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Graeme Simsion The Rosie Project
The Rosie Project Series
Discover the delightfully heartwarming and life-affirming bestseller about one man's unlikely journey through love'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through' SOPHIE KINSELLA, bestselling author of The Shopaholic seriesPerfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Still Me and Three Things About Elsie. ____________Don Tillman has got his love life planned out. He knows exactly who he wants, but is it...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Penguin, [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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Cassandra Clare The Infernal Devices 3
Clockwork Princess
Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment in the breathtaking conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is in cinemas August 2013.Danger and betrayal… Secrets and enchantment… Third and final book in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain needs...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | Walker Books, [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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Julia Quinn The Bridgertons
Happily Ever After
New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor the first time in print, New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents a collection of second epilogues to her Bridgerton series (previously published as e-originals), plus a new bonus Bridgerton novella. Julia Quinns Bridgerton series remains one of the most beloved among historical romance readers, and this collection of second epiloguesstories that take place after the original books endoffer fans more from their favorite characters. Previously published...
Engels | ePub2, 2,7 MB | Avon, [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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J R R Tolkien Bilbo's Last Song
While Bilbo embarks on his last journey to the West, his mind is cast back to his first big adventure, THE HOBBIT. J.R.R TOLKIEN''s beautiful poem is bought to life through Pauline Bayne''s stunning illustrations. It''s the perfect introduction to the epic fantasy series of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS for younger readers, and a real treat for all Tolkien fans.Baynes'' illustrations have been fully restored in this fantastic new edition, which is published to coincide with the film release...
Engels | ePub2, 11 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2012
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James Patterson I, Michael Bennett - Michael Bennett 5
Michael Bennett takes down a notorious drug kingpin - and becomes his no. 1 target.Detective Michael Bennett arrests infamous South American crime lord Manuel Perrine in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett s lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain terror down upon New York City - and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.Perrine's men create chaos: police officers are shot, judges murdered. As Bennett is engulfed in the struggle against this widening organised violence,...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2012
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J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbitus Ille
After 75 years, The Hobbit translated for the first time into Latin. Fascinating for Latin learners and for Tolkien fans of all ages.In foramine terrae habitabat hobbitus. (‘In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.’)The Hobbit, published 75 years ago, has become one of the world’s most popular classic stories, appealing to adults as much as to the children for whom J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote the book. Translated worldwide into more than 60 modern languages, now Hobbitus Ille is finally...
Engels | ePub2, 2,2 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2012
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Philippa Gregory The Favoured Child - The Wideacre Trilogy, Book 2
The second novel in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy, a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century. By Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover.The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin.But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal...
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2011
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Philippa Gregory Meridon - The Wideacre Trilogy, Book 3
The third volume in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy of novels. Set in the eighteenth century, they launched the career of Philippa Gregory, the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Three Sisters, Three Queens.Meridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want.But Dandy, beautiful, impatient,...
Engels | 576 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2011
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Elizabeth Jane Howard Falling
From, Elizabeth Jane Howard, the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Falling is a haunting portrait of romantic manipulation.''A novel which, although full of subtle touches, is as unputdownable as any thriller'' – The TimesHarry Kent is a sensitive man in late middle age, a reader and a thinker, without means perhaps but not without charm.Daisy has recovered from her unhappy past by learning to be self-sufficient, and viewing trust as a weakness. But there is still a part of her that...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Pan, [Nederland] | 2011
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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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Lucy Diamond The Beach Cafe
The Beach Cafe is Lucy Diamond''s classic bestseller, a story of new beginnings, love and adventure. Evie Flynn has always been the black sheep of her family – a dreamer and a drifter, unlike her over-achieving elder sisters. She''s tried making a name for herself as an actress, a photographer and a singer, but nothing has ever worked out. Now she''s stuck in temp hell, with a sensible, pension-planning boyfriend. Somehow life seems to be passing her by. Then her beloved aunt Jo dies suddenly...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Pan, [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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James Patterson Tick Tock - Michael Bennett 4
Someone is recreating the crimes of the most terrifying killers in New York's history.TICK... A KILLER'S COUNTDOWN BEGINS.A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos.TICK... CAN MICHAEL BENNETT CATCH HIM?The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. But as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [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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