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Series
Attack on Titan volume 22
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Het verhaal speelt zich af in een wereld waar de mensheid in steden woont die omgeven zijn door enorme muren, als verdediging tegen de Titans, reusachtige humanoïde wezens die mensen eten. Het verhaal draait om Eren Jaeger en zijn vrienden Mikasa Ackerman en Armin Arlert. Zij zijn bij het leger gegaan om tegen de Titans te vechten nadat die hun stad zijn binnengedrongen. Manga. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
2) Hollow city
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends, who possess supernatural abilities, must journey to London (circa 1940), the 'peculiar' capital of the world. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner"--
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Language
English
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes...
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Series
Ransome trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fast-paced, engaging end to the Ransome Trilogy follows a tale of love and danger on the Caribbean Sea in the early 1800s.
Captain William Ransome is searching for his sister, Charlotte, who has been captured by Salvadore, the infamous "Robin Hood of the West Indies." When word comes that his wife, Julia, has been kidnapped by the evil pirate, Shaw, Captain Ransome and his crew frantically search the horizon for the two women he loves.
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Language
English
Description
"A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying...
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Language
English
Description
"With his dying words, H---Jacob's final connection to his grandfather Abes's secret life--entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known as V"
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Language
English
Description
"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
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Language
English
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Description
A vivid and gritty thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, Burn takes today's genetic research one step into a terrifying future, a "Hot Zone" world gone mad about a man-made contagion that literally leaves no one untouched.
It is called GenoVax, and the death it brings is horrifying.
It is the most frightening weapon mankind has ever created, and when it is unleashed, the human race will know what it is like to burn. . . ....
10) Ransome's honor
Author
Series
Ransome trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julia Witherington is pressured into marrying William Ransome in order to receive a huge dowry, but the couple strike a financial deal to feign marriage for one year, leading to situations that reveal a growing affection between the two.
11) Leaving Lymon
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
12) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Series
Jake Ransom volume 1
Language
English
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
15) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
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Language
English
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Description
In Seattle, a man with a grudge against a food chain tampers with their products and children die of poison. Policeman Lou Bolt and police psychologist Daphne Matthews resort to computers to catch the killer who demands ransom money through ATM machines. By the author of The Angel Maker.
17) Red Cap
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Language
English
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Description
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
18) Ransom Canyon
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Grady...or that she has her own secret that no one living knows. Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prize--college, and the chance to become something more than a ranch hand's son. But one night, one wrong decision, will...
19) For Lamb
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Language
English
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Description
"For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the...
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Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 23
Language
English
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Description
"In the 23rd installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dark and stormy night kicks off a ghost chase in rural England On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, on the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, a powerful storm drives her off course and leaves...