• Alice Schroeder The snowball

  Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success.Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest...

  Engels | 832 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Sandy Gall War against the Taliban

  "Afghanistan's strategically significant lands have long been fought over by foreign invaders. Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run, and demands answers. Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, businessmen and ordinary people, British, American and European diplomats and soldiers, Sandy Gall addresses the challenges - political, religious,...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Gennifer Choldenko Al Capone does my shirts

  "When Moose Flanagan and his family move home, yet again, and become residents of the famous prison island Alcatraz, things get interesting. First of all, they share the island with a few other families and a lot of pretty heavy-duty criminals including Al Capone. And secondly, Moose's sister is starting a new school, which everyone hopes will help her become more integrated with those around her. When Moose comes up with some pretty cunning money-making schemes based on his famous co-residents,...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Gennifer Choldenko Al Capone shines my shoes

  "Moose's sister has got a place in the perfect school on the mainland, one that will help her deal with her autism. But there is one hitch. She got the place with the help of Al Capone and now it's payback time. Soon Moose is caught up in a terrible cycle of secrets and favours that threatens to destabilise his entire family in this nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat novel."

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Leo van der Aalst How I paid for college

  "It's 1983, and in a sleepy community in New Jersey seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. However, the fun comes to a halt when his father refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Julliard.Edward's truly in a bind. He's ineligible for scholarships because his father earns too much. And, in a sure sign that he's destined for a life in the arts, Edward's incapable of holding down a job. So he turns to his loyal (but immoral) friends...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ian H. Robertson The winner effect

  "Than women?The 'winner effect' is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. As Ian Robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident and more aggressive. The effect is as strong as any drug. And the more you win, the more you"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots

  "When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Malcolm Pryce Aberystwyth mon amour

  "Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?"

  Engels | 256 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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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• 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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• Ronan Bennett Zugzwang

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

  Fictie | Thriller

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

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• Matthew Bishop | Michael Green The road from ruin

  "Bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes, lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous 30 years. Capitalism based on markets, especially"

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Robert Cabot The Joshua tree

  "Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Celia Rees Pirates!

  "When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have...

  Engels | 384 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Celia Rees Sorceress

  "As Witch Child ends so Sorceress begins. Alison Ellman is still searching for information about Mary Newbury; she has a diary and some scattered information about other people in Mary's life, but Mary has disappeared into the forests and Alison has no way of following her. But when she meets Agnes Herne, Alison encounters the person who is going to tell her all about Mary's life after she leaves Beulah. Agnes is a descendant of Mary's and has a special skill which allows her to be in touch with...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014

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• Jack Beatty The lost history of 1914

  "In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war,' Beatty writes, 'this one maps the multiple paths that led away from it.' Radically challenging the standard account of the war's outbreak, Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Marie Lu The Young Elites

  I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina''s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family''s good name and standing in the way...

  Engels | ePub3, 3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2014

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• T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw

  "This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...

  Engels | 304 pagina's (2 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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• Gideon Defoe The pirates! in an adventure with the romantics

  "Beautiful young fiancée, Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford, and finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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