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(Chaos Walking #2) SUMMARY: Part two of the literary sci-fi thriller follows a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard — and secrets are never safe.Reaching the end of their flight in THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO, Todd and Viola did not find healing and hope in Haven. They found instead their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, waiting to welcome them to New Prentisstown. There they are forced into separate lives: Todd to prison, and Viola to a house of healing where her wounds are treated. Soon Viola is swept into the ruthless activities of the Answer, while Todd faces impossible choices when forced to join the mayor’s oppressive new regime. In alternating narratives the two struggle to reconcile their own dubious actions with their deepest beliefs. Torn by confusion and compromise, suspicion and betrayal, can their trust in each other possibly survive?

Il y a bien longtemps, les Faeders et les Dragons ont décidé de ne plus s'immiscer dans les affaires des mortels. Retirés loin de Midgard, ils ont cependant confié à la Dame des Songes et à ses trois demi-sœurs les Ténèbres la tâche de veiller sur les humains. Aujourd'hui, dans le royaume de Walrœk, le jeune forestier Janes Oelsen, dont les parents n'ont jamais pu comprendre le caractère rêveur et la juvénile impétuosité, entre en possession d'une mystérieuse carte à la suite d'un pari. Accompagné de sa fidèle chouette Flocon, il va partir pour le château maudit de Nartchreck où, à en croire les légendes, repose un fabuleux trésor…

Lynn and Lee Hoyt decide a local ghost tour would be a fun date night. In an abandoned hotel on the tour, a demon and his minions have been waiting for just the right couple to come along. Can the ghost hunters, Hector and Marcos, save them before it's too late?

SUMMARY: “NEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!”That’s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Don’t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercises–hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians. And when a jealous woman sets them after her wayward husband, and a flasher strikes their retirement complex, two seemingly unrelated cases collide with a third: a series of dastardly murders targeting Florida’s wealthiest wives. But when the girls win tickets for a luxury bingo cruise, they hit the jackpot. Because this ship is carrying not only Florida’s fiercest bingo competitors but also a killer–and it’s up to Gladdy and her friends to stop him before one of them becomes his next victim….

Beschrijving Wanneer Calypso na de vakantie vol energie terugkeert naar school – een exclusieve Engelse kostschool voor steenrijke en adellijke meisjes – wordt haar snel duidelijk dat dit jaar niet zal verlopen zoals ze zich had voorgesteld. Zo blijkt niet haar beste vriendin Star haar kamergenoot te zijn, maar Calypso's aartsvijand Honey! Star deelt nu haar kamer met een oogverblindende prinses uit Nigeria. Ook haar spannende sms-romance met zowel kroonprins Freddie als de knappe Billy bezorgt haar buikpijn: met wie van de twee moet ze naar het gala? Wat zal er gebeuren als ze ontdekken dat ze met twee jongens sms't? En wat te denken van het gerucht dat haar vriendin Portia achter haar rug om prins Freddie heeft veroverd? Is Calypso straks de grote verliezer in deze emotionele achtbaan. Recensie(s) NBD|Biblion recensie Tweede deel van 'De kronieken van Calypso', het vervolg op 'Hoe versier ik een prins?'*. De 14-jarige Amerikaanse Calypso (ik-figuur) zit nog steeds op een exclusieve Engelse kostschool voor steenrijke en adellijke meisjes. Zij is daar een buitenbeentje vanwege haar accent, haar hobby schermen en haar nederige afkomst. In haar poging erbij te horen maakt ze soms verkeerde keuzes. Zal ze haar prins weten te veroveren? Hilarisch en ironisch meidenboek, vol drama, hartstocht, verleiding, geniep, jaloezie en vriendschap. Uit eigen ervaring geput verhaal, vlot geschreven, flink aangedikt en lekker leesbaar, ondanks Engelse situering. Herkenbaar geschreven vanuit de hoofdpersoon. Veel levendige dialoog. Indeling in korte getitelde hoofdstukjes. Paperback met gedeeltelijke kleurenfoto van meisje in spijkerbroek tegen een witte, snelle auto als achtergrond. Achter in het boek een lijst met termen uit het schermen en een algemene woordenlijst. Ontspannen meisjesroman. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar. (Biblion recensie, J.H.J.B. Boelens)

Advocaat Jon Soliday en senator Grant Tully zijn al jarenlang bevriend met elkaar. Ze delen echter ook een duister geheim: een nacht vol alcohol en drugs die resulteerde in de dood van een jonge vrouw. Twintig jaar later ontvangt Jon een anonieme brief waarin wordt geëist dat hij 250.000 dollar betaalt in ruil voor zijn stilzwijgen. Plotseling wordt hij in het nauw gedreven door twee jongens die destijds zijn ondervraagd. Jon weet dat iemand heeft gelogen over wat er twintig jaar geleden is gebeurd. Hij vreest dat diezelfde persoon baat kan hebben bij zijn veroordeling. Maar wie?

