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Suzanne Braun Levine The woman's guide to second adulthood
"Second Adulthood is a new stage of life for women over fifty. The first generation of socially emancipated women have reached an important frontier; they have fulfilled all their roles - daughter, wife, mother, career woman. Yet with longer life expectancy and better health they have no intention of retiring from the world. At the same time these women are experiencing an often bewildering array of physical readjustments: their brains experience a growth very similar to that in adolescence, they...
Engels | 272 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Said K. Aburish The rise, corruption and coming fall of the House of Saud
"Costly Western armaments. They are also opposed to the immorality of a dynasty whose men have purchased women in bulk and plundered the country's oil revenues in pursuit of pleasure and who cling to retrograde policies"
Engels | 352 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Manage your career
"The world of work moves so quickly these days that to get the bestfrom your career, you need to actively manage it and seek out newopportunities. Manage Your Career will help you make the mostof your talents and potential, and enable your dreams to become areality. Packed with essential advice and practical help, this bookwill help you plan the right move, whether you want to climb to the topof the career ladder or reinvent your working life completely. Whatever your job, Manage Your Career will...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Anon The secret olympian
"The vast majority of us can only dream of being an Olympic-level athlete - but we have no real idea of what that means. Here, for the first time, in all its shocking, funny and downright bizarre glory, is the truth of the Olympic experience. It is an unimaginable world: the kitting-out ceremony with its 35kg of team clothing per athletethe pre-Olympic holding camp with its practical jokes, resentment and fighting, and freaky physiological regimesthe politicians' visits with their flirty spousesthe...
Engels | 224 pagina's (3,9 MB) | A&C Black, [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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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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Ed Hawkins Bookie gambler fixer spy
"A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Scott Mariani The Nemesis Program - Ben Hope, Book 9
THE EXPLOSIVE, THRILLING NEW BEN HOPE ADVENTURE FROM THE TOP 10 BESTSELLING AUTHORA BRUTAL MURDER.A SCIENTIST ON THE RUN.A PLOT TO KILL MILLIONS.While secretly researching the bizarre discoveries of Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla many years earlier, physicist Claudine Pommier becomes the victim of a remorseless and cruel murderer who breaks into her Parisian apartment. Is he just a serial killer, or is there more to her death than the Paris cops believe?Maverick American biologist Dr Roberta Ryder...
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran Little America
"The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch. Has the war been worth the money and the bloodshed?...
Engels | 384 pagina's (5,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Ambrose Bierce The devil's dictionary
"A word book, straight up, with a twist The Devil's Dictionary is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, gained from seeing the world early and cynically as it really was, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America's first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against hypocrisy is perfectly complemented by Ralph Steadman's equally incisive pen and ink illustrations. Adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly. Bride,...
Engels | 192 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Hilary Mantel The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.Including a new story The School of English.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Patrick McGrath Constance
Als een gescheiden poëzieprofessor van Engelse afkomst in New York trouwt met een jonge vrouw die hem fescineert, vermoedt hij niet welke moeilijkheden hij zich op de hals haalt.
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Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Manil Suri The death of Vishnu
In het trappenhuis van een appartementengebouw in Bombay beleeft een op sterven liggende klusjesman herinneringen en visioenen.
Fictie
Engels | ePub, 2,2 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Michèle Roberts Ignorance
Vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog zitten twee Franse meisjes samen op school; mede door de oorlogsomstandigheden worden ze gedwongen keuzes te maken met verstrekkende gevolgen.
Fictie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Ahdaf Soueif The map of love
Een Egyptische vrouw vindt een koffer met spullen van een Engelse vrouw die honderd jaar eerder leefde.
Fictie
Engels | 544 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [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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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
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness
"Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 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
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Stephen May Life! Death! Prizes!
Na de moord op hun moeder zijn twee halfbroers van 19 en 6 jaar op elkaar aangewezen.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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