Boekenkast
Ik ben verslaafd aan boeken. Hieronder kan je mijn volledige lijst vinden van gelezen fictie- en non-fictie-boeken die in mijn boekenkast staan. Van sommige boeken kan je zelfs een korte bespreking vinden.
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Rudy Baylor is a newly-qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. It is a bad faith suit against a giant insurance company, Great Benefit, which could have saved a young man's live, but has instead refused to pay the claim until it is too late. The... [meer]
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Op de dag dat ze haar baantje als stenotypiste kwijtraakt, ontmoet Victoria Jones een aardige jongen die Edward heet en haar vertelt dat hij de volgende dag naar Bagdad gaat. In een opwelling besluit Victoria hem achterna te reizen, hoewel ze niet eens zijn achternaam kent, niet weet wat zijn adres in... [meer]
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Taking place in the midst of the Deviations series, Ratchet shows Tobias and Noah at their best: playing games, having fun, and loving each other. What is a Dom to do with a sub who actually works with such handy tools as handcuffs? While the answer may seem predictable, Tobias and Noah know how to make... [meer]
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Out of the sewers and streets comes the biggest threat London has ever faced—rats, hungry for human flesh—in this 40th anniversary edition of the classic bestseller It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures... [meer]
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One of the most famous poems in the English language, <quote>The Raven<quote> first appeared in the January 29, 1845 edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-thirties and a well-known poet, critic and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand... [meer]
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Poetry lovers can both read and hear a splendid selection of favorite poems by one of America's most popular poets with this convenient, inexpensive book-and-cassette package. Students, teachers, and any lover of poetry and literature will savor this collection of powerful, influential verse by Edgar... [meer]
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Welcome to the dark side of Anthony Horowitz. When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian, and the entire village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand... [meer]
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This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's THE RAVEN includes: • All 25 illustrations by Gustave Doré for Harper & Brothers' 1884 edition • An informative Introduction • A detailed Biography of Edgar Allan Poe • The illustrated version and text-only version of the... [meer]
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The Tenth Discworld Novel. Death is missing - presumed... er... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be... [meer]
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Already a #1 bestselling author in England, Pratchett now gives his U.S. fans another taste of his tremendous talent in this fast-paced novel about the dark and mysterious man we call Death. When Death begins to question the P's and Q's of his job, he is officially retired, which leads to the kind of... [meer]
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In the early 1980s, long before he was President or head of the CIA, even before a submarine named Red October crossed the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the... [meer]
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Een bundel met elf verhalen die de lezer stuk voor stuk tot de laatste bladzijde in spanning houden. Agatha Christie neemt ons mee naar Londen, naar kleine Engelse dorpen, naar Frankrijk, naar Majorca en naar Egypte. Daar lossen de beroemde Hercule Poirot en zijn wat minder bekende collega Parker Pyne... [meer]
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It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street everything's normal. The paper boy is making his rounds; the Carver kids are bickering at the corner convenience store; a Frisbee is flying on the Reeds' lawn; Gary Soderson is firing up the backyard barbecue. The only thing that doesn't... [meer]
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A collection of essays about the work of the preeminent American writer of horror, Stephen King. Includes an interview with Stephen King by Jo Fletcher; foreword by Dennis Etchison; introductions by Whoopi Goldberg, Marv Wolfman & Frank Belknap Long; & essays by Burton Hatlen, Charles Willerford, J.... [meer]
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Book Three in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Return of the King is the towering climax to J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy that tells the saga of the hobbits of Middle-earth and the great War of the Rings. In this concluding volume, Frodo and Sam make a terrible journey to the heart of the Land of the Shadow... [meer]
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In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs... [meer]
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Roman van een sinistere ruil. Het is herfst 1943. Zowel de Duitsers als de Amerikanen ontwikkelen nieuwe strategieën en wapens die de overwinning moeten brengen. De Duitsers vestigen hun hoop op Peenemüde en werken koortsachtig aan de ontwikkeling van hun lange-afstandraketten. Om die raketten... [meer]
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You know you're in Stephen King country the instant you glimpse the cover of Riding the Bullet, King's first story published exclusively as an e-book. Could any mere physical book cover capture the eerie glow of that enormous moon with a hitchhiker's thumb in front of it? Or the menacing twin beams of... [meer]
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A Stephen King ghost story in the grand tradition, Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhicking. A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hostpital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark... [meer]
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On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto Tower in downtown L. A. a grand opening celebration is in full swing at the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body of a beautiful woman is discovered. The investigation... [meer]
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. It has been more than thirty years since Stephen King penned those words on a ream of bright green paper to begin his epic fantasy -and the crowning achievement of his literary career- The Dark Tower. Inspired by Robert Browning's... [meer]
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The story tells of a young man who frequently has nightmares, which tell of his visiting a friend's house during summer and then encountering the room in the tower, where he has to stay. The young man then is invited (in real-life) to a friend's house during summer, and he is surprised that everything... [meer]
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Roused by a single drop of blood on the bedsheet, Rosie Daniels wakes up from fourteen years of a nightmare marriage to the chilling realisation that one of these days her husband, Norman, is going to kill her. Or worse still, he isn't. Taking her husband's credit card, Rosie suddenly takes flight, determined... [meer]
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The Bramford - An address you'll never forget. One of Manhattan's oldest, most elegant apartment houses... Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse were delighted to move in... charmed to meet their new neighbors... excited when Guy's acting career suddenly skyrocketed, when Rosemary became pregnant. And chilled when... [meer]
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Een regenachtige zomeravond in Moskou. Op de bovenverdieping van een wanstaltig gebouw bereikt de eerste door het Engelse bedrijfsleven georganiseerde audiobeurs knarsend zijn einde. Niki Landau, een Engelsman van Poolse afkomst wordt aangesproken door een knappe Russische vrouw. Deze Katja overhandigt... [meer]
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In het tweede deel Artemis Fowl: de Russische connectie keren alle vertrouwde personages uit deel een terug: dit maal is de plaats van handeling echter Rusland, en is de voornaamste opponent de Russische maffia, die de vader van Artemis heeft ontvoerd. Op het moment dat Artemis en Butler zich gereed... [meer]