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Ian McEwan Machines like me

and people like you

In een alternatief Engeland in 1982, waarin Argentinië de Falklandoorlog heeft gewonnen, koopt een man een van de eerste androïdes (robotmensen) die direct verliefd wordt op de vriendin van de man.

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Engels | 305 pagina's | Vintage, London | 2020

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Game of thrones

Op het mythische continent Westeros strijden zeven koninkrijken om de macht.

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Margaret Atwood The testaments

De getuigenissen van drie vrouwen laten zien dat de toestand in de theocratie Gilead minder goed is dan voorheen.

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Engels | 419 pagina's | Chatto & Windus, London | 2019

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Lisa Maxwell The devil's thief

Esta, de jonge vrouwelijke Mageus uit Manhattan die de tijd kan manipuleren, keert terug uit 1902 om Harte, die de kracht van het magische boek, de Ars Arcana in zich draagt te redden.

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Engels | 692 pagina's | Simon Pulse, New York | 2018

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Maggie Dallen The Rogue Debutante

Delia Langley has been a prisoner all her life - a prisoner to high society and its conventions. A prisoner to her wealthy father's overprotective measures. A prisoner to a fiance-to-be in an arrangement made by her father to have a royal heir. Now nineteen, Delia is ready to leave another prison, the manmade "city in the sky," Beau Monde, where she's been tucked away, high above London all these many years. Her marriage to Lord Thaddeus Templeton will be announced after her debutante ball, and...

Engels | 4 uur 5 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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The Flash

Barry Allen alias 'The Flash' strijdt tegen een nieuwe vijand in Central City: Clifford DeVoe alias 'The Thinker'.

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Westworld

Een veiligheidsteam probeert de controle te herstellen over het themapark in westernstijl waarin de menselijke robots in opstand zijn gekomen.

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before your memory fades

Verhalen over een Japans café waar je niet alleen koffie kunt drinken maar ook voor korte tijd kunt terugkeren naar iemand of iets uit je verleden. Aan het heden verandert echter niets.

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Engels | 239 pagina's | Picador, London | 2023

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Marvel Studios The Avengers: infinity war

De Avengers en hun bondgenoten moeten de strijd aangaan met de gevaarlijke titaan Thanos die alle Stenen van Oneindigheid wil verzamelen om de helft van het universum te vernietigen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

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Planet of the apes

trilogy

Chimpansee Caesar, die als gevolg van een genetisch experiment zeer intelligent is, komt in opstand tegen de mensheid.

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Lisa Maxwell The last magician

Een jonge vrouwelijke Mageus uit Manhattan kan de tijd manipuleren en krijgt de opdracht om naar het jaar 1902 te reizen om te voorkomen dat een boek wordt vernietigd en daarmee de toekomst van de Mageus veilig te stellen.

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Engels | 500 pagina's | Simon Pulse, New York | 2018

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Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur

Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom,...

Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt

"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...

Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...

Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Gods of Mars

After ten long years away from Barsoom and his beloved red Martian princess Dejah Thoris, John Carter is finally back! Unfortunately, Carter appears in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart... The second installment in Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci-fi Mars series, "The Gods of Mars" is the thrilling follow-up to "A Princess of Mars". Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American novelist. His most notable creations include the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter,...

Engels | 7 uur 37 minuten (347 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...

Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edgar Wallace The Green Rust

A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...

Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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The Flash

Door een blikseminslag blijkt Barry Allen te beschikken over supersnelheid. Als 'The Flash' bestrijdt hij de misdaad in Central City.

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The dark tower

De elfjarige Jake ontmoet in een ander universum scherpschutter Roland Deschain die op zoek is naar de Donkere Toren.

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