• Samantha Hay The Spoon of Doom

  "`It was never meant to feed the needy; but to serve up grief to the mean and greedy'Theunfortunately named Albert Grub (A. Grub) has parents who are obsessedby mini-beasts; there are insects in the fridge, woodlice living in thehall and spiders dwelling in the cupboard under the stairs. Buteverything changes one day when Albert discovers that his dad is heirto the factory of the legendary Piddler's Porridge. Why is the town's noodle King, and owner of the adjacent factory so keen to get his handson...

  Engels | 112 pagina's (3,4 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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• James McBride The color of water

  "As a boy in Brooklyn's Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!' And when James asked what colour God was, she said 'God is the colour of water.' As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi's daughter,...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• James Patterson Burn - Michael Bennett 7

  Detective Michael Bennett is coming home to New York. And a world of unimaginable evil awaits. Having brought an end to the vengeful mission of the ruthless crime lord who forced the Bennett family into hiding, Michael is finally back in New York City.However, Bennett is thrust straight back into a horrifying case: a witness claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a sickeningly depraved and murderous gathering in a condemned building.The report reads like the product of an overactive...

  Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014

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• James Patterson Hope to Die - Alex Cross 22

  Detective Alex Cross has lost everything and everyone he s ever cared about.His enemy, Thierry Mulch, is holding his family. Driven by feelings of hatred and revenge, Mulch is threatening to kill them all, and break Cross for ever.But Alex Cross is fighting back.In a race against time, he must defeat Mulch, and find his wife and children no matter what it takes.THE END-GAME HAS BEGUN. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014

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• James Patterson NYPD Red 2 - NYPD Red

  NYPD Red the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price.NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections...

  Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014

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• James Patterson Private L.A. - Private 7

  The new novel in James Patterson's bestselling Private series.Jack Morgan is having a bad week. His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack s clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach.But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there s more bad news: Hollywood s golden couple, Thom and Jennifer...

  Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2014

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• Murīd al- Burġūṯī I was born there, I was born here

  "In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, within a year Tamim himself had been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War and found himself...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Jessie Burton The Miniaturist

  A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick and Beautifully Atmospheric Historical Novel

  The phenomenal number one bestseller and a major BBC TV series. Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award and Waterstones Book of the Year.A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Beautiful, intoxicating and filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton''s historical novel set in Amsterdam, The Miniaturist, is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution.On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam....

  Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 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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• 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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• Prince Rupert Loewenstein A prince among stones

  "In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn't understand why the Rolling Stones had no money. The man he asked to help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock'n'roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as 'a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist and nanny', usually enthralled but...

  Engels | 272 pagina's (1,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Anna R. Beer Milton

  "For centuries John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and many other poetic works, and of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce and political rights, has emerged from biographies as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or a saintly blind man. But, as Anna Beer shows, his personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional one. By close and groundbreaking analysis of Milton's careful editing of his own life, his wider family's affairs, the records of his government work, and the history of...

  Engels | 480 pagina's (3,8 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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• E.D. Baker Tales of the frog princess

  "Princess Emerelda is not exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh is like a foghorn, she's always tripping over the royal furniture, and she HATES Prince Jorge whom her mother would one day like to see her marry. But things are about to change as she finds the frog of her dreams - but when she kisses him SHE turns into a frog! Just one kiss, and her whole life turns upside down in these deliciously original, hilarious and fast-paced fairy-tale adventures.Dragon's Breath and Once Upon a Curse continue...

  Engels | 768 pagina's (2,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Terry Deary | Helen Flook The boy who cried horse

  "1180 BC. Young Acheron is a liar. Everybody knows it. Troy is under siege and Acheron tells tales of Trojan bravery to entertain Prince Paris and the beautiful Helen at the palace. But when a stranger comes to the city to announce that the Greeks have departed, leaving a special gift of a wooden horse, Acheron is suspicious. He races to tell Prince Paris about the Greek plot, but will anyone at the palace believe him? Er, no, actually! As Aesop said, "There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks...

  Engels | 64 pagina's (4,3 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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• Terry Deary | Helen Flook The captive celt

  "AD 51. Bran is a slave, a prisoner of Rome, but dreams of one dayreturning to his homeland, Britannia, to fight against the Romans. When the proud young slave is overheard criticizing Rome, he is thrown intoprison and faces execution the next day. Luckily, his cell mateCaratacus is a very special prisoner indeed - a British chief. Hebelieves he has a way to save both their skins, but he'll need Bran'shelp. A tale based on a key moment in Roman history, full of Terry Deary's dark humour and dry wit."

  Engels | 64 pagina's (2,9 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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• Terry Deary | Helen Flook The Grim Ghost

  "AD 113. The young boy Pertinax helps his grandmother prepare a feast inPliny's household. As all the workers are busy in the kitchen, theyoung boy keeps Pliny company in the garden. He is told a story by thegreat Pliny himself. The tale is of a terrifying ghost that haunted agarden.But there's no truth in ghost stories ... or is there?"

  Engels | 64 pagina's (3,2 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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• Terry Deary | Helen Flook The tortoise and the dare

  "750 BC. The boys at school are excited. The Olympic games are coming to the city. They may be too young to compete, but their teacher suggests the school should have its own games. Of course, girls have no part at all in these festivities, so Elena can only watch as her twin brother, Cypselis, prepares for the race. Then she discovers he has made a bet with Big Bacchiad (the school bully). If Cypselis wins he will get a new goat, if he loses then Elena will become Bacchiad's slave. Elena's freedom...

  Engels | 64 pagina's (3,6 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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• Terry Deary | Helen Flook The Goose Guards

  "387 BC. Rome is under attack from the vicious Gauls and the barbarianarmy is now preparing to besiege the Temple of Juno on Capitol Hill,home of Brutus, a trainee priest. The temple's inhabitants are offeredhelp from the army of Lord Furius, but are not sure if he is to betrusted. However, when rescue eventually comes it is from an even moreunlikely source... A tale based on one of the most famous of all Roman legends, full of Terry Deary's dark humour and dry wit."

  Engels | 64 pagina's (2,2 MB) | A&C Black Childrens & Educational, [London] | 2014

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