ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn rural Georgia, sisters Celie and Nettie share the pain and struggle of growing up as African American women. Forced into an abusive marriage, at least Celie can offer Nettie refuge from their violent father in her new home - until Nettie catches the attention of Celie's husband and is forced to leave and forge her own journey. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, the sist...

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds awa...

This award-winning and bestselling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies!"[The DevOps Handbook] remains a must-read for any organization seeking to scale up its IT capability and expand DevOps practices across multiple departments or lines of business." -Mike Perrow, TechBeaconFor years, The DevOps Handbook has been the definitive guide for taking the successes laid out in the bestselling The Phoenix Projec...

From the daily dance of the herons at Albert Cuyp Market to the sisterly myth behind the iconic Skinny Bridge, how well do you know the Dutch capital?

Welcome Home Amsterdam is a unique collection of short stories celebrating the city – its past, its present and its people. Through interwoven fictional lives, the book offers a genuine feel of the real Amsterdam. Some of her most famous features are brought to life alongside everyday scenes of family and friendship, of cycling, fishing and s...

Eén boek, twaalf verhalen.

Stap binnen in een boek vol verrassingen, geschreven door de leerlingen van het MAX-project Storylab van Campus Max Middenschool, Tessenderlo.

Van huiveringwekkende scènes en meeslepende romantiek tot een dystopische wereld en geheimzinnige monsters die op school ronddwalen.

Tussen de verhalen door fluisteren Engelse gedichten je toe hoe je jezelf kan ontdekken.

En dat is niet alles: ontdek ook de bezorgdheid over de bedreiging en het uitsterven van wilde dieren,...

Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on Eastern Europe whose previous books include Lost Kingdom, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire. At the time of the Chernobyl explosion he lived behind the Iron Curtain less than 500 kilometres downstream of the damaged reactor.