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Josephine Cox The Broken Man
Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Phil decides to accompany him...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely...
Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Liane Moriarty The Husband's Secret
The multi-million copy bestseller that launched the author of HBO s Big Little Lies
She finds an envelope: 'To be opened in the event of my death'. It's her husband's handwriting. But he's still alive ... THE ENTHRALLING MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER ABOUT SECRETS, FAMILY AND THE DANGER OF THE TRUTH'STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT' Sophie Hannah'ANOTHER MASTERCLASS' Grazia _________ Cecilia Fitzpatrick thought she knew her husband. That is until she finds an envelope with his writing on: 'to be opened in the event of my death'. She opens it, and learns a shocking truth he has never dared...
Engels | ePub3, 3,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2013
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Julia Quinn The Bridgertons
Happily Ever After
New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor the first time in print, New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents a collection of second epilogues to her Bridgerton series (previously published as e-originals), plus a new bonus Bridgerton novella. Julia Quinns Bridgerton series remains one of the most beloved among historical romance readers, and this collection of second epiloguesstories that take place after the original books endoffer fans more from their favorite characters. Previously published...
Engels | ePub2, 2,7 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2013
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J R R Tolkien Bilbo's Last Song
While Bilbo embarks on his last journey to the West, his mind is cast back to his first big adventure, THE HOBBIT. J.R.R TOLKIEN''s beautiful poem is bought to life through Pauline Bayne''s stunning illustrations. It''s the perfect introduction to the epic fantasy series of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS for younger readers, and a real treat for all Tolkien fans.Baynes'' illustrations have been fully restored in this fantastic new edition, which is published to coincide with the film release...
Engels | ePub2, 11 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2012
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James Patterson I, Michael Bennett - Michael Bennett 5
Michael Bennett takes down a notorious drug kingpin - and becomes his no. 1 target.Detective Michael Bennett arrests infamous South American crime lord Manuel Perrine in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett s lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain terror down upon New York City - and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.Perrine's men create chaos: police officers are shot, judges murdered. As Bennett is engulfed in the struggle against this widening organised violence,...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2012
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' GuardianI believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford...
Engels | ePub2, 4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2012
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J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbitus Ille
After 75 years, The Hobbit translated for the first time into Latin. Fascinating for Latin learners and for Tolkien fans of all ages.In foramine terrae habitabat hobbitus. (‘In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.’)The Hobbit, published 75 years ago, has become one of the world’s most popular classic stories, appealing to adults as much as to the children for whom J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote the book. Translated worldwide into more than 60 modern languages, now Hobbitus Ille is finally...
Engels | ePub2, 2,2 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2012
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John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno...
Engels | ePub2, 1,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2012
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Karin Slaughter Kisscut - Grant County series 2
The second Grant County novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller.When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. And what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse and ritualistic self-mutilation. Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, but the...
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2011
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James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects...
Engels | 269 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Wordsworth Editions Ltd, [Nederland] | 2011
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Lucy Diamond The Beach Cafe
The Beach Cafe is Lucy Diamond''s classic bestseller, a story of new beginnings, love and adventure. Evie Flynn has always been the black sheep of her family – a dreamer and a drifter, unlike her over-achieving elder sisters. She''s tried making a name for herself as an actress, a photographer and a singer, but nothing has ever worked out. Now she''s stuck in temp hell, with a sensible, pension-planning boyfriend. Somehow life seems to be passing her by. Then her beloved aunt Jo dies suddenly...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Pan, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past. 'Evocative,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Elizabeth Jane Howard Falling
From, Elizabeth Jane Howard, the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Falling is a haunting portrait of romantic manipulation.''A novel which, although full of subtle touches, is as unputdownable as any thriller'' – The TimesHarry Kent is a sensitive man in late middle age, a reader and a thinker, without means perhaps but not without charm.Daisy has recovered from her unhappy past by learning to be self-sufficient, and viewing trust as a weakness. But there is still a part of her that...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Pan, [Nederland] | 2011
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James Patterson Tick Tock - Michael Bennett 4
Someone is recreating the crimes of the most terrifying killers in New York's history.TICK... A KILLER'S COUNTDOWN BEGINS.A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos.TICK... CAN MICHAEL BENNETT CATCH HIM?The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. But as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2011
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Sophie Hannah The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
First ever short story collection by acclaimed and best selling author of Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue, Lasting Damage, The Other Half Lives, and a Room Swept White.The Secret's finally out...but beware, once you've read Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories, everyday life will never seem the same again...Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside...
Engels | 330 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Sort of Books, [Nederland] | 2011
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Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 360 pagina's (ePub2, 20 MB) | Wordsworth Edtitions, [Nederland] | 2011
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Cassandra Clare The Infernal Devices 2
Clockwork Prince
True love is shrouded in secrets and lies in the #1 New York Times bestselling second book of the Infernal Devices trilogy, a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is in cinemas August 2013.Love and lies can can corrupt even the purest heart… Second in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. Tessa Gray find her heart drawn more and more to Jem, while her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle...
Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Walker Books, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but...
Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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