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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Leopard Man's Story
"King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with mysterious scars on his arms. He finds out that the murderer attended every performance of the lion-tamer in hope of seeing the lion tear his trainer apart. Who is the murderer and why did he hate the lion trainer so much? Who does the "Leopard Man" suspect and will he be able to reveal the truth? What will happen to...
Engels | 10 minuten (7,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Neil Nooweg Onpeilbaar
over de moeizame relatie tussen een moeder en haar dochter
Lisa loopt als tiener van huis weg en ontdekt dat het leven van een alleenstaande moeder niet eenvoudig is.
Fictie | Familieroman
Nederlands | 134 pagina's | [Mijnbestseller B.V.], [Rotterdam] | 2021
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Albert A. Anderson Fading of the Light
A Love Story
"The Fading of the Light: A Love Story" is Albert A. Anderson’s touching account of the loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s disease. The poems contained in this collection were a way for him to deal with the effects this incurable illness had not only on his wife, but on him and their nearest and dearest. In publishing this incredibly personal journey, he hopes he can bring some solace to readers in a similar situation, who have to deal with a slow yet inevitable loss. Albert A. Anderson, Ph.D.,...
Engels | 56 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with robbers, lions and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne esque adventure stories. Like in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, this story is told using the first person narrative voice of...
Engels | 3 uur 6 minuten (144 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn attempts to solve a mysterious murder which takes them onboard a steamboat back to Arkansas, gets them tangled up with diamond thieves and the ghost of a missing burglar. In this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time Tom and Huck find themselves with Uncle Silas and his family again (see "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"). Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Mark Twain was...
Engels | 2 uur 8 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
"Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it." When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and starts to tend to it, like the flowers, she comes to life. One day she hears a cry from within the mansion, and soon learns that she is not the only one in need of some fresh air. `The Secret Garden‘ (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is among the most...
Engels | 6 uur 55 minuten (308 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)...
Engels | 17 uur 37 minuten (802 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Summer
Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall’s unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Damion Hunter The Legions of the Mist
An awe-inspiring account of the final days of Rome’s forgotten legion. The Ninth Hispana was once the pride of the Roman Army, wreathed in honour for numerous successful campaigns. But by the time it was joined by Centurion Justinius Corvus, it had clearly fallen on hard times. Smarting from the sting of his recent demotion, and a transfer to Britain, a land he despises, Justinius nevertheless works hard to bring to his men some of the same pride he feels as a Roman soldier. As their bond grows...
Engels | 12 uur 57 minuten (570 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...
Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Christian Oerlemans Wakkere nachten
verhalen
Bundeling van verhalen over het leven van de auteur en zijn belevenissen in Portugal.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Nederlands | 307 pagina's | Uitgeverij Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2023
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Marieke Rooijmans Lammerkinderen
een offer ter vergeving van zonden
Een jonge vrouw en haar vrijmoedige compagnon belanden in de middeleeuwen om een heks te helpen die vreest voor de veiligheid van haar dochter.
Fictie | Historische roman | Thriller
Nederlands | 285 pagina's | Yvoire Books, [Helmond] | 2024
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Eric Kollen De gouden engel
homo-erotisch (luister)verhaal
‘De gouden engel’ is Kollens eerste luisterverhaal (achterin de ePUB vind je een link naar de MP3-file; luisterduur: 2,5 uur). En zowel bij het schrijven als bij het voorlezen pakt hij uit: hij windt je op, daagt je uit; hij maakt je dol van verlangen, om je vervolgens naar een spetterend hoogtepunt te slepen, terwijl de tranen nog over je wangen lopen van het lachen. En op dát moment… volgt de ontknoping. Als Eric Kollen in het openbaar voorleest uit zijn jongenssprookjes, dan hangt het publiek...
Fictie
Nederlands | 85 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Eric Kollen, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
When an old sea captain dies mysteriously in his parent‘s inn, young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the captain‘s possessions that will spark a wild and adventures treasure hunt. Joined by a handful of untrustworthy pirates, he meets the antagonistic Long John Silver, a character whose fame transcends the tale. With Treasure Island (1883), author Robert Louis Stevenson invented the modern image of the pirate, without which we likely wouldn‘t have experienced Johnny Depp as the infamous Captain...
Engels | 7 uur 28 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Wanda Beemsterboer Call You Right Back, Mum
"She did not call back. Nor will she, ever again. How I started loathing those two little words, never again." In a heartbeat everything can change. This is the gripping, true story of how a young woman was murdered and a family lost a daughter. Like most young girls her age Nadine lives a life filled with family, friends and thoughts about the future. At seventeen she meets Gerold and they fall in love. But a darkness gradually falls upon their relationship and after almost three years Nadine...
Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeannette Walls Het glazen kasteel
Een Amerikaanse celebrity-journaliste vertelt over haar vrijgevochten, nomadische jeugd vol ontberingen in een intelligent, excentriek en disfunctioneel gezin.
Fictie | Kinderleven
Nederlands | 267 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2014
E-book
Marlijn de Jager Helden & halvegaren
Drie verhalen in en rond het middeleeuwse Utrecht. De kuise Agniet wordt door alle mannen begeerd maar wacht trouw op ridder Aalbert. Een man ontdekt een afschuwelijk monster in zijn kelder en een jongen blijkt in dienst te zijn bij een heks. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Verhalenbundel
Nederlands | 139 pagina's | Scrivo Media, [Bennekom] | 2015
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Alexander van de Kamp Bizarre sprookjes voor volwassenen
met o.a. "de nieuwe tijdgeest en het borstenmonster"
Fictie
Nederlands | 141 pagina's | Mijnbestseller.nl, [Rotterdam] | 2024
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Rina Stam Dans door het verleden
Een vrouw met een traumatische jeugd vindt troost in dans en het bovennatuurlijke.
Fictie
Nederlands | 252 pagina's | Boeken van Rina, [Haarlem] | 2023
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