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Natasha Bowen Skin of the sea
Simi (ik-persoon) is na haar dood zeemeermin geworden. Het is haar taak de doden naar een hiernamaals te begeleiden. Als ze op een dag een drenkeling redt, haalt ze zich de woede van de goden op de hals. Ze wordt met de drenkeling op een onmogelijke missie gestuurd. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 309 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2021
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Nicola Yoon Instructions for dancing
Na de scheiding van haar ouders is Evie (17, ik-persoon) het vertrouwen in de liefde kwijt. Dat gevoel wordt sterker, als zij visioenen krijgt bij zoenende stelletjes en ziet hoe hun relaties eindigen. Intussen ontmoet ze bij de dansstudio X, die in alles haar tegenpool is. Evie vindt hem onweerstaanbaar. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Psychologische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 285 pagina's | Delacorte Press, New York | 2021
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter
"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...
Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads The Room in the Dragon Volant
"The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a mysterious story about a premature burial, a theme favoured by Poe some years previously. When a chivalric young man tries to save an innocent countess from the clutches of a greedy count, little does he suspect that the whole situation could be a trap. With plenty of Gothic elements and some remarkable episodes of horror, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a haunting mystery story that will keep readers at the edge of their seat. B. J. Harrison started his Classic...
Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (204 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Unexpected
Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction. Why did the miner tried to kill his partners? Is it because...
Engels | 51 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl
A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...
Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Wanda Beemsterboer Call You Right Back, Mum
"She did not call back. Nor will she, ever again. How I started loathing those two little words, never again." In a heartbeat everything can change. This is the gripping, true story of how a young woman was murdered and a family lost a daughter. Like most young girls her age Nadine lives a life filled with family, friends and thoughts about the future. At seventeen she meets Gerold and they fall in love. But a darkness gradually falls upon their relationship and after almost three years Nadine...
Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Irvin D. Yalom | Marilyn Yalom A matter of death and life
love, loss and what matters in the end
Dagboek waarin de Amerikaanse psychiater en zijn ernstig zieke vrouw om beurten de laatste maanden van hun leven samen beschrijven.
Non-fictie
Engels | 222 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2021
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Gary C. Howard The biology of death
how dying shapes cells, organisms, & populations
Engels | 291 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY | 2021
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Michael Cholbi Exploring the philosophy of death and dying
classical and contemporary perpectives
Non-fictie
Engels | 272 pagina's | Routledge (Taylor & Francis group), New York | 2021
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