• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Plague

  Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks together with a young boy through the desert. The two travelers walk along an old and long forgotten railway track with an important mission, a mission that can change the life of all the survivors. What was this plague and where did it come from? How...

  Engels | 2 uur 19 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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• R. K. Howard The Express

  "CHILLINGLY THOUGHT PROVOKING..." Are you ready for one hell of a bumpy ride? A man's daily commute becomes a hellish nightmare in this harrowing account of a horrific bus crash that transforms a fateful ending into a painful beginning for an unlucky lot forced to endure. Based on an age-old premise with a fresh perspective, it visits the undesirable side of life after death. R. K. Howard is an American author. His "Black Machetes" has been in Amazon Top 100 psychological thriller several times....

  Engels | 57 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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• Tess Gerritsen De leerling

  Boston wordt geteisterd door een reeks schokkende misdaden die eindigen in ontvoering en dood. Het patroon suggereert dat er één man aan het werk is: seriemoordenaar Warren Hoyt, bijgenaamd 'De Chirurg', die echter onlangs achter de tralies is verdwenen. Rechercheur Jane Rizzoli vermoedt dat er een leerling van Hoyt rondwaart, die gebruik maakt van zijn gruwelijke methoden. Maar Jane houdt er geen rekening mee dat ze zelf wel eens het doelwit zou kunnen worden. Als Hoyt plotseling op vrije voeten...

  Nederlands | 13 uur 8 minuten (1135 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2020

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• Reiner Larsen Wiese Ontvoerd

  In samenwerking met Erika Lust

  "Dit is niet wat ik bedoelde toen ik je over mijn fantasieën vertelde. Het moest een spel zijn." Een Australische rugbyspeler wordt in allerijl ontvoerd door zijn Japanse vriendin. In een verlaten industriehal ontspint zich een sadomasochistisch rollenspel. Een spel waarbij niet hij de touwtjes in handen heeft, maar zij. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Nederlands | 37 minuten (30 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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• Linda G Het verjaardagscadeau

  "Ik kijk met bonzend hart op mijn mobieltje. Ik begin te blozen. Een mengeling van verwachting en nervositeit rommelt in mijn buik en ik schrik als er een sms binnenkomt." Julie‘s hart is gebroken na het bedrog van haar echtgenoot. Om haar op te peppen krijgt ze voor haar dertigste verjaardag een avond met de man van haar dromen cadeau. Voordat haar angst voor het onbekende haar overmant besluit ze het avontuur aan te gaan. Na een geweldige avond kan ze hem echter niet vergeten. De novelle is uitgegeven...

  Nederlands | 28 minuten (20 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018

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• Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  An imaginative, clever, and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder in a graveyard and Tom is forced to testify against the murderer, Injun Joe. Injun Joe escapes and when Tom and his crush Becky Thatcher meet him in a dark cave their hope of escape diminishes... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a very well known and popular coming of age story concerning the American youth. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any...

  Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (311 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Detective

  Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn attempts to solve a mysterious murder which takes them onboard a steamboat back to Arkansas, gets them tangled up with diamond thieves and the ghost of a missing burglar. In this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time Tom and Huck find themselves with Uncle Silas and his family again (see "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"). Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Mark Twain was...

  Engels | 2 uur 8 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

  When an old sea captain dies mysteriously in his parent‘s inn, young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the captain‘s possessions that will spark a wild and adventures treasure hunt. Joined by a handful of untrustworthy pirates, he meets the antagonistic Long John Silver, a character whose fame transcends the tale. With Treasure Island (1883), author Robert Louis Stevenson invented the modern image of the pirate, without which we likely wouldn‘t have experienced Johnny Depp as the infamous Captain...

  Engels | 7 uur 28 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad

  Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with robbers, lions and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne esque adventure stories. Like in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, this story is told using the first person narrative voice of...

  Engels | 3 uur 6 minuten (144 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Edith Wharton Summer

  Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall’s unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney...

  Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

  "Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it." When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and starts to tend to it, like the flowers, she comes to life. One day she hears a cry from within the mansion, and soon learns that she is not the only one in need of some fresh air. `The Secret Garden‘ (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is among the most...

  Engels | 6 uur 55 minuten (308 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Leo Tolstoj Father Sergius

  The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit. Despite his being removed from the world, he...

  Engels | 1 uur 56 minuten (89 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out

  The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)...

  Engels | 17 uur 37 minuten (802 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes

  One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know that his encounters with other humans have only just begun. This 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in a pulp magazine and quickly became...

  Engels | 9 uur 12 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Leo Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

  The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court judge in 19th century Russia. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior...

  Engels | 2 uur 32 minuten (114 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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• 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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• 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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• Leo van der Heijdt De penitentie

  'Periodieke onthouding werd in die tijd beschouwd als tegennatuurlijk en een vergrijp tegen de kerkelijke voorschriften, dus een zonde. 'Voor het zingen de kerk uit' was een alternatief dat helemaal uit den boze was. Structurele kinderbeperking was een doodzonde. Moeder heeft mij persoonlijk later in alle openheid verteld, dat zij tot haar verbazing als penitentie -boetedoening voor de zonden die zij had begaan- zich diezelfde avond of nacht nog aan haar man moest aanbieden, en dat ik daaruit was...

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  Nederlands | 436 pagina's (ePub2, 7,2 MB) | Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2023

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