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Persuasion
The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness ...The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.- Shop: buecher
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Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an Englishman (eBook, ePUB)
Even though Agatha Raisin loathes Christmas panto, her friend Mrs Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local am dram society in their festive offering. Stifling a yawn at the production of Babes in the Wood, Agatha watches the baker playing an ogre strut and threaten on stage until a trapdoor opens... followed by a scream and silence!Surely this wasn't the way the scene was rehearsed? When it turns out the local baker had been murdered most horribly, Agatha puts her team of detectives on the case. And they soon discover more feuds and temperamental behaviour in amateur dramatics than in a professional stage show - and face more and more danger as Agatha and her team get too close to the killer...- Shop: buecher
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Poison in the Pen (eBook, ePUB)
Tilling Green was a charming little village nestling in the Ledshire countryside. Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find an anonymous letter writer. And when one of the recipients, a young woman, was found drowned in the lake belonging to the Manor House, Miss Silver was persuaded to go and investigate. Valentine Grey, the pretty young heiress from the Manor House, was marrying one Gilbert Earle, but on the night of Valentine's pre-wedding party Jason Leigh, Valentine's former love, returned after months without a word. Valentine discovered Gilbert in a compromising situation with her guardian's wife. And several people received extremely nasty letters. Connie Brooks knew who had written those letters. But on the same night, she was murdered ...- Shop: buecher
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Book Lovers
Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date before they find their happy-ever-after. That's why Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her desk in the city for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina. It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie. She's no heroine. He's no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?- Shop: buecher
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The Courage of Lady Elizabeth Portland (Victorian Orphans series, #3) (eBook, ePUB)
In 1890, shortly before her twenty-fifth birthday, Elizabeth Portland finds herself abandoned for the second time in her life. Against her better judgement she is persuaded to act as chaperone to an eighteen-year-old society girl to see her safely through a summer on the continent before her coming out season. Caught up in the parry and thrust of society match-making, she has no thought of herself becoming an object of interest, particularly to Hugh Wentworth, heir to a duke and reportedly a philanderer who makes his living by gambling. How unfortunate that circumstances keep throwing her in his path. When he becomes the victim of scurrilous rumour, will she have the courage to come forward and tell what she knows?- Shop: buecher
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Scoundrel
Scoundrel ab 14.99 € als epub eBook: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him the Conservative Establishment and the Courts to Set Him Free. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,- Shop: hugendubel
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Business Express: Developing your influencing skills
Business Express: Developing your influencing skills ab 6.49 € als epub eBook: Make people listen to and be persuaded by what you are saying. 1. Auflage. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Ten Days' Wonder: The Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1948 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min
Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and foul play results in the murder of one of the household's members. Among the many transgressions Ellery will uncover are adultery, blackmail, and deceit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Fass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006314/bk_blak_006314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Persuade Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
Anna Elliot is stuck in the past. No one can compare to Rick Wentworth, the man she was persuaded to give up. Meanwhile, Rick's moved on - and up. He's got a successful career and a carefully controlled love life where his heart doesn't get a look in. When they meet again, can she persuade him that their lost love is worth a second chance? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jilly Bond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001278/bk_howe_001278_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Reverse of the Medal: Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 637min
Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers off South America and is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make investments in the City on the strength of supposedly certain information. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage - the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006908/bk_bbcw_006908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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