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Nicci French Thursday's Child
A Frieda Klein Novel (4)
Thursday's Child by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday. Two crimes, generations apart ... Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - not the police, not her mother, not her friends. She left town, trained as a psychologist and never went back. Now an old classmate has shown up. She wants help with her daughter, who claims to have been attacked...
Engels | ePub3, 3,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2014
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Frank Dikotter Mao's great famine
"Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the Western world in less than fifteen years. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors...
Engels | 448 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Juliet Nicolson Abdication
"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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John Carlin White angels
"The world over, no sportsman - and maybe no other individual - provokes more fascination, argument and interest than the Londoner with the film-star looks, David Beckham. No sports team exudes more glamour, has won more competitions or possesses a more dazzling collection of superstars than Real Madrid. The fusion of the two has gripped the attention of millions and changed the face of the world's favourite sport, making a clear divide between the Old Football and the New. White Angels is the insider's...
Engels | 384 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Paul Collins The trouble with Tom
"The author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man, a radical on the run from the law in London, a founding father of the United States of America, a senator of revolutionary France, Thomas Paine alone claims a key role in the development of three modern democracies. He was a walking revolution in human form - the most dangerous man alive. But in death Paine's story turns truly bizarre - his bones were taken from New York to London and eventually disappeared. In Paris, London and New York, in bars,...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Anna Beer Milton
"For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or a saintly blind man. But, as Anna Beer shows, his personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional one. By close and groundbreaking analysis of Milton's careful editing of his own life, his wider family's affairs, the records of his government work, and the history of...
Engels | 480 pagina's (3,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots
"When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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.C. 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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Lesley Glaister Nina Todd has gone
Een vrouw met een duister verleden leidt een onopvallend bestaan in Sheffield totdat ze een man ontmoet die zich aan haar blijft opdringen en haar confronteert met dat verleden.
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Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Emma Smith Maidens' trip
"In 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine...
Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Rye Barcott It happened on the way to war
"Nongovernmental organization with two Kenyans in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Their organization-Carolina for Kibera-grew to become a model of a global movement called participatory development, and Barcott continued volunteering with CFK while leading Marines in dangerous places. It Happened on the Way to War is a true story of heartbreak, courage, and the impact that small groups of committed citizens can make in the world."
Engels | 368 pagina's (6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Network with confidence
"Are you fed up with trawling round networking events that take vast amounts of time for little return? Do you feel queasy stepping into a room of total strangers to represent yourself or your business? Then this is the book you've been waiting for.Networking is something that can really improve our career prospects, but it is something that many people actively dread. With advice on how to conquer your nerves, ask the right questions, find out about the right events (and work out which ones to avoid),...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Ioan Grillo El narco
"Beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward.El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations...
Engels | 336 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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John Kirwan Good small business planning guide
"In other words, they haven't done enough planning.Creating a business plan should be one of the first things you do when you think of starting up a company, and it's an important document to turn to time and again as your business develops - especially in these difficult financial times. Accessible and easy to read, the Good Small Business Planning Guide shows readers how to:Plan their business strategy Pitch their plan to raise funds Spot problems in advance and work out how to deal with them Update...
Engels | 368 pagina's (3,6 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Go freelance
"Deciding to leave the security of a permanent job and go freelanceis a brave decision - and is not to be taken lightly. However, as longas you manage your time, work-flow, contacts, and money, it may turnout to be the best career move you ever made! Go freelance is packed with essential advice, including: Working out when it's time to move on. Do you have the right skills to be your own boss?Finding new workNetworking to market yourself and your skillsManaging work-flowManaging your time. Looking...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Camilla Lackberg Buried Angels - Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 8
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PASTEaster 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind - including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba.Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Al Alvarez Pondlife
"Heres the paradox: your body becomes steadily more troublesome just at that point when the world, which you are soon to leave, becomes sweeter, more poignant, more beautiful, more desirableThe ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez, now in his eighties, chronicles what...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Trevor Grove The juryman's tale
"Every year a quarter of a million people are selected at random from the electoral register for jury service. They are given no training and are forbidden to discuss their verdicts after the trial. Despite the high-profile trials of Louise Woodward and O.J. Simpson, astonishingly little is known about what it's like to serve on a jury: this book is the first to reveal it."
Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Carolyn Burke No regrets
"Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance...
Engels | 304 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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