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Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy
Now a Major Motion Picture
IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY***Winner of the 2014 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction******Now a feature film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019***Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers...
Engels | ePub2, 6,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories
Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...
Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [Nederland] | 2021
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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
a story
Symbolisch verhaal over een zeemeeuw in wiens gedachten en levenswijze de vlieger Bach zich tracht te verplaatsen.
Fictie | Dierenleven
Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | Harper Thorsons, [Nederland] | 2021
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Jose Saramago All The Names
A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose SaramagoSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one of an apparently ordinary woman will transform his life. Breaking away from his strict routine, Jose resolves to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Elizabeth Gilbert The signature of all things
De Amerikaanse erfgename van een fortuin gebruikt in de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw haar rijkdom om haar passie voor plantkunde te ontwikkelen en bereist daarvoor de hele wereld.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | ePub3, 3,3 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2021
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Michel Houellebecq Submission
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged...
Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Karen Witemeyer Under the Texas Mistletoe
A Trio of Christmas Historical Romance Novellas
Three Charming and Festive Holiday Novellas Spiced with Humor, Frontier Action, and Sweet RomanceIn this 3-in-1 novella collection, bestselling author Karen Witemeyer presents the new story "A Texas Christmas Carol," in which a town''s wealthy, Scrooge-like bachelor finds his world invaded by a woman set on earning his donation for helping the local poor, and by the penetrating questions of three mysterious visitors. It also includes, for the first time in print, "An Archer Family Christmas." When...
Engels | ePub3, 8,5 MB | Bethany House Publishers, [Nederland] | 2021
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Holly Smale All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)
My name is Harriet Manners, and I have always been a geek. The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners knows many things. She knows that toilet roll was invented by the Chinese in 600 AD. She knows that a comet's tail always points away from the sun. And she knows that the average healthy heart beats 70 times per minute. Even when it's broken. But she knows nothing about making new friends at Sixth Form. Or why even her old friends seem to be avoiding her. And she knows...
Engels | ePub2, 3,5 MB | HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, [Nederland] | 2021
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Mario Puzo The Godfather
The classic bestseller that inspired the legendary film
The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time'Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. But no man can stay on top forever, not when he has enemies on both sides of the law. As the ageing Vito Corleone nears the end of a long life of crime, his sons must step up to manage the family business. Sonny Corleone...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Salman Rushdie Quichotte
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Arnaldur Indriðason The shadow district
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur IndridasonTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjav k, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as the shadow district . An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENTAn elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konr d, a retired detective, finds old newspaper...
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Arnaldur Indriðason The shadow killer
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog onderzoeken de IJslandse rechercheurs Flóvent en Thorson de moord op een handelsreiziger.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Markus Zusak The Underdog
My name s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn t really function without tomato sauce. That s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Nicci French Tuesday's gone
Een sociaal werkster treft bij een cliënte een naakte, dode man aan. De Londense politie schakelt psychoanalytica Frieda Klein in om met de verwarde vrouw te gaan praten.
Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller
Engels | ePub3, 4,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Tess Gerritsen Playing with fire
Violiste Julia Ansdale wil achterhalen waarom een indringende melodie, waarvan ze de bladmuziek in Rome vond, een gevaarlijk effect heeft op haar dochtertje.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Tess Gerritsen Girl missing
Een vrouwelijke patholoog-anatoom komt door haar vasthoudendheid achter de doodsoorzaak van vermeende overdosis-slachtoffers.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway
A New York Times Number One Bestseller
THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW''Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre'' OBSERVER''An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again'' TANA FRENCH''Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast'' ANN PATCHETTIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger...
Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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John le Carr Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Penguin Modern Classics
The first part of John le Carr 's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at the very heart of the Circus...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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John le Carr Agent Running in the Field
A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' ObserverSELECTED FOR BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle the growing threat from Moscow Centre, Nat is put in charge of The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. His weekly badminton session with the young, introspective, Brexit-hating Ed, offers respite from the new job. But it is...
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021
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Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things
I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...
Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021
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