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Alex Boogers Onder een hemel van sproeten

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Drie mensen, tussen wie vriendschappelijke banden bestaan, worden geconfronteerd met ingrijpende gebeurtenissen.

Fictie

Nederlands | 334 pagina's (ePub2, 4,1 MB) | Hollands Diep, Amsterdam | 2024

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Clive Cussler | Justin Scott De messentrekker

Detective Isaac Bell infiltreert in een toneelgezelschap dat door de VS reist, omdat hij vermoedt dat een seriemoordenaar meereist en telkens nieuwe slachtoffers maakt.

Fictie

Nederlands | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 5,1 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2024

E-book
M.L. Rio Als wij schurken waren

Als zeven veelbelovende studenten in de ban raken van het werk van Shakespeare en een van hen onder verdachte omstandigheden om het leven komt, ontwikkelt zich een echte tragedie in hun persoonlijke levens.

Fictie

Nederlands | 345 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Rainbow, Amsterdam | 2024

E-book
The secret man

Het verhaal van de FBI-directeur Mark Felt die onder de schuilnaam 'Deep Throat' de journalisten Bob Woodward en Carl Bernstein helpt bij hun onderzoek naar de Watergate-affaire.

Fictie

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Froon Akker Einum

Yn it djippe suden fan Kanada set in fûgeltsje útein mei de oerstek nei Europa. Tagelyk wurdt by in wenningstichting yn it noarden fan Nederlân in brief opsteld. Balansearjend op it snijflak fan lân en see leit Einum, in buertskip yn in lânskip fan boulannen mei op de achtergrûn in him yn rap tempo útwreidzjend havengebiet. Yn achttjin miniatueren wurdt in skets jûn fan de ynwenners: in keunstner dy't besiket de skimering tusken skaad en ljocht fêst te lizzen, in demintearjende frou, in...

Westerlauwers Fries | 9 uur (512 MB) | Froonakker, Easterwierrum | 2016

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Jérémy | Alejandro Jodorowsky Nigredo, de zwarte fase

Ballonstrip.

Fictie

Nederlands | 56 pagina's | Glénat, Antwerpen | 2017

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G. K. Chesterton The Trees of Pride

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most prolific English writers of all time. He wrote poems, plays, essays, newspaper...

Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (107 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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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Anna Katharine Green The Amethyst Box

On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. ‘The Amethyst Box’ (1905) is a short story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a suspenseful "whodunit" with a dash of romance, which concludes thoroughly...

Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (132 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...

Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The Millionaire Baby

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private detective, is on the case and when he discovers two lost shoes in the surrounding are – both for the same foot! – he suspects a conspiracy is at play. `The Millionaire Baby‘ (1905) is a story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a delightful mystery with fascinating characters and twist after twist after twist....

Engels | 7 uur 27 minuten (350 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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Leo Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court judge in 19th century Russia. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior...

Engels | 2 uur 32 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sigmund Freud Reflections of War and Death

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert - it is still Freud's argument - that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. Bron: Flaptekst,...

Engels | 1 uur 15 minuten (56 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room

One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...

Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous...

Engels | 2 uur 1 minuut (93 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...

Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 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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