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Penny Vincenzi A perfect heritage

Een oud en beroemd cosmeticabedrijf dreigt ten onder te gaan aan verkeerde beslissingen maar de grondlegster accepteert niet zomaar een jonge bedrijfsvoorziter met nieuwe ideeën.

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Engels | 939 pagina's | Headline Review, London | 2014

Gedrukt boek
Brian Staveley The providence of fire

Drie erfgenamen van het keizerrijk Annur vervolgen nog steeds ieder hun eigen route op zoek naar een uitweg uit de chaos ontstaan na de moord op hun vader. Vervolg op 'The emperor's blades'.

Fictie

Engels | 606 pagina's | TOR, London | 2015

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Fury

In de laatste maand van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Duitsland neemt de strijdlustige Amerikaanse tankcommandant Wardaddy een jonge onervaren bemanningslid onder zijn hoede.

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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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Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour

"Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"

Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 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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Kate Colquhoun Taste

"From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and...

Engels | 480 pagina's (6,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Kate Worsley She rises

Halverwege de 18e eeuw monstert een vijftienjarige jongen door een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden in de havenstad Harwich in Groot-Brittannië aan bij de marine.

Fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Rosie Boycott Spotted pigs and green tomatoes

"Small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft of running a smallholding. They learn too about weightier issues that affect the local community of Ilminster - particularly...

Engels | 320 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Paul Gilding The great disruption

"It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The `Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's...

Engels | 304 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Gareth P. Jones Space crime conspiracy

Stanley wordt van de aarde geplukt, omdat hij wordt verdacht van de moord op een buitenaardse president. Maar hoe moet hij zichzelf verdedigen als hij niet eens weet dat er buitenaards leven bestaat? Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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Nic Dunlop The lost executioner

"Police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder of more than 20,000 of them. Twenty years later, not one member of the Khmer Rouge had been held accountable for what had happened, and Comrade Duch had disappeared. Photographer Nic Dunlop became obsessed with the idea of finding Duch, and shedding light on a secret and brutal world that had been sealed off to outsiders. Then, by chance, he came face to face with him... The Lost Executioner describes Dunlop's personal journey to the heart of the...

Engels | 352 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Natasha Joffe | Justine Roberts Why did nobody tell me?

"Do `milestones' feel like millstones? Does the thought ofwaiting at the school gate make you more nervous than yourfive-year-old? Do you find yourself sometimes tempted to just let your childrenfight to the death? And does flicking through childcare books leave you feelingmostly bewildered and blamed? Then TheMumsnet Rules are what you have been waiting for...Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com and based onthe assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to behelpful...

Engels | 416 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Harry Patch | Richard van Emden The last fighting Tommy

"Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but three years later was conscripted, serving as a machine gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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E.D. Baker Tales of the frog princess

"Princess Emerelda is not exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh is like a foghorn, she's always tripping over the royal furniture, and she HATES Prince Jorge whom her mother would one day like to see her marry. But things are about to change as she finds the frog of her dreams - but when she kisses him SHE turns into a frog! Just one kiss, and her whole life turns upside down in these deliciously original, hilarious and fast-paced fairy-tale adventures.Dragon's Breath and Once Upon a Curse continue...

Engels | 768 pagina's (2,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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Deborah Jackson Three in a bed

"Parents benefit by getting virtually a full night's sleep.;The author explains the advantages of this radical form of baby care, including its benefits for breastfeeding mothers, reviews the history of babies in the bed and, through interviews with parents, explores attitudes to the idea. The book also contains a fresh perspective on the tragedy of cot death, as well as practical advice on how to sustain your sex life, hints on safety in the bed and"

Engels | 320 pagina's (2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Rachel Resnick Love junkie

"Rachel Resnick is a self-confessed Love Junkie. Her life has consisted of a continuous stream of men, all of whom have treated her badly, and yet she chose them and has convinced herself that she cannot live without them. Obsessive and possessive, she allows herself to be humiliated and degraded in her pursuit of love. Finding herself single, broke, depressed and childless, Rachel is determined to break the cycle. But to do this, she has to face the troubled past that she has been trying desperately...

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

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Sally Brampton Shoot the damn dog

"A journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted by depression, as well as offering help and understanding to those whose loved ones suffer from this terrifying condition."

Engels | 336 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Dirk Moelants Improvising Early Music

The history of musical improvisation from the late Middle Ages to the early Baroque.Studying improvised music is always a challenge, due to its volatility and unpredictability. But what about studying musical improvisation from before the age of sound recordings? In this book three experts give their view on aspects of musical improvisation in the late medieval, renaissance, and early baroque periods. Historical sources show us how improvisation was an integral part of music education and how closely...

Engels | 136 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014

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Terry Deary | Helen Flook The tortoise and the dare

"750 BC. The boys at school are excited. The Olympic games are coming to the city. They may be too young to compete, but their teacher suggests the school should have its own games. Of course, girls have no part at all in these festivities, so Elena can only watch as her twin brother, Cypselis, prepares for the race. Then she discovers he has made a bet with Big Bacchiad (the school bully). If Cypselis wins he will get a new goat, if he loses then Elena will become Bacchiad's slave. Elena's freedom...

Engels | 64 pagina's (3,6 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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