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Gustaaf Peek A.D.

Vlammende historische roman over een keerpunt in de geschiedenis ‘Er zweeft veel op zee vanaf de mars. Een school vliegende vissen kan onverwacht in een horde ratten veranderen, verre golven kunnen op verloren geliefden gaan lijken, de horizon kan opeens bomenrijen herbergen, en hoeveel uitgehongerde mannen hebben niet meerminnen zien wegglippen in de watervlugge wentelingen van dolfijnenstaarten.’ 1597. De jonge Republiek der Nederlanden stuurt reusachtige schepen oostwaarts. Om buit te vergaren,...

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Nederlands | 259 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, Amsterdam | 2021

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Martin de Haan Ramkoers

roman

De 37-jarige fotograaf Jasper van den Berg ligt net in bad als op de radio het nieuws klinkt: er is een grote ruimterots gesignaleerd die op de aarde af komt razen, trefkans nog onbekend. Wat te doen? Eerst aan het werk, want de jaarlijkse Poedelkalender moet worden gemaakt. Dan toch ook maar even naar Noord-Spanje bellen, waar zijn vriendin Hannah woont. Het is het begin van een doltragische kroniek, waarin we Jasper van dag tot dag volgen op zijn weg door wat misschien wel de eindtijd is, en misschien...

Fictie

Nederlands | 297 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2021

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Arnon Grunberg De dood in Taormina

In een gebed dat geen gebed is, een bekentenis die geen bekentenis is, een liefdesbrief, nee, een verlaat antwoord op een liefdesbrief, vertelt Zelda (26) over haar leven als lokeend in dienst van een jeugdbende, als drager van eigen en andermans geheimen. En over de rest van haar leven,dat begon nadat ze haar vader op haar zestiende beloofde niet vroegtijdig te zullen sterven. Een verloren opschrijfboekje (toeval? noodlot?) voert haar naar de acteur Jona (tweevoudig winnaar van de Louis d’Or)....

Fictie

Nederlands | 250 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam | 2021

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Hein Jaap Hilarides Beppe Xenia

Harkboek, foarlêzen troch Geartsje de Vries

Xenia is grutbrocht yn de Dravadelte fan Slovenië. Dêr treft se Freek Wassenaar, in boeresoan út It Bilt. Freek en Xenia wurde fereale en sette har nei wenjen yn Fryslân. Se trouwe yn 1933, it jier dat Hitler oan de macht komt yn Dútslân. Yn it begjin fan de Twadde Wrâldoarloch rint Xenia in âlde leafde tsjin it liif, Dietrich Kleeblatt, in SD'er dy't yn Nederlân wurket. Mei om't Xenia Dútsk prate kin en goed sjonge, brûkt hy har en bringt sa it libben fan Xenia en Freek bot yn ûnstjoer....

Westerlauwers Fries | 7 uur 15 minuten (625 MB) | Audiofrysk, Easterwierrum | 2021

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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...

Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (145 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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JJ Marsh Wolf Tones

Fifteen years ago, Rolf was destined for the gutter. His luck has changed. Now a cellist with the Salzburg City Orchestra, he has his dream job and dizzying prospects. All because of her. Smart, sexy, well connected and crazy about him, Leonor is his fantasy woman. She made him and he'll never forget it. Neither will she. She chooses Rolf's diet, his friends, his decisions and career path. She knows best. When does a champion turn controller? While he submits to domination at home, he struggles...

Engels | 10 uur 52 minuten (472 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Suzanne Snow The Cottage of New Beginnings

One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over? When Annie returns to Thorndale, a village in the English countryside where she spent much of her childhood, she’s looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up the cottage her godmother left her, and fix up her broken heart. When she clashes with local hero, Jon, Annie can’t help but wonder if coming back to Thorndale was a mistake. The village has clearly changed, and the last thing she needs is more drama. But avoiding...

Engels | 8 uur 28 minuten (367 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Suzanne Snow The Garden of Little Rose

For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past. At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding. When the gorgeous Mac accepts her invite, she assumes he's joking and thinks nothing more of it... Until he turns up at the church on the wedding day. But Mac has an agenda. He wants to hire her skills as a garden historian to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana. Flora knows she...

