Nr Titel Auteur Beschrijving Categorie
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-04691 In koelen bloede CAPOTE Truman In november 1959 leest Truman Capote in The New York Times een bericht over het boerengezin Clutter in Holocomb, Kansas, dat bruut uitgemoord wordt door twee jonge criminelen. Hij stort zich op de zaak en besluit deze tot het onderwerp te maken van een roman. Zes jaar lang doet hij onderzoek, hij interviewt alle betrokkenen en begeleidt de moordenaars tijdens hun laatste gang naar hun executie op 14 april 1965. In koelen bloede is de magistrale reconstructie van een gruwelijke moordzaak, waarin Capote de kunst van de romanschrijver paart aan de techniek van de journalist. Nederlandse romans-volwassenen 
SCH-04690 Einde van een familieroman NADAS Péter Het einde van een familieroman is een even lucide als poëtisch boek, dat de psychologische verkrachting van het stalinistische Hongarije tot onderwerp heeft. Nádas vertelt zijn verhaal vanuit de optiek van een kind dat opgevoed wordt door zijn grootouders. Zijn wereld wordt gekleurd door de geheimen van het oude huis en de tuin, en door de bijbels getinte verhalen van de grootvader die uit de geschiedenis van het joodse volk het mythologische relaas van zijn afstamming destilleert. Nederlandse romans-volwassenen 
SCH-04689 De appel FABER Michel Zeven verhalen rond romanpersonages uit 'Lelieblank, scharlakenrood', waarin een meisje zich in het Londen van 1875 vanuit haar moeders bordeel via een vaste klant opwerkt uit de goot. Nederlandse romans-volwassenen 
SCH-04688 Wat is de Wat EGGERS David Het levensverhaal van een jongeman die als jongen de burgeroorlog in Zuid-Soedan overleeft door naar Kenia te vluchten en daarna in de Verenigde Staten asiel krijgt. Nederlandse romans-volwassenen 
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 
SCH-04670 Goofbang value daze THOMPSON Julian F. Easy reader. In a futuristic community set under a huge dome, a riot erupts at a high school when students protest the school directors' authoritarian measures. Engelse romans 
SCH-04669 Discontinued THOMPSON Julian F. Easy reader. Tragedy, foul play, and basketball are the three things in Duncan Branigan's life as well as the reason why he runs away to Vermont to join a quasi-religious group that--he soon finds out--may have killed his brother. Engelse romans 
SCH-04668 The Hustler TEVIS Walter Easy reader. When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the firstand the bestnovel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an audience for the movie with the same name starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is about the victories and losses of one Fast Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town conning strangers into thinking they could beat him at the game when in fact, he is a skillful player who has never lost a game. Until he meets his match in Minnesota Fats, the true king of the poolroom, causing his life to change drastically. This is a classic tale of a mans struggle with his soul and his self-esteem. If Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson.Time A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance. Engelse romans 
SCH-04666 Gulliver\'s Travel SWIFT Jonathan Easy reader level 2.Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Engelse romans 
SCH-04664 Twisted STINE R. L. Easy reader. She's your sister, trust her. Engelse romans 
SCH-04663 Curtains STINE R. L. Easy reader. After winning the lead in her summer camp's play, Rena realizes that the same person who has been playing dirty tricks on her may also threaten her life. Engelse romans 
SCH-04662 Beach House STINE R. L. Easy reader. As a group of teenagers enjoy the sun and surf at the beach, a killer who never leaves a clue and who disappears without a trace stalks them one by one. Engelse romans