Boyne: 77 books

Martha Boyne, Emily Clements and Ben Wright’s Thrive: In your first three years in teaching equips trainee secondary school teachers with the know-how to lay the foundations for a successful career in teaching, long after the challenging first few years are over. Martha, Emily and Ben are thriving...

Boyne resurrects the war of the skies in all its heroic and tragic drama, while supplying insightful, expert conclusions about previously overlooked aspects of the war, including the essential role of American bombers in Europe; Germany's miscalculation of the number of planes required for victory; the Allies' slow start in deploying maximum air power—and why they eventually triumphed.

In 1973 a sixteen-year-old Irish schoolgirl was sold into marriage by her father. Her groom was a farmer almost four times her age. Despite a pre-nuptial agreement guaranteeing that there would be no sex, her husband raped her repeatedly. He also beat her. Although she made desperate pleas...

Van de auteur van De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama Op een koude, donkere avond arriveert Eliza Caine met de trein in Norfolk, waar ze een baan als gouvernante heeft aangeno­men. Doodmoe dient ze zich aan bij Gaudlin Hall, haar nieuwe huis. Ze wordt er begroet door de twee kinderen die ze...

What is presented in few words and scattered throughout even fewer pages is an invitation for a journey to a destination where I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you and shaking your hand.While volumes could be written on the subject, and page after page could be filled with explanations, facts,...

Ein neuer Roman von Bestsellerautor John BoyneEs gibt sie, diese winzigen Momente, die ein Leben für immer verändern. Für Danny und seine Familie kommt ein solcher Moment, als Dannys Mutter einen kleinen Jungen mit dem Auto anfährt. Quälende Schuldgefühle lassen sie nicht mehr los, die Familie...

Cyril Avery n’est pas un vrai Avery et il ne le sera jamais – ou du moins, c’est ce que lui répètent ses parents adoptifs. Mais s’il n’est pas un vrai Avery, qui est-il ? Né d’une fille-mère bannie de la communauté rurale irlandaise où elle a grandi, devenu fils adoptif d’un couple...

This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Bláth. A decorated hero of the Battle of the Somme,...

Seit über 10 Jahren ein Welterfolg: ›Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama‹Mit seinem neuen Roman kehrt John Boyne in das dunkelste Kapitel unserer Geschichte zurück.Als Pierrot seine Eltern verliert, nimmt ihn seine Tante zu sich in den deutschen Haushalt, in dem sie Dienst tut. Aber dies ist keine...

In 1975, a group of amazing women rowed their way to international success and glory, battling sexual prejudice, bureaucracy, and male domination in one of the most grueling and competitive sports around. Among the members of the first international women’s crew team--and one of the first women’s...

A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I. It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside...

“Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today   Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must...

Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during...

The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time conveys the fascinating progression of flying technology from flimsy wood-and-fabric biplanes to thunderous supersonic wonders. Aviation’s most historically relevant and arguably most influential aircraft – planes like the elliptical-winged Spitfire,...