Nr Titel Auteur Beschrijving Categorie
SCH-05255 The Host MEYER Stephenie Science fiction. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading soul who has been given Melanie Stryder's body didn't expect her to refuse to relinquish possession of her mind Engelse romans 
SCH-05254 If I Stay FORMAN Gayle A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make, and the ultimate choice one teenage girl commands, this emotionally arresting novel is sure to captivate readers. Engelse romans 
SCH-05250 Anne of Avonlea MONTGOMERY Lucy Maud In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island. Engelse romans 
SCH-05249 The Slap TSIOLKAS Christos At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. Engelse romans 
SCH-05248 Frankenstein SHELLEY Mary The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ...and horror. Engelse romans 
SCH-05143 Tales of the Unexpected DAHL Roald Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. The author's short stories have been bestsellers since the 50s and now their addictive air of suspense comes to audio in these ten brilliant stories. Engelse romans 
SCH-05119 TOLSTOY Leo Anna Karenina Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. Engelse romans 
SCH-05088 The Book Thief ZUSAK Markus It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again. Engelse romans 
SCH-05087 The Book Thief ZUSAK Markus It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again. Engelse romans 
SCH-05086 The Book Thief ZUSAK Markus It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again. Engelse romans 
SCH-05085 Mrs Dalloway WOOLF Virginia Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness. Engelse romans 
SCH-05084 Right Ho, Jeeves WODEHOUSE P.G. The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful climax in his drunken speech to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School. For Bertie Wooster's old friend has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett and, as usual, makes a hash of the affair until Jeeves comes to the rescue. In the meantime, Jeeves must also solve the mystery of the white mess jacket, while sorting out the lives of Bertie's cousin Angela, her mother, and her mother's French chef. In short, a normal working day for that prince among gentlemen's gentlemen in what must be a candidate for the name of the funniest novel in the English language. Engelse romans 
SCH-05083 The Code of the Woosters WODEHOUSE P.G. Nothing but trouble can ensue when Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia instructs him to steal a silver jug from Totleigh Towers, home of magistrate and hell-hound, Sir Watkin Bassett. First he must face the peril of Sir Watkin's droopy daughter, Madeleine, and then the terrors of would-be Dictator, Roderick Spode and his gang of Black Shorts. But when duty calls, Bertram answers, and so there follows what he himself calls the 'sinister affair of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeleine Bassett, old Pop Bassett, Stiffy Byng, the Rev. H. P. ('Stinker') Pinker, the eighteenth-century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook'. In a plot with more twists than an English country lane, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves to extract his master from the soup again. Engelse romans 
SCH-05082 Leave it ot Psmith WODEHOUSE P.G. It all starts with an umbrella, the best to be found in the Drones Club. From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic tale of suspense and romance involving one of his most distinctive early heroes, Ronald Eustace Psmith, monocled wit and devil-may-care boulevardier. Unusually for Wodehouse, this is not only a light comedy but also an adventure story in which crime and even gun-play drive the plot. Engelse romans 
SCH-05081 The Brack Report WINTER Patrick Paul Brack had turned the scientific establishment upside down. He had abandoned a glittering career, even sacrificed personal relationships in his crusade against the nuclear nightmare. Engelse romans 
SCH-05080 Little House on the Prairie WILDER Laura Ingalls Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the world-famous Little House books. Pa sells the house, and the family sets out for Indian country! Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. Engelse romans 
SCH-05079 Short Stories WILDE Oscar This collection showcases Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, covering everything from fairy tales to detective yarns. Engelse romans 
SCH-05078 The Picture of Dorian Gray WILDE Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray written in his distinctively dazzling manner, is Oscar Wilde?s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author?s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray?s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel?s corrupting in?uence, he responded that there is, in fact, ?a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.? Engelse romans 
SCH-05077 The Picture of Dorian Gray WILDE Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray written in his distinctively dazzling manner, is Oscar Wilde?s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author?s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray?s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel?s corrupting in?uence, he responded that there is, in fact, ?a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.? Engelse romans 
SCH-05076 The Ambassador WEST Morris The novel is fictionalisation of the period leading up to and shortly after the Coup d'état against and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Engelse romans 
SCH-05075 The Tower of Babel WEST Morris Morris West's seventh novel is a story of Middle Eastern intrigue and espionage paralleling in all its sinuousness the crisis events of early 1967. The plot is concerned with the interlocking fates of several diverse characters who serve as mouthpieces for varying points of view. There is Jakov Baratz, Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, a pragmatist with a nagging conscience; his chief agent Adom Ronan, an Iraqi posing in Damascus as a trader, transmitting high level information for Israel; Omar Safreddim, head of the Syrian security police; a revolutionary zealot whose exposure of Ronan's network is only a matter of time; Nuri Chakry, a Lebanese banker whose services are available to the highest bidder; and his frontman Mark Matheson, an American who serves as Chakry's cover of respectability. Engelse romans 
SCH-05074 The First Men in the Moon WELLS H.G. The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his fantastic stories. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call Selenites. Engelse romans 
SCH-05073 Decline and Fall WAUGH Evelyn Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Engelse romans 
SCH-05072 There is a Happy Land WATERHOUSE Keith There is a Happy Land tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate and the rhubarb fields, quarries and Cleark of Works' yard that are his playground.Unlike most boys portrayed in fiction he is not an ultrasensitive soul but an ordinary boy, occasionally cowardly, sometimes a liar, tough in his own eyes and often insecure in his dealings with others. In his evocation of the jingles, games, fantasies and nightmares of childhood, Waterhouse brings his tribe of street urchins so vividly to life that the book has taken on the status of a much-loved classic. Engelse romans 
SCH-05066 Ben Hur WALLACE Lew A wealthy young Jew and his family, experiencing changing fortunes under Roman tyranny, are affected by the life and teachings of a Nazarene named Jesus Christ. Engelse romans