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Catherine Richards Heading South
Heading South is a novel of two parts written by different authors, one depicting the animal-loving painter Cassie and the other the good-humoured Nick, still reeling from being dumped by his fiancee. Can the two ever get together as they are plagued by ex-girlfriends, posh admirers, pets passing away and friends going into labour? This is a hilarious comedy also featuring three dogs, two cats, a pony and a mallard. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Sophie Duffy Generation Game
Very powerful writing. Sophie draws her reader in immediately and combines wit and poignancy to very powerful effect... Excellent. ' --Katie Fforde'This is a beautifully written book... The characters are quite simply brilliant. ' --Vanity Case Books'An extraordinary story... A born storyteller with a gift for characterisation, she writes with warmth, lovely earthy detail and a pathos which keeps a lump lodged in the throat... echoes of Victoria Wood. ' --The Daily Mail'a brave, bold, warm, rich,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Harry Sidebottom Fire and Sword - Throne of the Caesars, Book 3
'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMESThe third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors.The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne.The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2016
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Heather Peace All To Play For
It's time to tell our story, starting when my new friends and colleagues-to-be were all as fresh, young and wet behind the ears as I was myself. When our hearts were open, and our integrity was still intact. 'Rhiannon dreams of joining the largest broadcaster in the world: the BBC. And so begins a life of highs, lows, and absurd experiences for five ambitious young people, all keen to make it in the increasingly commercial world of television. Caught in the middle between art and commerce, Rhiannon...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Lyn G Farrell Wacky man
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'An astonishing tour de force!' -- The Daily Mail'Book of the Year!' -- Clio Gray, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted authorA striking debut from the winner of the 2015 Luke Bitmead BursaryMy new shrink asks me, 'What things do you remember about being very young?' It's like looking into a murky river, I say. Memories flash near the surface like fish coming up for flies. The past peeps out, startles me, and then is gone... Amanda secludes...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 102. A flight to heaven
When two dashing gentlemen ride up to Rensham Hall, the ancestral Norfolk home of the beautiful Lady Chiara Fairfax, her world is turned upside down, as she and her mother are just recovering from the unexpected death of her father, Lord Fairfax. One of them, the handsome Mervyn Hunter, is soon in ardent pursuit of the lovely Chiara. But can she trust his declarations of love or does the mysterious, dark-haired stranger she encounters by chance on the seashore hold the key to her future happiness?Mervyn...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 103. She wanted love
The beautiful Lady Eleta Renton returns from France where she has stayed long over her time at the Convent School in Paris. Because her mother had married again after becoming widowed and then she died too, Eleta was in no hurry to come home When she arrives back in London, rather sad at leaving the Convent School, she is horrified when her stepfather, whom she had never liked, tells her that she is to marry the Duke of Hazelware, because he is important to him in his business of shipbuilding and...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 103. The Call of The Highlands
Handsome, noble Lord Alistair McDonon's gay life, as a denizen of London's Beau Monde far, far away from his Scottish roots, comes to a sudden and abrupt end. When the tragic news arrives that his two brothers have drowned at sea, he is summoned to Scotland by his estranged father not only to take up his title of the Marquis of Kildonon and position of heir to the Chieftainship of the Clan but also to marry, Lady Morag McNain, in order to unite their Clans, who have been at war with each other for...
Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 104. A heart finds love
The beautiful Alnina Lester is confronted with a formidable task when her brother, Lord Lester, dies after fighting a duel in Paris. She finds that he has accumulated an enormous number of debts, and to meet his creditors everything in their house, which has been in the Lester family for generations, has to be sold. Even though she has sold a great number of treasures, she is still short of money. Alnina goes round the house to see what else she can find to sell. In her mother's bedroom she sees...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 104. The Glittering Lights
The beautiful Cassandra Sherburn has everything a young lady could possibly desire. Slender, flame-haired and alabaster-skinned and the heiress to her father's immense fortune, her father has promised her hand in marriage to the dashing young Marquis of Charlbury, heir to the ancestral home and estates of the Duke of Alchester and she believes that she is in love with him. And over the years she has collected newspaper cuttings about him and pasted them secretly into albums. Now the Marquis's father...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 105. A sacrifice for love
Princess Caterina of Theiss receives a letter from her close friend Princess Henriet of Istria asking her to stay with her immediately. The two Provinces were close to each other and part of Austria. On arrival at the Palace in Istria, Princess Caterina is horrified to hear that, owing to the Russians' threatening behaviour in the Balkans, the Emperor of Austria has written to Queen Victoria asking her to send an English husband for Princess Henriet so that the Union Jack can fly over Istria and...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 106. Love's dream in peril
The beautiful Adella May is filled with joy as she sees Digby Dryden, the man she loves, walking towards her. But why does he turn away, refusing to look at her? Humiliated and hurt and her golden dream of love in ruins, what can Adella do now and where can she turn? Will she be forced to give up her hopes of seeing Digby again and obey her tyrannical Uncle Edgar and accept the proposal of the rich and suitable aristocrat, Lord Ranulph Fowles, a man she cannot love? Adella's dear school friend, Jane...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 107. Love's dream in peril
Lady Georgina Lang returns to The Castle from her father's funeral to wonder what the future holds for her. Because her father had always longed for a son to succeed him, he had brought her up and educated her exactly as if she was a boy. She dressed as a boy and, although she had been christened Georgina, he liked calling her George. She was completely alone in the huge castle, which was now inherited by the new Earl of Langfield, a distant cousin who had been difficult to trace. Alister, however,...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 108. An Archangel Called Ivan
Arliva Ashdown is not only the most beautiful girl in London Society but the richest as she has inherited her father's huge fortune. At a ball she is giving she overhears two people talking outside the window and she is horrified to learn that, although they are very much in love with each other, the man is telling the girl that the only chance he has of obtaining money for his crumbling house and estate is to marry Arliva. A little later she overhears another conversation between the Countess of...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 108. Pride and the poor princess
Handsome, infinitely wealthy war hero, the Duke of Buckminster or 'Buck' to his many friends, is bored with civilian life after the excitement of the Great War. His fabulous yacht, The Siren, is packed with guests, including Dolly, a famous Society beauty who is determined to trap the Duke into marriage. He reluctantly agrees to sail to Constantinople so that he may purchase for Dolly a treasure trove of jewels and sables, exploiting the desperation of Russian refugees from the 1917 Revolution. The...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 109. A Prisioner in Paris
After visiting the lovely Countess of Helston as her husband is away, Lord Lanwood did not arrive home until the early hours of the morning. And after sleeping later than usual the following morning, he is ready to go riding when his valet tells him that a strange man was waiting downstairs to see him urgently. Pierre, a rough-looking, rough-speaking Frenchman gave him a letter from his nephew Charles. It said that he was being kept a prisoner until he told his captors and their patron, the scheming...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 01 Cross of Love
When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendship, the sweetest one of her life. But her new happiness is threatened by Mr. Wyngate, a wealthy man determined to force the Earl to marry his daughter....
Engels | PDF, 0,6 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 109. Stars In My Heart
Soon to be twenty-one years old, the lovely red-haired Gisela Musgrave is tormented and oppressed by her cruel and jealous stepmother until one day riding with the local hunt, Gisela rushes to the aid of a beautiful woman who has fallen from her horse. Everyone but Gisela notices her striking resemblance to this Noblewoman, who reveals herself to be none other than the exquisite Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, whose beauty is renowned throughout Europe and who is staying incognito in the English countryside...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 01 Elizabethan Lover
Having sailed with Sir Francis Drake, swashbuckling privateer Rodney Hawkhurst yearns for a galleon of his own with which to plunder the Spanish Main in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Seeking investment from Sir Harry Gillingham, he has a fleeting encounter with an elfin, tomboyish golden-red-haired beauty ? Sir Harry?s youngest daughter Lizbeth ? and is bewitched by her limpid green eyes. Yet it is fair and golden-haired elder sister Phillida with whom he first falls in love... Granted his finances...
Engels | PDF, 1,4 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 11. Bezaubernde Hexe
Prinzessin Laetitia mochte ihre Cousine, Prinzessin Stephanie, vor einer von ihrer Grotante arrangierten Heirat mit dem Konig von Zvotana zu retten. Denn Stephanie ist in ihren Bruder Kyril verliebt. Doch Laetitia und ihre Familie sind selbst von der Gnade der Grotante abhangig, da ihr Vater fruh verstorben ist. Sie muss also vorsichtig sein. Da fallt ihr ein, dass die Zigeuner, deren Blut auch in ihren Adern fliet, vielleicht mit einem Zauber helfen konnten. Kann sie Stephanie vor einer lieblosen...
Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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