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Barbara Cartland 114. A Heart of Stone
The beautiful Vanora is helping her uncle, Lord Blairmond the distinguished Statesman who lives in London, to write his autobiography, when she has an urgent call from her brother, Ewen, to return immediately to Scotland. He has just become Chieftain of the McKyle Clan and she wonders why he wants her. The McKyles have for years fought with the MacFiles whose Chieftain is the Earl of Glenfile. The Earl has also returned to Scotland because his father is dying and he has been tricked and deceived...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 10 A Shaft of Sunlight
The Viscount Frome is in love, and intends to marry Claribel Stamford, belle of the Social Set, as quickly as possible. She is young, beautiful, charming and rich ? in fact he considers her the perfect match. The only drawback is that he needs the permission of his uncle, the Duke of Alverstrode before he can propose. The Duke, a more cautious man experienced in the wiles of aspirational young women, suggests a visit to Claribel?s home to meet her doting father Sir Jarvis, the well known race-horse...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 10 Love Drives in
Dorina's father had been an industrialist, an inventor and a genius who trained her to be his heir, sending her abroad to learn many languages. While she was in France she learned that he had died, and she must now take over his business. But she does not feel ready, especially as she knows he has been trying to design a horseless carriage. For a while she keeps his death a secret, to give herself time to learn, and goes to work for his great rival, the Earl of Kennington. He is younger than she...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 100. A rose in jeopardy
On a hot summer's day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt's house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener's boy. Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 101. A call of love
The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asks Lord Kenington to travel to India to find out if growing reports about the Russian menace are really true. The Liberal Opposition in Parliament are sceptical and are certain that Disraeli is manufacturing a scare about nothing in asserting that the prime objective of the Russians in invading Asia is to wrest India from the British. On the P & O Liner to India, to Lord Kenington's surprise, a very beautiful young girl comes up to him and asks if...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Claire Sweeney Owl Song at Dawn
As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'[A] quirky, moving novel' -- The Daily Mail'Fresh, poignant and unlike anything else' -- Jill Dawson, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Tender and unflinching, a beautifully observed novel' -- Carys Bray, Costa Prize-shortlisted author'It crept under my skin and will stay there for a long time' -- Emma Henderson, Orange Prize-shortlisted author'Amazing: fierce, intelligent, compassionate and deeply...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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William Thacker Lingua Franca
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often. ' -- Matt Haig, author'Remarkable. ' -- Caroline Smailes, author'This is bloody brilliant. ' -- Heydon Prowse, writer of the Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be TelevisedThere's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness... Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Guy Mankowski Letters From Yelena
My letters to you, my darling Noah, will be maps, in which I hope I can be found. 'Yelena, a brilliant but flawed Ukrainian ballerina, comes to the UK to fulfil her dreams and dance in one of ballet's most prestigious roles: Giselle. While researching content for his new book, Yelena meets Noah, and here begins a journey of discovery. Life takes an unexpected turn, and the two write letters in which they try to provide a blueprint of their lives and find their way back to each other. But during this...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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William Coles Mr Two Bomb
One man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world s second atomic bomb explodes into his life. As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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James Higgerson Almost Lizard
Today is Daniel Lizard's twenty-first birthday and he has just completed his autobiography. Now, he plans on killing himself, leaving behind possibly the longest suicide note ever committed to paper. Daniel creates soap operas in his head - a game that he plays on his paper-round. Rather than a phase, this is just the beginning of a fantasy that becomes more and more elaborate as the people around Daniel become his unwitting co-stars. Daniel begins to realise that, in life, you cannot write all of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Alexandra Singer Tea At The Grand Tazi
Maia is leaving London to paint in the bright sunlight and exotic setting of Morocco. Working as an assistant to a once famous Historian, she is lured in by her new surroundings, promising excitement and, more importantly, freedom. In the final days of a North African summer, a sense of boredom and unease pervades the city. Maia is drawn unwillingly into the ways in which the clientele of the renowned Grand Tazi pass their increasingly long, hot evenings. As the intense heat wears down her resistance,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Damian McNicholl Twisted Agenda
