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Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de geur van rottend hout

Inspector De Cock

Rechercheur De Cock en zijn assistent Vledder gaan op onderzoek uit wanneer er in korte tijd drie moorden op dezelfde manier gepleegd zijn.<

Marianna Baer

Frost

<p>Leena Thomas’s senior year at boarding school starts with a cruel shock: Frost House, the cozy Victorian dorm where she and her best friends live, has been assigned an unexpected roommate—eccentric Celeste Lazar.</p><p>As classes get under way, strange happenings begin to bedevil Frost House: frames falling off walls, doors locking themselves, furniture toppling over. Celeste blames the housemates, convinced they want to scare her into leaving. And although Leena strives to be the peacekeeper, soon the eerie happenings in the dorm, an intense romance between Leena and Celeste’s brother, David, and the reawakening of childhood fears all push Leena to take increasingly desperate measures to feel safe. But does the threat lie with her new roommate, within Leena’s own mind… or in Frost House itself?</p><p>From debut author Marianna Baer, is a stunning and surprising tale of suspense that will have readers on the edge of their seats</p><

Keene Brian

A Gathering of Crows

<p>Five mysterious figures are about to pay a visit to Brinkley Springs. They have existed for centuries, emerging from the shadows only to destroy. To kill. To feed. They bring terror and carnage, and leave blood and death in their wake. The only person that can prevent their rampage is ex-Amish magus (and fan favorite character) Levi Stoltzfus. As the night wears on, Brinkley Springs will be quiet no longer. Screams will break the silence.</p><p>But when the sun rises again, will there be anyone left alive to hear?</p><

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de dode minnaars

Inspector De Cock

De Amsterdamse rechercheur De Cock wordt belast met de bewaking van de kunstschatten van een miljonair, terwijl hij tevens betrokken raakt bij de mysterieuze dood van een jongeman.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

Moord in een café

Baantjer Inc.

Een neef van de beroemde rechercheur De Cock en zijn collega moeten de moord op een oudere cafébezoeker oplossen.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en moord in beeld

Inspector De Cock

Het onderzoek naar illegale giflozingen in de Amstel groeit uit tot een ingewikkelde zaak, waarin De Cock en Vledder naspeuringen doen.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en moord in brons

Inspector De Cock

Wanneer een lid van het Oudheidkundig Genootschap van de Klokbekers vermoord wordt gevonden, worden De Cock en Vledder met het onderzoek belast.<

Tim Binding

Island Madness

It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning to turn. But on Guernsey and the rest of the Channel Islands, the only British territory to have been occupied by German troops, such a reversal is unimaginable. Here, in idyllic surroundings, the reality of war seems a lifetime away. While resentment runs high, life goes on, parties are held, love affairs blossom and the Guernsey Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Players can still stage productions of , and —albeit with suspiciously jackbooted pirates. But when a young local woman is found murdered, both the islanders and the occupiers are forced to acknowledge that this most civilized of wars conceals a struggle that is darker and more bitter than anyone cares to recognize.<

Matthew Brzezinski

Red Moon Rising

<p>On October 4 1957, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, the Earth’s first ever artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, this tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet for all its simplicity, Sputnik transformed science fiction into reality, passing over the stunned American continent once every 101 minutes and propelling the USSR from backward totalitarian regime to cutting-edge superpower and pioneer of the Space Age. The United States, desperate to catch up, trailed the Soviets into the space race the following year, with a controversial space programme masterminded by former Nazi rocket scientists.</p><

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

Moord met een strijdbijl

Baantjer Inc.

Een neef van de beroemde rechercheur De Cock probeert de moord op te lossen op een Nederlandse Wit-Rus, wiens hoofd is doorkliefd met een antieke strijdbijl.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de moord in extase

Inspector De Cock

De overval op een geldtransport en de moord op de chauffeur leveren de Amsterdamse rechercheur en zijn collega's veel werk op.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

Een lijk in de kast

Baantjer & De Waal

De oudere rechercheur Peter van Opperdoes en zijn jonge partner Jacob krijgen te maken met de verdwijning van twee lijken die een jonge vrouw in haar nieuwe huurwoning had ontdekt.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de moord in seance

Inspector De Cock

Als tijdens een seance een vrouw wordt vermoord, is het de taak van rechercheur De Cock de dader te ontmaskeren.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en moord bij maanlicht

De Cock en Vledder onderzoeken de moord op een Amsterdamse psychiater.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en een variant op moord

