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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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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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Patrick Van Rosendaal Be NY 2.0
van Belg tot New Yorker met Patrick Van Rosendaal
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 223 pagina's | Lannoo, Tielt | 2017
Gedrukt boek
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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Noam Chomsky Het einde van de Amerikaanse droom
de tien principes voor de concentratie van rijkdom en macht
Kritische analyse van de teloorgang van het Amerikaanse ideaal om door hard werken maatschappelijk hogerop te komen.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Ten Have, Utrecht | 2017
E-book
Rudyard Kipling Captain Courageous
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (272 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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Bianca Mastenbroek Hendrick, de Hollandsche indiaan
Amerika, 1659: Hendrick (16) en andere Nederlandse pioniers worden gevangengenomen door indianen. Hendrick wordt een van hen, en begint te zien wat de blanken voor kwaad aanrichten. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | ePub2, 6,1 MB | De Vier Windstreken, Rijswijk zh | 2017
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Laura Lee Hope The Moving Picture Girls
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly hoarse and he loses the role. Despite voice rest and medical treatment, Mr. DeVere's voice fails to improve, and it is impossible to find theatre work. A friend and neighbour in their apartment building suggests that Mr. DeVere tries acting in the moving...
Engels | 4 uur 29 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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James Baldwin I am not your negro
Non-fictie
Engels | 118 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York | 2017
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Victor Appleton Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, The Speediest Car on the Road, is Volume 5 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone else that relies on the local bank (which is the target of a nefarious bank run scheme). Tom must solve...
Engels | 4 uur 40 minuten (209 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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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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Viet Thanh Nguyen De vluchtelingen
Korte verhalen over het cultuurverschil dat Vietnamezen ervaren die in de Verenigde Staten terecht zijn komen.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Uitgeverij Marmer, Baarn | 2018
E-book
Michael Chabon Maangloed
roman
Een man vertelt op zijn sterfbed aan zijn kleinzoon over zijn leven tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog die in verschillende opzichten zijn leven heeft getekend.
Fictie
Nederlands | 420 pagina's (ePub2, 2,8 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Thomas Labourot | Séverine Gauthier Washita
Ballonstrip.
Fictie | Stripverhaal | Wild-westroman
Nederlands | Saga Uitgaven, Zedelgem | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Thomas Labourot | Séverine Gauthier Washita
Ballonstrip.
Fictie | Stripverhaal | Wild-westroman
Nederlands | Saga Uitgaven, Zedelgem | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Hillary Jordan Een tijd om te oogsten
Vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog worstelt een blanke boerenfamilie in Mississippi met het rassenvraagstuk.
Fictie | Protestants milieu | Roman over het rassenvraagstuk
Nederlands | 310 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Mozaïek, Utrecht | 2016
E-book
Martha Conway De ondergrondse rivier
Een jonge naaister van een toneelgezelschap in Amerika in de vroege 19e eeuw wordt geconfronteerd met de realiteit van de slavernij.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sociale roman
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Joel Rosenberg Laatste waarschuwing
Nadat ISIS een aanslag heeft gepleegd op het Capitool bepleit J.B. Collins, buitenlandcorrespondent bij de New York Times, een grootscheepse jacht op ISIS-leider Abu Khalif.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 434 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | BC Onbekend, Utrecht | 2017
E-book