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Private peaceful
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Morpurgo, Michael
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A stunning adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's elegaic novel of the First World War. As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside. But t...
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2003
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WarHorse
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Morpurgo, Michael
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In 1914, Joey, a farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of World War I on the Western Front. When Joey is dragged away, his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son he is forced to leave behind. In the army the beautiful red-bay ho...
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1982
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Lies of silence
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Moore, Brian
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When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. B...
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1990
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The bourne supremacy
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Ludlum, Robert
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Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his original adventures. 'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday Times Washington, Hon...
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The bourne ultimatum
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Ludlum, Robert
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Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his original adventures. 'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday Times It all starts w...
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Crack down
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McDermid, Val
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There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud - nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expec...
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Fever of the bone
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McDermid, Val
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You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out o...
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The tiger's wife
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Obreht, Téa
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In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories...
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Nineteen eighty-four
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Orwell, George
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To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, "I love you." The other is O'Brien, who tells hi...
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1949
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The last Dickens
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Pearl, Matthew
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Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished novel. But whe...
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The godfather
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Puzo, Mario
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The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time' Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lor...
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1969
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The last don
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Puzo, Mario
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A masterful saga of the last great American Mafia family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas, from the author of The Godfather
The Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determined to see his heirs esta...
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The sicilian
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Puzo, Mario
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Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land,...
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The impossible dead
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Rankin, Ian
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Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs are back. They've been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct with his own uncle, also in th...
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2011
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The lovely bones
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Sebold, Alice
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My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for - except what she most wants, which is to be back with the people she loved on eart...
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Keys to the Demon Prison
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Mull, Brandon
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Since ancient times, the great demon prison Zzyzx has protected the world from the most dangerous servants of darkness, including Gorgrog, the Demon King. After centuries of plotting, the Sphinx is on the verge of recovering the five artifacts necess...
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2010
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Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
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Mull, Brandon
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Two hidden artifacts have been found. Three more remain unrecovered. More preserves face destruction as the Society of the Evening Star relentlessly pursues new talismans. Reading in Patton's Journal of Secrets, Kendra learns the location of the key ...
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2009
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Grip of the Shadow Plague
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Mull, Brandon
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Danger lurks everywhere at Fablehaven, where someone has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn, now that long trusted allies have been revealed as pote...
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2008
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Rise of the Evening Star
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Mull, Brandon
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At the end of the school year Kendra and her brother, Seth, find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson invites three specialists-a potion master, a collector of magical relics, and a trapp...
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2007
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The Bourne Retribution
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Ludlum, Robert
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When the head of Mossad learns that a major Mexican drug lord may be trafficking something far more deadly than drugs, he turns to his friend Jason Bourne for help. Bourne agrees to investigate, but he has his own agenda: revenge.
The drug lord ...
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2013
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Chance
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Nunn, Kem
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Chance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence—a tale told amid the back streets of California's Bay Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean. This is California ...
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2014
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Dear life
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Munro, Alice
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With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his ...
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2012
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My cousin Rachel
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Maurier, Daphne Du
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Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct ...
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1951
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A Death in Oxford
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MacAndrew, Richard
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Dr Janet Leighton is dead and Frank Williams of the Oxford police wants to know why. Who knows the answer: is it Chris, her son, Simon, her husband, or Dr Collins, who works with Leighton?...
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2007
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Bad company
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MacAndrew, Richard
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Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is called to investigate the murder of a young woman on a beach on the south coast of England. The young woman was one of a group of workers from a music company who are staying at a nearby hotel. Inspector Shepherd...
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Northanger Abbey
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McDermid, Val
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Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. For Cat Morland life being home-schooled in Dorset is unendurably ordinary. To cope, she devours as many novels as possible, especially anythin...
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2014
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The song of achilles
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Miller, Madeline
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Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the...
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2011
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Boy soldier
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McNab, Andy and Rigby, Robert
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"SAS HERO TURNS TRAITOR"
For Danny Watts, 17, whose life-time ambition is to be a soldier, this news story is the beginning of the end.
The grandfather he's never met, SAS hero Fergus Watts, sold out to the Columbian drug cartels and was supposed t...
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2005
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End in tears
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Rendell, Ruth
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In End in Tears, Edgar Award winning author Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford has his work cut out for him: When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the you...