Inspector De Cock

Een oude vrouw vindt in een kantoorgebouw het lichaam van een dode man, dat even later is verdwenen.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de dode meesters

Inspector De Cock

Kort na elkaar worden drie juristen dood in de Brouwersgracht aangetroffen.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de ontluisterende dood

Inspector De Cock

Als op een Amsterdamse parkeerplaats vlak na elkaar de lijken van twee leraren worden aangetroffen en in Friesland een identieke moord wordt gepleegd, wordt de hulp van De Cock ingeroepen.<

Rachel Bailey

MILLION-DOLLAR AMNESIA SCANDAL

Alastair Bruce

Wall of Days

In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile by those whose leader he was, and he tallies on the wall of his cave the days as they pass. Until the day when something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he persuades himself to return, even if it means execution. His reception is so unexpected, so mystifying that he casts about unsure of what is real and what imaginary. Only the friendship of a child consoles him as he retraces the terrible deeds for which he is answerable, and as he tries to reach back, over his biggest betrayal, to the one he loved. is a moving parable about guilt, loss and remembering.<

Bruce Blake

Blood of the King

Khirro's joyrney

Bruce Blake

Heart of the King

Khirro's joyrney

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de naakte juffer

Inspector De Cock

Een grijze en wijze speurder onderzoekt met behulp van zijn eenvoudige rechercheur een reeks gruwelijke moorden.<

Bruce Blake

Spirit of the King

Khirro's Joyrney

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en moord in de hondsdagen

Inspector De Cock

Rechercheur De Cock moet hartje zomer de moord op een dierenactivist oplossen.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en het lijk op retour

Inspector De Cock

Net op de dag dat zij een achttienjarig meisje op bezoek hebben, moeten rechercheur De Cock en zijn assistent Vledder op zoek naar een verdwenen lijk.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en moord in reclame

Inspector De Cock

De Cock en Vledder onderzoeken een reeks moorden bij een reclamebureau.<

Greg Bear

Darwin's Children

Darwin

<p>Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, , painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions.</p><p>Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA—a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence… and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the “old” human race. </p><p>Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special “schools,” targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseases—and who fear the worst if the government’s draconian measures are carried to their extreme.</p><p>Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stella—a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind.</p><p>But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the government’s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new-breed children monitor their every move—watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve “humankind” at any cost.</p><

Gregory Benford

Didžioji dangaus upė

Pasak legendų, neatmenamais laikais žmonijos lopšį Žemę užpuolė mechai, sielą turintys mechaniniai robotai, ir išžudė beveik visus žmones. Tik saujelei laimingųjų pavyko pasprukti link Galaktikos Centro. Atrodo, kad žmonijos tėra likę tik 278 asmenys, kuriuos Čiuožyklos planetoje negailestingai medžioja klastūnai, marodieriai, ietininkai ir kitos mechų padermės…<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en het dodelijk akkoord

Inspector De Cock

Rechercheur De Cock staat een vriend bij, wiens dochter van moord wordt verdacht, maar al gauw raakt hij zelf betrokken bij een duister complot.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en de gebrandmerkte doden

Een jonge vrouw treft in een grachtenpand haar vriend dood aan met een brandmerk op zijn voorhoofd.<

Matt Bell

Cataclysm Baby

<p>Beset with environmental disaster, animal-like children, and the failure of traditional roles, the twenty-six fathers of Cataclysm Baby raise their desperate voices to reveal the strange stations of frustrated parenthood, to proclaim familial thrashings against the fading light of our exhausted planet, its glory grown wild again. As the known world disappears, these beleaguered and all-too-breakable men cling ever tighter to the duties of an unrecoverable past, even as their children rush ahead, evolve away.</p><p>Unflinching in the face of apocalypse and unblinking before the complicated gaze of parental love, Matt Bell’s is a powerful chronicle of our last days, and of the tentative graces that might fill the hours of our dusk.</p><

Matt Bell

How They Were Found

<p>In his debut collection , Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic command slip away as the memories of his men begin to fade and fail. Elsewhere, murders are indexed, new worlds are mapped, fairy tales are fractured and retold and then fractured again.</p><p>Throughout these thirteen stories, Bell’s careful prose burrows at the foundations of his characters’ lives until they topple over, then painstakingly pores over the wreckage for what rubbled humanity might yet remain to be found.</p><p>Contains the story “Dredge,” selected for .</p><

