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Lisa Graff Umbrella summer
Na de plotselinge dood van haar broer maakt Annie zich zorgen over alles. Haar vrienden en een lieve, oude dame proberen haar te helpen. Zal Annie weer echt durven leven? Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | Laura Geringer Books, New York | 2009
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Julia Donaldson Running on the cracks
De ouders van de half Chinese Leo (14, ik-figuur) zijn omgekomen. Daarom woont ze bij haar tante en oom, die avances lijkt te maken. Ze gaat op zoek naar haar grootouders om meer over haar familie te weten te komen. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 332 pagina's | Egmont, London | 2009
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Michael Grant Gone
Zonder aankondiging zijn alle mensen van vijftien jaar en ouder verdwenen. In de chaos die ontstaat neemt Sam (14) de leiding, totdat de bende van de kwaadaardige Caine de stad overneemt. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 569 pagina's | Egmont, London | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Michael Grant Hunger
a Gone novel
De kinderen in Perdido Beach hebben honger, want het eten raakt op. In een mijnschacht net buiten de stad blijkt de 'Duisternis' te huizen, die binnendringt in de hoofden van steeds meer kinderen. Ook hij heeft honger. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 590 pagina's | HarperTeen, New York | 2009
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17 again
Een uitgebluste dertiger verandert plotseling in zichzelf op 17-jarige leeftijd. Hij schrijft zich in op de school van zijn kinderen om zijn jeugd nog eens over te doen
Fictie | Humoristische roman
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Stephen King Under the Dome
a novel
Wanneer een onzichtbare koepel plotseling een stadje afsluit van de buitenwereld, zorgt een interne machtsstrijd voor veel doden.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 880 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2009
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Colum McCann Let the great world spin
In de ochtend van 7 augustus 1974 loopt een koorddanser op honderden meters hoogte tussen de twee torens van het WTC in New York.
Fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub, 2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Jane Rusbridge The devil's music
Als een dertiger na het overlijden van zijn vader terugkeert naar het vroegere vakantieverblijf van zijn ouders, roept dit herinneringen op aan zijn destijds spoorloos verdwenen moeder en zijn problematische kindertijd.
Fictie | Familieroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Marc Fitten Valeria's last stand
Wanneer een schoorsteenveger zich vestigt in een afgelegen Hongaars dorpje en al gauw twee liefdesrelaties onderhoudt, volgen de dorpelingen dit vol verontwaardiging.
Fictie
Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Laleh Khadivi The age of orphans
Nadat zijn dorp in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw is uitgemoord, wordt een Koerdische weesjongen verplicht om te vechten voor een verenigd Iran.
Fictie | Politieke roman | Sociale roman
Engels | ePub, 1,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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William Boyd Brazzaville Beach
A most extraordinary parable about mankind quite unlike anything else I have ever read Sunday Express.'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa. On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling...
Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub3, 0,8 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2013
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Mo Hayder Skin - Jack Caffery 4
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. With the traumas...
Engels | 464 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Mo Hayder Ritual - Jack Caffery 3
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that...
Engels | 560 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2009
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Donna Leon About Face - Brunetti 18
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner...
Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2009
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Charles Bukowski Factotum
One of Charles Bukowski''s best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2009
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Charles Bukowski Pulp
Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer''s seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski''s own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [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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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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