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2005
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The vault
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Rendell, Ruth
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Retired Chief Inspector Reg Wexford finds himself in danger after being recruited as adviser on a case. Three bodies have been discovered in a house's coal hole, along with a string of pearls, a diamond, and other valued jewelry....
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2011
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A sight for sore eyes
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Rendell, Ruth
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In traditional fairy tales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after.
But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn into the most ...
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1998
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Gameboek - Schaduwkraai
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Groenewegen, Marcel
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Een spannend fantasyverhaal dat leest als een game! Kies wat voor held je wil zijn en bepaal zelf het verhaal.
Het is tijd voor je eerste missie, Schaduwkraai.
In dit boek ben jij de held. In een wereld vol fantasie kun je vechten met trollen e...
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2022
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The cabinet of Dr. Leng
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Preston & Child
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How can you stop a serial killer who has been dead for a hundred years?
FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance Greene from harm. But, against all odds, Constance has found a way to travel back in time....
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2023
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De terugkeer van Rachel Price
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Jackson, Holly
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Zestien jaar geleden verdween Rachel Price. Haar toen tweejarige dochter Bel Price was de enige getuige. Ze heeft aan deze ingrijpende gebeurtenis geen herinneringen en ze leeft sindsdien in de schaduw van deze mysterieuze verdwijning. Rachel Price i...
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2024
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De levens van Lanya
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Oldenhave, Mirjam
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Dit is het waargebeurde verhaal van de 16-jarige Lanya.
Als kind vluchtte zij met haar gezin van Irak naar Nederland, waarna haar ouders in een AZC terechtkwamen en Lanya en haar zusje bij een pleeggezin. Pas na zeven jaar krijgt het gezin verblij...
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2023
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De verloren bloem van de sjamaan
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Morosinotto, Davide
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Peru, 1986.
Wanneer Laila, de dochter van een Finse diplomaat, wordt opgenomen in een ziekenhuis in Lima, blijft ze niet onopgemerkt: de jonge patiëntjes van de kinderafdeling zijn nieuwsgierig naar dat blonde meisje. Vooral El Rato, het jongetje ...
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2017
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Beitelaar
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Lieshout, Ted van
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Als de vijftienjarige Antonij op zaterdagochtend aankomt op het kerkhof waar hij een bijbaantje heeft, ontdekt hij een man die hakt in een grafsteen. Die reageert afhoudend als de jongen hem daarop aanspreekt, maar Antonij laat zich niet afschrikken....
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2022
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The storm keeper's island
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Doyle, Catherine
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When Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it begins to stir beneath his feet ...
Once in a generation, Arranmore Island chooses a new Storm Keeper to wield its power and keep its magic safe from enemies. The time has come for Fionn’s grandfa...
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2018
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Fear ground
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Killick, Jennifer
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Flinch is a game of fear. The more you scare your friends, the more points you get on the app. But things are about to get weird...
Angelo and his friends start to investigate who is behind the app. Is it the people weraring the super-creepy clown m...
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2022
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Escape room
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Edge, Christopher
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When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it's just a game - the ultimate escape room with puzzles and challenges to beat before time runs out. Meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar and Min, Ami learns from the Host that they ...
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2022
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De eeuwige code
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Colfer, Eoin
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Het spannende derde deel van de Artemis Fowl-serie!
De immer vindingrijke, jonge meestercrimineel Artemis Fowl weet een supercomputer te bouwen met behulp van gestolen elfentechnologie, de zogenaamde Zie-Kubus, die alle aardse computers overbodig ma...
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2003
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Pet sematary
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King, Stephen
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Stephen Kings Dodenwake wordt gezien als een van zijn engste boeken ooit. Als dr. Louis Creed met zijn vrouw, drie kinderen en de kat naar het kleine plaatsje Ludlow verhuist lijkt er niets aan de hand. Niet ver achter het huis liggen twee begraafpla...
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1984
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Skandar and the unicorn thief
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Steadman, A.F.
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Thirteen-year-old Skandar Smith has only ever wanted to be a unicorn rider. To be one of the lucky few selected to hatch a unicorn. To bond with it for life; to train together and race for glory; to be a hero.
But just as Skandar’s dream is about ...
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2022
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Skandar and the phantom rider
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Steadman, A.F.
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The Island shall have its revenge . . .
Skandar Smith has achieved his dream to train as a unicorn rider.
But as Skandar and his friends enter their second year at the Eyrie, a new threat arises. Immortal wild unicorns are somehow being killed,...
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2023
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