Zoekresultaten
Resultaat 61 - 80 (van 149)
Robert Cabot The Joshua tree
"Drawing from the legendary heroic life of Bill Keys, this classic story of the Old and New West uniquely captures the romance and tragedy of the American West. Cowboy, prospector and miner, living with the Walapai Indians, `desert rat', partner of Death Valley Scotty, rancher in the high Mohave desert, Keys knew Buffalo Bill, the Parker brothers, General Patton, and did a five-year stretch in San Quentin for his eighth range-war shooting.Through the voices of Will Spear (based on Bill Keys) and...
Engels | 256 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
T. Coraghessan Boyle Tooth and claw
"This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail,...
Engels | 304 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
Parker Bilal The golden scales
"Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi, he is thrust into a dangerous and glittering world. Hanafi is the owner of a star-studded football team and their most valuable player has vanished. His disappearance threatens to bring down not only the businessman's private empire but also the entire country. Makana encounters...
Engels | 416 pagina's (1,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Gideon Defoe The pirates! in an adventure with the romantics
"Beautiful young fiancée, Mary. Together they embark upon a journey that leads them away from Switzerland into the bowels of Oxford, and finally to the forbidding heart of eastern Europe. It is an adventure that will force the"
Engels | 320 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Simon Scarrow Gladiator
Vengeance
The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy: the remote farming estate of the savage Decimus. Yet Ancient Greece is ruled by deceit and corruption....
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub3, 2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2014
E-book
Trevor Grove The juryman's tale
"Every year a quarter of a million people are selected at random from the electoral register for jury service. They are given no training and are forbidden to discuss their verdicts after the trial. Despite the high-profile trials of Louise Woodward and O.J. Simpson, astonishingly little is known about what it's like to serve on a jury: this book is the first to reveal it."
Engels | 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
Kamila Shamsie Burnt shadows
"In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the...
Engels | 384 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Kamila Shamsie Kartography
"And lie spine to spine as children. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. It beats in their hearts - violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and ultimately, home. However, Raheen is fiercely loyal and naively blinkered and she resents Karim's need to map their city, his need to name its streets and to expand the privileged world they know. When Karim is forced to leave for London their differences of opinion become a"
Engels | 352 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
Alan Drew Gardens of water
"Stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. As he becomes a helpless witness to his daughter's dangerous infatuation with a young American, Sinan takes a series of drastic decisions with unforeseeable consequences. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion."
Engels | 352 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
Russell Hoban Riddley Walker
"`Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 2,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel that continues to delight readers today. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 928 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2013
E-book
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book is a perfect joke book for young children. Full of jokes, limericks, riddles, Knock knock and Doctor, doctor all the jokes are specially themed around Roald Dahl's best-loved characters such as Charlie, George, The BFG, Matilda, James and many others.Roald Dahl was always full of fun and mischief and loved all kinds of jokes - the sillier the better! From chocolate-covered chickens to grizzly grouchy grandmas to the disgusting Twits this marvellous collection has...
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
E-book
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 748 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Pub One Info, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
George Eliot The mill on the floss
Een molenaarsdochter, die door de omstandigheden gedwongen wordt zich te gedragen als een keurig Victoriaans meisje, leeft in voortdurend conflict met haar broer.
Fictie | Historische roman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 2,2 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Louis Couperus Psyche
Psyche is based on Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche. It tells us about the king's daughter of that name and her two sisters, Emeralda and Astra. After the death of their father, Emeralda, the eldest sister, ascends to the throne of the Kingdom of the Past. Fearing her unscrupulous sibling, Psyche flees the castle on the back of the flying steed Chimera. She plunges into the unknown world outside the castle walls. On her magical journey she comes into contact with a Satyr, the Sphinx, weeps a river,...
Fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 24 MB) | Reith|Hendriks & partners, Rotterdam | 2021
E-book
Javier Cercas The speed of light
Een schrijver probeert een roman te schrijven en slaagt daar ten slotte in wanneer hij een oorlogsverhaal op het spoor komt.
Fictie
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Magnus Mills The restraint of beasts
Een kersverse voorman van een Schots bedrijf wordt met een ploegje werkschuwe arbeiders voor een grote opdracht naar Engeland gestuurd, waar hij merkt hoe hij langzaam aan wordt geïndoctrineerd en zo meewerkt aan hun sabotage.
Fictie
Engels | ePub, 0,4 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Charles Dickens A tale of two cities
Roman over de Franse Revolutie, zich beurtelings afspelend in Londen en Parijs.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Robert Harris Selling Hitler
the story of the Hitler diaries
His classic account of The Hitler Diaries. Spring 1983: it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping of experts, and the exchange of extraordinary sums of money for world-wide publishing rights. But that was just the beginning of the story. . . Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Cecelia Ahern P.S. I love you
Een gelukkig getrouwd jong stel stelt speels een lijst samen van dingen die een van hen moet doen als de ander overlijdt.
Fictie
Engels | 512 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book