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    Demon Thief
    For the Love of Norton
    The Chalk Giants
    De wereld van Darren Shan - 5: Op leven en dood
    (On)mogelijk. Het Wonder. Het Debut
    The Vampire War Trilogy. "Hunters of the Dusk", "Allies of the Night", "Killers of the Dawn"
    • (On) mogelijk: Sasha de Suvery heeft een goedlopende Galerie in Parijs, maar is niet gelukkig . Dan ontmoet ze de jonge, veelbelovende schilder Liam en er ontvlamt een gepassioneerde relatie tussen hen. Maar er liggen problemen op de loer… Het wonder: Quinn Thompson en zijn buurvrouw Maggie zijn bijde eenzaam en ongelukkig. Langzaam bloeit er een voorzichtige, maar intenser romance op tussen hen. Tot Quinn op een wereldreis vertrekt: Zullen Maggie en hij elkaar ooit nog terugzien? Het debuut: Olympia Crawford is gelukkig en succesvol. Maar wanneer haar twee dochters worden uitgenodigd voor New York's meest exclusieve debutantenbal, ontstaat er een crisis in haar leven.

      (On)mogelijk. Het Wonder. Het Debut
      5.0
    • The Chalk Giants

      • 268 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      It's the eve of the 20th-century's final conflict. But Stan Potts is ready for Armageddon. In his Austin Champ, specially equipped with his own unique survival kit, he heads for Corfe Castle, the Purbecks & the girl of his dreams. It's to be an eventful journey. This latest & most ambitious novel by Keith Roberts is both the story of one lonely man & a compulsively readable account of a civilisation's catastrophe & the clawing-up to a new social order. Across Potts' gaze pass the ravaged survivors; the mutant genius born outside his time; the villagers of the new stone age with their credulous, sexually complex lives; the iron age horsemen; the terror of the sea-borne marauders. Finally, after the pillage, the cruelty of superstition, the fragility of love & its horrific consequences, the story leaps from the Dark Ages into a new awareness & Stan Potts' tale is told. Dream or reality? Future or racial memory? Forecast or myth? Every reader will pass his own verdict on this uniquely challenging book. But all will agree that The Chalk Giants is 1st & last a stunning feat of story telling, a worthy successor to Pavane & The Boat of Fate by an acknowledged master of the genre.

      The Chalk Giants
      3.4
    • There are only three things a cat needs for a fine life - good food, a comfortable bed, and universal praise and love. Luckily - after converting his human, Peter, from cat hater to cat lover - Norton has plenty of all three. In A Cat Called Norton, the eponymous cat taught Peter how to love.

      For the Love of Norton
      4.0
    • A hellish nightmare for only the bravest of readers... Darren Shan's horrifying series, The Demonata, continues with Demon Thief. When Kernel Fleck's brother is stolen by demons, he must enter their universe in search of him. It is a place of magic, chaos and incredible danger. Kernel has three aims: * learn to use magic, * find his brother, * stay alive. But a heartless demon awaits him, and death has been foretold...

      Demon Thief
      4.1
    • Cirque du Freak

      • 182 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      The chilling Saga of Darren Shan, the ordinary schoolboy plunged into the vampire world. Darren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It's the wonderfully gothic Cirque Du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. Darren - a spider freak - 'falls in love' with Madam Octa - an enormous tarantala owned by Mr Crepsley. Darren determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds. But his daring theft goes horribly wrong and Darren finds himself having to make a bargain with a creature of the night. Something out of the ordinary is set against the background of children's normal lives to chilling effect. Atmospheric, funny, realistic, moving and... terrifying.

      Cirque du Freak
      4.1
    • One boy's terrifying journey from human to half-vampire to Vampire Prince. Where he will rule the night and destroy the world.

      Lord of the Shadows
      4.0
    • Tomorrow Belongs to Us

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      A story on the growing link between religious fundamentalism, the world drugs trade and the establishment of Iran as the next nation to be openly recognized as a member of the "nuclear club". Is the West being deliberately destabilized by terrorist organizations? Does Iran already have the bomb?

      Tomorrow Belongs to Us
      3.7
    • Odd Thomas

      • 420 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Many people in Pico Mundo think Odd Thomas is some sort of psychic - perhaps a clairvoyant, a seer, something. None but a handful know that he sees the restless dead, those with unfinished business and sometimes, plenty of postmortem rage.

      Odd Thomas
      4.0
    • Up country

      • 864 pages
      • 31 hours of reading

      Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career's worth of favours, Paul finds himself moonlighting for the Army as he investigates a puzzling murder that took place thirty years before in the midst of the Vietnam war. Forced to return to the country that haunts him and work for the people who cast him aside, Paul must engage in the battle of his life as he attempts to find justice in a world of staggering corruption.

      Up country
      4.0
    • Fear Nothing

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Christopher Snow suffers from a rare genetic disorder - xeroderma pigmentosum - which means his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight, so his life begins at midnight. Set in the town of Moonlight Bay, a place of picturesque beauty and haunting strangeness, FEAR NOTHING is a startling and compulsive masterpiece of tension.

