Soetkin's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:28:58 -0800 60 Soetkin's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Soetkin 2 books-i-own 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 2
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Soetkin 4 3.95 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1928
rating: 4
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]]> Lady of the Shades 12981613 What Ed wants is answers, what he finds is something he definitely didn't bargain the beautiful and untouchable Andeanna Menderes. Andeanna is a woman who is dangerously bound to one of London's most notorious crime lords, and if they are caught together it could mean death for them both.
Ensnared in an illicit affair that can only be conducted in the shadows, Ed's world is turned upside down as a series of shattering revelations blurs the line between what's real and what's not...]]> 320 Darren Shan 1409143619 Soetkin 5 4.13 2012 Lady of the Shades
author: Darren Shan
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 25772375 Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.

Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person's life-span to making intersteller travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis.

Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.

When the Emperor transfers stewardship of Arrakis from the noble House Harkonnen to House Atreides, the Harkonnens fight back, murdering Duke Leto Atreides. Paul, his son, and Lady Jessica, his concubine, flee into the desert. On the point of death, they are rescued by a band for Fremen, the native people of Arrakis, who control Arrakis' second great resource: the giant worms that burrow beneath the burning desert sands.

In order to avenge his father and retake Arrakis from the Harkonnens, Paul must earn the trust of the Fremen and lead a tiny army against the innumerable forces aligned against them.

And his journey will change the universe.]]> 577 Frank Herbert 0340960191 Soetkin 0 4.15 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Fool's Assassin (Fitz and the Fool, #1)]]> 25452013
But behind the facade of respectable middle-age lies a turbulent and violent past. For Tom Badgerlock is actually FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard scion of the Farseer line, convicted user of Beast-magic, and assassin. A man who has risked much for his king and lost more…

On a shelf in his den sits a triptych carved in memory stone of a man, a wolf and a fool. Once, these three were inseparable friends: Fitz, Nighteyes and the Fool. But one is long dead, and one long-missing.

Then one Winterfest night a messenger arrives to seek out Fitz, but mysteriously disappears, leaving nothing but a blood-trail. What was the message? Who was the sender? And what has happened to the messenger?

Suddenly Fitz's violent old life erupts into the peace of his new world, and nothing and no one is safe.]]> 630 Robin Hobb 0007444206 Soetkin 0 4.48 2014 Fool's Assassin (Fitz and the Fool, #1)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)]]> 40275288
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.]]> 848 Samantha Shannon 1408883457 Soetkin 0 4.16 2019 The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
author: Samantha Shannon
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.16
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]]> Far From the Madding Crowd 31463 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439655

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.]]> 433 Thomas Hardy Soetkin 0 books-i-own, to-read 3.97 1874 Far From the Madding Crowd
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1874
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]]> More Bloody Horowitz 6344587 112 Anthony Horowitz 1406317004 Soetkin 0 books-i-own, to-read 3.88 2010 More Bloody Horowitz
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> Neverwhere (London Below, #1) 575754 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780755322800

Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: neverwhere.

This is the author's preferred text. Includes exclusive extra material: Introduction to This Text, An Alltogether Different Prologue, An Interview with Neil Gaiman, Reading-group Discussion Questions.]]> 384 Neil Gaiman Soetkin 0 to-read 4.15 1996 Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> Het Nieuwe Borstvoedingboek 39893058 Dit boek biedt ook handvatten aan ouders die niet willen, mogen of kunnen borstvoeden. Er staan geen regels in dit boek. Integendeel!
Gonneke en Stefan, beiden lactatiekundigen, laten je zien wat je kunt doen om de werkelijke behoeften van je kind te ontdekken en daar naar te handelen. De blauwdruk, de oorspronkelijke behoeften van jouw kind zijn uitgangspunt voor de handreikingen die in dit boek aan de jonge ouders gegeven worden. Ze nemen daarbij geen blad voor de mond.]]> 304 Stefan Kleintjes 9060388429 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.70 Het Nieuwe Borstvoedingboek
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]]> <![CDATA[Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)]]> 9317452 392 Ben Aaronovitch 0575097566 Soetkin 0 3.81 2011 Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> Coraline 20764916 192 Neil Gaiman 1408841754 Soetkin 4 4.12 2002 Coraline
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> Northanger Abbey 414332 here and here.

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney, risking the loss of Henry's affection, and has to learn the difference between fiction and reality, false friends and true. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.]]> 254 Jane Austen Soetkin 3 books-i-own 3.78 1817 Northanger Abbey
author: Jane Austen
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1817
rating: 3
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]]> Elantris (Elantris, #1) 31929501
Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping -- based on their correspondence -- to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.

But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.

A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.]]> 608 Brandon Sanderson Soetkin 5 4.26 2005 Elantris (Elantris, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> Wuthering Heights 348914 359 Emily Brontë Soetkin 3 books-i-own 3.85 1847 Wuthering Heights
author: Emily Brontë
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1847
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #1-9)]]> 7090913
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle are the complete adventures of the original and best detective, containing four novels and fifty-six short stories about the most engaging detective of all time, with a foreword by crime writer Ruth Rendell.

The detective Sherlock Holmes - who continues to enthral millions in film and TV adaptations starring actors like Robert Downey Jr and Benedict Cumberbatch - was the creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose crime stories have thrilled readers for well over a century.

