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James Patterson Burn - Michael Bennett 7
Detective Michael Bennett is coming home to New York. And a world of unimaginable evil awaits. Having brought an end to the vengeful mission of the ruthless crime lord who forced the Bennett family into hiding, Michael is finally back in New York City.However, Bennett is thrust straight back into a horrifying case: a witness claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a sickeningly depraved and murderous gathering in a condemned building.The report reads like the product of an overactive...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014
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James Patterson Hope to Die - Alex Cross 22
Detective Alex Cross has lost everything and everyone he s ever cared about.His enemy, Thierry Mulch, is holding his family. Driven by feelings of hatred and revenge, Mulch is threatening to kill them all, and break Cross for ever.But Alex Cross is fighting back.In a race against time, he must defeat Mulch, and find his wife and children no matter what it takes.THE END-GAME HAS BEGUN. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014
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James Patterson NYPD Red 2 - NYPD Red
NYPD Red the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price.NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014
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James Patterson Private L.A. - Private 7
The new novel in James Patterson's bestselling Private series.Jack Morgan is having a bad week. His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack s clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach.But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there s more bad news: Hollywood s golden couple, Thom and Jennifer...
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014
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James Patterson Private India - Private 8
When Santosh Wagh isn t struggling out of a bottle of whisky he s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world s finest PI agency.In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes.As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces Private India a danger that could threaten the lives...
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014
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Buzz Aldrin Magnificent desolation
"Largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had their earth-centric perspective changed forever by gazing at the iconic photograph of Aldrin standing on the surface of the Moon with the blackness of space behind him. He described what he saw as `magnificent desolation'. The flight of Apollo 11 made Aldrin one of the most famous people on the planet, yet few people know the rest of the story. In Magnificent Desolation, Aldrin not only gives us a harrowing...
Engels | 352 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Richard Fitzpatrick El clásico
Barcelona v Real Madrid
Real Madrid versus Barcelona is regarded by many as the most captivating fixture in world football. But it is not only the on-pitch battles that have forged their rivalry. From General Franco and bloody civil war to the Catalan city of Barcelonas lukewarm reaction to Spains recent World Cup and European Championship triumphs, bitterness is never far from the surface. In El Clásico, Richard Fitzpatrick charts the key political and historical flashpoints between the two clubs. With exclusive interviews...
Engels | 256 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Prince Rupert Loewenstein A prince among stones
"In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn't understand why the Rolling Stones had no money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock'n'roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as 'a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny', usually enthralled but...
Engels | 272 pagina's (1,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michael Sims Dracula's guest
"Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...
Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Murīd Barghūthī I was born there, I was born here
"In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, within a year Tamim himself had been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War and found himself...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Daniela Sacerdoti Spirit - The Sarah Midnight Trilogy
The breathtaking conclusion to the Sarah Midnight trilogy... Sarah Midnight has never been a normal teenager. She is a member of the demon-hunting Secret Families, caught up in a deadly war with the King of Shadows. Now she and her friends must travel to the ancient forests of Poland to find the portal between their world and the Shadow World, to destroy the King of Shadow's rule. But are all members of Sarah's group really loyal to their cause? And will Sarah and Sean finally find a way to come...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Black & White Publishing, [Nederland] | 2014
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Tishani Doshi The pleasure seekers
Als een 19-jarige Indiase jongeman in Engeland werkervaring komt opdoen, wordt hij verliefd op een Welsh meisje en weigert de verloofde die zijn ouders voor hem hebben gekozen.
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Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jessie Burton The Miniaturist
A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick and Beautifully Atmospheric Historical Novel
The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton''s historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam....
Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014
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Victor Gregg | Rick Stroud King's Cross kid
"Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship...
Engels | 256 pagina's (5,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rick Stroud | Victor Gregg Rifleman
"Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape, but was caught and became a prisoner of war; sentenced to death in Dresden for attempting...
Engels | 1,2 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Michelle Lovric The book of human skin
Een rijke Venetiaanse, wier leven een hel wordt door haar wrede broer, belandt eind 18e eeuw in een afgelegen klooster in Peru onder het regime van een fanatieke non.
Fictie
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Anna Reid Leningrad
"On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth century - would have been very different.Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal...
Engels | 512 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Lucy Wood Diving belles
"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rodney Bolt Lorenzo da Ponte
"By the time he was forty, Lorenzo Da Ponte had been a poet, priest, lover and libertine, a friend of Casanova, collaborator then enemy of Salieri, and ultimately the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Cosí fan tutte and Don Giovanni. After losing all his money and the woman he loved he started afresh in New York, and by the end of his life he had founded its first opera house and become a university professor. Lorenzo Da Ponte is a fascinating and entertaining...
Engels | 448 pagina's (4,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston Mysterious wisdom
"A devotee of the great visionary William Blake, Samuel Palmer became the lynchpin of the first British art movement. Leading a band of fellow artists - the brotherhood of Ancients - out of London to the village of Shoreham in Kent, he set out to create a new rural ideal. His paintings of slumbering shepherds and tumbling blossoms, of mystical cornfields and bright sickle moons, capture a world in which landscape and politics, religion and culture all meet. They reflect the concerns of the nineteenth...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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