• James Barr Setting the desert on fire

  "It is 1916. The Allies are struggling in the Great War. The Ottoman Sultan calls for a pan-Islamic jihad against all non-Muslims except Germans. But Sharif Husein, ruler of the holy city of Mecca, is smarting under Turkish rule, fomenting Arab nationalism and lobbying the British to support him. It seems to the British a good idea secretly to encourage an Arab revolt. Setting the Desert on Fire is a masterly account of this key moment made legendary by T. E. Lawrence, but here filled with a wide...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Get to grips with budgets

  "Not everyone has a head for numbers, but if looking after them is part of your job, they're unavoidable. Getting to grips with budgets will boost your confidence with numbers and help you do your job better and more easily. The book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists the best sources of further help."

  Engels | 96 pagina's (2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 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 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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• David Livingston | James Livingston Blood over water

  "Watched by over seven million people, it was the first time for over a hundred years that brothers had battled against each other in this gladiatorial contest. Only one could be victorious. In Blood Over Water, David and James tell their stories for the first time, giving an intimate insight into one of our best-loved national sporting occasions, whilst also describing a brotherly relationship tested to breaking point. It is an emotional and searching joint self-portrait that looks at the darker...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 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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• Thomas Mogford Shadow of the rock

  Een advocaat uit Gibraltar helpt een joodse vriend, die in Marokko wordt beschuldigd van de moord op een jong meisje.

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  Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Mariatu Kamara | Susan McClelland Bite of the mango

  "As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands.Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived....

  Engels | 224 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Richard Van Emden Boy soldiers of the Great War

  "The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Richard Eyre National service

  "During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the...

  Engels | 448 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Louise Aronson A history of the present illness

  Zestien min-of-meer met elkaar verbonden verhalen over medische zorg aan kwetsbare mensen.

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  Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Lara Feigel The love-charm of bombs

  "When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. At the height of the Blitz, Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one 'like a love-charm'. As the sky whistled...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Margaret Overton Good in a crisis

  "My story begins with a divorce. During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of many Mr Wrongs. Overton, an anaesthetist, realised she had been so busy looking after the needs of others that she had forgotten to look after herself. So she set...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• C.Joseph Greaves Hard twisted

  Een 13-jarig meisje en een veel oudere crimineel trekken door Amerika tijdens de grote economische crisis van de jaren dertig van de 20e eeuw.

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  Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 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.

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  Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 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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• 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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• 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 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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