• Tim Adler Hollywood and the Mob

  "From its earliest days, the Mafia has sought to make a fast buck from the American film industry. Stories of intimidation, threats and violence mingle with those of glamour and excess. In this stunning story of infamy and ballsy enterprise, Tim Adler tells the secret history of Al Capone, Sam Giancana and John Gotti's attempts to infiltrate the studio lots. However, although they have controlled the moguls and the money, the Mob learned how to be cool from classic films like The Godfather and characters...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Patricia Duncker The strange case of the composer and his judge

  "On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Isabel Losada The Battersea Park road to enlightenment

  "`You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.' So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges discuss their `inner beauty', Isabel journeyed through a gruelling...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [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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• 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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• Manil Suri The city of Devi

  "Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Gail Godwin Flora

  Een vrouw beschrijft hoe zij als 10-jarige in de zomer van 1945 in het vervallen huis van haar recent overleden grootmoeder aan de zorg van een 22-jarig nichtje wordt toevertrouwd.

  Fictie | Familieroman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ciarán Collins The gamal

  "Something unspeakable happened and someone chose to turn a blind eye? This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Clare Allan Poppy Shakespeare

  Een psychiatrisch patiënte moet een nieuwkomer inwijden in de psychiatrische opvang waarin alles draait om roken, ruilhandel in medicijnen, uitkeringen en zien niet ontslagen te worden.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman

  Nederlands | 352 pagina's (ePub, 2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Jim Lynch The highest tide

  "One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries are to come, indicators of the highest tide in fifty years. Yet Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• E.F. Benson Mrs Ames

  "With captivating the men in her life, `that wonderful creature' Mrs Evans becomes not just rival to Mrs Ames' marriage, but rival to her village throne. When the whole of Riseborough is invited to Mrs Evans' masked costume party, action must be taken. As the date looms, the irrepressible Mrs Ames resolves to seize the chance to win back her position, and thus, her man."

  Engels | 320 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Leo van der Aalst How I paid for college

  "It's 1983, and in a sleepy community in New Jersey seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. However, the fun comes to a halt when his father refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Julliard.Edward's truly in a bind. He's ineligible for scholarships because his father earns too much. And, in a sure sign that he's destined for a life in the arts, Edward's incapable of holding down a job. So he turns to his loyal (but immoral) friends...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour

  "Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"

  Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still

  "It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

  Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.

  Fictie | Thriller

  Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014

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• Robert Cabot The Joshua tree

  "Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw

  "This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Parker Bilal The golden scales

  "Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Gideon Defoe The pirates! in an adventure with the romantics

  "Beautiful young fiancée, Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford, and finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Simon Scarrow Gladiator

  Vengeance

  The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....

  Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014

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