Nr Titel Auteur Beschrijving Categorie
SCH-04742 The Canterbury Tales CHAUCER The Canterbury Tales , compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burly, drunken Miller. As they wend their way from Southwark to Canterbury, tales are told to pass the time, and the stories are as diverse as the narrators, encompassing themes such as adultery, revenge, courtly love, lechery, avarice and penitence. Engelse romans 
SCH-04741 Papillon CHARRIERE Henri Henri Charrière, called Papillon, for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . Engelse romans 
SCH-04739 All the Pretty Horses CARTHY Cormac Mc Volume 1 of the Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. ?A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety ? the effect is magnificent? John Banville, Observer ?A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time? Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times Engelse romans 
SCH-04738 Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass CAROLL Lewis This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses. Engelse romans 
SCH-04736 The Butterfly James M. Cain All three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity. Engelse romans 
SCH-04735 The Doctor is Sick BURGESS Anthony Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London. Engelse romans 
SCH-04728 The Adventures of Augie March BELLOW Saul A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free. Engelse romans 
SCH-04727 The Amateur BARSTOW Stan e.a. Seven short stories by famous authors. Engelse romans 
SCH-04725 Coffe, Tea or Me? BAKER Trudy & JONES Rachel Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess life, jets you back to those golden days of air travel. Engelse romans 
SCH-04723 Pride and Prejudice AUSTEN Jane 'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.' Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another. It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling. Engelse romans 
SCH-04721 Persuasion AUSTEN Jane Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humour, insight and tenderness. Engelse romans 
SCH-04719 The President\'s Mistress ANDERSON Patrick The plot is set in Washington DC and talks about the internal Washington politics. As the title says it is the mistress of the president who gets killed and then her ex-boyfriend tries to figure out the truth. Engelse romans 
SCH-04715 Little Women ALCOTT Louisa May Little Women (1868-9) is the much-loved story of the four March sisters, growing up in New England, amid the difficulties of the Civil War. Poor, argumentative, loving, and optimistic, they learn to realise their dreams in often unexpected ways. Engelse romans 
SCH-04713 Watership Down ADAMS Richard Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? So together Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety and strictures of the warren and hop tentatively out into a vast and strange world. Chased by their former friends, hunted by dogs and foxes, avoiding farms and other human threats, but making new friends, Hazel and his fellow rabbits dream of a new life in the emerald embrace of Watership Down... Engelse romans 
SCH-04712 The stranger at Winfield House YEO Wilma Easy reader. Readers will wonder what is wrong with Dorinda's new neighbors. Miss Lizzie is afraid to go outside, and Mrs. Potts spies on everyone. Plus, there is a mysterious stranger lurking around, and a valuable letter is missing. Engelse romans 
SCH-04711 Chocky WYNDHAM John Easy reader. Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? Engelse romans 
SCH-04699 Red Cap WISLER G. Easy reader. A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he is captured and sent to Andersonville Prison. Engelse romans 
SCH-04698 THe Castle in the Attic WINTHROP Elizabeth Easy reader. William experiences adventurous surprises when he receives an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a caste. Especially when he is off on a fantastic quest to another land and another time where a fiery dragon and an evil wizard are waiting to do battle. Engelse romans 
SCH-04697 The Christmas Killer WINDSOR Patricia Easy reader. At Christmastime, as young girls are disappearing, Rose is having disturbing dreams that reveal where their dead bodies can be found. Engelse romans 
SCH-04695 Staying Together Judith Wilson Easy reader level 4. Ikuko goes to England to study English, promising her boyfriend Hiroshi she will return to Japan to marry him. However, in Birmingham Ikuko discovers a whole new world and falls in love with another overseas student. Ikuko's journey across the world not only teaches her about different ways of life but also becomes a voyage of self-discovery. Engelse romans 
SCH-04692 The Forgotten Planet WILHELM Doug Easy reader. While working at a summer job in the intergalactic data banks, the reader discovers a long-forgotten planet--and a secret that threatens the entire universe. Engelse romans 
SCH-04685 The War of the Worlds WELLS H. G. Easy reader. The narrative opens in an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw where explosions are seen on the surface of the planet Mars, creating much interest in the scientific community. Engelse romans 
SCH-04680 On Fortune\'s Wheel VOIGT Cynthia Easy reader. Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince. Engelse romans 
SCH-04675 The Book Boy TROLLOPE Joanna Easy reader. Alice is thirty-eight. She has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy. But she isn't. Instead, she feels she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back of the sofa. Because Alice has a secret which is never spoken of in the family as they are all ashamed, Alice most of all. Alice can't read. Then two things happen. Her son, Craig, brings home his school's leather-clad bad boy, a terrible influence. And Alice's friend Liz tells her she's tired of feeling sorry for her and trying to help. Alice - timid, quiet Alice - must start out on her own brave journey and for it she chooses the strangest companion. For the first time in her life, she knows what she wants and she is going to get it. With the help of the book boy. Engelse romans 
SCH-04671 Superbird TOMLINSON Brian Easy reader level 2. Tells the story of the crash of the space ship Superbird and its only survivor, Mary Mount. Engelse romans