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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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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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James Patterson Run For Your Life - Michael Bennett 2

Detective Michael Bennett is on the trail of a deadly killer who is terrorising New York in this Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller.A man who calls himself 'the Teacher' is devising a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, it is time for everyone to learn his name as he teaches New York a lesson it will never forget. Intent on exacting revenge and causing mass hysteria, he embarks on the worst killing spree the city has ever seen. The whole New York Police Department is tested to its limits; none...

Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2009

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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #3

Perfect

#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls arent nearly as perfect as they seem. Aria can't resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer cant keep her hands off anything that belongs to her sister. Although they try to keep their scandalous secrets hidden, someone...

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #5

Wicked

#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe fifth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family's secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men. The girls think theyre in the clear now that Ali's...

Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars #6

Killer

#1 New York Times bestselling seriesThe sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars.Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have been lying ever since they became friends with beautiful Alison DiLaurentis. And their bad-girl ways didn't die with her. Hanna's on a mission to corrupt Rosewood's youth, starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria's snooping into her boyfriend's past. Spencer's stealingfrom her family. And pure little...

Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charlotte Bronte The Professor

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously. It follows the journey of William Crimsworth into maturity, showing his loves and the path to his eventual career as Professor at an all-girl's school. The novel was largely influenced by Bronte's time in Brussels, where she fell passionately in love with her married language professor. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 280 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | The Floating Press, [Nederland] | 2009

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Charlotte Brontë Villette

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Charlotte Brontë's last novel, published in 1853, has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as strikingly modern psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness

Engels | 963 pagina's | Floating Press, [Waiheke Island] | 2009

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Lesley Lokko Rich girl, poor girl

De hechte vriendschap tussen drie oude schoolvriendinnen wordt door de komst van een geraffineerde nieuwelinge danig op de proef gesteld.

Fictie

Engels | 566 pagina's | Orion Books, London | 2010

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Sarah Ockler 20 boy summer

Anna (16) gaat met het gezin van haar hartsvriendin mee naar hun zomerhuisje aan het strand. De oudste zoon van het gezin is pas omgekomen bij een ongeluk. Niemand weet wat hij voor Anna betekende. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 290 pagina's | Little, Brown, London | 2009

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Cathy Cassidy Angel cake

De Poolse Anya (12) moet erg wennen aan Engeland. Alles is heel anders dan ze had verwacht. Dan wordt ze ook nog verliefd. Op Dan, die een engel lijkt, maar dat bepaald niet is. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 207 pagina's | Puffin, London [etc.] | 2009

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Kate DiCamillo The magician's elephant

De ouders van Peter (10) zijn overleden. Op een dag hoort hij van een waarzegster dat zijn zusje nog leeft. Om haar te vinden moet hij de olifant volgen. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 201 pagina's | Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA | 2009

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Bride wars

Als Liv en Emma, die al jaren beste vriendinnen zijn, hun huwelijk op dezelfde datum blijken te hebben gepland, staan ze op voet van oorlog

Fictie

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Jenny Valentine The ant colony

De van huis weggelopen Sam (17, ik-figuur) bewoont in zijn eentje een kamertje in Londen. Hij is het liefst alleen. Bo (10) woont boven Sam. Ze wil vrienden met hem worden of hij wil of niet. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 215 pagina's | HarperCollins Children's Books, London | 2009

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Will Davis Dream machine

Vier heel verschillende meiden nemen het tegen elkaar op in een realityshow, om het nieuwe lid van de bekende meidengroep Purrfect te worden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 345 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London [etc.] | 2010

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Melvin Burgess Nicholas Dane

Nicholas (14) komt na de dood van zijn moeder in een kindertehuis terecht. Als de adjunct-directeur hem seksueel misbruikt, besluit Nicholas te vluchten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 408 pagina's | Andersen Press, London | 2009

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Youth in revolt

De 16-jarige verlegen Nick verzint een alter ego om zich los te maken van zijn ouders en indruk te maken op zijn vriendinnetje

Fictie

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Randa Abdel-Fattah Where the streets had a name

Hyaat woont in Bethlehem, op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Samen met haar vriendje Samy onderneemt ze een gevaarlijke tocht naar Jerusalem om kostbare geboortegrond voor oma te heroveren en thuis te brengen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 227 pagina's | Marion Lloyd Books, London | 2009

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