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    De stille zee
    Children of blood and bone
    Code
    Lincoln Rhyme: The Kill Room
    The Silent Patient
    Wassende maan
    • Wassende maan

      • 456bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      In het jaar 367 na Christus ontsnapt een Romeinse galei met een bijzondere vracht op het nippertje aan piraten. In 1916 explodeert een Engels oorlogsschip op mysterieuze wijze midden op de Noordzee. En nu worden belangrijke moskeeën in Turkije en Egypte opgeblazen. NUMA-directeur Dirk Pitt en zijn team onderzoeken het verband tussen Romeinse voorwerpen die in Turkije en Israel zijn opgegraven en een fundamentalistische beweging die vastbesloten is de glorie van het Ottomaanse rijk in ere te herstellen. Maar het gevaarlijkste van alles is een mysterieus manuscript dat wel eens cruciaal zou kunnen zijn voor de geschiedenis van de wereld zoals wij die kennen...

      Wassende maan
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    • The Silent Patient

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      - THE RECORD-BREAKING, MULTIMILLION COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION - Discover the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that everyone is talking about - as seen on TikTok. Soon to be a major film. Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago. When she shot her husband in the head five times. Since then she hasn't spoken a single word. It's time to find out why. READERS LOVE THE SILENT PATIENT ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Everything you need from a psychological thriller with a killer twist that is impossible to see coming!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Fiendishly clever ... believe the hype.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Grabs your afternoon from the start and never lets go' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A fantastic thriller with an incredible plot twist that I really didn't see coming. I highly recommend.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'OMG, my heart is still pounding from the final chapters of this amazing thriller.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I'm honestly speechless, best book I have read for a very long time' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The twists when they come, wow oh wow!' CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED 'The perfect thriller' AJ FINN 'Terrific' - THE TIMES Crime Book of the Month 'Smart, sophisticated suspense' - LEE CHILD 'Compelling' - OBSERVER 'Absolutely brilliant' - STEPHEN FRY 'A totally original psychological mystery' - DAVID BALDACCI 'One of the best thrillers I've read this year' - CARA HUNTER 'The pace and finesse of a master' - BBC CULTURE

      The Silent Patient
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    • Lincoln Rhyme: The Kill Room

      • 484bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      Renowned investigator and forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is drafted to investigate the sniper-killing of a U.S. citizen in the Bahamas. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself.

      Lincoln Rhyme: The Kill Room
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    • Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island - rescued from financial disaster, the research institute is flourishing once more. But the tranquility is quickly shattered when Tory Brennan and her technophile gang discover a mysterious box buried in the ground. A seemingly innocent treasure hunt soon turns into a nightmarish game of puzzles, as it becomes clear that one false move will lead to terrible, explosive consequences. The clock is ticking. Can Tory and the Virals crack the code in time to save the city - and their own lives?

      Code
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    • Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and Bone.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled - Burners igniting flames, Tiders beckoning waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoning forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, anyone with powers was targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Only a few people remain with the power to use magic, and they must remain hidden. Zélie is one such person. Now she has a chance to bring back magic to her people and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must learn to harness her powers and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in Orïsha, where strange creatures prowl, and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to come to terms with the strength of her magic - and her growing feelings for an enemy.The movie of Children of Blood and Bone is in development at Fox 2000/Temple Hill Productions with the incredible Karen Rosenfelt and Wyck Godfrey (Twilight, Maze Runner, The Fault In Our Stars) producing it.

      Children of blood and bone
      4,1
    • De stille zee

      • 351bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      7 december 1941 : vier broers doen op een klein eiland net buiten de kust voor Washington een buitengewone ontdekking. Alleen het nieuws over Pearl Harbor overschaduwt hun vondst. Heden : Cabrillo, op jacht naar een neergestorte satelliet in de Aregntijnse jungle, doet ook een schokkende ontdekking. Zijn poging het mysterie van zijn vondst te ontrafelen leidt hem naar dat kleine eiland bij Washington en nog veel verder terug, naar een eeuwenoude Chinese expeditie. Een vloek lijkt de tand des tijds te hebben doorstaan. Als Cabrillo’s team slaagt in hun missie, zal de beloning ongekend zijn. Maar als hun expeditie mislukt, wacht hen slechts de dood…

      De stille zee
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    • Dossier Oregon: Dodenschip / druk 1

      • 447bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Juan Cabrillo is de kapitein van de Oregon, een hightech schip dat wordt bemand door voormalige militairen en spionnen en dat de ene na de andere gevaarlijke missie uitvoert. Na een geheime operatie tegen Iran in de Perzische Golf ontdekt de bemanning een stuurloos ronddrijvend cruiseschip, met honderden lijken aan dek. Terwijl Cabrillo aan boord gaat om uit te zoeken wat er is gebeurd, wordt het schip geteisterd door een aantal explosies. Op het nippertje weet hij zichzelf en de enige overlevende van het cruiseschip te redden...

      Dossier Oregon: Dodenschip / druk 1
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    • Cometh the Hour

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy?Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot.Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.

