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Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, DANCES WITH WOLVES.

Only Harry Bosch can uncover LA's darkest secrets in this new gripping thriller from global bestseller Michael Connelly. 'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again. 'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.' Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared. Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment. Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.

De auteur van De voorspellingen van de Maya's ontsluierd, vertelt op meeslepende en overtuigende wijze hoe hij zijn speurtocht naar de geheimen van de Maya's heeft voortgezet. Cotterell reist naar het hart van de Maya-cultuur, Palenque in Zuid-Mexico. Daar, midden in de jungle, komt hij op het spoor van het graf van de priester-koning Pacal. De geschriften die hij onderzoekt tonen onomstotelijk aan dat deze man geen gewone man was; hij behoorde tot het ras van de supergoden. De verbazingwekkende schatten in de Maya-tombe beantwoorden een groot aantal van de vragen zoals die nu nog gesteld worden: hoe wisten de Maya's zoveel over astronomie en astrologie? Wat begrepen zij van magnetische velden? En hoe kan de plotselinge 'verdwijning' van de Maya's worden verklaard?

Julie Barenson’s young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died – a puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years later, twenty-nine year-old Julie is far too young to have given up on love. She may be ready to risk caring for someone again. But who? Should it be Richard Franklin, the sophisticated, handsome engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was her husband’s best friend? Choosing one of them should bring her more happiness than she’s had in years. Instead, Julie is soon fighting for her life in a nightmare spawned by a chilling deception and jealousy so poisonous that it has become a murderous desire . . . The Guardian contains all the qualities readers expect from Nicholas Sparks. But here, he adds a new electrifying intensity – and page after page of riveting suspense. Did You Know?--- The Guardian was the first of Nicholas's novels that is not inspired by true events? Julie Barenson and Officer Jennifer Romanello got their names from two people on Nicholas's publishing team? The Guardian required extensive revisions (and the publication of another book entirely -- Nights in Rodanthe), and then went on to spend five months on the bestseller list?

Crime doesn't come better than Connelly: the brand new blockbuster from the crime-thriller powerhouse.'Michael Connelly is the greatest American crime writer of his generation' THE TIMES

Hush, weduwe, moeder en succesvol appelteelster heeft in haar leven veel offers gebracht, maar doorgezet om haar zoon Davis een goede toekomst te kunnen geven. Nu keert Davis plotseling naar huis terug, samen met zijn grote liefde, de dochter van een wel zeer beroemd man. Tot ontzetting van Hush richten de ogen van het hele land zich plotseling op haar appelboerderij. Hush gruwt van die belangstelling. Ze houdt de hekken van haar erf hardnekkig gesloten en terwijl de pers en veiligheidsdiensten zich rond haar terrein posteren, probeert ze een zo normaal mogelijk leven te leiden. Slechts één man laat ze toe: Nicholas, een veiligheidsagent, die geheimen en trauma's uit het verleden met zich meedraagt. Hush en Nicholas vechten voor het geluk van de jonge geliefden. Tegelijkertijd moeten ze echter ook hun eigen problemen onder ogen zien. En uiteindelijk zullen ze ontdekken dat liefde niet alleen voor de jeugd is weggelegd.

Erica James heeft naast ‘Een onverwachte wending’ reeds veel bestsellers op haar naam staan, zoals ‘De bloemenjaren’, ‘Schaduwleven’ en ‘Zussen voor altijd’. De onfortuinlijke Lizzie ziet zich na haar ontslag gedwongen terug te verhuizen naar haar ouderlijk huis. Haar moeder regelt voor Lizzie een tijdelijke baan in een verpleegtehuis. Daar treft ze mevrouw Dallimore. Clarissa Dallimore deelt met Lizzie het verhaal van haar jeugd, haar spontane reis van Amerika naar Engeland om haar familie te zoeken, het uitbreken van WO2 en haar door de oorlog onmogelijk gemaakte liefde. Dankzij mevrouw Dallimore ontdekt Lizzie dat het nooit te laat is om opnieuw te beginnen. ‘Erica James heeft haar plaats veroverd in het boekenlandschap.’ Sunday Express ‘Een fijne combinatie van meeslepende verhalen en droge humor.’ Daily Mail ‘Erica James is een grote naam in dit genre.’ Daily Mirror

