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Manage meetings positively
"Too many meetings, never enough decisions. Badly-managed meetings are a waste of time, and often they just don't need to happen at all. If you have to chair or arrange meetings, this book will help you to make sure that they're useful and helpful exchanges of information rather than pointless shouting matches. Manage Meetings Positively offers practical solutions for many situations, including keeping the meeting on schedule, making sure decisions are reached, and dealing with conflict if tempers...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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Susan Osborne Bloomsbury essential guide for reading groups
""A book club gives the opportunity to meet up with friends and wake the brain up a bit with lively and often quite aggressivediscussion" Dawn FrenchHow do you keep your reading groups discussions lively andfocussed? If you want to gain new insight into literature and shareyour passion with friends this book offers readers guides for 75 of thevery best reads - guaranteed to provoke spirited debate!Each of the readers guides includes a summary of the book, a briefauthor biography, discussion points...
Engels | 272 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Academic and Professional, [London] | 2014
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Michelle Lovric The book of human skin
Een rijke Venetiaanse, wier leven een hel wordt door haar wrede broer, belandt eind 18e eeuw in een afgelegen klooster in Peru onder het regime van een fanatieke non.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Mary Hoffman City of flowers
"Sequel to City of Masks and City of Stars, the narrative moves to the Talian equivalent of the city of Florence, where beauty and danger walk - as ever - hand in hand. The focus this time is on the new Stravagante, Sky, whose talisman is an ornate and delicate blue glass bottle. Sky is propelled right into the midst of a deadly feud between the di Chimici and Nucci families, who think nothing of sliding a knife between a man's ribs for revenge... A breathtaking and thrilling drama with a very special...
Engels | 496 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Mary Hoffman City of secrets
"When Matt is unexpectedly transported to the Scriptorium of Padavia (real-life Padua) University, he discovers he is a Stravagante who can travel through time using his talisman, a leather-bound book. Together with Luciano, now studying at the University, and Arianna, in disguise as a boy, he must fight the dangerous di Chimici clan who are on the verge of making a terrifying breakthrough into our world.A breathtaking and thrilling novel that will delight all Stravaganza fans."
Engels | 400 pagina's (1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Mary Hoffman City of ships
"Merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an outcast and a pirate. Isabel finds that Classe and Bellezza are under threat from attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city? A thrilling story packed with action, pirates and drama."
Engels | 368 pagina's (1,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Mary Hoffman City of swords
"Century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith. But Laura also meets the charming and attractive Ludo, and falls for him. Their love for each other is tested when Ludo lays claim to the crown of Fortezza, and Laura finds herself fighting on the side of the Stravaganti opposing him . . .A thrilling tale filled with battles on the field and battles of the heart."
Engels | 368 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts
"Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different. It accused Darwin of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of having taken credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others, Baden Powell himself and Darwin's...
Engels | 400 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Anna Reid Leningrad
"On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth century - would have been very different.Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal...
Engels | 512 pagina's (4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 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 | Humoristische roman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 0,4 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 | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Gareth P. Jones Space crime conspiracy
Stanley wordt van de aarde geplukt, omdat hij wordt verdacht van de moord op een buitenaardse president. Maar hoe moet hij zichzelf verdedigen als hij niet eens weet dat er buitenaards leven bestaat? Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Lesley Glaister Nina Todd has gone
Een vrouw met een duister verleden leidt een onopvallend bestaan in Sheffield totdat ze een man ontmoet die zich aan haar blijft opdringen en haar confronteert met dat verleden.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Jenny Colgan Little Beach Street Bakery
A Novel
In the bestselling tradition of Jojo Moyes and Jennifer Weiner, Jenny Colgans moving, funny, and unforgettable novel tells the story of a heartbroken young woman who turns a new page in her life ... by becoming a baker in the town of CornwallA quiet seaside resort. An abandoned shop. A small flat. This is what awaits Polly Waterford when she arrives at the Cornish coast, fleeing a ruined relationship. To keep her mind off her troubles, Polly throws herself into her favorite hobby: making bread. But...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | William Morrow Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2015
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Hendrik Groen The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old
The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying, youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old ... 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Woman and Home'Funny and touching' BBC Radio 4Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told, or dying quietly. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members...
Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
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Karin Slaughter Cop town
In het Atlanta van 1974 gaan een ervaren agente en een groentje op zoek naar een moordenaar die politiemannen executeert.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,3 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Gisa Klönne Das Lied der Stare nach dem Frost
Roman
De dood van haar moeder brengt bij een barpianiste veel herinneringen aan haar familie boven.
Familieroman | Familieroman
Duits | 479 pagina's | Piper, München | 2014
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Laura Tait | Jimmy Rice The best thing that never happened to me
Holly en Alex naderen nu de dertig, maar ooit, in het kleinsteedse Mothston, waren ze tiener, bevriend en onafscheidelijk, totdat voor Holly het swingende Londense leven begon en de sociaal wat onbeholpen Alex naar de achtergrond verdween.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 366 pagina's | Corgi Books, London | 2014
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Guy Bass Frog the barbarian
De koning en koningin van Alles willen Frog als hun koninklijke kampioen. Maar dan vallen Kroakians weer aan! Voorlezen vanaf ca. 7 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Fictie | Sprookjes
Engels | 226 pagina's | Stripes, London | 2014
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Beth Miller When we were sisters
De vriendschap tussen twee tienermeisjes stokt als de moeder van de een gaat samenwonen met de vader van de ander; twintig jaar later komen zeelkaar opnieuw tegen.
Familieroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 390 pagina's | Ebury Press, London | 2014
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2014