Télécharger le livre :  Bloodlines

Andrew Davidson goes behind the scenes at Britain's largest hospital trust and describes a year in the life of a hospital through the stories of those who work there and those who pass through. St Thomas' Hospital, opposite the Houses of Parliament, is one of the most...
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Parution : 2015-04-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Little Paris Bookshop

The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare.On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; or rather a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-04-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Wealth And Poverty Of Nations

The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fascinating and often...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-04-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Camels Of Tartary

John Hare has made three expeditions to the Mongolian and Chinese Gobi deserts, the first in 1993 with Russian scientists and the second and third with Chinese scientists in 1995 and 1996. The book records the amazing adventures he has experienced on those expeditions...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-04-02

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Télécharger le livre :  At the Reunion Buffet

Isabel Dalhousie - philosopher, mother and friend - is taking on the mammoth task of hosting her school reunion. In the hours before twenty-five former classmates descend on her home, and the caterers arrive to set up a buffet,Isabel has time to reflect. She is mindful...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-03-26
Collection : Isabel Dalhousie Novels
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Télécharger le livre :  Generation X

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation- Generation...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-02-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Guerrillas

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse insurgent movements...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Whispering City

Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Translates!' award.Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fall Of Baghdad

For every great historical event, at least one reporter writes an eye-opening account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds - George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Never Had It So Good

'Alternately delightful and enlightening...a treat to read' Observer'A rich treasure-chest of a book' Sunday TelegraphIn 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come....
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  White Heat

'An active pleasure to read' Mail on SundayHarold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Churchill Secret KBO

Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known is what happened in 10 Downing Street on 23 June. With Anthony Eden vying for power, the elderly Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, must...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-01-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Geek Love

A National Book Award Finalist: This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias have bred their own exhibit of human oddities. (The New York...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-12-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Man Who Knew Infinity

The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-12-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHRISTINA HENDRICKS AND DAVID ARQUETTEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Marvelously optimistic about the future of books and bookstores and the people who love both' Washington PostA.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-12-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Eden Close

Andrew, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, returns to his hometown in upstate New York for his mother's funeral. He does not intend to stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen years before. But the dreams and memories persist and in the darkened...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Sea Glass

The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  A Wedding In December

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Weight Of Water

On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-11-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Fortune's Rocks

Fortune's Rocks transports the reader to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast...'No praise is too high forFortune's Rocks. The book will take hold of you and not let you go until the last word'...
Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-11-27

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