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Annemarie van Ewijck

    Eternal Light
    Tales from Earthsea
    Ports of Call
    Cugel gewroken
    Station Araminta
    Biting the Sun
    • Panic

      • 408 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire existence an ingeniously constructed sham. And now that he knows it, he is in terrible danger. So he is catapulted into a violent world of mercenaries, spies and terrorists. Pursued by a ruthless band of killers who will stop at nothing to keep old secrets buried, Evan's only hope for survival is to discover the truth behind his past. An absolute page-turner, Panic has been acclaimed as one of the most exciting thrillers of recent years.

      Panic2011
      3.5
    • Tales from Earthsea

      • 280 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.

      Tales from Earthsea2001
      4.1
    • Ports of Call

      • 300 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      New galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller. Sf grand master Vance's latest is a tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler about a young man, Myron Tany, who has taken a degree in space studies but has much to learn when he first boards a ship. Myron is in thrall to his zany aunt, who has heard of a faraway fountain of youth and sets off in her space yacht to find it. Her captain flatters her agreeably, and when Myron points out that the man is a swindler, she won't hear of it and maroons poor Myron on an inhospitable planet with barely his passage home. Luckily, the tramp cargo vessel Glicca is just then in need of a supercargo, and Myron signs on with cool, competent Captain Maloof, Chief Engineer/gambler Schwatzendale, and Chief Steward/photographer Wingo. The four enjoy a string of rare adventures on a spectacular series of planets. They acquire as passengers a group of pilgrims (and their mysterious luggage), or rather, pirates masquerading as religious pilgrims, and engage in to-the-death struggles with the pirates' pursuers; on Terce, Myron narrowly avoids being skinned (there is a flourishing trade in human skins) and eaten. Finally, they encounter a Swiftian, legalistic planet on which one may be punished or betrothed for the slightest whimsical offense. Myron is bound to commit one...

      Ports of Call1998
      3.0
    • De onsterfelijke tovenares

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Vodun, de tiran van Asgard, wil een superras kweken om het Oude Ierland aan zich te onderwerpen, maar wordt daarin gedwarsboomd door onder meer tweelingtovenaressen.

      De onsterfelijke tovenares1996
    • Nadat David van school is gestuurd, moet hij naar een internaat met de vreemde naam 'Grieselstate'. Er gebeuren daar onheilspellende dingen. Pas na een ontsnappingspoging wordt David alles duidelijk.

      Grieselstate1995
    • Eternal Light

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Traveling to the center of the galaxy to confront an invisible enemy that had drawn the earth into war decades earlier and now threatens to destroy the universe, psychic Dorthy Yoshida is unaware of her destined role in humanity's final battle. Reprint.

      Eternal Light1993
      2.7
    • Het bloed van rozen

      • 622 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      In childhood something black settled on Mechail Korhlen and drank from his throat. Later somebody pitied him enough to kill his poor deformed body when he became an adult. But then he chose to return from beyond the veil to enact revenge and to follow Anjelen, ruler of the sinister monastery.

      Het bloed van rozen1991
    • Na bijna 400 jaar is het zomer op Helliconia. De vooruitgang gaat moeizaam en men heeft het gevoel dat er voor elke gewonnen stap weer een halve wordt teruggezet. De koning van Borlien zit volop in de problemen, zowel maatschappelijk als persoonlijk. Tal van kleurrijke figuren zorgen voor de nodige opwinding. Gewetenloze intriges, moord en jaloezie houden de mensen in hun greep. Mensen zoals wij, met soms dwaze ideeën en wisselende humeuren. Rijk geschakeerde karakters, die raak en met diep psychologisch inzicht zijn beschreven.

      Helliconia zomer1990
    • Helliconia-trilogie - 3: Helliconia winter

      • 412 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      De Helliconianen bereiden zich voor op de eeuwenlange winter. In het centrum van de belangstelling staat nu het koude continent Sibornal, waar men technologisch vergevorderd is. De sfeer is grimmig en de wrede maatregelen van de Oligarch houden onder meer het volledig uitroeien van de Fagers in. Avernus, het waarnemingsstation dat alle beelden opnam en uitzond, is in verval geraakt. Helliconia zal het tenslotte zonder de Aarde moeten redden, al heeft de Aarde Helliconia wel een geschenk gegeven dat misschien van grote waarde zal blijken te zijn.

      Helliconia-trilogie - 3: Helliconia winter1990
    • Biting the Sun

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      In a world dedicated to pleasure, one young rebel sets out on a forbidden quest--.Published for the first time in a single volume, Tanith Lee's duet of novels set in a hedonistic Utopia are as riveting and revolutionary as they were when they first appeared two decades ago.It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....

      Biting the Sun1989
      4.3