London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs bring the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, and he is distraught. But who is he looking for?To find out we have first to go back thirty years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka, with its community on the brink of civil war. Alice's life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for England, abandoning her beloved grandfather, and accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman broken by a series of terrible events.In London, Alice grows into womanhood. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she has a son. Slowly she fulfils her grandfather's prophecy and becomes an artist. Eventually she finds true love. But London in the twenty first century is a mass of migration and suspicion. The war on terror has begun and everyone, even Simon Swann, middle class, rational, medic that he is, will be caught up in this war in the most unexpected and terrible way

What if the only person who could help was the one whose heart you'd broken? A captivating and heartrending novel of lost love, family secrets and betrayal from a major new talent. 'Memories are like spinning blades; dangerous at close range.' Meg Powell and Carson McKay were soulmates. Until Meg inexplicably walked away and straight into the arms of another man. While Meg set about building a career and a family - and trying her best to forget Carson - he poured his soul into the music that was to make him an international superstar. Now, twenty years later, Meg is forced to confront the past and hidden truths in the pages of her late mother's diaries - little knowing that her teenaged daughter Savannah is playing with fire, creating a secret life on the internet that sucks her into a dangerous world. Then Carson arrives back in town - just as Meg finds out startling news which will change her life for ever.

Des rudes paysages des Appalaches aux ateliers d'artistes de Brooklyn, le destin de deux êtres qui n'auraient jamais dû se rencontrer. Elle réside dans une ferme de Géorgie perdue dans la montagne avec, pour seule compagnie, un gigantesque ours de fer, chef-d'œuvre posthume d'un artiste new-yorkais... Il vit à Brooklyn, où il défend le patrimoine artistique de son père sculpteur. Au lendemain d'une vente aux enchères, il part à la recherche de l'œuvre majeure de celui-ci : un ours de fer... Mais on n'achète pas une émotion. Même un million de dollars.

"Christmas Watching" by Desmond Morris explores the folklore, traditions, and symbolism surrounding the Christmas celebration. It addresses questions such as why December 25th is significant, the origins of the dream of a white Christmas, and the meaning behind the Christmas tree. The book also includes contributions discussing the situation and traditions in the Netherlands.

A heart-rending page turner which sweeps from war-torn Europe to Thailand and back again . . . As a child Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park estate, where her grandfather tended the exotic flowers. So when a family tragedy strikes, Julia returns to the tranquility of Wharton Park and its hothouse. Recently inherited by charismatic Kit Crawford, the estate is undergoing renovation. This leads to the discovery of an old diary, prompting the pair to seek out Julia's grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed Wharton Park. Julia is taken back to the 1940s where the fortunes of young couple Olivia and Harry Crawford will have terrible consequences on generations to come. For as war breaks out Olivia and Harry are cruelly separated . . .

Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

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A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times.

When his top forgery artist is murdered, underworld art dealer Adrian Sellers is forced to flee for his life from an aggressive Japanese mob while confronting his heroin addiction and falling in love with a compassionate colleague. 125,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt. Tour.

1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But in the nearby woods, Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood. 2007. Meredith Martin arrives at the Domaine de la Cade as part of her research for a biography she's writing. But Meredith is also seeking the key to her own complex legacy and soon becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, a unique deck of tarot cards, an unquiet soul and the strange events of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago...

Nadat haar man en haar zoontje zijn omgekomen bij een brand, weet Abigail niet hoe ze verder moet. In een poging alles te vergeten, wordt ze vuurtorenbewaarder op een afgelegen eiland. Maar haar buitengewone nieuwe buren, een dreigende orkaan en de inbraken die de kleine gemeenschap teisteren zorgen ervoor dat Abby haar gevoelens wel onder ogen moet zien. De taal van het zand is een meeslepende roman met een innemende hoofdpersoon over een universeel thema als verlies.

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.

