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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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C.Joseph Greaves Hard twisted
Een 13-jarig meisje en een veel oudere crimineel trekken door Amerika tijdens de grote economische crisis van de jaren dertig van de 20e eeuw.
Fictie
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Richard Eyre National service
"During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the...
Engels | 448 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [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 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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Richard Van Emden Boy soldiers of the Great War
"The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible...
Engels | 416 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Lara Feigel The love-charm of bombs
"When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. At the height of the Blitz, Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one 'like a love-charm'. As the sky whistled...
Engels | 400 pagina's (5,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Ian Beck Pastworld
"Figure stopped play-acting and really started killing people?For Caleb, a tourist from the present day, his visit goes terribly wrong when his father is kidnapped and he finds himself accused of murder. Then Caleb meets Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no idea the modern world exists. Both Caleb and Eve have roles to play in the murderer's diabolical plans - roles that reveal disturbing truths about their origins."
Engels | 368 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Childrens, [London] | 2014
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Maureen Freely Under the Vulcania
De echtgenote van een Engelse specialist, die haar teveel in de watten legt na een ziekte, brengt een ochtend door in een relax-instituut waar mooie mannen op velerlei wijzen zich vervelende vrouwen verwennen.
Fictie
Engels | 144 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax
"Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...
Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Tim Adler Hollywood and the Mob
"From its earliest days, the Mafia has sought to make a fast buck from the American film industry. Stories of intimidation, threats and violence mingle with those of glamour and excess. In this stunning story of infamy and ballsy enterprise, Tim Adler tells the secret history of Al Capone, Sam Giancana and John Gotti's attempts to infiltrate the studio lots. However, although they have controlled the moguls and the money, the Mob learned how to be cool from classic films like The Godfather and characters...
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 4,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Lead others effectively
"Developing leadership skills is essential if you want to clamber upthe career ladder. Whether you're trying to motivate and inspire yourimmediate team or manage your boss(es), this is the book for you.Packed with advice on how to build your influence positively, Lead others effectively will help you to realise your ambitions. Chapters include: Leading people in difficult times Managing change Taking responsibility Giving feedback well Setting clear objectives Developing influencing skillsLead others...
Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014
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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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Kate Worsley She rises
Halverwege de 18e eeuw monstert een vijftienjarige jongen door een ongelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden in de havenstad Harwich in Groot-BrittannieĢ aan bij de marine.
Fictie
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Celia Walden Harm's way
Een 19-jarige Engelse gaat na haar eindexamen een jaar naar Parijs, waar ze bevriend raakt met een 40-jarige Ierse, wier flatgenoot hun vriendschap verstoort.
Fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [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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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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J.A.E. Curtis Manuscripts don't burn
"The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of Stalinist repression, he was scarcely published at all, and his plays reached the stage only with huge difficulty. His greatest masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a novel written in the 1930s in complete secrecy, largely at night, did not...
Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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A.C. Grayling The good book
"Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible.Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who do not...
Engels | 608 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Charlotte Breese Hutch
"Born in Grenada in 1900, Leslie Hutchinson went to America in 1916 to study medicine, but soon escaped to Harlem where he witnessed the birth of "stride" jazz piano. Moving to France in 1923, he became the protege and lover of Cole Porter before coming to London in 1926 where he was soon topping the bills in variety and on radio. Immaculate in white tie and tails, Hutch had enormous sex appeal, his velvet voice and superb piano improvisation attracting legions of fans among both the rich and the...
Engels | 384 pagina's (3,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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