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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
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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
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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
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Kelly Bingham Z is for moose
Zebra wil een alfabetboek maken en leidt iedereen naar de juiste letter: A voor de appel en B voor de bal. Maar eland Moose wordt ongeduldig en kan niet op zijn beurt wachten. ABC-prentenboek met humoristische kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Engels | 33 pagina's | Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY | 2012
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Cathy Birchall Touching the World
"Touching the World" is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18-year-old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational, worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed boundaries. From desolate and dangerous mountain roads, difficult border crossings and numerous mechanical breakdowns, to climbing Wayna Picchu (first ever...
Engels | 19 uur 7 minuten (835 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Tim Birkhead Bird sense
"What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Sven Biscop This Is Not a New World Order
Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan
If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics. Without geopolitical awareness, crafting good strategy is impossible. But not every problem is geopolitical, and strategy covers...
Engels | 101 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Owl press, Edegem | 2024
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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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Sylvia Bishop On silver tides
Fantasyverhaal over de Silvermen die in en op de wateren bij Groot-Brittannië leven. Om Isla te redden vlucht het gezin van Kelda naar Schotland. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
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Engels | 304 pagina's | Andersen Press, London | 2024
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Mark Bjaer Break Through Phobias
A phobia is a strong irrational fear that induces high levels of panic or anxiety, and often results in complete avoidance of particular situations or circumstances. What is being experienced is the natural self-defense mechanism the fight-or-flight response, responding to psychological fear and worry instead of real physical danger. The rewind technique in this programme is designed to correct these faulty templates so that the fight-or-flight response is only triggered in the event of real danger....
Engels | 30 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Mark Bjaer Leave Trauma Behind
Traumatic incidents can result in people suffering from a range of anxiety disorders, which are linked to our natural survival system, the flight-or-fight response. Problems occur when the fight-or-flight response is triggered when we are not in real physical danger, when we are simply reacting to a faulty template stored in the limbic system of the brain. The rewind technique that you will learn and use in this download will correct these faulty templates so that the fight-or-flight response is...
Engels | 41 minuten (30 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Holly Black The queen of nothing
Jude is verbannen uit Elfhame als haar tweelingzus haar om hulp vraagt. Wanneer ze instemt haar te helpen, ontdekt ze een complot om de koning en dus ook haar van de troon te stoten. Zal het haar lukken om dit te voorkomen? Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
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Engels | 305 pagina's | Hot Key Books, London | 2020
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Holly Black The wicked king
Jude heeft de nieuwe koning Cardan aan haar gebonden. Maar iemand aan het hof probeert haar te verraden. Hierdoor loopt niet alleen zij gevaar, maar ook haar naasten. Zal Jude erachter komen wie de verrader is? Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
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Engels | 326 pagina's | Hot Key Books, London | 2019
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Holly Black The cruel prince
Drie mensenkinderen moeten zich staande zien te houden in Faerie, een feeënwereld. Aangezien ze geen magie hebben, worden ze niet voor vol aangezien. Jude laat dit niet zomaar gebeuren en neemt het heft in eigen handen. Zo wordt ze een belangrijke spil in de op handen zijnde troonsverwisseling. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
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Engels | 370 pagina's | Hot Key Books, London | 2018
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P.R. Black The Beach House
This vacation is about to turn deadly... In the heart of paradise, Cora finds herself on the island vacation of her dreams: a private beach, a romantic proposal, and a lucrative business deal. But when their island turns out to be not so private after all, Cora tries to make the best of a bad situation by inviting their strangely friendly neighbours to celebrate with them. It doesn't take long for her once-in-a-lifetime holiday to take a very sinister turn... Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Lisa...
Engels | 8 uur 41 minuten (386 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Andrew Blackman Virtual Love
For Jeff Brennan, juggling multiple identities is a way of life. Online he has dozens of different personalities and switches easily between them. Offline, he shows different faces to different people: the caring grandson, the angry eco-protester, the bored IT consultant. So when the beautiful Marie mistakes him for a famous blogger, he thinks nothing of adding this new identity to his repertoire. But as they fall in love and start building a life together, Jeff is gradually forced into more and...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Malorie Blackman Noughts and Crosses
De relatie tussen de blanke arbeiderszoon Callum en de zwarte ministersdochter Sephy heeft weinig kans. Als Callums vader ten onterecht wordt veroordeeld voor een bomaanslag, gaat Callum bij de Liberation Militia. Ongewild raakt hiij betrokken bij de ontvoering van Sephy. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
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Engels | 437 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2020
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William Blake Milton
A Poem
Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living writers and their predecessors, and to undergo a mystical journey to correct his own spiritual errors. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker, largely unrecognized in his own lifetime, but now widely acclaimed as a major figure in the history of the poetry and art...
Engels | 2 uur 24 minuten (108 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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William Blake Poems of William Blake
Poems of William Blake includes; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and The Book of Thel. All three are books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen syllable line. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter...
Engels | 55 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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David Blatner Spectrums
"The universe is a mind-boggling place, full of things seemingly too big and too small to understand. How can we visualise the minuscule world of the atom and the vastness of our galaxy? How can we grasp a billionth of a second and a billion years? Or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atomic bomb? David Blatners solution is to put these and many other `inconceivable items on six spectrums numbers, size, light, sound, heat and time that put them into a human perspective....
Engels | 192 pagina's (7,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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