking conclusion. Meanwhile, dead birds are dropping from the sky ...
When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.