Engels | 8 uur 34 minuten (379 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Suzanne Snow A Summer of Second Chances

Sparks and tempers fly when Ben comes to stay in Daisy’s holiday cottage. Daisy likes routine. She goes to work, makes dinner for her son, then loses herself for an hour or two in her sewing. She’s not looking for change, until Ben crashes – literally – into her life. Ben is training for a triathlon, working himself to the limit in an attempt to forget a recent trauma. Daisy wants to help, but even as they draw closer with every week that passes, he pushes her away whenever things threaten to get...

Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (375 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Alex Gough Carbo and the Thief

The road to Rome is long and full of peril. Following his retirement, ex-legionnaire Carbo journeys back to Rome, blissfully unaware of the dangers that await him. On the way, he encounters many adventures, strives to solve a mysterious theft, and meets an old friend getting ready for gladiatorial combat. In other stories, we visit Elissa, the evil priestess, and Vespillo, the trusty watchman, and discover more about their colourful histories. We see a young boy’s first battle and travel all...

Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (127 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family

"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" is a Gothic short story by Sheridan Le Fanu focusing on a young woman who marries a Scottish landowner with a dark past. A short story whose haunting and semi-supernatural elements might have influenced Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre", Le Fanu’s tale combines a lot of elements – horror, romance, thriller, and drama – to create a compelling and sophisticated world from which there is no easy escape. All this, together with the countless secrets, murders,...

Engels | 1 uur 36 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter

"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...

Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads The Room in the Dragon Volant

"The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a mysterious story about a premature burial, a theme favoured by Poe some years previously. When a chivalric young man tries to save an innocent countess from the clutches of a greedy count, little does he suspect that the whole situation could be a trap. With plenty of Gothic elements and some remarkable episodes of horror, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a haunting mystery story that will keep readers at the edge of their seat. B. J. Harrison started his Classic...

Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (204 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Liz Hurley Cornish Dreams at Cockleshell Cottage

The sequel to Liz Hurley’s “A New Life for Ariana Byrne” and second in the Hiverton Sisters series, perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Phillipa Ashley and Milly Johnson. Ever since the Byrne sisters – Ariana, Aster, Clem, Paddy and Nic – discovered they were heiresses to the vast Hiverton fortune, their lives have never been the same. No longer living in poverty in London, they now own an estate in Norfolk, a castle in Scotland and a picturesque village in Cornwall. When sensitive Paddy, the baby...

Engels | 9 uur 4 minuten (419 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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R.D. Shah The Dark Temple

A brutal cult. A gruesome rite. A primal evil... At a remote farmhouse outside Turin, a mysterious religious exorcism goes horribly wrong, setting in motion a series of catastrophic events, that threatens to bring the world to its knees... Meanwhile, Professor Alex Harker is settling into his new life in the Templar Brotherhood, when he is suddenly whisked away to the Tower of London. There he learns of a disturbing murder, and a strange riddle hinting at a sinister truth. Now the fate of the...

Engels | 12 uur 22 minuten (552 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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R.D. Shah The Shadow Conspiracy

A brutal foe, an ancient mystery... The explosive new Templar thriller. Cambridge Archaeology Professor Alex Harker is drawn back into the twisted clutches of the Mithras, who are seeking to unearth a knowledge lost to humankind since the dawn of civilization. His journey will take him from the Bay of Bengal to the murky depths of the Gibraltar strait, from the Swiss Alps to an island untouched for over 30,000 years, all in pursuit of this fateful knowledge. In a diabolical game of cat and mouse...

Engels | 9 uur 46 minuten (429 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. I

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Horror at Martin’s Beach", "The Nameless City", "The Ghost...

Engels | 2 uur 14 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. II

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Ashes", "The Hound", "Two Black Bottles", "The Tree on the Hill"...

Engels | 2 uur 22 minuten (104 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. III

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains six of his short stories: "Dagon", "The Tree", "The Evil Clergyman", "The Very Old Folk",...

Engels | 1 uur 57 minuten (86 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. IV

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Outsider", "The Festival", "The Green Meadow", "He" and "Till...

Engels | 2 uur 16 minuten (100 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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