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John le Carr Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Penguin Modern Classics
The first part of John le Carr 's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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J. R. R. Tolkien The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings
The third part of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic adventureTHE LORD OF THE RINGS'Extraordinarily imaginative, and wholly exciting'The TimesThe armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The...
Engels | ePub2, 4,9 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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J. R. R. Tolkien The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings
The second part of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic adventureTHE LORD OF THE RINGS'Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. 'Sunday TelegraphThe company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King. Bron:...
Engels | ePub2, 7,7 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect
The Rosie Project Series
Sink into the joyously weird and wonderful next chapter of Don and Rosie, in Graeme Simsion's unmissable sequel to the bestselling The Rosie Project!'Touching and entertaining' Mail on Sunday Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie. Now, living in New York City, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage, even if Don has had to sacrifice standardised meals and embrace unscheduled sex. But then Rosie drops the mother of all bombshells....
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez No One Writes to the Colonel
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left'Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Kathy Reichs Seizure
(Virals 2); Tory Brennan
The breathtaking follow-up to Virals in the new forensic series from Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy ReichsHEART-STOPPING FORENSIC ACTION WITH A LETHAL TWISTThe Virals' home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. A 300-year-old legendRumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in 1720. No-one knows where, but Tory Brennan - great-niece of famous forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan - is certain that...
Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Dave Eggers The Every
The electrifying follow up to Sunday Times bestseller The Circle
The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers'' New York Times Bestseller The Circle''Gulpable fictive entertainment . . . Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision'' ObserverWhen the world''s largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet''s dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every.Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Hamish Hamilton, [Nederland] | 2021
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Camilla Lackberg Women Without Mercy
A gripping new novella from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla LackbergThree women. Three destructive marriages.Ingrid gave up a promising career to support her husband. Then she finds out he’s having an affair.Birgitta is skipping her medical appointments. That way no-one will discover the bruises her husband leaves.Victoria left her life in Russia to marry a man she met online. But her new husband is nothing like she imagined.Maybe the only way out is to commit...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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Camilla Lackberg Truth or Dare
A gripping new novella from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla LackbergFour friendsLiv, Martina, Max and Anton have been best friends for years. So on New Year’s Eve, they’re more than happy to spend it together – drinking, flirting, and playing games.Four terrifying secretsBut each of them is keeping a terrible secret. And when a game of truth or dare takes a dark turn, it’s not long before the shocking truth emerges.A night that will end in murderNow...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021
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George R.R. Martin A Dance With Dragons
Part 2 After The Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series. 'Vivid, rich, multi-layered and utterly addictive' Daily ExpressThe future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In King's Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the eastern...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | HarperVoyager, [Nederland] | 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories
Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [Nederland] | 2021
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Sarah Pearse The Sanatorium
The spine-tingling #1 Sunday Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick; Detective Elin Warner Series
The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you''ll never see coming. A must-read.'' Richard Osman''An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.'' Reese WitherspoonYOU WON''T WANT TO LEAVE... UNTIL YOU CAN''T.*WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH**ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOKCLUB PICK**CRIME BOOK OF THE...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Robert Harris Munich
Edge of War; Soon to be a major NETFLIX movie starring Jeremy Irons
Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the...
Engels | ePub3, 6,3 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy
Now a Major Motion Picture
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction******Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019***Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers...
Engels | ePub2, 6,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas The Chalk Circle Man
Commissaire Adamsberg
Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is a born cop. When strange blue chalk...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Fred Vargas This Poison Will Remain
Commissaire Adamsberg
** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain' ANN CLEEVESAfter three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Karen Witemeyer Under the Texas Mistletoe
A Trio of Christmas Historical Romance Novellas
Three Charming and Festive Holiday Novellas Spiced with Humor, Frontier Action, and Sweet RomanceIn this 3-in-1 novella collection, bestselling author Karen Witemeyer presents the new story "A Texas Christmas Carol," in which a town''s wealthy, Scrooge-like bachelor finds his world invaded by a woman set on earning his donation for helping the local poor, and by the penetrating questions of three mysterious visitors. It also includes, for the first time in print, "An Archer Family Christmas." When...
Engels | ePub3, 8,5 MB | Bethany House Publishers, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mario Puzo The Godfather
The classic bestseller that inspired the legendary film
The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time'Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. But no man can stay on top forever, not when he has enemies on both sides of the law. As the ageing Vito Corleone nears the end of a long life of crime, his sons must step up to manage the family business. Sonny Corleone...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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William Shakespeare Othello
World Classics
Beginning in the streets of Venice, Roderigo and Iago are introduced in the heart of an argument. Iago is frantic as he has been disregarded for promotion and plots to take revenge against his General, Othello. Thus, the manipulation commends as Iago makes Othello believe his wife, Desdemona is disloyal. Othello is a courageous fighter, but he is presented as an idealist when it comes to both his love of Desdemona and his friendship with Iago. This ultimately blinds him to Iago’s betrayal, stirring...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donna Leon Falling in Love
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
An opera singer is terrified by an obsessive fan in this ';stunning' mystery in the New York Timesbestselling series set in Venice, Italy (Library Journal, starred review). Years ago, Guido Brunetti cleared the opera star Flavia Petrelli in the murder of a renowned conductor. Now the soprano is returning to Veniceand its celebrated opera house, La Feniceto sing the lead in Tosca. Brunetti and his wife, Paola, attend an early performance, and Flavia receives a standing ovation. Back in her dressing...
Engels | ePub2, 3 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2021
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