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Richard Roberts

    Richard Owain Roberts is een schrijver die wordt geprezen om zijn suggestieve, mooie en uitgebreide stijl, waarin hij plaatsen en persoonlijkheden met wijsheid en menselijkheid vastlegt. Zijn proza heeft een uniek ritme, dat verhalen met heerlijke snelheid voortstuwt en tegelijkertijd de complexiteit van rouw en de menselijke conditie verkent. Roberts tovert meesterlijk onthullende vignetten tevoorschijn, waarin hij eenzaamheid, schuld en trauma onderzoekt met zowel humor als een diepe ziel. Hij wordt erkend voor zijn gedurfde verbeelding en stilistische talent, wat hem positioneert als een onderscheidende en vitale stem in de hedendaagse literatuur.

    The City. A Guide to London's Global Financial Centre
    Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis
    Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her
    WJEC GCSE Cymraeg Ail Iaith Welsh Second Language: Revision Guide (Language Skills and Practice)
    Quite Contrary
    Repentance
    • Repentance

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      4,4(59)Tarief

      It is a serious problem when society misunderstands or disregards sin and repentance. But when the church neglects these doctrines, the impact is profound. This book unfolds the nature and necessity of biblical repentance, but for the church in particular. Roberts' in-depth study heavily references both he Old and New Testaments, and includes chapters on the myths, maxims, marks, models, and motives of repentance, as well as the graces and fruits that accompany it. There is also wise warning about the dangers of delayed repentance.

      Repentance
    • Quite Contrary

      • 306bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen
      5,0(1)Tarief

      The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first?Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes, after all.Unfortunately for the story and unfortunately for the Wolf, this Little Red Riding Hood is Mary Stuart, and she is the most stubborn and contrary twelve-year-old the world has ever known.Forget the Wolf's temptations, forget the advice of the talking rat trying to save her-she will kick her way through every myth and fairy tale ever told until she finds a way to get out of this alive. Her own way, and no one else's.

      Quite Contrary
    • Middle school supervillain Penny Akk has defeated every challenge thrown against her. She has bested heroes, villains, weirdos who can't make up their minds, robots, aliens, friends, rivals, enemies, natural disasters, secret admirers, and her own shyness. Now she has only one opponent left. Her own super power. ...and the other Penny who stole it.

      Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her
    • It's summertime for supervillains!Or maybe not, because for Penelope Akk, there is still one foe she has yet to defeat: her own reputation as Bad Penny. It's been a fun ride: fighting adult heroes, going to space, and inspiring the rest of her school to open up about their own powers.Sooner or later, that ride has to end, and with school out of the way Penny is hatching a mad scheme to end it on her own terms. Will that go smoothly? Of course not. Penny's left too many unsolved problems behind her already, like ghosts, seriously crazy friends, and angry little girls from Jupiter.One by one, they'll have to be dealt with before she can do battle with herself. She'd better hurry, because her parents are closing in. Whether she confesses or not, this time they will find out her secret.

      Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis
    • What would middle school be like if half your classmates had super powers? It's time for Penny Akk to find out. Her latest (failed) attempt to become a superhero has inspired the rest of the kids in her school to reveal their own powers. Now, all of her relationships are changing. She has a not-at-all-secret admirer, who wants to be Penny's partner almost as much as she wants to be Penny's rival. The meanest girl in school has gained super powers and lost her mind. Can Penny help her find a better one? Can she help an aging supervillain connect with his daughter, and mend the broken hearts of two of the most powerful people in the world? And in all this, where will she find time for her own supervillainous fun, or even more dangerous, to start dating? It's going to be a long, strange semester.

      Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen
    • Hello Friend We Missed You

      • 185bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen
      4,1(1142)Tarief

      HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violent revenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the least excruciating way possible.

      Hello Friend We Missed You
    • Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn't understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life, nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process, Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it. Criminal masterminds, heroes in power armor, bottles of dragon blood, alien war drones, shape shifters and ghosts, no matter what the super powered world throws at her, Penny and her friends come out on top. They have to. If she can keep winning, maybe she can clear her name before her mom and dad find out.

      Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
    • Supervillains do not merely play hooky.True, coming back to school after a month spent fighting-and defeating-adult superheroes is a bit of a comedown for The Inscrutable Machine. When offered the chance to skip school in the most dramatic way possible, Penelope Akk can't resist. With the help of a giant spider and mysterious red goo, she builds a spaceship and flies to Jupiter.Mutant goats. Secret human colonies. A war between three alien races with humanity as the prize. Robot overlords and evil plots. Penny and her friends find all this and more on Jupiter's moons, but what they don't find are any heroes to save the day.Fortunately, they have an angry eleven-year-old and a whole lot of mad science...

      Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon