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Arnold Bennett How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twenty-first century, more and more people are toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arnold Bennett had observed a worrying trend of exhausted wage earners whose waking hours revolved around their jobs and who had little time to spend on the business of actually living. Self-improvement was Bennett’s prescription for a speedy escape from the woes of the rat race. In his popular work How to...
Engels | 1 uur 19 minuten (60 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
John Kendrick Bangs Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, ”Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of “Life” and “Harper” magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing...
Engels | 3 uur 4 minuten (140 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Brahma Khumaris Practical Guidelines For Meditation
Half lecture, half commentary: explore the concept of the self and the Supreme Being. In a simple form, understand the beauty of Raja Yoga meditation and how spiritual awareness is needed to link the self and God. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an international organisation working at all levels of society for positive change.nnEstablished in 1937 it now carries out a wide range of educational programmes for the development of human and spiritual values throughout its 4000 branches...
Engels | 55 minuten (43 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
The Flash
Door een blikseminslag blijkt Barry Allen te beschikken over supersnelheid. Als 'The Flash' bestrijdt hij de misdaad in Central City.
Fictie | Science fiction
Film
Jeffrey Zimbalist | Michael Zimbalist Pelé
birth of a legend
Pelé groeit op in een arme wijk van de Braziliaanse stad Bauru en blijkt een bijzonder voetbaltalent te bezitten.
Fictie | Biografie
Film
Bridget Jones 1 & 2
Een stuntelige dertiger in Londen worstelt met het leven en de liefde.
Fictie | Humoristische roman | Romantische verhalen
Film
The Flash
Door een blikseminslag blijkt Barry Allen te beschikken over supersnelheid. Als 'The Flash' bestrijdt hij de misdaad in Central City.
Fictie | Science fiction
Film
Boys in the trees
De scholieren Corey en Jonah, die vroeger vrienden waren, zijn in de nacht van Halloween op elkaar aangewezen. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.
Fictie | Griezelverhaal
Film
Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine
Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...
Non-fictie
Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022
E-book
Marie A. Rebelle Flight LU-365
The passengers of Flight LU-365 are all at different points on life's journey through love and lust when fate makes their paths cross and end in the desert of a quiet African country. The young couple, passionate and excited; the elderly pair, proving that love endures; the lesbian couple with their secret ready to share; a group of friends escaping for adventures in lust; the porn star, taking a break from her successful career; the married woman, confused and hurt from an a air; the young student...
Fictie
Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
E-book
Trots & Verlangen
Tussen een vastgoedmagnaat en een advocate slaat de vonk meteen over. Zij voelt zich echter gekrenkt door zijn gedrag na hun eerste liefdesnacht.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Film
Els van Steijn The fountain, find your place
control your life through insight into your family system
Do you encounter the same problems in your daily life, time and time again? Do you want to shake off a feeling that you just can't put your finger on? Do you often feel guilty or are you a people pleaser? Are you stuck in an unhealthy relationship or is contact with your parents difficult? How can you learn to deal with this, so you can experience more calmness in your life? Stubborn patterns in your life can often be traced back to your family system, the inseverable connection you have with your...
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 1,4 MB | Het Noorderlicht, Avenhorn | 2020
E-book
Ariyana Arsala The secret to losing weight
with daily meal plans and a helpful portion indicator
Step by Step program to help you lose weight in a healthy way with daily menus for the whole month. You can vary yourself to make it more enjoyable.
Non-fictie
Engels | 129 pagina's (ePub3, 11 MB) | Diëtistenpraktijk Samen Sterk, Vlissingen | 2020
E-book
Anthony Ham | Gregor Clark | Duncan Garwood | Catherine Le Nevez | Isabella Noble | John Noble | Regis St. Louis Spain
top sights, authentic experiences
Non-fictie
Engels | 324 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Dublin] | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Mirjam Mous No way out
the clock is ticking
Klas 2C gaat op werkweek naar de Ardennen. De busreis is net begonnen, als iedereen een mysterieus bericht op zijn telefoon krijgt. Er blijkt een bom aan boord van de bus te zijn. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Van Goor, Houten | 2018
E-book
Han Peeters Planet X
English edition
Planet X, a planet that is part of our solar system, circles in an orbit around our Sun and the star Nemesis. The Sun and its sister star are a great distance from each other. The orbital period of Planet X is 3600 years. One of the last times it passed our planet, it caused a worldwide flood as described in the Old Testament, where it is called Wormwood. Every culture in ancient times had another name for it. Regardless of what it is called, the planet is an instigator of evil as told in The Revelation...
Fictie
Engels | 158 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2018
E-book
Marga Vogel | Michelle Princenthal The marbles and the crown
Jewish wisdom in a fairy tale
Wise Tree sends Ruben and Rivka on a journey to search for a very special bottle and fill it with 10 unique marbles discovered along the way. These marbles are each collected on several small islands. The children are able to reach each of the islands by crossing a bridge, but only after they have spoken to the looking glass (their inner selves). Throughout their journey they are interrupted, misguided and challenged by Rara Rattlesnake (the evil inclination), who continuously is trying to lead them...
Fictie
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | De Vrije Uitgevers, Amsterdam | 2018
E-book
E. Zürcher Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...
Non-fictie
Engels | 119 pagina's (ePub2, 8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
2016