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Matthew Crow Ashes
A lawless land of violence and deprivation, The Meadow Well Estate is a no-go area for police and non-residents alike and a hotbed of ritual violence. No-one dares enter of their own accord, and few make it out alive. But Jack was one of the good ones. Recently released from prison, he is determined to turn his life completely around: by getting out. When, however, rumours spark of the police's involvement in the death of two young joy riders, the anxieties of the estate flare into a week-long riot,...
Engels | ePub, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Matthew Crow My Dearest Jonah
Like you I've been feeling forlorn of late. I don't know how long you have to be somewhere before it begins to feel normal, before you start to feel as though you belong... And so all I have is you. Your letters and the thought that somewhere, something good exists in my life. For now that seems enough to get by on. Introduced via a pen-pal scheme, Verity and Jonah write their lives, hopes and dreams to one another without ever having met. Verity is a fragile beauty. When a dangerous sequence of...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Caroline Roberts The Cosy Christmas Teashop
‘Cakes, castles and oodles of charm: this book is huge fun and pure escapism’ Cathy BramleyFrom sleigh bells to wedding bells . . .After a rocky start, Ellie Hall baked her way into everyone’s hearts at Claverham Castle – even the miserly Lord Henry was won over – and the run-down teashop regained its old sparkle.Now Ellie has upgraded cupcakes for fairytale masterpieces as the proud caterer for an ever-growing list of weddings at the castle. The teashop team love baking to the tune...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Sophie Duffy Generation Game
Very powerful writing. Sophie draws her reader in immediately and combines wit and poignancy to very powerful effect... Excellent. ' --Katie Fforde'This is a beautifully written book... The characters are quite simply brilliant. ' --Vanity Case Books'An extraordinary story... A born storyteller with a gift for characterisation, she writes with warmth, lovely earthy detail and a pathos which keeps a lump lodged in the throat... echoes of Victoria Wood. ' --The Daily Mail'a brave, bold, warm, rich,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Catherine Richards Heading South
Heading South is a novel of two parts written by different authors, one depicting the animal-loving painter Cassie and the other the good-humoured Nick, still reeling from being dumped by his fiancee. Can the two ever get together as they are plagued by ex-girlfriends, posh admirers, pets passing away and friends going into labour? This is a hilarious comedy also featuring three dogs, two cats, a pony and a mallard. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Emma Fischel Witchwild - Witchworld
Flo is a thoroughly modern witchgirl. She has a spellstick, travels about in her skyrider and wouldn't know a cauldron if she fell into one. But when her grandmother turns up on an actual boomstick, warning that ghouls are about to attack Witchworld, Flo realises that everything she's been told about being a witch is just hocus pocus... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 9,7 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
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Lyn G Farrell Wacky man
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'An astonishing tour de force!' -- The Daily Mail'Book of the Year!' -- Clio Gray, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted authorA striking debut from the winner of the 2015 Luke Bitmead BursaryMy new shrink asks me, 'What things do you remember about being very young?' It's like looking into a murky river, I say. Memories flash near the surface like fish coming up for flies. The past peeps out, startles me, and then is gone... Amanda secludes...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Matt Wilven Blackbird Singularity
Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star AwardLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016Wilven does a masterful job of keeping his readers as off-balance as his protagonist... an intense and satisfyingly off-beat examination of a man lost in a landscape of unresolved grief and his heroic fight to find his way back home. ' -- Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art of Crash LandingVince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 102. A flight to heaven
When two dashing gentlemen ride up to Rensham Hall, the ancestral Norfolk home of the beautiful Lady Chiara Fairfax, her world is turned upside down, as she and her mother are just recovering from the unexpected death of her father, Lord Fairfax. One of them, the handsome Mervyn Hunter, is soon in ardent pursuit of the lovely Chiara. But can she trust his declarations of love or does the mysterious, dark-haired stranger she encounters by chance on the seashore hold the key to her future happiness?Mervyn...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 104. A heart finds love
The beautiful Alnina Lester is confronted with a formidable task when her brother, Lord Lester, dies after fighting a duel in Paris. She finds that he has accumulated an enormous number of debts, and to meet his creditors everything in their house, which has been in the Lester family for generations, has to be sold. Even though she has sold a great number of treasures, she is still short of money. Alnina goes round the house to see what else she can find to sell. In her mother's bedroom she sees...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 01 Cross of Love
When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale. They form a friendship, the sweetest one of her life. But her new happiness is threatened by Mr. Wyngate, a wealthy man determined to force the Earl to marry his daughter....
