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Jack Beatty The lost history of 1914
"In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war,' Beatty writes, 'this one maps the multiple paths that led away from it.' Radically challenging the standard account of the war's outbreak, Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some...
Engels | 400 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Alan MacDonald | Mark Beech Trolls go home!
"After a nasty incident with a goat, the Troll family are forced to leave their native Norway and make a new home somewhere else. Unfortunately they choose the quiet suburb of Biddlesden. Faced with the prospect of `Baked Beans' for dinner, and the awful spectre of `The Shower', things are going to get ugly (and possibly hairy and smelly, too). But worst of all, they have moved next door to the Priddle family. Big mistake."
Engels | 128 pagina's (5,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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J.A.E. Curtis Manuscripts don't burn
"The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of Stalinist repression, he was scarcely published at all, and his plays reached the stage only with huge difficulty. His greatest masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a novel written in the 1930s in complete secrecy, largely at night, did not...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Network with confidence
"Are you fed up with trawling round networking events that take vast amounts of time for little return? Do you feel queasy stepping into a room of total strangers to represent yourself or your business? Then this is the book you've been waiting for.Networking is something that can really improve our career prospects, but it is something that many people actively dread. With advice on how to conquer your nerves, ask the right questions, find out about the right events (and work out which ones to avoid),...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Herbie Brennan Faerie wars
"Attack by the Faeries of the Night. But time is against Pyrgus Malvae and soon he is relying on Henry and Mr Fogarty not just to get him home but also to solve the puzzle that surrounds his exile.A wonderful, gripping, page-turning read full of the kind of detail that will ensure that this fabulous fantastic novel will have readers young and old holding their breath as the story unfolds."
Engels | 368 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw
"This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...
Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Simon Scarrow Gladiator
Vengeance
The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014
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Elisabeth Beresford The Wombles
"The Wombles is the first ever Wombles book and introduces the stern but kindly Great Uncle Bulgaria; Orinoco, who is particularly fond of his food and a subsequent forty winks; general handyman extraordinaire Tobermory, who can turn almost anything that the Wombles retrieve from Wimbledon Common into something useful; Madame Cholet, who cooks the most delicious and natural foods to keep the Wombles happy and contented; and last but not least, Bungo, one of the youngest and cheekiest Wombles of all,...
Engels | 240 pagina's (1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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John Kirwan Good small business planning guide
"In other words, they haven't done enough planning.Creating a business plan should be one of the first things you do when you think of starting up a company, and it's an important document to turn to time and again as your business develops - especially in these difficult financial times. Accessible and easy to read, the Good Small Business Planning Guide shows readers how to:Plan their business strategy Pitch their plan to raise funds Spot problems in advance and work out how to deal with them Update...
Engels | 368 pagina's (3,6 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Ciarán Collins The gamal
"Something unspeakable happened and someone chose to turn a blind eye? This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for"
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Michael Cox Captain Codswallop and the flying kipper
"This laugh-out-loud comic romp marks Michael Cox's debut on the A&C Black children's list. Captain Codswallop's pirate ship has been stolen by the ruthless highwayman, Dick Turnip. But it seems that Dick is even more incompetent than the captain and his hapless crew. However, the pirates get more than they bargained for when they find themselves head-to-head with the Spanish Armada."
Engels | 96 pagina's (3,9 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014
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Manil Suri The city of Devi
"Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is soon joined on her quest by Jaz - cocky, handsome, Muslim, gay, and in search of his own lover. Together they traverse the surreal landscape of a dystopia rife with absurdity, and are inexorably drawn to the patron goddess Devi ma, the supposed saviour of the city. Groundbreaking...
Engels | 400 pagina's (3,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Renata Calverley Let me tell you a story
"Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rages around them. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her beautiful Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Emma Forrest Your voice in my head
"Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist - a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life. Emma's loving and supportive family...
Engels | 224 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Isabel Losada The Battersea Park road to enlightenment
"`You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to live life completely, abundantly, joyfully, stupidly. This is my quest. Enlightenment.' So proclaims Isabel Losada, Starbucks addict, exercise allergic and self-confessed sceptic as she sets out on the road to enlightenment. Beginning with an Insight seminar where hundred people with name badges discuss their `inner beauty', Isabel journeyed through a gruelling...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Elen Caldecott How Ali Ferguson saved Houdini
"Ali Ferguson has just moved into Lever Tower with his mum. It's not long before he meets Caitlin and the Alsatian dog she looks after, Falcon, who doesn't take too kindly to being walked on a lead. Caitlin introduces Ali to her best friend, Gez, and together the three set out to discover, firstly, why the foxes have disappeared from the area, secondly, why the owls have appeared and, thirdly, why Miss Osborne has, it seems, vanished... And how exactly her disappearance is related to the previous...
Engels | 224 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Elen Caldecott How Kirsty Jenkins stole the elephant
"Kirsty Jenkins adores the allotment her grandfather lovingly tends and, just before he dies, he asks Kirsty to look after it for him. But when horrible Mr Thomas from the council insists it must go to the next person on the waiting list, Kirsty is determined to find a way to keep her promise.After pleading with Mr Thomas and demonstrating at the council offices, Kirsty and her half-siblings undertake their most daring plan of all: to `borrow' the stuffed elephant from the museum that Mr Thomas loves...
Engels | 272 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Harry Eyres Horace and me
"Horace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome was facing a profound crisis: though it ruled the world, the values which had made it great were disintegrating. As efficiency and pragmatism became watchwords, Horace championed the `supremely useless endeavour of poetry, and glorified friendship and wine. Horace and Me charts Harry Eyres evolving relationship with the Latin poet to show how, in an era of affluence and excess which seems to be hurtling out of control, Horace can help us navigate our way in...
Engels | 256 pagina's (2,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Camilla Lackberg Buried Angels - Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 8
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PASTEaster 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind - including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba.Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Barbara Trapido Sex and Stravinsky
Een Zuid-Afrikaan, die in Engeland woont met zijn Australische vrouw, reist voor een conferentie naar zijn geboorteland en ontmoet er zijn jeugdliefde.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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