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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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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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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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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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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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Shirley Agudo Amsterdam Streethearts
Fotoboek van Amsterdamse travestieten, thematisch geordend rond drie feesten: Hartjesdag, Canal Parade en Drag Queen Olympics.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 239 pagina's | Uitgeverij Bas Lubberhuizen, [Amsterdam] | 2017
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Juliet Butler The less you know the sounder you sleep
Aangrijpend relaas van een Siamese tweeling in Rusland, met zeer verschillende persoonlijkheden, die medische tests ondergaat en afgezonderd wordt van de maatschappij.
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Engels | 439 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2017
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Myrna Floor Welkom in Nederland
Welkomstboek van Nederlandse kinderen voor kinderen die nieuw in Nederland zijn. Met kindertekeningen in kleur en tekst in drie talen (Nederlands, Engels, Arabisch).
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | Arabisch | 58 pagina's | New Energy Drukwerk, [Vianen] | 2017
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Jolien van Breen The path of most resistance
how groups cope with implicit social identity threat
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Engels | 229 pagina's | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, [Groningen] | 2017
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Johanna Martina Philomena Verpalen Dyslexia in a multicultural context
Non-fictie
Engels | 191 pagina's | 2017
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The religious cultures of Dutch Jewry
Non-fictie
Engels | 368 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2017
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Elisabeth Nathanaël Rooijackers Migrant family matters
comparing patterns of intergenerational solidarity and partner separation in the Netherlands
Non-fictie
Engels | 183 pagina's | University of Groningen, [Groningen] | 2017
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Maja Kutlača The role of values and value-identity
fit in motivating collective action
Non-fictie
Engels | 145 pagina's | University of Groningen, [Groningen] | 2017
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W. Schinkel Imagined societies
a critique of immigrant integration in Western Europe
Engels | 271 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2019
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Vanessa Grigoriadis Blurred lines
rethinking sex, power, and consent on campus
Women use smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many “woke” male students are more sensitive to women’s concerns than previous generations ever were, while other men perpetuate the most cruel misogyny.
Engels | 332 pagina's | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston | 2017
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Michael Stephans Experiencing Ornette Coleman
a listener's companion
Engels | 189 pagina's | Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland | 2017
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The fact of a body
a murder and a memoir
Persoonlijk relaas van een Amerikaanse advocate die werkt voor een kantoor in Louisiana dat zaken op zich neemt van ter dood veroordeelden; zij raakt geobsedeerd door de zaak van de pedofiele kindermoordenaar Ricky Langley.
Non-fictie
Engels | 326 pagina's | Macmillan, London | 2017
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Ilana Gershon Down and out in the new economy
how people find (or don't find) work today
Engels | 289 pagina's | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago | 2017
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Ciara Cremin Man-made woman
the dialectics of cross-dressing
Engels | 211 pagina's | Pluto Press, London | 2017
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