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Barbara Cartland 09 Love Became Theirs
At the ball that was to change her life, Rona Trafford danced with a mysterious Harlequin. She learned that this prospective suitor was being unfaithful to another, and so fled to Paris, taking up a job as a governess. Her employer's brother joined them. Unknown to her, he was concealing a dramatic secret, one that threatened to destroy them both. How they confronted danger, and how Rona learned more about the Harlequin, is told in this exciting romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND. ; Bron: Flaptekst,...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 114. A Heart of Stone
The beautiful Vanora is helping her uncle, Lord Blairmond the distinguished Statesman who lives in London, to write his autobiography, when she has an urgent call from her brother, Ewen, to return immediately to Scotland. He has just become Chieftain of the McKyle Clan and she wonders why he wants her. The McKyles have for years fought with the MacFiles whose Chieftain is the Earl of Glenfile. The Earl has also returned to Scotland because his father is dying and he has been tricked and deceived...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 10 A Shaft of Sunlight
The Viscount Frome is in love, and intends to marry Claribel Stamford, belle of the Social Set, as quickly as possible. She is young, beautiful, charming and rich ? in fact he considers her the perfect match. The only drawback is that he needs the permission of his uncle, the Duke of Alverstrode before he can propose. The Duke, a more cautious man experienced in the wiles of aspirational young women, suggests a visit to Claribel?s home to meet her doting father Sir Jarvis, the well known race-horse...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 10 Love Drives in
Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages. While she was in France she learned that he had died, and she must now take over his business. But she does not feel ready, especially as she knows he has been trying to design a horseless carriage. For a while she keeps his death a secret, to give herself time to learn, and goes to work for his great rival, the Earl of Kennington. He is younger than she...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 100. A rose in jeopardy
On a hot summer's day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt's house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener's boy. Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 101. A call of love
The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington to travel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russian menace are really true. The Liberal Opposition in Parliament are sceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufacturing a scare about nothing in asserting that the prime objective of the Russians in invading Asia is to wrest India from the British. On the P & O Liner to India, to Lord Kenington's surprise, a very beautiful young girl comes up to him and asks if...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [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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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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Guy Mankowski Letters From Yelena
My letters to you, my darling Noah, will be maps, in which I hope I can be found. 'Yelena, a brilliant but flawed Ukrainian ballerina, comes to the UK to fulfil her dreams and dance in one of ballet's most prestigious roles: Giselle. While researching content for his new book, Yelena meets Noah, and here begins a journey of discovery. Life takes an unexpected turn, and the two write letters in which they try to provide a blueprint of their lives and find their way back to each other. But during this...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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William Coles Mr Two Bomb
One man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world s second atomic bomb explodes into his life. As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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James Higgerson Almost Lizard
Today is Daniel Lizard's twenty-first birthday and he has just completed his autobiography. Now, he plans on killing himself, leaving behind possibly the longest suicide note ever committed to paper. Daniel creates soap operas in his head - a game that he plays on his paper-round. Rather than a phase, this is just the beginning of a fantasy that becomes more and more elaborate as the people around Daniel become his unwitting co-stars. Daniel begins to realise that, in life, you cannot write all of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [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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Damian McNicholl Twisted Agenda
A compelling and entertaining romp... thoroughly engrossing. ' --Patricia Wood, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize'A beautifully paced and balanced novel. ' --Seamus Deane, Booker Prize shortlisteeDesperate to escape his predetermined existence, Danny decides to break out from life in Northern Ireland, and move to London. He then meets Piper, a friendly and outgoing American girl on a quest of her own. Two very different worlds are thrown together as Danny is willingly absorbed into unfamiliar...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Heather Peace All To Play For
It's time to tell our story, starting when my new friends and colleagues-to-be were all as fresh, young and wet behind the ears as I was myself. When our hearts were open, and our integrity was still intact. 'Rhiannon dreams of joining the largest broadcaster in the world: the BBC. And so begins a life of highs, lows, and absurd experiences for five ambitious young people, all keen to make it in the increasingly commercial world of television. Caught in the middle between art and commerce, Rhiannon...
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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Ian Broome A is for Angelica
My life is different now. I don't go to work. I don't have an office. I stay at home, hide behind curtains and make notes. I wait for something to happen. ' Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of his seriously-ill wife while patiently observing and methodically recording the lives of those around him: his neighbours. He has files on them all, including Don Donald (best friend and petty thief), Annie Carnaffan (lives next door, throws footballs over the fence), and Benny (the boy who paints with...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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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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Paul Burman Grease Monkey's Tale
For Nic the mechanic 'grease monkey extraordinaire' life is becoming a journey of stories: good, bad, happy and sad. When Siobhan McConnell beautiful, dynamic, but shadowed by secrets - hurtles into his world, Nic's life bounces between tragedy, romance and thriller. Framed for armed robbery, it seems he's on the brink of losing everything until he's offered the 'job-of-a-lifetime' in the remote township of Gimbly, where very little is what it seems to be. Nic, haunted and supported by his past,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [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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Jonathan Reuvid Current Investment in the United Kingdom
The first section of the extensively updated eighth edition of Investors' Guide to the United Kingdom provides a background to the buoyant investment climate of the United Kingdom together with briefings on the grants and incentives available to UK registered businesses and the many support services which UK Trade & Investment offers incoming investors. Individual chapters profile the UK's Local Enterprise Partnerships with whom investors can work and the science parks and business incubators where...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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