      Fear Nothing
      4.0
    • The Lake of Souls

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The tenth part of the Saga of Darren Shan - one boy's terrifying journey from human to half-vampire to Vampire Prince. schovat popis

      The Lake of Souls
      4.0
    • Leilani Maddoc's tenth birthday is nine months away. Micky Bellsong is convinced that in nine months and one day, the girl will be dead. And no one seems to care but Micky herself. Micky has a history of making wrong choices and living only for her own desires, but her decision to save the child's life - and pit herself against an adversary as fearsome as he is cunning - takes her on a journey of incredible peril and stunning discoveries, a journey filled with tragedy and joy, with humour, terror and hope, a journey that will change her for ever

      One Door Away from Heaven: The New International
      4.0
    • Wanderlust

      • 436 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      At 21 Annabelle Driscoll was the acknowledged beauty, but it was her sister Audrey- four years older- who had the spine and spirit. She had talent- a lot of talent- as a photographer; she had the restless urge of a born wanderer. Inevitably it was Annabelle who was the first to marry, leaving Audrey to wonder if life were passing her by. Sometimes she would dream of a man like a her father, someone with adventure in his sould and exotic places in his heart. The men she met in California were dull. Enen in New York they had failed to spark her. Only when she took ship for Europe aboard the Mauretania did she begin to mingle with her own kind. Onle when she boarded the Orient Express did she realise she was beginning a journey that would take her farther that she had ever dreamed possible... depp into China., Tibet, the magic of the Orient and later North Africa and Europe. Her life was never to be the same again.

      Wanderlust
      3.9
    • Shadowfires

      Unbelievably tense and spine-chilling horror

      • 608 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      What do you do when there's nowhere left to run?

      Shadowfires
      3.8
    • Dolores Claiborne

      • 307 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Suspected of murdering the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't the one the police are expecting to hear. It's a little darker, a little stranger - and a lot more horrifying.

      Dolores Claiborne
      3.8
    • The Door to December

      • 510 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a truly suspenseful novel of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie during the six years she was subjected to terrifying experiments? And what is the unstoppable power that she can unleash from behind the "Door to December"?

      The Door to December
      3.6
    • Back Bay Books: The Ice Storm

      A Novel

      • 305 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, come face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives - in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.

      Back Bay Books: The Ice Storm
      3.6
    • The Godmakers

      • 175 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne makes planetfall on Hamal. His assignment: to detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet’s population.To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of “gods” on this planet.And people place certain expectations on their gods….

      The Godmakers
      3.6
    • Rose Madder

      • 608 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Norman is a corrupt cop with the instincts of a predator. A man almost mythic in his monstrosity. For Rosie to survive, she must enter the myth and become a person she never knew she could be - Rose Madder. Because Norman is getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting . . .

      Rose Madder
      3.6
    • Gerald's Game

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game. But this time Jesse doesn't want to play. Lying there, spread-eagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he looms and drools over her, she feels angry and humiliated. So she kicks out hard. Aims to hit him where it hurts. He isn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear her screams. Alone. Except for the stray dog that smells her blood, the voices in her head which begin to chatter, and the board which creaks stealthily at nightfall, signalling that something or someone else is close by.

      Gerald's Game
      3.4
    • Vampiersleerling

      • 205 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Een assistent-vampier trekt met zijn meester de wereld rond en sluit vriendschap met een dorpsjongen.

      Vampiersleerling
    • Knock out!

      • 298 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Een man, die is opgegroeid temidden van de mafiosi in Atlantic City, probeert vergeefs zich daaraan te ontworstelen.

      Knock out!
    • Elvis

      de schokkende, alles onthullende biografie van een superster

      • 543 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Biografie van de Amerikaanse rock & roll zanger en acteur Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977).

      Elvis
    • Cirque du Freak

      The Vampire's Assistent

      • 620 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      'Wie dit leest, snakt naar meer.' J.K. Rowling Darren Shan is een gewone schooljongen, totdat hij de Grote Freakshow bezoekt. Daar ziet hij een optreden van meneer Crepsley en zijn angstaanjagende spin. Omdat Darren gefascineerd is door spinnen, steelt hij de levensgevaarlijke tarantula. Maar dat had hij beter niet kunnen doen... Meneer Crepsley is een vampier en dwingt Darren om zijn assistent te worden. Hierdoor neemt Darrens leven een bloedstollende wending. De huiveringwekkende avonturen van Darren Shan worden wereldwijd door miljoenen lezers - jong en oud - verslonden.

      Cirque du Freak
    • Hurricane

      Een allesverwoestende storm raast richting Miami en zuigt een leger oplichters en rasopportunisten mee naar Florida - Thriller

      • 366 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Nadat de orkaan Andrew in Florida enorme schade heeft aangericht, laten diverse mensen zich verleiden tot maatschappelijk ongewenst gedrag.

      Hurricane
    • As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.

      Sons of Destiny
      4.1