Matt Bell

In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

<p>In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife’s beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods, the second moon weighing down the fabric of their starless sky, and the labyrinth of memory dug into the earth beneath their house.</p><p>This novel, from one of our most exciting young writers, is a powerful exploration of the limits of parenthood and marriage—and of what happens when a marriage’s success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the sorrow that marks their absence.</p><

Biblica

Holy Bible: New International Version

<p>The New International Version (NIV) is a completely original translation of the Bible developed by more than one hundred scholars working from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.</p><p>The initial vision for the project was provided by a single individual — an engineer working with General Electric in Seattle by the name of Howard Long. Long was a lifelong devotee of the King James Version, but when he shared it with his friends he was distressed to find that it just didn’t connect. Long saw the need for a translation that captured the truths he loved in the language that his contemporaries spoke.</p><p>For 10 years, Long and a growing group of like-minded supporters drove this idea. The passion of one man became the passion of a church, and ultimately the passion of a whole group of denominations. And finally, in 1965, after several years of preparatory study, a trans-denominational and international group of scholars met in Palos Heights, Illinois, and agreed to begin work on the project — determining to not simply adapt an existing English version of the Bible but to start from scratch with the best available manuscripts in the original languages. Their conclusion was endorsed by a large number of church leaders who met in Chicago in 1966.</p><p>A self-governing body of fifteen biblical scholars, the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT) was formed and charged with responsibility for the version, and in 1968 the New York Bible Society (which subsequently became the International Bible Society and then Biblica) generously undertook the financial sponsorship of the project. The translation of each book was assigned to translation teams, each made up of two lead translators, two translation consultants, and a stylistic consultant where necessary. The initial translations produced by these teams were carefully scrutinized and revised by intermediate editorial committees of five biblical scholars to check them against the source texts and assess them for comprehensibility. Each edited text was then submitted to a general committee of eight to twelve members before being distributed to selected outside critics and to all members of the CBT in preparation for a final review. Samples of the translation were tested for clarity and ease of reading with pastors, students, scholars, and lay people across the full breadth of the intended audience. Perhaps no other translation has undergone a more thorough process of review and revision. From the very start, the NIV sought to bring modern Bible readers as close as possible to the experience of the very first Bible readers: providing the best possible blend of transparency to the original documents and comprehension of the original meaning in every verse. With this clarity of focus, however, came the realization that the work of translating the NIV would never be truly complete. As new discoveries were made about the biblical world and its languages, and as the norms of English usage developed and changed over time, the NIV would also need to change to hold true to its original vision.</p><p>And so in the original NIV charter, provision was made not just to issue periodic updates to the text but also to create a mechanism for constant monitoring of changes in biblical scholarship and English usage. The CBT was charged to meet every year to review, maintain, and strengthen the NIV’s ability to accurately and faithfully render God’s unchanging Word in modern English.</p><p>The 2011 update to the NIV is the latest fruit of this process. By working with input from pastors and Bible scholars, by grappling with the latest discoveries about biblical languages and the biblical world, and by using cutting-edge research on English usage, the Committee on Bible Translation has updated the text to ensure that the New International Version of the Bible remains faithful to Howard Long’s original inspiration.</p><

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en een deal met de duivel

Inspector De Cock

Rechercheur De Cock en zijn assistent Vledder krijgen te maken met de verdwijning van een drugshandelaar.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en het duel in de nacht

Inspector De Cock

Na een overlijdensbericht van een beruchte inbreker ontvangen te hebben worden De Cock en Vledder met een aantal mysterieuze moorden geconfronteerd.<

Albert Cornelis Baantjer

De Cock en moord op termijn

Inspector De Cock

De arrestatie van een jongen die veel te veel geld bij zich heeft, en de vondst van een lijk leiden tot een zaak waarin De Cock voortdurend op het verkeerde spoor gezet lijkt te worden.<

Vasil Bykaú

Kotek i myszka

Vasil Bykaú

Na chutorze

Raymond Benson

The World Is Not Enough

James Bond

<p>Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil tycoon, is murdered in an unprecedented bombing at the Secret Inteligence Service's London headquarters. M takes the attack personally and sends James Bond to what was once the USSR to protect King's heiress, his beautiful and fiery daughter Elektra. For the bombing is the work of "Renard", the cruel and cunning terrorist who once kidnapped Elekrta King and held her to ransom.</p><p>With nuclear weapons expert Dr Christmas Jones at his side, Bond travels to the Caspian Sea - where a former enemy becomes a formidable ally - before the final dramatic confrontation in the claustrophobic confines of a nuclear submarine beneath the surface of the Bosphorus</p><

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