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Daniela Sacerdoti Tide - The Sarah Midnight Trilogy
Sarah Midnight is no ordinary teenager. She is a demon hunter, caught up in one of the deadliest wars unknown to man. Orphaned at the age of sixteen, Sarah learned the family trade of hunting without her parents to guide her but under the watchful eye of her 'cousin', who was revealed to be Sean Hannay, no relative at all, but a dear friend of the real Harry Midnight. Now, in the exciting sequel to Dreams, the fight continues. Sarah and Sean may have defeated the Scottish Valaya, but the rest of...
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Black & White Publishing, [Nederland] | 2013
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Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely...
Engels | ePub2, 4,6 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Cassandra Clare The Infernal Devices 3
Clockwork Princess
Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment in the breathtaking conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is in cinemas August 2013.Danger and betrayal… Secrets and enchantment… Third and final book in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain needs...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | Walker Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Kate Atkinson Life After Life
Winner of the Costa Novel Award
Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: it's one of the best novels I've read this century' Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL'A box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader's imagination on the first page and never lets go. ' HILARY MANTEL, author of THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHTWhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?During...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2013
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Jussi Adler-Olsen Redemption
Department Q
Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling Q series returns with Redemption, a gripping treat for all fans of the Scandinavian crime thriller. 'For those suffering withdrawals from The Killing' The Times A letter in blood, a horrifying disappearance... Two boys, brothers, wake up tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but he'll be back. They cannot escape ... In Copenhagen's cold cases division Carl M rck has received a bottle. It holds an old and decayed message,...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2013
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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book is a perfect joke book for young children. Full of jokes, limericks, riddles, Knock knock and Doctor, doctor all the jokes are specially themed around Roald Dahl's best-loved characters such as Charlie, George, The BFG, Matilda, James and many others.Roald Dahl was always full of fun and mischief and loved all kinds of jokes - the sillier the better! From chocolate-covered chickens to grizzly grouchy grandmas to the disgusting Twits this marvellous collection has...
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Sigmund Freud Museum Psychoanalysis, monotheism and morality
symposia of the Sigmund Freud Museum 2009-2011
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if and to what extent monotheism semantically and structurally fits psychoanalytic insights. Some essays augment traditional religious critiques of Freudianism with later religio-philosophical theories on, for example, femininity. Others explore the relation between psychopathology and morality from the Freudian...
Engels | 211 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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Michael Grant The Key
Sometimes one hero isn''t enough – sometimes you need a full dozen. Mack’s search for his dazzling dozen continues in the third instalment of this hilarious, action-packed fantasy series by the New York Times bestselling author of GONE.Time is short for Mack MacAvoy! He has less than 30 days to round up the rest of the magnifica and defeat the Pale Queen and her evil daughter Risky.It seems that the only way to do this is to learn the magical language of Vargran, and to do THAT they must travel...
Engels | ePub2, 1,7 MB | HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, [Nederland] | 2013
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Jo Nesbo Cockroaches
Harry Hole 2
Harry Hole is back in a gripping twist-packed read. 'One of Nesbo's most accomplished novels' Financial Times Harry is on a special mission. Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the Ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk. He needs to solve a crime and avoid a scandal. When Harry lays hands on some incriminating...
Engels | ePub2, 1,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2013
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Alex Scarrow TimeRiders
The Mayan Prophecy - Book 8
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . .When Maddy finally unlocks fragments of the secret that Becks has been holding on to, the TimeRiders start to piece together their true purpose. Racing through time to connect the clues, the team discover...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 1,6 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Jane Casey The Stranger You Know - Maeve Kerrigan 4
The latest crime thriller featuring detective Maeve Kerrigan - winner of the Mary Higgins Clark AwardHe meets women.He gains their trust.He kills them.That s all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes by the same sadistic killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication shows that they let him in.But the evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DI Josh Derwent, Maeve s colleague.Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Ebury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2013
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Amanda Prowse A Christmas Wish
A Short Story - No Greater Love
A special Christmas short story from Amanda Prowse: a wonderful, warm festive treat from a bestselling author. Poppy is trying to make sure her children have the perfect Christmas. The fields are sparkling with snow, the turkey is roasting, and the tree is groaning with presents. But Poppy's beloved husband is fighting in Afghanistan, and the kids are missing their Dad. Can all their wishes come true without him? Or will they have the perfect Christmas after all? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 62 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2013
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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 928 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2013
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James Joyce Ulysses
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2013
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Melvin Burgess Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot's tough, funny and heart-warming story is given new depth by best-selling author, Melvin Burgess. Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in a bitter miners' fight that has split the local community. Billy's father wants his son to learn boxing, like he did and his father before him. But Billy is fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet and is determined to dance his way to a different future. Told from the differing viewpoints of Billy, his father...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Chicken House, [Nederland] | 2013
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Simon Scarrow Gladiator
Son of Spartacus
FREE from slavery, Marcus is determined to find and save his kidnapped mother.Meanwhile, his master Julius Caesar wants Marcus to help destroy the bands of rebel slaves and their leader Brixus, who plans to unite a slave army and resurrect the cause of Spartacus.But Marcus and Brixus are old allies who share a life-threatening secret. Marcus is torn between his friend and master. Can he convince Brixus now is not the time for a deadly revolt - and ask Caesar to negotiate a slave surrender before...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 1,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Dan Brown Inferno
(Robert Langdon Book 4)
A swirl of big ideas and non-stop action' New York TimesFlorence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city. Only Langdon s knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save...
Engels | ePub3, 2,1 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2013
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Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2013
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Julia Quinn The Bridgertons
Happily Ever After
New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor the first time in print, New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn presents a collection of second epilogues to her Bridgerton series (previously published as e-originals), plus a new bonus Bridgerton novella. Julia Quinns Bridgerton series remains one of the most beloved among historical romance readers, and this collection of second epiloguesstories that take place after the original books endoffer fans more from their favorite characters. Previously published...
Engels | ePub3, 2,7 MB | Avon, [Nederland] | 2013
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