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction.

In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful sidekick Doctor John H. Watson, proves himself to be not only the quintessential detective but also the most engaging and entertaining company any reader could ask for.

The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes allows readers to experience the entire case-history of Holmes and Dr. Watson from start to finish - the stories that have spawned such infamous characters as the devilish Moriarty, the devious Irene Adler and, of course, the legendary hound of the Baskervilles ...

This edition includes a foreword written by crime writer Ruth Rendell.]]> 1122 Arthur Conan Doyle Soetkin 0 4.50 1887 The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #1-9)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1887
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)]]> 36237280 SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?

A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral.

Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer?

Daniel Hawthorne, a recalcitrant detective with secrets of his own, is on the case, together with his reluctant side-kick – a man completely unaccustomed to the world of crime.

But even Hawthorne isn't prepared for the twists and turns in store – as unexpected as they are bloody...
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Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz’s page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBC’s Sherlock, you’ll LOVE The Word is Murder.

Chosen as one of Crime Time's books of the year

'Raises the game-playing to Olympic level' – Guardian Books of the Year

'A real page-turner. I loved it!' – ALED JONES (ITV, Weekend)

'The beguiling whodunit plot is dispatched with characteristic elan as Horowitz blurs the line between fact and fiction' – Financial Times

'Splendidly entertaining, absorbing and difficult to put down. Hawthorne is an intriguing character' – Daily Express

'Sharp-witted readers who think they've solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they've opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree' – Kirkus Reviews

'Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more' – Publishers Weekly]]> 390 Anthony Horowitz Soetkin 5 3.95 2017 The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)]]> 16043857
But the Mighty Shandar doesn't do refunds, and vows to eliminate the dragons once and for all - unless sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekicks from the Kazam house of enchantment can bring him the legendary jewel, The Eye of Zoltar.

The only thing that stands in their way is a perilous journey with a 50% Fatality Index - through the Cambrian Empire to the Leviathan Graveyard, at the top of the deadly Cadir Idris mountain. It's a quest like never before, and Jennifer soon finds herself fighting not just for her life, but for everything she knows and loves . . .]]> 401 Jasper Fforde 1444707272 Soetkin 4 4.14 2014 The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2019/09/20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)]]> 23018984
The second book in Robin Hobb’s thrilling fantasy series returns readers to the Six Duchies and the magical world of the Fitz and the Fool.

Fitz has been persuaded back to court, posing as a servant to the decadent Lord Golden (who is the Fool in disguise). In secret, he will train Prince Dutiful in the magic known as the Skill.

The peace remains fragile, so the diplomatic wedding between Dutiful and the Outislander princess is a crucial alliance. But when Elliania arrives she challenges the prince to undertake an impossible quest before she will accept him.

He must kill Icefyre, one of the last true dragons. And Fitz and the Fool must go with him…]]> 632 Robin Hobb 000758590X Soetkin 5 4.55 2002 The Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> The Last Dragonslayer 10098366 289 Jasper Fforde 1444707205 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.04 2010 The Last Dragonslayer
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> The Song of the Quarkbeast 15946078 290 Jasper Fforde 1444707256 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.23 2011 The Song of the Quarkbeast
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> Good Omens 23590526 The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...

People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons - well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel - would quite like the Rapture not to happen.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist...

Cover illustration by Douglas Smith

]]> 415 Terry Pratchett Soetkin 3 4.11 1990 Good Omens
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)]]> 224912
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last...
(back cover)]]> 251 J.K. Rowling Soetkin 4 books-i-own 4.37 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next #6)]]> 11464424
Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?

All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake.

The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself.]]> 393 Jasper Fforde 0340963093 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.02 2011 One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next #6)
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2019/07/08
date added: 2019/07/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)]]> 34835346
Crime writer Alan Conway has been a bestselling author for years. Readers love his detective, Atticus Pünd, a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s.

But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder.]]> 552 Anthony Horowitz 1409158381 Soetkin 5 3.96 2016 Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 72193
]]> 223 J.K. Rowling Soetkin 4 books-i-own 4.45 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 24490481 The landmark publishing event of 2015 -- a full-colour illustrated edition of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with breathtaking illustrations by Jim Kay, winner of the Kate Greenaway medal.

For the first time, J.K. Rowling's beloved Harry Potter books will be presented in lavishly illustrated full-color editions. Prepare to be spellbound by Jim Kay's dazzling depiction of the wizarding world and much loved characters in this full-colour illustrated hardback edition of the nation's favourite children's book -- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Jim Kay has created over 100 stunning illustrations, making this deluxe format a perfect gift as much for a child being introduced to the series, as for the dedicated fan. Brimming with rich detail and humour that perfectly complements J.K. Rowling's timeless classic, Jim Kay's glorious illustrations will captivate fans and new readers alike.

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers, which could be valuable, dangerous -- or both. An incredible adventure is about to begin!]]> 248 J.K. Rowling Soetkin 5 4.83 1997 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.83
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]]> Steelheart (Reckoners, #1) 22906853
Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.

