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Breaking dawn
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Meyer, Stephenie
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When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?...
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2008
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Moby Dick
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Melville, Herman
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The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous m...
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The english patient
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Ondaatje, Michael
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The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful ...
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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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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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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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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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Me before you
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Moyes, Jojo
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Lou Clark weet veel dingen. Ze weet hoeveel voetstappen er zijn tussen de bushalte en thuis. Ze weet dat ze het leuk vindt om in de theewinkel De Geboterde Bol te werken en ze weet dat ze misschien niet echt houdt van haar vriend Patrick.
Wat Lo...
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2012
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Als de hemel valt
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Noort, Selma
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Rosa is een vondeling. Als de familie die voor haar zorgt wordt verraden, komt ze in een weeshuis terecht. Daar woont Sorpreso, ook een vondeling, die haar begrijpt zoals niemand anders dat kan. Wanneer er opnieuw geweld uitbreekt, moet Rosa vluchten...
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2024
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