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Amanda Prowse A Christmas Wish
A Short Story - No Greater Love
A special Christmas short story from Amanda Prowse: a wonderful, warm festive treat from a bestselling author. Poppy is trying to make sure her children have the perfect Christmas. The fields are sparkling with snow, the turkey is roasting, and the tree is groaning with presents. But Poppy's beloved husband is fighting in Afghanistan, and the kids are missing their Dad. Can all their wishes come true without him? Or will they have the perfect Christmas after all? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 62 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2013
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Jane Casey The Stranger You Know - Maeve Kerrigan 4
The latest crime thriller featuring detective Maeve Kerrigan - winner of the Mary Higgins Clark AwardHe meets women.He gains their trust.He kills them.That s all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in.But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve s colleague.Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Ebury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2013
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Josephine Cox The Broken Man
Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Phil decides to accompany him...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf Jacob's Room - Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.JACOB'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf's third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob's childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams....
Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society - vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is an emotion that bubbles under the surface of all of Woolf's characters in Mrs Dalloway. Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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James Joyce Ulysses
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2013
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Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely...
Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Liane Moriarty The Husband's Secret
The multi-million copy bestseller that launched the author of HBO s Big Little Lies
She finds an envelope: 'To be opened in the event of my death'. It's her husband's handwriting. But he's still alive ... THE ENTHRALLING MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER ABOUT SECRETS, FAMILY AND THE DANGER OF THE TRUTH'STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT' Sophie Hannah'ANOTHER MASTERCLASS' Grazia _________ Cecilia Fitzpatrick thought she knew her husband. That is until she finds an envelope with his writing on: 'to be opened in the event of my death'. She opens it, and learns a shocking truth he has never dared...
Engels | ePub3, 3,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2013
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Karin Slaughter Kisscut - Grant County series 2
The second Grant County novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller.When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy. And what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse and ritualistic self-mutilation. Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, but the...
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but...
Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Toru Okada''s cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada''s vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.*Murakami''s...
Engels | ePub3, 3,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Just before dawn one winter s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Sophie Hannah The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
First ever short story collection by acclaimed and best selling author of Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue, Lasting Damage, The Other Half Lives, and a Room Swept White.The Secret's finally out...but beware, once you've read Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories, everyday life will never seem the same again...Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside...
Engels | 330 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Sort of Books, [Nederland] | 2011
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Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 360 pagina's (ePub2, 20 MB) | Wordsworth Edtitions, [Nederland] | 2011
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Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Penguin Modern Classics
I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, and the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique, he discovers that fun is no...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2011
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Karin Slaughter Broken - Will Trent/Atlanta series 4
The fourth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon, former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010
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Kate Atkinson Emotionally Weird
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2010
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Jane Austen Emma (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself... 'Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend. Chided for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
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