He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.]]> 384 Brandon Sanderson 057510404X Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.07 2013 Steelheart (Reckoners, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1) 22758617
Fifteen years have passed and events are about to sweep Fitz out of his quiet backwater life and into the main political current again. Persecution of the Witted has become rampant throughout the Six Duchies despite Queen Kettricken's effort to damp it. The Witted themselves have begun to strike back. So when 15 year old Prince Dutiful disappears, is it only because he is nervous about his betrothal ceremony to an Outislander princess, or has he been taken hostage by the Witted? Worse, is he perhaps another 'Piebald Prince', a Farseer tainted by Wit magic? As the desperate situation worsens, Kettricken has no choice but to summon Fitz to Buckkeep, for who better to track the young prince down than another gifted with the Wit, together with his bonded companion, the wolf Nighteyes?]]> 584 Robin Hobb 0007585896 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.66 2001 Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.66
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> North and South 512710 'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?'

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill-workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

In her introduction, Patricia Ingham examines geographical, economic and class differences, and male and female roles in North and South. This edition also includes a list for further reading, notes and a glossary.]]> 496 Elizabeth Gaskell 0140434240 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.16 1855 North and South
author: Elizabeth Gaskell
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1855
rating: 5
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]]> Early Riser 31815292 Every Winter, the human population hibernates.

During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.

You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.

When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.

When you get the dreams too, it's weird.

When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.

But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.

But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.]]> 402 Jasper Fforde 1473650224 Soetkin 5 4.09 2018 Early Riser
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)]]> 6547259 Who is the Hero of Ages?

To end the final empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness — the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists — is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.

Having escaped death only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Meanwhile, Vin is consumed with guilt at accidentally releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well.

The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfils all the promise of the first two books, in a finale unmatched for originality and audacity.]]> 748 Brandon Sanderson 0575089946 Soetkin 5 4.59 2008 The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Oblivion (De Kracht van Vijf, #5)]]> 18965266 621 Anthony Horowitz 9044818740 Soetkin 5 4.21 2012 Oblivion (De Kracht van Vijf, #5)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2018/11/04
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]]> <![CDATA[Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)]]> 25985881
The dragon, Tintaglia, released from her wizardwood coffin, flies high over the Rain Wild River. Below her, Reyn and Selden have been left to drown, while Malta and the Satrap attempt to navigate the acid flow of the river in a decomposing boat.

Althea and Brashen are sailing the liveship Paragon into pirate waters in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the Vestrit family liveship, Vivacia, who was stolen by the pirate king, Kennit; but there is mutiny brewing amongst their ragtag crew, and in the mind of the mad ship itself.

And all the while the waters around the Vivacia are seething with giant serpents, following the liveship as she sails to her destiny . . .]]> 903 Robin Hobb 0008117470 Soetkin 5 4.57 2000 Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)]]> 22016392
But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was.]]> 838 Robin Hobb 0007562276 Soetkin 5 4.22 1997 Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 2018/01/16
date added: 2018/10/20
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]]> <![CDATA[Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)]]> 28170940 "I seen a kid killed...He strangled it, up by the horse."

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.

Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott-once his assistant, now a partner in the agency-set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.

And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been-Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.]]> 650 Robert Galbraith 0751572853 Soetkin 0 to-read 4.19 2018 Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)]]> 6186357 There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.

If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.

Everything is going to change.

Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.

Remember. Survive. Run.]]> 384 James Dashner 0385737947 Soetkin 3 4.06 2009 The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
author: James Dashner
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2009
rating: 3
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]]> Helse Horizon (De Stad, #2) 9778085 400 D.B. Shan 9024528844 Soetkin 4 3.88 2009 Helse Horizon (De Stad, #2)
author: D.B. Shan
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)]]> 25985861
The Vestrit family’s liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate king, Kennit. Held captive on board, Wintrow Vestrit finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia’s love as the ship slowly acquires her own bloodlust.

Leagues away, Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia and with her friend, Brashen, she plans a dangerous rescue.

Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the Rain Wild Traders. And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching Paragon, the mad liveship . . .]]> 906 Robin Hobb 0008117462 Soetkin 5 4.54 1999 The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.54
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> If You Could See Me Now 158119 From the bestselling author of P.S. I Love You and Love, Rosie, Cecelia Ahern, comes an enchanting novel that leads you to wonder if Not Seeing is believing!

Readers and critics alike adore Cecelia Ahern for her lighthearted yet insightful stories about modern women and their often unusual situations. In If You Could See Me Now, she takes that theme a step further, offering us a heroine who is entirely believable, and the new man in her life who is, well, slightly less so.

Elizabeth Egan's life runs on order: Both her home and her emotions are arranged just so, with little room for spontaneity. It's how she counteracts the chaos of her family -- an alcoholic mother who left when she was young, an emotionally distant father, and a free-spirited sister, who seems to be following in their mother's footsteps, leaving her own six-yearold son, Luke, in Elizabeth's care. When Ivan, Luke's mysterious new grown-up friend, enters the picture, Elizabeth doesnt know quite what to make of him. With his penchant for adventure and colorful take on things large and small, Ivan opens Elizabeth's eyes to a whole new way of living. But is it for real? Is Ivan for real?

