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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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Carolyn Burke No regrets
"Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance...
Engels | 304 pagina's (5,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Suzanne Braun Levine The woman's guide to second adulthood
"Second Adulthood is a new stage of life for women over fifty. The first generation of socially emancipated women have reached an important frontier; they have fulfilled all their roles - daughter, wife, mother, career woman. Yet with longer life expectancy and better health they have no intention of retiring from the world. At the same time these women are experiencing an often bewildering array of physical readjustments: their brains experience a growth very similar to that in adolescence, they...
Engels | 272 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Said K. Aburish The rise, corruption and coming fall of the House of Saud
"Costly Western armaments. They are also opposed to the immorality of a dynasty whose men have purchased women in bulk and plundered the country's oil revenues in pursuit of pleasure and who cling to retrograde policies"
Engels | 352 pagina's (3,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Manage your career
"The world of work moves so quickly these days that to get the bestfrom your career, you need to actively manage it and seek out newopportunities. Manage Your Career will help you make the mostof your talents and potential, and enable your dreams to become areality. Packed with essential advice and practical help, this bookwill help you plan the right move, whether you want to climb to the topof the career ladder or reinvent your working life completely. Whatever your job, Manage Your Career will...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #15
Toxic
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe fifteenth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna barely survived their most recent encounter with A. And it's not over yet . . . The police don't believe that the real A is still out there, but the girls know whatand whothey saw. If they don't track down this final tormentor soon, A will silence them forever.Full of unexpected twists and...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #16
Vicious
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe explosive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been through a lot since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared five summers ago. A stalker named "A" has harassed them for their past mistakes and revealed their darkest secrets to the world. They've been on TV, hounded by the press, kicked out of school, arrested,...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub3, 0,9 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Anon The secret olympian
"The vast majority of us can only dream of being an Olympic-level athlete - but we have no real idea of what that means. Here, for the first time, in all its shocking, funny and downright bizarre glory, is the truth of the Olympic experience. It is an unimaginable world: the kitting-out ceremony with its 35kg of team clothing per athletethe pre-Olympic holding camp with its practical jokes, resentment and fighting, and freaky physiological regimesthe politicians' visits with their flirty spousesthe...
Engels | 224 pagina's (3,9 MB) | A&C Black, [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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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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Ed Hawkins Bookie gambler fixer spy
"A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket. For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then...
Engels | 240 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Scott Mariani The Nemesis Program - Ben Hope, Book 9
THE EXPLOSIVE, THRILLING NEW BEN HOPE ADVENTURE FROM THE TOP 10 BESTSELLING AUTHORA BRUTAL MURDER.A SCIENTIST ON THE RUN.A PLOT TO KILL MILLIONS.While secretly researching the bizarre discoveries of Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla many years earlier, physicist Claudine Pommier becomes the victim of a remorseless and cruel murderer who breaks into her Parisian apartment. Is he just a serial killer, or is there more to her death than the Paris cops believe?Maverick American biologist Dr Roberta Ryder...
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran Little America
"The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then the money ran out. Four decades later, Helmand was again the focus of US efforts, as waves of Marines descended on the region. Little America tells the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch. Has the war been worth the money and the bloodshed?...
Engels | 384 pagina's (5,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Stephen May Life! Death! Prizes!
Na de moord op hun moeder zijn twee halfbroers van 19 en 6 jaar op elkaar aangewezen.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Veronica Roth Four
A Divergent Collection
Fans of the Divergent series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton's point of view.DIVERGENT - also a major motion picture series.Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2014
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Gail Godwin Flora
Een vrouw beschrijft hoe zij als 10-jarige in de zomer van 1945 in het vervallen huis van haar recent overleden grootmoeder aan de zorg van een 22-jarig nichtje wordt toevertrouwd.
Fictie
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Patrick McGrath Constance
Als een gescheiden poëzieprofessor van Engelse afkomst in New York trouwt met een jonge vrouw die hem fescineert, vermoedt hij niet welke moeilijkheden hij zich op de hals haalt.
Fictie
Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Manil Suri The death of Vishnu
In het trappenhuis van een appartementengebouw in Bombay beleeft een op sterven liggende klusjesman herinneringen en visioenen.
Fictie
Engels | ePub, 2,2 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Mary Hoffmann The falconer's knot
"Silvano and Chiara are two teenagers with a difference. Silvano has been accused of a murder he did not commit. Chiara has been ousted from her family as a young woman with no marriage prospects. For these two very different reasons they are forced to seek refuge in a neighbouring convent and friary. And when they meet they are instantly aware that they are both outsiders, ill at ease with monastic life.Then a grisly murder - followed by another, and then another - strikes fear into the close-knit...
Engels | 304 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Michèle Roberts Ignorance
Vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog zitten twee Franse meisjes samen op school; mede door de oorlogsomstandigheden worden ze gedwongen keuzes te maken met verstrekkende gevolgen.
Fictie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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