      Cometh the Hour
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    • De NUMA files - 8: Medusa

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      In Micronesië doet een Amerikaans zeelaboratorium in het grootste geheim research naar een zeldzame kwal die bekendstaat als de Blauwe Medusa. Plotseling verdwijnt het laboratorium... Tegelijkertijd wordt een bathyscaaf buiten Bermuda aangevallen. Alleen razendsnelle actie kan de bemanning - onder wie Joe Zavala van het NUMA-team - redden. Al spoedig stuit Kurt Austin op een reeks afschuwelijke medische experimenten en ontdekt hij dat een dodelijk virus op het punt staat een wereldwijde pandemie te veroorzaken...

      De NUMA files - 8: Medusa
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    • Odessa Sea

      • 480bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      As Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, Dirk Pitt has always had a knack for finding trouble. This time, though, trouble has found him. On a NUMA mission to the Black Sea to locate the wreck of a lost Ottoman Empire ship, Pitt and his friend Al Giordino respond to an urgent Mayday from a nearby freighter. But by the time they reach the area there's no one left alive just dead bodies and the smell of sulphur in the air. When a massive blast from the stern suddenly scuttles the ship, Pitt and Giordino are lucky not to add to the death toll. As they investigate the fate of the lost ship, they're plunged deep into an extraordinary series of discoveries. And when connections emerge between a desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov empire, a Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo, modern-day nuclear smugglers and a brilliant engineer developing cutting-edge drone technology, Pitt is face with the most dangerous challenge of his career. One that will threaten the lives of his family and friends.

      Odessa Sea
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    • The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people - until an investigator friend of theirs goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What they find, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Venice, and Siberia, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, stone-age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years...... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.

      The Kingdom
      3,7
    • Avondrood

      Overleven op zee, het waargebeurde overlevingsverhaal van een moedige jonge vrouw

      • 204bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      Het hartverscheurende memoir vertelt het verhaal van Tami Oldham en haar verloofde Richard Sharp, die vanuit Tahiti zeilen onder een stralende blauwe lucht, met San Diego als eindbestemming. Minder dan twee weken in hun reis worden ze echter geconfronteerd met een van de meest catastrofale orkanen in de geschiedenis. Ze moeten vechten tegen zware regen, golven ter grootte van wolkenkrabbers en winden van 140 knopen. Richard bindt zichzelf aan de boot en stuurt Tami naar beneden voor haar veiligheid, waarna het stil wordt. Uren later ontwaakt Tami om te ontdekken dat de boot in puin ligt en Richard nergens te bekennen is. Adrift is het verhaal van Tami's wonderbaarlijke reis van eenenveertig dagen naar veiligheid op een verwoeste boot zonder motor en zonder masten, met weinig hoop op redding. Het is een verhaal van liefde en overleving op zee - een onvergetelijk verhaal over de veerkracht van de menselijke geest en de transcendente kracht van liefde.

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    • Treasure-hunting husband and wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Central America when they come upon a remarkable discovery - the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot. Inside the pot is a well-preserved Mayan book, larger than any previously found by archaeologists.

      Fargo Adventures - 5: The Mayan Secrets
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    • Il valzer dell'orrore

      • 305bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Il fratellastro di Hank, Earl, ha un figlio di nome Bill, che è entrato a far parte del Club dei Disastri, composto da giovani con una vera fissazione per il sesso e l'omicidio. Durante una delle loro scorribande, le cose non vanno secondo quanto avevano stabilito, e tutti e quatto i membri del club vengono aggrediti in maniera crudele da due misteriosi personaggi, Fat Boy e l'Uomo Cobra. Bill riesce a fuggire e decide di chiedere aiuto proprio allo zio Hank, per sfuggire ai tentativi di vendetta dei due pericolosi assassini. Una vendetta che ora incombe sulla tranquilla vita di Hank, il quale dovrà rivolgersi a sua volta a un fratello - per lui praticamente un estraneo - per riuscire a salvare la propria famiglia dal massacro. Il valzer dell'orrore è un'opera originale, popolata da personaggi memorabili, dove si alternano humour e brutalità, tenerezza e violenza, creando le basi dell'attuale successo dello scrittore texano.

      Il valzer dell'orrore
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    • La banda dell'altro mondo

      • 422bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      In un caldo pomeriggio texano, Cindy Nance rivela a Doug Hoover due grandi segreti della vita. Il primo lo entusiasma, mentre il secondo, che i ragazzi crescono e devono lavorare, lo delude. Attraverso matrimoni falliti e lavori insoddisfacenti, Doug si rende conto della verità delle parole di Cindy. Deluso dal presente, cerca di rivivere le gioie del passato, decidendo di lasciare moglie e lavoro. Tuttavia, la sua vita cambia quando incontra Sue Jean, il sogno di una vita, e Royce, un vagabondo. I tre si ritrovano in un mondo avventuroso, dove la vita, la morte e l’amore assumono nuovi significati. In questo romanzo on the road, le emozioni si intrecciano in un caleidoscopio di follie narrative. La realtà e la magia si confondono, creando un universo in cui tutto sembra possibile. I sogni si mescolano alla vita reale, e le strade conducono esattamente dove si deve andare. Il tono ironico ricorda altri maestri texani, come Larry McMurtry, mentre l'assurdità della narrazione porta alla mente Thomas Pynchon.

      La banda dell'altro mondo
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