If You Could See Me Now is a love story with heart -- and just a touch of magic.]]> 306 Cecelia Ahern 140130866X Soetkin 4 3.89 2005 If You Could See Me Now
author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)]]> 25985840
Wizardwood, the most precious commodity in the world, comes only from the Rain Wilds. But only a liveship can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain Wild River, and liveships are hard to come by. They quicken only when three family members from successive generations have died upon their deck.

The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening: Althea Vestrit waits for the ship that she loves more than anything in the world to awaken. But her dream of taking her father’s place at Vivacia’s helm is not to be, for her family have other plans. . .

And the dark, charming pirate Kennit also lusts after such a ship: he well knows the power of wizardwood and has plans of his own . . .]]> 880 Robin Hobb 0008117454 Soetkin 5 4.42 1998 Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> Kiss Me First 16085482
When Leila discovers the Web site Red Pill, she feels she has finally found people who understand her. A sheltered young woman raised by her mother, Leila has often struggled to connect with the girls at school; but on Red Pill, a chat forum for ethical debate, Leila comes into her own, impressing the Web site's founder, a brilliant and elusive man named Adrian. Leila is thrilled when Adrian asks to meet her, flattered when he invites her to be part of "Project Tess." Tess is a woman Leila might never have met in real life. She is beautiful, urbane, witty, and damaged. As they e-mail, chat, and Skype, Leila becomes enveloped in the world of Tess, learning every single thing she can about this other woman—because soon, Leila will have to become her. An ingeniously plotted novel of stolen identity, Kiss Me First is brilliantly frightening about the lies we tell—to ourselves, to others, for good, and for ill.]]> 308 Lottie Moggach 0385537476 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.36 2007 Kiss Me First
author: Lottie Moggach
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Necropolis (De Kracht van Vijf, #4)]]> 8031336 322 Anthony Horowitz 9044810863 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.13 2008 Necropolis (De Kracht van Vijf, #4)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.05 1815 Emma
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1815
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)]]> 6547260 Evil has been defeated...
The war has just begun.

They did the impossible - deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire.

They have barely begun when three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension, or what manner of power it bestows.

It may just be that killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part. Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real challenge.]]> 781 Brandon Sanderson Soetkin 5 4.37 2007 The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 11264999 Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 0553573403/ 9780553573404

In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantansy fans everywhere.

In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 837 George R.R. Martin Soetkin 4 4.46 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
author: George R.R. Martin
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Nightrise (De Kracht van Vijf, #3)]]> 17159538 311 Anthony Horowitz 9050164994 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.12 2007 Nightrise (De Kracht van Vijf, #3)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published]]> 6139231 262 Howard Mittelmark 0141038543 Soetkin 4 books-i-own 3.90 2008 How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published
author: Howard Mittelmark
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Evil Star (De Kracht van Vijf, #2)]]> 17159525 316 Anthony Horowitz 9050164986 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.22 2006 Evil Star (De Kracht van Vijf, #2)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)]]> 7739723 Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds.

In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own color—but no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means.

Eddie’s world wasn’t always like this. There’s evidence of a never-discussed disaster and now, many years later, technology is poor, news sporadic, the notion of change abhorrent, and nighttime is terrifying: no one can see in the dark. Everyone abides by a bizarre regime of rules and regulations, a system of merits and demerits, where punishment can result in permanent expulsion.

Eddie, who works for the Color Control Agency, might well have lived out his rose-tinted life without a hitch. But that changes when he becomes smitten with Jane, a Grey Nightseer from the dark, unlit side of the village. She shows Eddie that all is not well with the world he thinks is just and good. Together, they engage in dangerous revolutionary talk.

Stunningly imaginative, very funny, tightly plotted, and with sly satirical digs at our own society, this novel is for those who loved Thursday Next but want to be transported somewhere equally wild, only darker; a world where the black and white of moral standpoints have been reduced to shades of grey.]]> 436 Jasper Fforde 0340963050 Soetkin 4 books-i-own 4.14 2009 Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 6547258 The mists rule the night...
The lord ruler owns the world.

For a thousand years the ash fell.
For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Every attempted revolt has failed miserably.

Yet somehow hope survives.
A new kind of uprising is being planned, one that depends on the cunning of a brilliant criminal mastermind and the courage of an unlikely heroine, a Skaa street urchin, who must learn to master Allomancy, the power of a mistborn.

What if the prophesied hero had failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins here.]]> 647 Brandon Sanderson Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.51 2006 The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Raven's Gate (De kracht van vijf, #1)]]> 16099048 256 Anthony Horowitz 9050164889 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 3.96 2005 Raven's Gate (De kracht van vijf, #1)
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> Contagion (Dark Matter, #1) 31298617
Her brother Kai is losing hope of ever seeing her again. Then he meets Shay, a girl who saw Callie the day she disappeared, and his hope is reignited.

Their search leads them to the heart of a terrifying epidemic that is raging through the country.

Can Kai and Shay escape death and find Callie?]]> 464 Teri Terry 1408341727 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.82 2017 Contagion (Dark Matter, #1)
author: Teri Terry
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)]]> 22016387
Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims in their wake. The kingdom is also under assault from within, as treachery threatens the throne of the ailing king. In this time of great danger, the fate of the kingdom may rest in Fitz’s hands—and his role in its salvation may require the ultimate sacrifice.]]> 648 Robin Hobb 0007562268 Soetkin 4 4.41 1996 Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Een stoet van doden (De Stad, #1)]]> 9778059 Een stoet van doden is het eerste deel van een gloednieuwe trilogie in een gruwelijk fantastische sfeer.

