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Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Willem Ritstier Wills kracht
Ballonstrip.
Fictie
Nederlands | 165 pagina's | SubQ, [Amsterdam] | 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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Anja Lissone Surinaams huwelijk
Familiegeschiedenis over de betovergrootvader (1817-1888) van de schrijfster, van Italiaans-Zwitserse afkomst, die zich in 1833 vestigde in Suriname en als plantagehouder gebruikmaakte van slaven.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 191 pagina's | Elikser Uitgeverij, Leeuwarden | 2017
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Jack London The Call of the Wild
The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...
Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Herman Melville Typee
The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee‘ (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Engels | 11 uur 35 minuten (539 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Atte Jongstra Het fluïde tijdperk
beeldende kunst, identiteit en ondernemen; overlevingsoefeningen
Essays waarin de auteur zijn licht werpt op zeer uiteenlopende onderwerpen, daarbij regelmatig verwijzend naar kunst, filosofie en literatuur.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 284 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2017
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lieve Ijeawele, of Een feministisch manifest in vijftien voorstellen
Vijftien ideeën om een dochter op te voeden tot feministe.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 85 pagina's | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2017
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Rineke van Houten Dichter van de droge naald
Frank Lodeizen 1931-2013
Verhalende biografie van de beeldend kunstenaar Frank Lodeizen (1931-2015).
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 220 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2017
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Sipko Melissen Kafka op Norderney
essays
Literaire reisverhalen, die zowel over de auteur als over de Tjechische schrijver Franz Kafka (1883-1924) gaan.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 203 pagina's | Uitgeverij Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist
"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...
Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Willem Elsschot Willem Elsschot, dichter
alle verzen verzameld en toegelicht
Essays over alle verzen van Willem Elsschot, met per gedicht een andere auteur, die informatie over Elsschots poëzie bevatten alsmede die inbedden in de maatschappelijke en politieke waarden van zijn tijd.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 303 pagina's | Polis, Kalmthout | 2017
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Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
Embark on a haunting journey of self-discovery and transformation in Virginia Woolf's first novel, 'The Voyage Out'. Rachel Vinrace, a young woman sheltered from life's realities, is whisked away on her father's ship to South America. As she navigates through a complex web of conversations about art, love, and the human experience with fellow voyagers, Rachel begins questioning her place in society. But it is amidst the exotic beauty of Santa Marina she experiences profound change... Virginia Woolf...
Engels | 17 uur 38 minuten (795 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joke Mol Oorlogsdagboek van mijn vader
Dagboekaantekeningen uit 1944-1945 van een Rotterdamse jongeman die bij een razzia werd opgepakt en gedwongen tijdens de laatste maanden van de Tweede Wereldoorlog zwaar werk te verrichten in het oosten van Nederland.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 193 pagina's | Uitgeverij Bravenewbooks.nl, [Amsterdam] | 2017
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Anne Sewell Black Beauty
Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owner, he encounters mistreatment in many forms, but luckily, his journey is not without love either. Being herself an invalid, author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) seemed particularly aware of the importance of kindness toward all living creatures. She wrote...
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Recently orphaned 17-year-old David leaves his home on the Scottish countryside to seek out a rich uncle he has never met. The uncle, as it turns out, is paranoid and unpleasant, and before David can claim his inheritance he is knocked out and taken to sea to be sold as a slave in America. So begins Robert Louis Stevenson‘s adventure novel, Kidnapped (1886), a breathlessly exciting story for fans of action and suspense, and a story about two very different types of Scotsmen. Robert Louis Stevenson...
Engels | 8 uur 8 minuten (371 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Lewis Carrol The Hunting of the Snark
"The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being `Snark‘, The good Bellman engaged him at once." `The Hunting of the Snark‘ (1876) is a nonsense poem by `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘ author Lewis Carroll. It describes the disastrous hunting mission by a bizarre group of characters, among these a butcher who can only kill beavers and a guy who forgot his own name. Gloriously nonsensical, this poem is bound to appeal...
Engels | 39 minuten (31 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Loek Kessels Een kusje op je ziel
De auteur van de adviezenrubriek 'Lieve Mona' in weekblad Story vertelt haar eigen levensverhaal als dochter van een alcoholiste.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 422 pagina's | Grote Letter Bibliotheek, Deventer | 2018
Grootletterboek
2017