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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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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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Ciaran 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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Christine Sneed Little known facts

"Life as one of Hollywood's most handsome, charismatic and critically-acclaimed movie stars seems like a glitzy fairytale to the people who orbit around Renn Ivins. But for his grown children, Anna and Will, their father's fame threatens to permeate every aspect of their lives. For Anna - a diligent medical student with a promising future ahead of her but not so promising romantic prospects - the exploits of her celebrity father are a source of embarrassment and, at best, bemusement. Her brother...

Engels | 304 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Jim Lynch The highest tide

"One unforgettable night, thirteen-year-old Miles goes to the flats near his home in search of shellfish, only to discover something startling and remarkable: a giant squid. Instantly he becomes a local celebrity and is pursued by TV crews urging him to explain the phenomenon. His psychic friend Florence predicts that even more astonishing discoveries are to come, indicators of the highest tide in fifty years. Yet Miles worries more about matters closer to home: will his passion for his ex-babysitter...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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

Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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Tom Campbell Fold

Vijf oude schoolvrienden van in de veertig spelen maandelijks een avondje poker, wat uit de hand loopt als een van de verliezers wraak neemt op een van de winnaars.

Fictie

Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 0,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Amanda Prowse The Ten Pound Ticket

A Short Story - No Greater Love

Australia, 1962: Susie has just arrived on the boat from England. She is clutching a newborn baby, but she has no wedding ring on her left hand. The land is dusty and hot, and the work is hard and tiring. All Susie wants is to go home. But with no money, and no hope, how can she turn her life around? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2, 3,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 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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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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Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

Na de moord op een gerespecteerd journalist in St. Petersburg raakt een psychoanalyticus verstrikt in diverse plots en intriges.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Bloomsbury, London | 2014

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Elena Ferrante Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by 'one of the great novelists of our time' (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college...

Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2014

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Malcolm Pryce The day Aberystwyth stood still

"It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum...

Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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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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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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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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

Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub, 2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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Louise Aronson A history of the present illness

Zestien min-of-meer met elkaar verbonden verhalen over medische zorg aan kwetsbare mensen.

Fictie

Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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