Capac Raimi arriveert in de Stad - in elk opzicht een wonderlijke plek - met geen andere bedoeling dan de beroemdste misdadiger aller tijden te worden.

Vastbesloten naam en faam te maken als crimineel, arriveert de jeugdige Capac Raimi in de Stad. Zijn oom Theo brengt hem de fijne kneepjes bij van afpersing, geweldpleging en chantagepraktijken. Capac geniet met volle teugen, helemaal wanneer hij de godfather van de plaatselijke 'heren' van de misdaad, de Kardinaal, ontmoet. Hierna is Capacs leven nooit meer als tevoren.
De Kardinaal is de Stad en de Stad is de Kardinaal, in hun ziel zijn ze één. Op of onder de straten van de Stad gebeurt niets zonder dat de Kardinaal daarvan op de hoogte is. Zijn woord is wet, in de Stad en ver daarbuiten.
Als Capac meer te weten komt over de verreikende arm van de Kardinaal, komt hij voor lastige keuzes staan. Naarmate zijn ambitie toeneemt, ervaart hij - tot zijn grote verdriet - wat het betekent dierbaren te verliezen en hoe hoog de prijs is die voor absolute macht moet worden betaald.]]> 351 D.B. Shan 9024528836 Soetkin 4 3.53 1999 Een stoet van doden (De Stad, #1)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)]]> 21956219
Raised in the castle stables, only the company of the king's fool, the ragged children of the lower city, and his unusual affinity with animals provide Fitz with any comfort.

To be useful to the crown, Fitz is trained as an assassin; and to use the traditional magic of the Farseer family. But his tutor, allied to another political faction, is determined to discredit, even kill him. Fitz must survive: for he may be destined to save the kingdom.]]> 392 Robin Hobb 000756225X Soetkin 4 books-i-own 4.19 1995 Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> Shattered (Slated, #3) 17901410
In this stunning series finale, Kyla finally finds out who she really is, and the road to this discovery, and to deciding who she wants to become, is full of dangerous twists and turns that will keep readers riveted.]]> 402 Teri Terry 1408319500 Soetkin 5 4.20 2014 Shattered (Slated, #3)
author: Teri Terry
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> Fractured (Slated, #2) 13490543 421 Teri Terry 1408319489 Soetkin 0 4.13 2013 Fractured (Slated, #2)
author: Teri Terry
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)]]> 4588519 Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular series

Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Since the no-nonsense literary detective from Swindon made her debut, literature has never been quite the same. Neither have nursery rhymes, for that matter. With two successful books of the Nursery Crime series under his belt, Fforde takes up once again the brilliant adventures of his signature creation in the highly anticipated fifth installment of the Thursday Next series. And it is better than ever.

It has been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinback Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Havisham dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on - there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all: The Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.

Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's return is sure to be celebrated by Jasper Fforde's fanatical fans and the critics who have loved him since the beginning.]]> 398 Jasper Fforde 0340839848 Soetkin 4 books-i-own 3.82 2007 First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> The Casual Vacancy 17832311 568 J.K. Rowling 0751552860 Soetkin 5 3.62 2012 The Casual Vacancy
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 3.62
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> Slated (Slated, #1) 12743472 her personality wiped blank,
her memories lost for ever.

She’s been Slated.

The government claims she was a terrorist and that they are giving her a second chance - as long as she plays by their rules. But echoes of the past whisper in Kyla’s mind. Someone is lying to her, and nothing is as it seems. Who can she trust in her search for the truth?]]> 439 Teri Terry 1408319462 Soetkin 4 4.07 2012 Slated (Slated, #1)
author: Teri Terry
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2017/02/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragon Haven (Rain Wild Chronicles #2)]]> 10410973 570 Robin Hobb 000737609X Soetkin 5 4.15 2010 Dragon Haven (Rain Wild Chronicles #2)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1886 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.]]> 448 Jane Austen Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.29 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1813
rating: 5
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]]> The Book of Tomorrow 13444913
What she discovers within the pages takes her breath away and shakes her world to its core.

A mesmerizing story about how tomorrow can change what happens today...]]> 420 Cecelia Ahern Soetkin 4 books-i-own 3.94 2009 The Book of Tomorrow
author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> The Graveyard Book 2213661
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.]]> 312 Neil Gaiman 0060530928 Soetkin 3 4.14 2008 The Graveyard Book
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1)]]> 4703450
Thymara, an unschooled forest girl, and Alise, wife of an unloving and wealthy Trader, are among the disparate group entrusted with escorting the dragons to their new home. And on an extraordinary odyssey with no promise of return, many lessons will be learned--as dragons and tenders alike experience hardships, betrayals . . . and joys beyond their wildest imaginings.]]> 553 Robin Hobb 0007273746 Soetkin 5 3.94 2009 The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1)
author: Robin Hobb
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> The Marble Collector 25394438 A forgotten childhood. A discovered life.
What if you only had one day to find out who you really were?