Nadat in 1929 in de VS een wet is aangenomen die vrouwen in staat stelt op rijkskosten het graf van hun in de Eerste Wereldoorlog gesneuvelde zonen in Frankrijk te bezoeken worden in groepjes pelgrimages georganiseerd voor deze Gold-Star moeders. Groep A wordt in 1931 gecoördineerd door weduwe Cora Blake, bibliothecaresse in Maine, wier zoon in 1918 omkwam. Deze roman beschrijft vooral Cora, maar ook de zo verschillende andere vrouwen heel boeiend, met veel aandacht voor de ontwikkeling die ze door de reis doormaken en de manier waarop ze met hun verdriet omgaan.

Lara Cameron is a famous powerful wealthy New York building developer who struggled from brutal poverty in Glace Bay, a banker who took her body as part of her first deal, to Chicago, banker Keller whose love she takes lightly for granted. As her skyscrapers and boutique hotels tower on earth, she is at the top of a male dominated field. She lies and cheats to close a deal, making cruel enemies. She is forty, beautiful, glamorous, insecure, ruthless, vulnerable, secretly generous, rich - and still wants more. She marries an international concert pianist, the Lochinvar of her childhood dreams, but aomeone puts him in the hospital and threatens to take down her empire.

Alison has everything she ever dreamed of. Smart, sophisticated, married to a successful cardiologist, she's at the top of her career in journalism. Why, then, does she wonder if this is all there is? Ginger is just the opposite. She flunked out of university, is a failed actress who has never had a relationship lasting more than a month, and only has somewhere to live because she was her eccentric grandmother's favourite. Lia alone is perfectly content with her life. Three women, with nothing in common, nothing at all - except that they are all about to have their first child. Meeting each other will change all their lives as doubt becomes certainty, old sins are forgiven, and as what begins as friendship ends in betrayal. These Foolish Things is the second novel of contemporary relationships by the highly praised author of More Innocent Times ('A wonderfully woven tale of tangled relationships. I loved it.' Penny Vincenzi) and firmly establishes Imogen Parker as a writer of compelling, totally absorbing stories for our times.

As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage daughter to this place of pain and memory, where ghosts of an unresolved youth still haunt the fields and stables—and where hope lives in the eyes of the handsome, gentle veterinarian Annemarie loved as a girl . . . and in the seductive allure of a trainer with a magic touch. But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter her fragile world.

Jess Penhaligon reist af naar Devon om een prijs in ontvangst te nemen voor een van haar botanische schilderijen. Daar vindt ze een warm welkom bij Kate en haar grote familie. Jess logeert boven het boothuis dat uitkijkt op een prachtige tuin aan de rivier de Tamar, ook wel 'de tuin aan zee' genoemd, waar ze volop inspiratie voor nieuwe schilderijen vindt. Naarmate er meer herinneringen worden opgehaald, begint Jess te beseffen dat ze een gezamenlijk verleden met Kate deelt. Langzaam ontvouwen zich talloze geheimen over deze warme maar complexe familie. Welke gebeurtenissen uit het verleden zijn met de mantel der liefde bedekt? En tegen welke prijs?

Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him. They are meant to be. The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back. She is the perfect girlfriend. And she'll make sure no one stops her from getting exactly what she wants.

'As gut punching as it is fast-paced' - The Pool Eight years ago, thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night. In the years since, her family have papered over the cracks of their grief - while hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then, one night, the doorbell rings. Gripping, shocking, and deviously clever, Good as Gone is perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and The Ice Twins - and will keep readers guessing until the final page.

A collection of short stories told by wives, husbands, sons, daughters, lovers and strangers. There are star-crossed travellers who take each other's bags by mistake, only to learn that when you unlock a stranger's suitcase you enter a stranger's life; the house-sitter who moves into her client's life as well as her home; a holiday for four in Greece which has surprising consequences; and the chance encounter at an airport which brings together an unlikely group of people. 583 583.

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Adviezen om het lichaam gezond te houden door betere voeding te gebruiken en vooral meer te bewegen.

Het leven op een grote appelboerderij in Georgia wordt danig verstoord als de zoon van de eigenares thuiskomt met een heel bekende vriendin.

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In de prehistorie is een jonge genezeres met haar zoontje op de vlucht tot ze wordt opgenomen door het Rendiervolk.