A compelling and entertaining romp... thoroughly engrossing. ' --Patricia Wood, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize'A beautifully paced and balanced novel. ' --Seamus Deane, Booker Prize shortlisteeDesperate to escape his predetermined existence, Danny decides to break out from life in Northern Ireland, and move to London. He then meets Piper, a friendly and outgoing American girl on a quest of her own. Two very different worlds are thrown together as Danny is willingly absorbed into unfamiliar...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Kevin Joslin 12 Good Reasons To Look Up Uranus
Dream of becoming a Welsh language square-dance caller? Know your lucky vitamin? Look no further for the answers. 12 Good Reasons to Look Up Uranus is a hilarious collection of horoscopes as read out on Sir Terry Wogan's radio show that will brighten and enlighten every day of the months ahead. Whether a long-standing offer of marriage from Jim Davidson or a surprise offer from a small man with a firm handshake, you need to know what your stars have in store for you. The only book to guide you through...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Amanda Prowse Imogen's Baby
A Short Story - No Greater Miracle
Can Imogen overcome life's challenges and have the baby she longs for? It's hard enough having a baby on your own. But for Imogen, 24 years old and blind since birth, it will be harder than most. Her journey will take her from heartache to hope and back again. But Imogen has never let blindness rule her life, and she isn't going to start now... Inspired by a real-life story, this is a moving and gripping read from number 1 bestseller Amanda Prowse. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 98 pagina's (ePub2, 4,2 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016
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Amanda Prowse My Husband's Wife - No Greater Courage
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROnce a week, Rosie Tipcott counts her blessings. She goes to sit on her favourite bench on the north Devon cliffs, and thanks her lucky stars for her wonderful husband, her mischievous young daughters, and her neat little house by the sea. She vows to dedicate every waking hour to making her family happy. But then her husband unexpectedly leaves her for another woman and takes the children. Now she must ask the question: what is left in her life? Can Rosie find the strength...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 4,5 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016
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Amanda Prowse Another Love - No Greater Courage
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HUSBAND'S WIFE. In the early years, she was happy. Romilly loved her stunning house, her kind husband and gorgeous daughter. Sure, life was sometimes exhausting - but nothing that a large glass of wine at the end of the day couldn't fix. But then a glass of wine became a bottle; one bottle became two. Once, Romilly's family were everything to her. Now, after years of hiding the drinking, she must finally admit that she has found another love... PREVIOUS...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Head of Zeus, [Nederland] | 2016
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Heather Peace All To Play For
It's time to tell our story, starting when my new friends and colleagues-to-be were all as fresh, young and wet behind the ears as I was myself. When our hearts were open, and our integrity was still intact. 'Rhiannon dreams of joining the largest broadcaster in the world: the BBC. And so begins a life of highs, lows, and absurd experiences for five ambitious young people, all keen to make it in the increasingly commercial world of television. Caught in the middle between art and commerce, Rhiannon...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Harry Sidebottom Fire and Sword - Throne of the Caesars, Book 3
'Absorbing and brilliant ... Game of Thrones without the dragons' THE TIMESThe third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third century Rome; a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors.The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne.The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2016
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C.J. Fisher When we were alive
When we first meet Bobby, he is a shy, 12-year-old magician who falls in love with his best friend. William is consumed with self-hate and drinks to escape the memories of his father's sadness and his mother's death. Myles is writing letters to a mother he has never met. Three different people from three different times each explore the dark side of relationships, search for beauty in sadness and try to bear the burden of guilt from living in a world we are powerless to fix. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Ian Broome A is for Angelica
My life is different now. I don't go to work. I don't have an office. I stay at home, hide behind curtains and make notes. I wait for something to happen. ' Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of his seriously-ill wife while patiently observing and methodically recording the lives of those around him: his neighbours. He has files on them all, including Don Donald (best friend and petty thief), Annie Carnaffan (lives next door, throws footballs over the fence), and Benny (the boy who paints with...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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