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Hans Christian Andersen The Great Sea Serpent

One sunny day, when a little sea fish was swimming joyfully with his eighteen thousand brothers and sisters, the water was darkened by an enormous eel who came from above and was heading deeper into the sea. It disappeared very quickly and as soon as the calm had returned, the cutest little fish, who was also the most curious, went looking for information to find out who this newcomer to the Ocean was. Could it be the great sea serpent? Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author,...

Engels | 19 minuten (13 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Hans Christian Andersen The Candles

The taper, made of tallow, is not as refined as the candle, which is made from wax – there is no doubt that it will be the candle who will have the honour of lighting the ballroom this evening. When the taper is offered to a poor boy, it asks itself if it will ever again have the opportunity of seeing people as happy as those who are going to the ball... Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales...

Engels | 6 minuten (4,2 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Brian S. Ference Purgatory of the Werewolf

What's worse than realizing you're a werewolf? Being chased by a monster hunter with a demon eye. Dorian survived being eaten alive, but time is running out to save himself and his loved ones before the full moon. He flees England and enlists with the Royal Navy hoping to escape the monster. But will his ship carry him to a new life before the full moon or plunge him into the horror of war? This is the second book in "The Wolf of Dorian Gray" series. Brian S. Ference is an American author from...

Engels | 6 uur 7 minuten (267 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Happy Prince and Other Tales

B.J. Harrison reads "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" which consists of various children’s stories by Oscar Wilde. Originally published in 1888, the work includes five memorable stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend" and "The Remarkable Rocket". It features unforgettable characters, such as the happy prince who has never experienced sorrow and a nightingale who accepts a rose for the ultimate sacrifice. These tales have inspired countless...

Engels | 52 minuten (38 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Peter Gotthardt The Magical Falcon 3 - The Queen of the Demons

Prince Carvallo’s second name is adventure. Or perhaps trouble. This time, he takes us to a cold and inhospitable world of mysteries. Behind the stormy weather conditions lurk scary demons that are ready to strike. And when Monika disappears, the rescue mission is the first and foremost thing on the agenda for our friends. But they are in for a shock, for nothing on this strange, demonic world is what it seems. Gotthardt stays true to his nature, and presents the readers with sufficient action, hair-raising...

Engels | 1 uur (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales

"The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (sometimes called "The Happy Prince and Other Stories") is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" to name a couple....

Engels | 1 uur 45 minuten (78 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Susan Coolidge What Katy Did

"To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy." Twelve-year-old Katy Carr desperately wants to be good. But being a wild and hot-headed tomboy, it seems so much easier to start being good tomorrow than it does today. Even when her kind and patient invalid cousin comes to visit, Katy‘s resolution to change only lasts a few hours. But soon she will have much more in common with her cousin than she wished and it will confine her to her room perhaps forever. Will it make her finally able to uphold her promise?...

Engels | 4 uur 35 minuten (212 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Henry James What Maisie Knew

`What Maise Knew‘ (1897) should perhaps have been titled `Divorce for Dummies` instead. In this tense and clever novel, Henry James lays out with perfect clarity what not to do when your child becomes one of divorce, as in do the absolute opposite of everything Maise‘s parents do. Shuttled back and forth between her selfish mother and her vain father, Maise becomes a weapon in her parents‘ battle, a way for them to intensify their hatred of each other. Like Charles Dickens before him, Henry James...

Engels | 8 uur 46 minuten (415 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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L. Frank Baum The Road to Oz

"Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them."A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, but the two of them end up getting lost on their way and decide to proceed to Oz instead. For once not chased by danger, they arrive just in time for Princess Ozma‘s birthday party where a great assortment of colourful characters awaits. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘ starring Judy Garland, perfectly...

Engels | 4 uur 19 minuten (193 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew

Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman‘s mind in the luxury of a man‘s body. `The Enchanted Island of Yew` (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author...

Engels | 4 uur 37 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Ilyon Woo Master slave husband wife

Waargebeurd verhaal over het jonge slaafgemaakte echtpaar Ellen en William Craft dat in 1848 uit de slavenstaat Georgia vlucht naar het vrije Philadelphia in Noord-Amerika.

Non-fictie

Engels | 410 pagina's | Ithaka, London | 2024

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Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has...

Engels | 6 uur 39 minuten (312 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Sara Crewe is devastated when the news of her beloved father’s death in India reaches her at her boarding school in London. Miss Minchin, the heartless and greedy headmistress, immediately moves Sara to the attic and forces her to become her servant. Despite being used to luxury, Sara quickly adjusts to her new life and never stops being kind and polite to everyone. Little does she now that someone out there is looking for her, and they might be much closer than they think. Author Frances Eliza...

Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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22 Jump Street

Twee jonge politieagenten gaan undercover op een universiteit om te achterhalen wie de leverancier is van een nieuwe gevaarlijke drug. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

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Renée Ahdieh The damned

New Orleans, 1872. Na het gevecht wordt Bastien herboren vampier, Celine (17) leidt aan geheugenverlies. Ze heeft een aantal gebeurtenissen in gang gezet die tot haar ondergang kunnen leiden én die van Bastien. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 401 pagina's | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York | 2020

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Diane Tullson Riley Park

Corbin (ik-figuur) en Darius worden na een feest door drie onbekenden in elkaar geslagen. Darius overlijdt en Corbin heeft ernstig hersenletsel. Wie zijn de daders? Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 102 pagina's | Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC [etc.] | 2009

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Anonymous Go ask Alice

Het relaas van een 15-jarig meisje dat verslaafd raakt aan verdovende middelen en er uiteindelijk aan te gronde gaat.

Fictie

Engels | 142 pagina's | Corgi Books, London | 1973

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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....

Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...

Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz

Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...

Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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