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Kate Manning My Notorious Life
"To the dizzying heights of New York society. But as her fame grows and her name hits the headlines, her reputation as the most scandalous midwife of her time begins to threaten everything she holds dear. And one crusading official will not rest until he has brought about the downfall of `Madame X. It will take all of Axies cunning to save both herself and those she loves from ruin"
Engels | 352 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Takashi Hiraide The Guest Cat
The Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerA couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband...
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014
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Anne Michaels The winter vault
"Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...
Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Christine Sneed Little known facts
"Life as one of Hollywood's most handsome, charismatic and critically-acclaimed movie stars seems like a glitzy fairytale to the people who orbit around Renn Ivins. But for his grown children, Anna and Will, their father's fame threatens to permeate every aspect of their lives. For Anna - a diligent medical student with a promising future ahead of her but not so promising romantic prospects - the exploits of her celebrity father are a source of embarrassment and, at best, bemusement. Her brother...
Engels | 304 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jane Rusbridge The devil's music
Als een dertiger na het overlijden van zijn vader terugkeert naar het vroegere vakantieverblijf van zijn ouders, roept dit herinneringen op aan zijn destijds spoorloos verdwenen moeder en zijn problematische kindertijd.
Fictie | Familieroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Robert B. Parker Stranger in paradise
Een inspecteur van politie krijgt hulp van een huurmoordenaar om een maffiabaas in de val te lokken.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | 210 pagina's (ePub, 2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Barbara Trapido Sex and Stravinsky
Een Zuid-Afrikaan, die in Engeland woont met zijn Australische vrouw, reist voor een conferentie naar zijn geboorteland en ontmoet er zijn jeugdliefde.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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William Sutcliffe The wall
Een Israelische jongen vindt een manier om zijn joodse nederzetting te ontvluchten en ontmoet een Palestijns meisje dat zijn ogen opent voor de realiteit.
Fictie | Kinderleven | Oorlogsroman
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Celia Walden Harm's way
Een 19-jarige Engelse gaat na haar eindexamen een jaar naar Parijs, waar ze bevriend raakt met een 40-jarige Ierse, wier flatgenoot hun vriendschap verstoort.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune
A Novel
From theNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2014
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Steven Carter I was Howard Hughes
"Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Colum McCann Let the great world spin
In de ochtend van 7 augustus 1974 loopt een koorddanser op honderden meters hoogte tussen de twee torens van het WTC in New York.
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths
"As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...
Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Jaspreet Singh Chef
Een chef-kok reist voor de laatste keer per trein van Delhi naar Kashmir en blikt terug op zijn leven dat is bepaald door de verdeling van Kasjmir tussen India en Pakistan.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Politieke roman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamila Shamsie Burnt shadows
"In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the...
Engels | 384 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamila Shamsie Kartography
"And lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a"
Engels | 352 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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D.W. Wilson Once you break a knuckle
Twaalf korte verhalen die zich afspelen in West-Canada met als thema hoe de beste bedoelingen verkeerd kunnen uitpakken.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Alan Drew Gardens of water
"Stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. As he becomes a helpless witness to his daughter's dangerous infatuation with a young American, Sinan takes a series of drastic decisions with unforeseeable consequences. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion."
Engels | 352 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Will Self Umbrella
Een radicale psychiater in Londen ontdekt rond 1970 dat sommige van zijn langdurige patiënten niet geestesziek zijn, maar lijden aan een in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw rondwarende slaapziekte.
Fictie
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Toni Morrison Beloved
Discover Toni Morrison s most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. An American masterpiece AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2014
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