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Michael Kimball Big Ray
Nadat een man van zijn zus heeft gehoord dat hun extreem corpulente vader is overleden, overdenkt hij hun moeizame relatie die werd gekenmerkt door geestelijke, lichamelijke en emotionele mishandeling.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub, 2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Gene Brewer K-Pax omnibus
"When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself `prot' and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars, government or religion, and where every being co-exists in harmony. It's not...
Engels | 800 pagina's (2,6 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 | Familieroman
Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Colum McCann Let the great world spin
In de ochtend van 7 augustus 1974 loopt een koorddanser op honderden meters hoogte tussen de twee torens van het WTC in New York.
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Steven Carter I was Howard Hughes
"Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse.This makes him the perfect subject for red-hot biographer Alton Reece. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing success, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 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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Stella Rimington Rip tide
MI5-agent Liz Carlyle doet onderzoek naar de achtergronden van een Britse Pakistaan die bij een poging om een schip van een grote hulporganisatie door een Frans marineschip is gearresteerd.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Celia Walden Harm's way
Een 19-jarige Engelse gaat na haar eindexamen een jaar naar Parijs, waar ze bevriend raakt met een 40-jarige Ierse, wier flatgenoot hun vriendschap verstoort.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Kate Worsley She rises
Halverwege de 18e eeuw monstert een vijftienjarige jongen door een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden in de havenstad Harwich in Groot-Brittannië aan bij de marine.
Fictie | Historische roman | Zeeverhaal
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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D.W. Wilson Once you break a knuckle
Twaalf korte verhalen die zich afspelen in West-Canada met als thema hoe de beste bedoelingen verkeerd kunnen uitpakken.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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Javier Cercas The speed of light
Een schrijver probeert een roman te schrijven en slaagt daar ten slotte in wanneer hij een oorlogsverhaal op het spoor komt.
Fictie
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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Jaspreet Singh Chef
Een chef-kok reist voor de laatste keer per trein van Delhi naar Kashmir en blikt terug op zijn leven dat is bepaald door de verdeling van Kasjmir tussen India en Pakistan.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Politieke roman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 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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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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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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Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness
"Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...
Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 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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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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