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Iris Pinson Black-box Testing
Career, Eroticism, and Tragedy
Black-box Testing An erotic triptych depicting sin, starting with the original sin, ending in hell. Inspired by the Haywain Triptych by the Dutch painter Jheronimus Bosch. How does the paradisiacal innocence relate to guilt? Lila, Péar, and Victoria Van Gelre are three sisters who have it all. They are attractive, highly intelligent, articulate, and have a strong appeal to men of status. However, the ladies are selective and only receptive to men of good lineage, who also have wealth to spare. The...
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Pinson Publisher, Maassluis | 2023
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Helen Peters Evie's Ghost
Compelling period fiction for 9+ readers from the Waterstones Children's Prize shortlisted Helen Peters. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house in the middle of nowhere. It is all monumentally unfair. But on the first night, Evie sees a strange, ghostly figure at the window. Spooked, she flees from the room, feeling oddly disembodied as she does...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2017
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Christopher Edge The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
When Albie's mum dies, it's natural he should wonder where she's gone. His parents are both scientists and they usually have all the answers. Dad mutters something about Albie's mum being alive and with them in a parallel universe. So Albie finds a box, his mum's computer and a rotting banana, and sends himself through time and space to find her...Quality commercial fiction, well written with real heart and adventure. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
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Anne Rogers Ben
Diary of A Heroin Addict
As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all.... but then he found drugs. As his life descended into chaos and despair, Ben began to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that...
Engels | PDF, 1,8 MB | M-Y Books ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Alexandra Singer Tea At The Grand Tazi
Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is lured in by her new surroundings, promising excitement and, more importantly, freedom. In the final days of a North African summer, a sense of boredom and unease pervades the city. Maia is drawn unwillingly into the ways in which the clientele of the renowned Grand Tazi pass their increasingly long, hot evenings. As the intense heat wears down her resistance,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Matt Wilven Blackbird Singularity
Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star AwardLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist... an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief and his heroic fight to find his way back home. ' -- Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash LandingVince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Claire Sweeney Owl Song at Dawn
As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'[A] quirky, moving novel' -- The Daily Mail'Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else' -- Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel' -- Carys Bray, Costa Prize-shortlisted author'It crept under my skin and will stay there for a long time' -- Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Harry Sidebottom Fire and Sword - Throne of the Caesars, Book 3
'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMESThe third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors.The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne.The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2016
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William Thacker Lingua Franca
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often. ' -- Matt Haig, author'Remarkable. ' -- Caroline Smailes, author'This is bloody brilliant. ' -- Heydon Prowse, writer of the Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be TelevisedThere's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness... Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Fischel Witchwild - Witchworld
Flo is a thoroughly modern witchgirl. She has a spellstick, travels about in her skyrider and wouldn't know a cauldron if she fell into one. But when her grandmother turns up on an actual boomstick, warning that ghouls are about to attack Witchworld, Flo realises that everything she's been told about being a witch is just hocus pocus... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 9,7 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
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Charles Dickens Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
A beautiful edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his fellow man. Quentin Blake's colourful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition contains a foreword by the illustrator...
Engels | 152 pagina's (ePub2, 21 MB) | Pavilion Books, [Nederland] | 2015
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Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders
"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Patricia Duncker The strange case of the composer and his judge
"On a frozen New Year's Day a half-circle of dead bodies lies on freshly fallen snow in the French Jura. A nearby chalet contains the debris of a seemingly ordinary Christmas: champagne, presents for the dead children, and a strange leather-bound book, written in mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. When Dominique Carpentier, the Judge tasked with solving the mystery behind this suicide sect, discovers the book, she is lead to the Composer, Friedrich Groz, who is connected to every one...
Engels | 272 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Joyce Dennys Henrietta sees it through
"The war is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late seventies, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself amongst the charming company...
Engels | 208 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Trevor Grove The juryman's tale
"Every year a quarter of a million people are selected at random from the electoral register for jury service. They are given no training and are forbidden to discuss their verdicts after the trial. Despite the high-profile trials of Louise Woodward and O.J. Simpson, astonishingly little is known about what it's like to serve on a jury: this book is the first to reveal it."
Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax
"Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...
Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Tomas Eloy Martinez Purgatory
"Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, `Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jane Casey Bet Your Life - Jess Tennant
Jess Tennant has now been living in Port Sentinel for three months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after the murderous events of the summer. But in the small hours of a dark night, a teenage boy is left for dead by the side of the road. Seb Dawson has a serious head injury and may not survive - and Jess decides to find out who beat him up, and why?As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | St. Martin's Griffin, [Nederland] | 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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Parker Bilal The golden scales
"Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...
Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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