SUMMARY: The government knows that Daphne Urban is a vampire, and they have an ultimatum: spy for them, or be killed. The choice is easy. She can speak 13 languages, has a genius IQ, and has escaped detection for nearly five hundred years-making her perfect for Team Darkwing. Her first mission is to get close to Bonaventure, a shady arms dealer with an unexpected gift for seduction. But when Darius, a darkly sexy vampire slayer, begins chasing her, Darius is torn between desire and duty. For his lithe, young prey is also his ultimate temptation.

SUMMARY: Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Nest Freemark-John Ross saga, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon. After a long layover in Seattle for the middle book, Knight of the Word, the fantasy-meets-modernity action returns to Nest's native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void, this time in the form of ancient demon Findo Gask, who favors a black-clad evil preacher getup for his menacing needs. Brooks's well-realized and likable cast from the previous books is back, from Nest (now 29) to Ross (haggard as ever) to Pick (still just a few inches tall) and even grown-up versions of Nest's childhood friends from Running, including Bennett, now a junkie with child. Of course, Findo Gask has assembled a creepy little Legion of Doom to harry these nice folks: a giant albino demon; a formless, flesh-eating ur'droch; and a knife-wielding Orphan-Annie-gone-bad named Penny Dreadful. And Angel Fire's main plot thread is even compelling: John Ross has caught a shape-changing, wild-magic creature of enormous power, a gypsy morph, that he and Nest must discover how to turn to the Word before Gask and his crew can capture it for the Void. But as with Knight of the Word, wooden pacing and unconvincing transitions keep this tale from rising to the level of Brooks's previous masterworks, such as the excellent Shannara and Landover series. If you've read the first two books, it's certainly worth seeing off your old friends in Angel Fire East. But if you're--heaven forbid--new to Terry Brooks, check out his earlier work, or even his very capable novelization of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. --Paul Hughes

Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware. A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer’s use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spirals outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate edges; across the paths of commodities brokers and transvestite hookers; and as far away as New York City, where the search thaws out a long-cold case and exposes a grotesque homicidal crusade. The killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification, leaving behind dazed witnesses and death–and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.From the Trade Paperback edition.

From Bookmarks Magazine

It’s difficult to tell if critics’ reactions to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be characterized as praise or astonishment. Some reviewers treated the book as a delightful gimmick. Others found that, beneath the surface, the book actually constituted an interesting way of looking at Austen’s novel. Zombies answer certain puzzling questions: Why were those troops stationed near Hertfordshire? Why did Charlotte Lucas actually marry Mr. Collins? (She had recently been bitten by zombies and wanted a husband who could be counted on to behead her—of course!) But critics also pointed out that this parody shows that Austen’s novel has remained so powerful over time that even the undead can’t spoil it.
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From Booklist

This may be the most wacky by-product of the busy Jane Austen fan-fiction industry—at least among the spin-offs and pastiches that have made it into print. In what’s described as an “expanded edition” of Pride and Prejudice, 85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with  “ultraviolent zombie mayhem.” For more than 50 years, we learn, England has been overrun by zombies, prompting people like the Bennets to send their daughters away to China for training in the art of deadly combat, and prompting others, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, to employ armies of ninjas. Added to the familiar plot turns that bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together is the fact that both are highly skilled killers, gleefully slaying zombies on the way to their happy ending. Is nothing sacred? Well, no, and mash-ups using literary classics that are freely available on the Web may become a whole new genre. What’s next? Wuthering Heights and Werewolves? --Mary Ellen Quinn

Hampton Manor is a multi-genre work about the lives of five townspeople in the quiet New England town of Old Brooking, Connecticut as they contend with the powerful Hampton family. The protagonist, Adam Hampton III, is an amalgamation of characters from fiction and real life. He stirs up the emotions of each of the main characters through a series of ruthless actions until one finally hires an assassin to kill both Adam and his father, and burn Hampton Manor to the ground. AMAZON REVIEW: 5 STARS "Another nail-biter from the author of Blood Money. It's one of those thrillers that make you glad you started reading while the night was young because you can't put it down. Page by page Hampton Manor brings you closer to a terrible secret that will give you goosebumps as you dive into the mystery of the Hampton family." — Jack King, "Author of Suspense" (in from the cold)