When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father’s possessions, she discovers a truth where she never knew there was a lie. The familiar man she grew up with is suddenly a stranger to her.

An unexpected break in her monotonous daily routine leaves her just one day to unlock the secrets of the man she thought she knew. A day that unearths memories, stories and people she never knew existed. A day that changes her and those around her forever.

The Marble Collector is a thought-provoking novel about how the most ordinary decisions we make can have the most extraordinary consequences for how we live our lives. And how sometimes it’s only by shining on a light on someone else, that you can truly understand yourself.]]> 304 Cecelia Ahern 000750182X Soetkin 0 to-read 3.63 2015 The Marble Collector
author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.63
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]]> A Place Called Here 588369 Sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself... Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation. Her parents can't understand her compulsion, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in the work of tracking down these missing people. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families...and escape the disappointments of her own. Jack Ruttle is one of those devastated people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air, and he has enlisted Sandy Shortt to find him. But before she is able to offer Jack the information he so desperately needs, Sandy goes missing too...and Jack now finds himself searching for his brother and the one woman who understood his pain. One minute Sandy is jogging through the park, the next, she can't figure out where she is. The path is obscured. Nothing is familiar. A clearing up ahead reveals a camp site, and it's there that Sandy discovers the impossible: she has inadvertently stumbled upon the place-- and people--she's been looking for all her life, a land where all the missing people go. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home...]]> 485 Cecelia Ahern 0007198914 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.72 2006 A Place Called Here
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]]> One Hundred Names 15732712 Internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern delivers her biggest and most compelling book yet—a tale of secrets, second chances, and the hidden connections that unite our lives

Scandal has derailed journalist Kitty Logan's career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her, "What is the one story you always wanted to write?"

The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance's office—a list of one hundred names—with no notes or explanation. But before Kitty can ask her friend, it is too late.

Determined to unlock the mystery and rebuild her own shaky confidence, Kitty throws herself into the investigation, tracking down each of the names on the list and uncovering their connection. Meeting these ordinary people and learning their stories, Kitty begins to piece together an unexpected portrait of Constance's life... and starts to understand her own.]]> 469 Cecelia Ahern 0007350481 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.75 2012 One Hundred Names
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> The Gift 4279056
If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be?

Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. He always had two things to do at once. When asleep he dreamed. In between dreams, he ran through the events of the day while making plans for the next. When at home with his wife and family, his mind was always someplace else.

On his way into work one early winter morning, Lou meets Gabe, a homeless man sitting outside the office building. Intrigued by him and on discovering that he could also be very useful to have around, Lou gets Gabe a job in the post room.

But soon Lou begins to regret helping Gabe. His very presence unsettles Lou and how does Gabe appear to be in two places at the same time?

As Christmas draws closer, Lou starts to understand the value of time. He sees what is truly important in life yet at the same time he learns the harshest lesson of all.

This is a story about people who not unlike parcels, hide secrets.They cover themselves in layers until the right person unwraps them and discovers what’s inside. Sometimes you have to be unravelled in order to find out who you really are. For Lou Suffern, that took time.]]> 305 Cecelia Ahern 0007284977 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.71 2008 The Gift
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> The Time of My Life 10893138
Lucy Silchester keeps receiving this appointment card and sweeping the envelope under the rug. Literally. Instead, she has busied herself with work (a job she doesn't love), helping out friends, fixing her car, feeding her cat, seeing her family, and devoting her time to their life dramas. But she's stuck in a rut and deluding everyone. Only Lucy knows the real truth.

Then one day life shows up at her door, in the form of a rather run-down man in an old suit, who is determined to bring about change. Life follows Lucy everywhere—the office, bars—meets her flabbergasted friends, and won't let Lucy off the hook. What she learns in the process is that some of the choices she's made, and stories she's told, aren't what they seem either. Now her stubborn half-truths are going to be revealed in all their glory... unless Lucy learns to tell the truth about what really matters to her.]]> 392 Cecelia Ahern 0007350430 Soetkin 0 to-read 3.86 2011 The Time of My Life
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> Early Riser 23498264
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.

You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.

When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling.

When you get the dreams too, it's weird.

When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.

But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.

But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine.]]> 402 Jasper Fforde 144476358X Soetkin 0 to-read 3.84 2018 Early Riser
author: Jasper Fforde
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #4)]]> 13109291
The dragons and their dedicated band of keepers have at last found the lost city of Kelsingra. The magical creatures have learned to use their wings and are growing into their regal inheritance. Their humans, too, are changing. As the mystical bonds with their dragons deepen, Thymara, Tats, Rapskal, and even Sedric, the unlikeliest of keepers, have begun transforming into beautiful Elderlings raked with exquisite features that complement and reflect the dragons they serve.

But while the humans have scoured the empty streets and enormous buildings of Kelsingra, they cannot find the mythical silver wells the dragons need to stay health and survive. With enemies encroaching, the keepers must risk "memory walking"- immersing themselves in the dangerously addictive memories of long-deceased Elderlings - to uncover clues necessary to their survival.

