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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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom,...
Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first dip into the world of Sherlock Holmes, and one that would make him world famous. This first Holmes novel became the...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Anna Katharine Green That Affair Next Door
The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth’s female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. ‘That Affair Next Door’ (1897) is Anna Katharine...
Engels | 11 uur 3 minuten (518 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Charlotte de Winter The Keykeeper
Finlay Reid, a 33-year-old Scottish homicide detective, unexpectedly acquires the 'gift' to access someone's thoughts and memories. An ability meant to help a Halfway, a deceased person still wandering the earth, move on. When he is given the investigation into the brutal murder of an English scientist he stubbornly ignores this unwelcome gift as much as he can. The scientist's wife, Robyn Ashton, is his main suspect but their first meeting turns out very differently than he expected. During the...
Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Zilverbron, Naaldwijk | 2024
E-book
Koen van Zon | Matthew Broad | Aleksandra Komornicka | Paul Reef | Alessandra Schimmel | Jorrit Steehouder The Unfinished History of European Integration
Revised Edition
The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union. From the aftermath of the First World War to the EU of 27 member states and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it guides the reader past the main events, crucial sites and key actors that shaped the EU we know today. How did it evolve from a market project to a geopolitical force, what explains the expansion of its membership, institutions, policies and the resistance to this growth, and why does it function...
Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
E-book
Xandra Lammers Snowflakes
With her departure for a house-sitting home in the far north, Julia hopes her life will take a new turn away from her old existence. Right after she arrives at the snowy white house, in a suburb of the town, the neighbour makes a loud noise. The residents of the house-sitting home soon leave for the south. In a cupboard, Julia finds newspaper articles that tell of a tragedy that happened in the nearby hotel, a mystery she wants to unravel. In the neighbourhood's only shop, she meets Eileen, who,...
Engels | 125 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Publisher Boekenbent, [Barneveld] | 2024
E-book
Vivian Helena Murdered in cold blood
To get away from her troublesome ex-boyfriend for a while, Kate decides to supervise a ski camp for children at the Les Portes du Soleil ski resort. Before the children have even arrived, the camp is overshadowed by a murder. When another death occurs a day later, the camp is stopped. Kate no longer knows who she can trust. Especially for her roommate Tristan, she has extremely conflicting feelings for. Fear and attraction are dangerously close to each other while a heavy snowstorm rages outside....
Engels | 203 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Zors Books, [Edegem] | 2023
E-book
David Brandsma The silent screams from Myanmar
Fear, Love, Hope, Arrests, Intimidation, Friendship, Despair and Violence. Based on true events, the Silent Screams from Myanmar tells the frightening story of refugees. They are threatened in their home country by a violent junta regime, and exploited and mistreated in a seemingly open and tolerant society. It tells the story of a few and of millions of people alike, who are hoping to build a better future for themselves and their families. The refugees were reluctant to obey his order. They looked...
Engels | 88 pagina's | ClusterEffect, Breda | 2013
E-book
Mario Puzo The Godfather
The classic bestseller that inspired the legendary film
The classic novel that inspired 'the greatest crime film of all time'Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. But no man can stay on top forever, not when he has enemies on both sides of the law. As the ageing Vito Corleone nears the end of a long life of crime, his sons must step up to manage the family business. Sonny Corleone...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2012
E-book
Sarah Harman All the other mothers hate me
anovel
Een voormalig popzangeres leeft voor haar 10-jarige zoon, maar raakt in de problemen als het jongetje dat hem steeds pest op mysterieuze wijze verdwijnt tijdens een schoolreisje. Terwijl ze probeert de onschuld van haar zoon te bewijzen, krijgt ze alle andere moeders tegen zich.
Fictie
Engels | 373 pagina's | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York | 2025
Gedrukt boek
Harlan Coben Nobody's fool
2000, Malaga. Sami Pierce, Amerikaanse backpacker, wordt bebloed wakker met een mes in zijn hand en het lichaam van zijn vriendin naast hem. Tweeëntwintig jaar later is hij rechercheur en ontdekt hij dat zijn vriendin van toen nog leeft. Hij moet haar vinden om erachter te komen wat er is gebeurd.
Fictie
Engels | 418 pagina's | Century, London | 2025
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Emilia Voortman Poveglia's plague doctor
"Fransisco is a plague doctor, whose master Servius has just died. At his deathbed, Servius gave Fransisco his last wish; to take his ring alongside his ashes to his wife. Fransisco goes on a journey to fulfil his master’s last wish, but realizes only then how little he truly knows about his master."-- Achtrflap
Fictie
Engels | 214 pagina's | Donkey Books, [Heemskerk] | 2024
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