• Colleen Hoover Maybe someday

  Misschien ooit

  'Maybe someday' is een gepassioneerd verhaal over vriendschap, verraad en romantiek van Colleen Hoover, de internationale bestsellerauteur van 'It starts with us' en 'It ends with us' Sydney geniet van een perfect leven: ze studeert, is verliefd op haar geweldige vriend Hunter en woont samen met haar beste vriendin Tori. Maar alles verandert wanneer ze ontdekt dat Hunter haar bedriegt, en ze moet bedenken wat haar volgende stap zal zijn. Als Sydney haar mysterieuze en aantrekkelijke buurman Ridge...

  Nederlands | 11 uur 31 minuten (662 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2017

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• Sarah Orne Jewett Deephaven

  Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on vacation to an unforgettable seaside village where time runs slower and small pleasures are intensified. Much space is given to outdoor rambles and sights and events of daily living that draw you into another era. Jewett's loving and gentle descriptions...

  Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (244 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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• 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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• Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...

  Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Edgar Wallace The Green Rust

  A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...

  Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective

  "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...

  Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 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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• Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

  "Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

  Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

  Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

  Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Natalie Sumner Lincoln The Red Seal

  Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound and will keep you guessing all the way through the final chapter! Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881-1935) was an American novelist. A prolific writer, she is best known for her mystery and crime novels, such as "The Red Seal" (1920), "The Moving Finger (1918), and "The Cat’s Paw" (1922). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 5 uur 28 minuten (255 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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• Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins

  Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...

  Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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• 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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• Maarten van Rossem Van Columbus tot Obama

  De Verenigde Staten zijn het machtigste land ter wereld, en een zeldzaam succesvol experiment van twee eeuwen. Vier tophistorici geven in 4 delen een verhelderend beeld van deze korte maar zeer intrigerende geschiedenis. Prof.dr. Maarten van Rossem, emeritus bijzonder hoogleraar geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Utrecht, betoogt dat de huidige geschiedschrijving te veel waarde hecht aan politieke geschiedenis en presidenten: "Terugkijkend kun je stellen dat zij er weinig toe doen." Deel 4: Vanaf...

  Nederlands | 1 uur 5 minuten (81 MB) | Veen Media, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Eduard van de Bilt Van Columbus tot Obama

  De Verenigde Staten zijn het machtigste land ter wereld, en een zeldzaam succesvol experiment van twee eeuwen. Vier tophistorici geven in 4 delen een verhelderend beeld van deze korte maar zeer intrigerende geschiedenis. Dr. Eduard van de Bilt, docent Amerikaanse geschiedenis aan de universiteiten van Leiden en Amsterdam, vertelt over de koloniale tijd, waarin gedurende driehonderd jaar de Europese grootmachten Spanje, Nederland, Frankrijk en Groot-Brittannië elk een deel van het Amerikaanse continent...

  Nederlands | 1 uur 6 minuten (71 MB) | Veen Media, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Frans Verhagen Van Columbus tot Obama

  De Verenigde Staten zijn het machtigste land ter wereld, en een zeldzaam succesvol experiment van twee eeuwen. Vier tophistorici geven in 4 delen een verhelderend beeld van deze korte maar zeer intrigerende geschiedenis. Frans Verhagen, journalist gespecialiseerd in alles wat met Amerika te maken heeft, vertelt over de periode waarin de Verenigde Staten van een naar binnen gericht land veranderde in een onomstreden wereldmacht. Deel 3: Van de burgeroorlog tot de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1861-1941)...

  Nederlands | 1 uur 1 minuut (71 MB) | Veen Media, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Frans Verhagen Amerika's Koude Oorlog

  In 1945 eindigde de ene oorlog en begon de volgende. Of misschien was de Koude Oorlog slechts de volgende fase van een oorlog die in 1914 was begonnen en zou duren tot 1989. De vraag of deze botsing tussen de Verenigde Staten en de Sovjet-Unie in dat grote verband gezien onvermijdelijk, opzettelijk of per ongeluk was, houdt historici verdeeld. Mr. Frans Verhagen behandelt de Koude Oorlog vanuit Amerikaans perspectief: hoe bezagen de VS de wereld van na 1945 en voor welke afwegingen stond het land?...

  Nederlands | 1 uur 3 minuten (46 MB) | Veen Media, Amsterdam | 2016

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• Maarten van Rossem De Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen

  Een hoorcollege over de ontwikkelingen van 1960 tot nu

  De Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen zijn misschien wel de belangrijkste verkiezingen die er zijn. Wie uiteindelijk president wordt van het machtigste land ter wereld zal niet alleen veel macht en invloed hebben op de binnenlandse, maar vooral ook op de buitenlandse politiek. Hoewel iedere Amerikaan zich als onafhankelijke kandidaat verkiesbaar kan stellen, gaat de strijd feitelijk tussen de Democratische en de Republikeinse partij. Maarten van Rossem behandelt de geschiedenis en ontwikkeling van...

  Nederlands | 1 uur 41 minuten (64 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 2016

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