And time is of the essence, for the legendary Tintaglia, long feared dead, has returned, wounded in a battle with humans hunting dragon blood and scales. She is weakening and only the hidden silver can revive her. If Tintaglia dies, so, too, will the ancient memories she carries - a devastating loss that will ensure the dragons' extinction.]]> 448 Robin Hobb 0062116851 Soetkin 0 to-read 4.15 2013 Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #3)]]> 11801463 City of Dragons. Continuing the enthralling journey she began in her acclaimed Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, Hobb rejoins a small group of weak, half-formed and unwanted dragons and their displaced human companions as they search for a legendary sanctuary. Now, as the misfit band approaches its final destination, dragons and keepers alike face a challenge so insurmountable that it threatens to render their long, difficult odyssey utterly meaningless. Touching, powerful, and dazzlingly inventive, Hobb’s City of Dragons is not to be missed—further proof that this author belongs alongside Raymond E. Feist, Terry Brooks, and Lois McMaster Bujold in the pantheon of fantasy fiction’s true greats.]]> 334 Robin Hobb 0061561630 Soetkin 0 to-read 4.07 2011 City of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #3)
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]]> Neverwhere (London Below, #1) 14497
"Neverwhere" is the London of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Strange destinies lie in wait in London below - a world that seems eerily familiar. But a world that is utterly bizarre, peopled by unearthly characters such as the Angel called Islington, the girl named Door, and the Earl who holds Court on a tube train.

Now a single act of kindness has catapulted young businessman Richard Mayhew out of his safe and predictable life - and into the realms of "Neverwhere." Richard is about to find out more than he ever wanted to know about this other London. Which is a pity. Because Richard just wants to go home...]]> 370 Neil Gaiman 0060557818 Soetkin 0 to-read 4.16 1996 Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1996
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]]> How to Fall in Love 18161265 An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.

She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life.

Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump.

Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him life is worth living .

Despite her determination, Christine knows what a dangerous promise she's made. Against the ticking of the clock, the two of them embark on wild escapades, grand romantic gestures and some unlikely late-night outings. Slowly, Christine thinks Adam is starting to fall back in love with his life. But is that all that's happening… ?

A novel to make you laugh, cry and appreciate life, this is Cecelia Ahern at her thoughtful and surprising best.

]]> 327 Cecelia Ahern 000735049X Soetkin 5 3.99 2013 How to Fall in Love
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)]]> 25735012 Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers returning from war.

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them…

Career of Evil is the third in the series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A mystery and also a story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.]]> 512 Robert Galbraith 0316349933 Soetkin 0 4.18 2015 Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> Fortunately, the Milk... 17758805
Featuring: Professor Steg (a time-travelling dinosaur), some green globby things, the Queen of the Pirates, the famed jewel that is the Eye of Splod, some wumpires, and a perfectly normal but very important carton of milk.]]> 160 Neil Gaiman 1408841762 Soetkin 4 4.15 2013 Fortunately, the Milk...
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> De dromenkoning 23109850 180 Anne Rutyne 9065658440 Soetkin 4 4.36 1998 De dromenkoning
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Overleven op Krokodil-Eiland (Diamond Brothers, #6)]]> 17996852 En dan heb ik je nog niet het allerergste verteld wat me ooit is overkomen. Het begon op een hete ochtend in juli...]]> 72 Anthony Horowitz Soetkin 4 3.83 2001 Overleven op Krokodil-Eiland (Diamond Brothers, #6)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Doctor Who: The Bog Warrior (Time Trips)]]> 22047671 42 Cecelia Ahern Soetkin 3 2.85 2014 Doctor Who: The Bog Warrior (Time Trips)
author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Soetkin
average rating: 2.85
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2]]> 29069989 The eighth story, nineteen years later …

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.]]> 327 John Tiffany 1338099132 Soetkin 4 3.63 2016 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
author: John Tiffany
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average rating: 3.63
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)]]> 5364 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...

For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....

Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....]]> 947 Diana Gabaldon Soetkin 3 4.33 1992 Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
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average rating: 4.33
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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]]> De katten van Kruisem 6443031 De Katten van Kruisem is hét boek van Marc de Bel over voetbal, vriendschap en verliefdheid. Een Superspannend, heerlijk romantisch verhaal voor jongens...én meisjes.]]> 320 Marc de Bel 9065658351 Soetkin 4 books-i-own 3.99 1997 De katten van Kruisem
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2)]]> 559747 The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading.

But it isn't Jack Spratt's case. Enforced non-involvement looks to be frustrating, until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja Vu Club leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henriette 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad.

The last witnesses to see her alive were the Three Bears, comfortably living a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the world related to a missing nuclear scientist? How dangerous can cucumber-growing be?

And most important of all: how could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?]]> 379 Jasper Fforde 0340835737 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.21 2006 The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2)
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> Persuasion 31693 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older'

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

In her introduction, Gillian Beer discusses Austen’s portrayal of the double-edged nature of persuasion and the clash between old and new worlds. This edition also includes a new chronology and full textual notes.]]> 250 Jane Austen 0141439688 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.08 1817 Persuasion
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1817
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)]]> 828395
Unemployed following an international cheese-smuggling scandal, our favourite cultural crime-fighter is faced with a world of problems: Hamlet's not attending his conflict resolution classes, President George Formby is facing a coup led by dastardly Yorrick Kaine and, what's more, the evil Goliath Corportation are refusing to un-eradicate Thursday's husband, Landen.

