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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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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.

Fictie

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths

"As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...

Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 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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Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic to the Stars - Book 7

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! She's hanging out with celebs . . . or at least she will be, once her husband Luke introduces her to his new A-list client Sage Seymour.Becky sets her heart on a new career she's going to be a stylist to the stars! And when a chance encounter thrusts her into the limelight, she grabs her opportunity. But in between choosing clutch bags and chasing celebrities, Becky loses touch with her family and her best friend . . . Caught up in the whirlwind of Tinseltown,...

Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2014

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Jessie Burton The Miniaturist

A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick and Beautifully Atmospheric Historical Novel

The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton''s historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam....

Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2014

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Tishani Doshi The pleasure seekers

Als een 19-jarige Indiase jongeman in Engeland werkervaring komt opdoen, wordt hij verliefd op een Welsh meisje en weigert de verloofde die zijn ouders voor hem hebben gekozen.

Fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 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.

Fictie

Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Cynan Jones The Dig

Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 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.

Fictie

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

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Juliet Nicolson Abdication

"England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...

Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Michael Sims Dracula's guest

"Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...

Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Lucy Wood Diving belles

"Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...

Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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William Boyd Restless

Een Russische ex-spionne, die in 1939 werd gerekruteerd door de Britse geheime dienst, schrijft in 1976 haar verhaal om zich te wreken op haar verrader.

Fictie

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Will Self Umbrella

Een radicale psychiater in Londen ontdekt rond 1970 dat sommige van zijn langdurige patiënten niet geestesziek zijn, maar lijden aan een in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw rondwarende slaapziekte.

Fictie

Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Paul Bailey Chapman's Odyssey

Overgeleverd aan de zorg van het verplegend personeel in het ziekenhuis waarin hij is opgenomen en onder invloed van medicijnen blikt een oudere man terug op zijn leven.

Fictie

Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune

A Novel

From theNew York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,...

Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Harper, [Nederland] | 2014

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Jesmyn Ward Salvage the bones

Twaalf dagen uit het leven van een 15-jarige zwanger meisje, dat in 2005 met haar vader en drie broers de verschrikkingen van orkaan Katrina doorstaat.

Fictie

Engels | ePub, 0,6 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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Melissa Harrison Clay

In een grote stad in Engeland ligt een parkje tussen de huizen ingeklemd. Het speelt een bijzondere rol in de levens van drie heel verschillende mensen.

Fictie

Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Roshi Fernando Homesick

Bundel samenhangende verhalen rond een Sri Lankaanse familie in Engeland.

Fictie

Engels | ePub, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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