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Sven Hassel Marsbataljon

In Marsbataljon wordt een kleine groep soldaten op een gevaarlijke missie gestuurd. Aan de Russische zijde van het front moeten ze onopgemerkt uit zien te vinden waar de Russische troepen zich bevinden. Omdat het 27e pantserregiment uit strafsoldaten bestaat interesseert het de legerleiding geen klap wat voor ontberingen ze moeten doorstaan. De soldaten zijn volledig op zichzelf en hun overlevingsinstinct aangewezen. De Deen Sven Hassel schreef veertien romans die allemaal gaan over de belevenissen...

Nederlands | 10 uur (440 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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Eline Rosenhart Ik zal verborgen zijn

Hadassah is twaalf wanneer ze met haar Joodse familie in de Kristallnacht van Hamburg naar Amsterdam vlucht. Wanneer de nazi’s een paar jaar later Nederland bereiken, duiken haar ouders en zusje onder, maar Hadassah sluit zich aan bij het verzet. Door steeds van identiteit te wisselen weet ze zich te redden, tot ze wordt verraden en in een kamp belandt. Maar zelfs na de bevrijding is haar strijd nog niet gestreden: samen met honderden andere Joden reist ze per boot naar Israël om gezamenlijk hun...

Nederlands | 17 uur 15 minuten (1031 MB) | Kok, Utrecht | 2018

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Georgia Hunter Wij waren de gelukkigen

In de lente van 1939 leidt de Joodse familie Kurc een redelijk normaal leven in Radom, Polen. Tot de oorlog uitbreekt. De vijf broers en zussen raken over vijf werelddelen verspreid. Addy, musicus, weet een Braziliaans visum te bemachtigen. Jakob gaat in het verzet. Mila verbergt haar dochter in een klooster buiten Warschau. Genek belandt via een Siberisch strafkamp in Persië, waar hij zich aansluit bij het geallieerde leger. De zwangere Halina vlucht te voet over de Oostenrijkse Alpen de vrijheid...

Nederlands | 14 uur 1 minuut (820 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2018

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Roberta Rich De vroedvrouw van Venetië

Venetië, 1575. Vroedvrouw Hannah Levi heeft al heel wat babys gered met haar geheime kraamtechniek. Op een nacht wordt ze te hulp geroepen door de graaf van Padovani. Zijn vrouw en kind dreigen tijdens de bevalling te bezwijken. Het is een gevaarlijk verzoek, want het is Joden bij pauselijk edict verboden christenen medische hulp te verlenen. Hannah stemt toe en vraagt een astronomisch bedrag voor haar diensten met het geld hoopt ze haar man Isaak vrij te kunnen kopen, die op Malta gevangen zit....

Nederlands | 9 uur 54 minuten (856 MB) | Mozaïek, Utrecht | 2018

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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery

When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sigmund Freud Totem and Taboo

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood....

Engels | 6 uur 23 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sigmund Freud Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Psychopathology of Everyday Life, is a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author's most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and clearly demonstrates that the hitherto considered impassable gap between normal and abnormal mental states is more apparent than real. This translation is made of the fourth German edition, and while the original text was strictly followed, linguistic...

Engels | 7 uur 13 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Myrtle Reed Old Rose and Silver

Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes...

Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...

Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Myrtle Reed At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern

This novel begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd ball relations. Our protagonists may not communicate efficiently at first but at least they've got a sense of humours. The humourous style keeps up as well as some moments of lustre and rich feeling about the printed word itself. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author,...

Engels | 7 uur 8 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Myrtle Reed Lavender and Old Lace

Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep., 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed's long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance...

Engels | 4 uur 14 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...

Engels | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jacob Abbott Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou, wife of England's Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses - the 30 year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century. Margaret of Anjou is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 4 uur 42 minuten (213 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jacob Abbott History of Julius Caesar

The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome's Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination. History of Julius Caesar is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 4 uur 45 minuten (220 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...

Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and has been released from eighteen years in a Paris prison. Set in the two metropolises just prior (and during) the French Revolution, Dickens paints a distinct...

Engels | 15 uur 20 minuten (701 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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Tanya Commandeur Uit liefde, meneer Tuschinski

Tanya Commandeur schreef met Uit liefde, meneer Tuschinski een meeslepende historische roman over de verboden liefde van bioscoopmagnaat Abraham Tuschinski. Abraham Tuschinski en zijn zwagers Hermann Ehrlich en Hersch Gerschtanowitz openen in 1912 een exclusief theater voor film in de Hoogstraat in Rotterdam. Abraham is een man met visie, en vooral met lef. Zelfs in de Eerste Wereldoorlog durft hij zijn filmtheaters uit te breiden en legt hij het slecht bekendstaande buurtje Duvelshoek in Amsterdam...

Nederlands | 7 uur 7 minuten (410 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 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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