Will she ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Can Thursday prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it?

Join Thursday on her toughest assignment yet, and enter a world where fiction is always much stranger than the truth...]]> 393 Jasper Fforde 0340825952 Soetkin 5 books-i-own 4.20 2004 Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> Allegiant (Divergent, #3) 17383918
But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningliess. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.

Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT.]]> 526 Veronica Roth 006202406X Soetkin 3 3.51 2013 Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
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average rating: 3.51
book published: 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)]]> 11710373 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces.
The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.
Written in My Own Heart s Blood is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.]]> 825 Diana Gabaldon 0385344430 Soetkin 0 to-read 4.51 2014 Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Troll War (The Last Dragonslayer, #4)]]> 23380228
Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life.

Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . .]]> 368 Jasper Fforde Soetkin 0 to-read 4.04 2021 The Great Troll War (The Last Dragonslayer, #4)
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1-0.4)]]> 18126198 Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Divergent with a special edition of Four, a collection in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that captured the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. This edition features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai.

Readers first encountered Tobias as "Four" in Divergent and will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias's life, from his transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his initiation, and the decisions of loyalty—and love—that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.

“The same mix of tension, uncertainty, and hope that made the original stories irresistible. A welcome trip down memory lane.” —Publishers Weekly

“Fans of Divergent who can’t get enough—and maybe even the rare reader who missed the first rush—will snap up this story collection told. It will fly off the shelves and for good reason.” —ALA Booklist]]> 285 Veronica Roth 0062285688 Soetkin 3 3.93 2014 Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1-0.4)
author: Veronica Roth
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Brothers to the Death (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #4)]]> 12924379 272 Darren Shan 0316078735 Soetkin 3 4.45 2012 Brothers to the Death (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #4)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Palace of the Damned (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #3)]]> 10890702
Before the Cirque...

Before Darren Shan...

Larten Crepsley was a young man.

After failing his mentor and killing the entire crew of a ship in a bout of revenge for the death of his assistant, Larten is bereft with guilt. He no longer has the drive to live the vampiric life, and hides out in Paris, masquerading as a human. There, he finds some happiness, even falling in love with a girl. But the darkness inside him is too great for humanity, and he is forced to make a hide in the shadows of the human world, or take his place among the vampire clan and protect those weaker than himself. But enemies are waiting, traps are laid, and Larten's path is bound to be strewn with bodies.

This is his story.]]> 256 Darren Shan 0316078700 Soetkin 3 4.35 2011 Palace of the Damned (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #3)
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)]]> 2832909
Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say.

Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.]]> 820 Diana Gabaldon 0752898477 Soetkin 0 to-read 4.42 2009 An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
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]]> Outlander (Outlander, #1) 10964
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.]]> 850 Diana Gabaldon 0440242940 Soetkin 4 4.26 1991 Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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average rating: 4.26
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #2)]]> 9456611
Before he was Darren Shan's master...

Before the War of Scars...

Larten Crepsley was a teenager. And he was sick of the pomp and circumstance of fusty old vampires telling him what to do. Taking off on his own with his blood brother, Wester, Larten takes off into the world to see what his newly blooded vampire status can get him in the human world. Sucking all he can out of humanity, Larten stumbles into a violent, hedonistic lifestyle, where cheats beckon, power corrupts, and enemies are waiting.

This is his story.]]> 247 Darren Shan 0316078662 Soetkin 0 4.28 2011 Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #2)
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #1)]]> 7823800 The highly anticipated prequel to the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series!
Before Cirque Du Freak...
Before the war with the vampaneze...
Before he was a vampire.
Larten Crepsley was a boy.
As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his cousin as an example to the other children.
In that moment, young Larten flies into a rage that the foreman wouldn't survive. Forced on the run, he sleeps in crypts and eats cobwebs to get by. And when a vampire named Seba offers him protection and training as a vampire's assistant, Larten takes it.
This is his story.]]> 261 Darren Shan 0316078638 Soetkin 0 4.28 2010 Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley, #1)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)]]> 21489713
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.

And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . .

A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.]]> 456 Robert Galbraith 140870403X Soetkin 5 3.99 2014 The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
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name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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In Eden wordt de vriendelijke en meegaande Seymur ondertussen voor prangende keuzes gesteld. Hij zit gewrongen tussen zijn gevoelens voor Lenner Gaets, het Hoofd van de Edense Ordediensten, en zijn verlangen om de breuk met zijn tweelingzus Yann te herstellen. Zijn beslissingen kunnen niet alleen de gebeurtenissen in Eden maar ook de toekomst van beide volkeren fundamenteel beïnvloeden.]]> 230 Kirstin Vanlierde Soetkin 4 3.60 2012 Yuma
author: Kirstin Vanlierde
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror]]> 51497 'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter'

Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: 'Olalla', a tale of vampirism and tainted family blood, and 'The Body Snatcher', a gruesome fictionalization of the exploits of the notorious Burke and Hare.

This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall, which discusses class, criminality and the significance of the story's London setting. It also includes an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel and the development of the idea of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality.]]> 224 Robert Louis Stevenson 0141439734 Soetkin 0 3.91 1886 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Soetkin
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1886
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