Zoekresultaten voor: *
Resultaat 201 - 220 (van 3254)
Mark Billingham Lifeless - Tom Thorne Series
Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious police detective has been reduced to pushing papers . . . and is being encouraged to take a prolonged leave of duty.But someone is stalking the city's most destitute citizens. Three homeless men have recently been kicked to death, each brutalized corpse discovered with a banknote pinned to its chest. With nothing to lose, Thorne volunteers...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Donna Leon About Face - Brunetti 18
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner...
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Mark Billingham The Burning Girl - Tom Thorne Series
Some fires never go out ...X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. It's morbid and messy -- but it's a mystery with plenty of clues. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Organized crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's territory, and that someone is ready to stand up for what he believes is his.Thorne's...
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Mark Billingham Lazybones - Tom Thorne Series
The first corpse was found hooded, bound, and naked, kneeling ona bare mattress in a seedy hotel room. This was no ordinary murder but rather the work of a killer driven by something special, somethingspectacular. The fact that the dead man was a convicted rapist recently released from prison only increases the bizarre nature of the gruesome crime ... and the police's reluctance to apprehend the perpetrator. It's the body count that troubles Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, as brutal slaying follows...
Engels | 432 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
James Patterson Run For Your Life - Michael Bennett 2
Detective Michael Bennett is on the trail of a deadly killer who is terrorising New York in this Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller.A man who calls himself 'the Teacher' is devising a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, it is time for everyone to learn his name as he teaches New York a lesson it will never forget. Intent on exacting revenge and causing mass hysteria, he embarks on the worst killing spree the city has ever seen. The whole New York Police Department is tested to its limits; none...
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #3
Perfect
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls arent nearly as perfect as they seem. Aria can't resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer cant keep her hands off anything that belongs to her sister. Although they try to keep their scandalous secrets hidden, someone...
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #5
Wicked
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe fifth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family's secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men. The girls think theyre in the clear now that Ali's...
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #6
Killer
#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have been lying ever since they became friends with beautiful Alison DiLaurentis. And their bad-girl ways didn't die with her. Hanna's on a mission to corrupt Rosewood's youth, starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria's snooping into her boyfriend's past. Spencer's stealingfrom her family. And pure little...
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Charlotte Bronte The Professor
The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously. It follows the journey of William Crimsworth into maturity, showing his loves and the path to his eventual career as Professor at an all-girl's school. The novel was largely influenced by Bronte's time in Brussels, where she fell passionately in love with her married language professor. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 280 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | The Floating Press, [Nederland] | 2009
E-book
Charlotte Brontë Villette
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness
Engels | 963 pagina's | Floating Press, [Waiheke Island] | 2009
E-book
Marc Fitten Valeria's last stand
Wanneer een schoorsteenveger zich vestigt in een afgelegen Hongaars dorpje en al gauw twee liefdesrelaties onderhoudt, volgen de dorpelingen dit vol verontwaardiging.
Fictie
Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Colum McCann Let the great world spin
In de ochtend van 7 augustus 1974 loopt een koorddanser op honderden meters hoogte tussen de twee torens van het WTC in New York.
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
E-book
Laleh Khadivi The age of orphans
Nadat zijn dorp in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw is uitgemoord, wordt een Koerdische weesjongen verplicht om te vechten voor een verenigd Iran.
Fictie
Engels | ePub, 1,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
E-book
Tracy Chevalier Remarkable creatures
De beroemde Engelse fossielenzoekster Mary Anning (1799-1847) sluit in de 19e eeuw vriendschap met een verzamelaarster van fossiele vissen.
Fictie
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Nicci French Complicit
Wanneer ze een lijk in de flat van een afwezige vriendin vindt, laat een jonge vrouw samen met haar beste vriendin dat verdwijnen.
Fictie
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub, 3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Coen Bom Armin only
In 2008 werd Armin van Buuren bij de verkiezingen van 's werelds beste 100 dj's uitgeroepen tot populairste dj van de wereld. Het boek Eén op één volgt hem in het jaar dat daaraan voorafging. Van Buuren wordt gevolgd tijdens zijn talloze vliegreizen, optredens en interviewsessies. Het is de eerste inkijk in het leven de populairste dj van het moment. Wat gebeurt er nu werkelijk buiten het vele vliegen en alle glitter & glamour? Hoe is Armin op nummer 1 gekomen? Aan het woord komen zijn vrienden,...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,3 MB | Carrera, Amsterdam | 2009
E-book
Ronald van de Krol Native English for Nederlanders
a personal, cultural and grammatical guide
Tips voor Nederlanders die al redelijk Engels spreken, maar hun effectiviteit willen verbeteren.
Non-fictie
Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2009
E-book
Nicoline van der Sijs Cookies, coleslaw, and stoops
the influence of Dutch on the North American Languages
In 1609, the first Dutch settlers arrived in America and established trading posts, small towns, and forts up and down what we now call the Hudson River. To this day, American children are taught the thrilling history of the transformation of this settlement, New Netherland, and its capital, New Amsterdam, from landmark port into present-day New York State and the island of Manhattan. But, the Dutch legacy extended far beyond New York, as Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops reveals.From Santa Claus (after...
Non-fictie
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub2, 11 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2011
E-book
Jan Siebelink In my father's garden
Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced he has...
Fictie
Engels | 465 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Publishing house De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013
E-book
Jenny Slatman Our strange body
philosophical reflections on identity and medical interventions
Filosofische beschouwing over de wijze waarop mensen zich identificeren met ingrijpende veranderingen aan het eigen lichaam.
Non-fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 2,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Engels