Engels | PDF, 0,6 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 11. Lies for love
Destitute after the death of her beloved Papa, Carmela is miserable working as Nanny to the brattish children of the local vicar. So when her closest friend Felicity asks her to take her place in the home of her guardian, the dictatorial Earl of Galeston, she nervously agrees. The subterfuge is necessary to ensure Felicity can marry the love of her life - and possible firstly because none of Felicity's feuding family have set eyes on her since she was a child... And secondly because both young women...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 112. Sweet Enchantress
When her father, a famous archaeologist, died, he left young Zaria Mansford with little other than debt, poverty, the memory of his bullying and a useful knowledge of archaeology and Arabic. She is close to starvation from lack of money and there is nothing that could help her make her lonely way in the world. But then to her amazement she is informed by her father's Solicitors that she has inherited her rich aunt's fortune, including a sumptuous yacht, The Enchantress. The yacht she is told has...
Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 114. Fascination in France
The beautiful Lady Celita Dale, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Langdale, is dismayed to hear that her best friend Judy's father, Lord Waterforde, intends to marry his daughter off against her will to the Duc de Sahran who lives in the exotic South of France and whom she has never even met. Worse still, Judy is secretly in love with a charming young man called Clive Cunningham. Despatched to Provence to meet the Duc at his Fairy tale chteau the two girls are in despair until the resourceful...
Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 100. A Portrait of Love
How can beautiful young Fedora Colwyn and her ailing father be on the verge of starvation when the walls of their run-down home are hung with a magnificent collection of paintings by the great Masters? Alexander Colwyn is renowned as the nation's greatest restorer of pictures and his valuable works of art are in trust for future generations and so cannot be sold. Fedora is desperate, not knowing where to turn or how to restore her beloved father to health with virtually no money, but she has a loyal...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 101. The Enchanted Waltz
Prince Metternich of Austria is growing weary of the political machinations of the European nations arguing over the spoils of Napoleon's Empire, especially those of the duplicitous Czar of all the Russias, Alexander I. They are all gathered for the Congress of Vienna in 1815Presented with an exquisitely beautiful young girl with eyes as piercingly blue as his own Prince Metternich is powerfully reminded of a siren he once loved in his past and accepts Wanda as his Ward. But he has an ulterior motive...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 106. Love's dream in peril
The beautiful Adella May is filled with joy as she sees Digby Dryden, the man she loves, walking towards her. But why does he turn away, refusing to look at her? Humiliated and hurt and her golden dream of love in ruins, what can Adella do now and where can she turn? Will she be forced to give up her hopes of seeing Digby again and obey her tyrannical Uncle Edgar and accept the proposal of the rich and suitable aristocrat, Lord Ranulph Fowles, a man she cannot love? Adella's dear school friend, Jane...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 102. Alone and Afraid
Ever popular with the grasping and greedy beauties of the Social world, the handsome Marquis of Elkesley is becoming disillusioned with their constant requests for expensive gifts and so he travels to Paris to forget them. There he receives a pleading letter from his close friend, Celeste, one of Paris's most notorious demi-mondaines. She has taken under her wing a frightened but beautiful young waif called Kitrina and, Celeste's sinful lifestyle rendering her unsuitable as a Guardian, she asks the...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Raymond Carver Cathedral
Raymond Carver said it was possible ''to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman''s earring - with immense, even startling power''. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 103. She wanted love
The beautiful Lady Eleta Renton returns from France where she has stayed long over her time at the Convent School in Paris. Because her mother had married again after becoming widowed and then she died too, Eleta was in no hurry to come home When she arrives back in London, rather sad at leaving the Convent School, she is horrified when her stepfather, whom she had never liked, tells her that she is to marry the Duke of Hazelware, because he is important to him in his business of shipbuilding and...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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