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Irma Joubert Het meisje uit de trein
Een verhaal over oorlog, bevrijding en liefde
Jakób, een jonge Poolse verzetsstrijder, heeft zijn aanslag op een Duitse gevechtstrein tot in de puntjes voorbereid. De trein blijkt niet gevuld met oorlogsmaterieel, maar met Joden op weg naar Auschwitz... De zesjarige Gretl is de enige overlevende. Verteerd door schuldgevoelens neemt Jakób haar het meisje uit de trein mee. Drie jaar lang woont ze bij zijn familie, en houden Gretl en Jakób elkaars geheim verborgen. Na de oorlog stuurt Jakób haar naar Zuid-Afrika in de hoop haar een goede toekomst...
Nederlands | 16 uur 27 minuten (993 MB) | Mozaïek, Utrecht | 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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Sven Hassel Pantsers des Doods
Het regiment rukt opnieuw op tegen het Rode Leger onder de nietsontziende aanvoering van hun krankzinnige legerleiding. De oorlog is zijn laatste fase ingegaan en de moraal in het Duitse leger is tot een dieptepunt gedaald. Maar voor het strafregiment van de hoofdpersonen is deserteren geen optie. Zij moeten doorvechten tot de laatste snik, aan het gevaarlijkste front van Europa. De Deen Sven Hassel schreef veertien romans die allemaal gaan over de belevenissen van het 27e pantserregiment van de...
Nederlands | 10 uur 8 minuten (447 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Monte Cassino
Na de ontberingen in Rusland belandt het regiment in Italië, waar de kou misschien minder op de loer ligt, maar de verschrikkingen van de oorlog niet minder zijn. Op een heuvel ligt het oeroude klooster van Monte Cassino, vol met de meest kostbare schatten en documenten. Er omheen woedt een vurige veldslag, en de soldaten van het 27e pantserregiment proberen uit alle macht stand te houden op de heuvel. De Deen Sven Hassel schreef veertien romans die allemaal gaan over de belevenissen van het 27e...
Nederlands | 10 uur 9 minuten (445 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers
Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured...
Engels | 6 uur 50 minuten (316 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...
Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 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 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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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James Washington Square
Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...
Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...
Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 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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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad...
Engels | 14 uur 18 minuten (658 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 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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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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