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John Boyne The House of Special Purpose

Een 82-jarige Rus beleeft de Russische Revolutie vanuit het standpunt van de gewone man.

Fictie

Engels | 493 pagina's | Black Swan, London | 2010

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Cranford

In het Engelse plaatsje Cranford in 1842 wordt het dagelijks leven van een aantal dames opgeschrikt door de komst van de spoorlijn.

Fictie

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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...

Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Jacqueline Wilson Dancing the Charleston

Mona (10) is wees en woont rond 1920 bij haar tante in een huisje op een landgoed. Als de eigenaresse overlijdt, verandert Mona's leven ingrijpend. Bevat ook dansinstructies. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 434 pagina's | Corgi Yearling, London | 2019

Gedrukt boek
Clive Cussler | Jack Du Brul The Titanic secret

an Isaac Bell adventure

In 1911 raakt de Amerikaanse detective Isaac Bell betrokken bij de speurtocht naar een aantal mijnwerkers die in Colorado worden vermist.

Fictie

Engels | 390 pagina's | Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, UK | 2019

Gedrukt boek
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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Wiley Cash The last ballad

Beschrijving van het leven van Ella May Wiggins (1900-1929), een alleenstaande blanke vrouw die zich inzette voor de rechten van met name zwarte arbeiders in de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina.

Fictie

Engels | 378 pagina's | Faber & Faber, London | 2018

Gedrukt boek
C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen

"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...

Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet

"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...

Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Therese Anne Fowler A well behaved woman

a novel of the Vanderbilts

Alva Vanderbilt (1853-1933) groeit binnen haar liefdeloze huwelijk en ondanks de conventies van die tijd, uit tot een persoonlijkheid die New York op de kaart zet.

Fictie

Engels | 392 pagina's | Two Roads, London | 2018

Gedrukt boek
Sonia Velton Blackberry & wild rose

Spitalfields, Londen, 18e eeuw. Een dienstmeisje (voormalig prostituee) en haar meesteres (de vrouw van een Hugenoot zijdewever) vertellen beurtelings over hun belevenissen waarbij het weven van zijde als een rode draad door het verhaal loopt.

Fictie

Engels | 403 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2019

Gedrukt boek
Adam O'Riordan The falling thread

Cruciale gebeurtenissen uit het leven van drie kinderen van een welvarende eigenaar van een katoenspinnerij in Manchester tussen 1890 en 1914.

Fictie

Engels | 257 pagina's | Bloomsbury Circus, London | 2021

Gedrukt boek
Louis de Bernières The autumn of the ace

Daniel Pitt was zowel in de Eerste als in de Tweede wereldoorlog een beroemde piloot en hij kijkt terug op zijn leven.

Fictie

Engels | 311 pagina's | Harvill Secker, London | 2020

Gedrukt boek
Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Call of the Wild

Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies. Who kidnapped...

Engels | 3 uur 30 minuten (152 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads To Build a Fire

A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend – a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin. Why is the man travelling through the Canadian frozen lands? Where is he heading to? Will he manage...

Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Nikola Scott The life I stole

Een vrouw neemt na de Tweede Wereldoorlog de identiteit van een overleden vriendin over.

Fictie

Engels | 288 pagina's | H Review, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Frances Hardinge A skinful of shadows

Makepeace (12) is bezeten door de geest van een beer. Ze is de onwettige afstammelinge van de aristocratische familie Fellmotte. Als er een burgeroorlog dreigt, wil deze familie haar gebruiken om hun duistere familiegeheim te beschermen. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 414 pagina's | Macmillan, London | 2017

Gedrukt boek
Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw

A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...

Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Claes Johansen The Boatman and the Boy

By now the sun was up, and through the periscope he minded he could see the stony plateau in front of the position. On the other side of it were the outskirts of the jungle where the enemy was hiding and building his camps, preparing for new attacks. He observed the vastness of the wild jungle stretching north and west, pierced by hundreds of hilltops, each surrounded by a white fog. French Indochina was a gigantic and mysterious place, and he was gradually losing hope that he would ever find what...

Engels | 7 uur 38 minuten (358 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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