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Booth Tarkington Penrod and Sam
"During the daylight hours of several autumn Saturdays there had been severe outbreaks of cavalry in the Schofield neighbourhood. The sabres were of wood; the steeds were imaginary, and both were employed in a game." "Penrod and Sam" (1916) is the sequel to "Penrod" (1914). Set before World War One, it focuses on Penrod Schofield and his best friend Sam Williams as they go on hilarious adventures. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist. Originally from Indianapolis,...
Engels | 6 uur 27 minuten (283 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Pamela Douglas Animals In My Life
Having once rashly boasted that she could remember every animal she had ever known, the author thought she must put pen to paper and see what memories came flooding back. The delightful poems in this collection are moving, funny, sad, loving, and will strike a chord with many a pet owner and entertain all who enjoy the ways of our animal friends. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 44 minuten (46 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Eddie Rickenbacker Fighting the Flying Circus
"Fighting the Flying Circus" is fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker WWI memoir. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. The circus mentioned in the title refers to the German squadron commanded by the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American World War I pilot. He was the most successful fighter ace in that war and received...
Engels | 10 uur (437 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Henri Bergson An Introduction to Metaphysics
The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be helpful to anyone who seeks to go beyond simply dealing with the practical demands of daily life and consider the nature of things. Of special importance is Bergson’s claim that it is both possible and necessary to know from the inside rather than confining our attention to external perspectives and points of view. Intuition...
Engels | 2 uur 5 minuten (91 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead’s The Function of Reason
Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being anti-scientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain). It is hard...
Engels | 2 uur 34 minuten (112 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories for Little Children
The "Just So Stories for Little Children" is among Kipling's best known and loved work. The stories focus on different animals, and how they got their distinctive features. You will for example discover why the elephant's trunk is so very long, and how the leopard got its spots. Written originally for his own daughter, the author's pleasure in playing with the sounds and meanings of words is very evident, and adds to the adults' enjoyment of these children stories. This playfulness is also dramatically...
Engels | 3 uur 57 minuten (173 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Charles Miner Thompson The Calico Cat
Solomon has hated the Calico Cat ever since he bought the house in Ellmington and he has tried his very best to drive her away, but with no luck. As he tries once more to get rid of the cat, he triggers a vicious series of events that ends with lies, the arrest of a boy, and a guilty conscience. Charles Miner Thompson (1864-1941) was an American author and journalist, who worked as an editor at the Youth’s Companion, a children’s magazine that ran from 1827 to 1929. Thompson is mostly remembered...
Engels | 2 uur 30 minuten (110 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Claes Johansen The Boatman and the Boy
By now the sun was up, and through the periscope he minded he could see the stony plateau in front of the position. On the other side of it were the outskirts of the jungle where the enemy was hiding and building his camps, preparing for new attacks. He observed the vastness of the wild jungle stretching north and west, pierced by hundreds of hilltops, each surrounded by a white fog. French Indochina was a gigantic and mysterious place, and he was gradually losing hope that he would ever find what...
Engels | 7 uur 38 minuten (358 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Henrik Ibsen Little Eyolf
In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his philosophical thesis on 'human responsibility’. Meanwhile, Rita still feels a lot of desire towards Alfred and is jealous of everyone who comes near him. But when little Eyolf is lured away by the Rat-Wife and drowns in a lake, the couple must...
Engels | 2 uur 36 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves getting hurt in return. The situation is further fraught by the arrival of young and seductive Hilda Wangel, who also plays a part in Ibsen's previous drama "The Lady from the Sea." The Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)...
Engels | 2 uur 56 minuten (128 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arthur B. Reeve The Poisoned Pen
"The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story offers a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, as well as being loaded with adventure, action,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arthur B. Reeve The Silent Bullet
"The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. "The Terror in the Air" follows the development of the gyroscope for aeroplanes. Each story offers a...
Engels | 8 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Bas von Benda-Beckmann Na het Achterhuis
Anne Frank en de andere onderduikers in de kampen
Onderzoek naar wat er gebeurde met Anne Frank en de andere onderduikers in het Achterhuis na hun arrestatie in augustus 1944.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 295 pagina's (ePub2) | Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Garrelt Verhoeven De vreemde zaak van het quasi-onvindbare Elzeviertje
Een bibliografische cold case
In de jaren 90 stuitte boekhistoricus Garrelt Verhoeven op een curieus boekje: een 17e-eeuwse Latijnse uitgave van Thomas à Kempis’ De navolging van Christus in een editie van het Leidse uitgevershuis Elzevier. Het was als een heilige graal voor Elzevierverzamelaars van de 19e en 20e eeuw, omdat het vrijwel onvindbaar was. In deze bibliografische cold case waant Verhoeven zich een detective en duikt in de wereld van de ‘elzeviriomanie’ om het verhaal achter dit boek te ontrafelen. Zijn speurtocht...
Nederlands | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 4,5 MB) | Walburg Pers, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Kirsty Manning De verloren ring
De Amerikaanse historica Kate Kirby wordt gevraagd om een artikel te schrijven over de Cheapside-juwelen, een in 1912 in Londen opgegraven verzameling sieraden van onschatbare waarde. Als ze in Londen aankomt om de sieraden in het echt te bekijken, kan ze niet vermoeden dat dat het begin is van een zoektocht naar het verleden van haar eigen familie. Want in 1912 was haar overgrootmoeder Essie Murphy, een arme arbeidersdochter van Ierse immigranten, erbij toen deze sieraden gevonden werden. Deze vondst...
Fictie
Nederlands | 264 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2022
E-book
Chris Fabry De redding van Jesse Woods
roman
Chris Fabry voert de lezer mee naar zomer van 1972 in 'De redding van Jesse Woods'. Matt Plumbley verhuist met zijn familie naar Dogwood. Tot Matts opluchting weet hij snel vriendschap te sluiten met Dickie Darrel Lee Hancock en de stoere, taaie Jesse Woods. De drie kinderen beleven mooie avonturen, totdat een fatale nacht hun levens voor altijd verandert. Jaren gaan voorbij. Totdat een van hen terugkeert naar Dogwoord om de waarheid naar boven te halen en te voorkomen dat een belofte van lang geleden...
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 5,8 MB | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2020
E-book
Stuart Smith Otto Skorzeny
Hitlers favoriete commando
Stuart Smith schreef de biografie van Otto Skorzeny, Hitlers favoriete commando. SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny was in zijn eigen tijd al legendarisch. Hitlers favoriete commando verwierf een reputatie als durfal en werd bekend om zijn missie in 1943 om de gevangen Mussolini te bevrijden. Het was de eerste actie in een reeks van spectaculaire special ops. Skorzeny’s werkwijze beïnvloedde de aanpak van alle speciale operaties nadien – zoals bleek tijdens de eliminatie van Osama Bin Laden in...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 422 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Uitgeverij Omniboek, Utrecht | 2020
E-book
Monica Black Een bezeten land
heksen, gebedsgenezers en de spoken van het verleden in naoorlogs Duitsland
In de nasleep van de Tweede Wereldoorlog volgden het aantal bovennatuurlijke gebeurtenissen in het door oorlog verscheurde Duitsland elkaar in een rap tempo op. Miljoenen mensen werden getroffen door schijnbaar ongeneeslijke ziekten (waaronder blindheid en verlamming) en een golf van apocalyptische visioenen woedde door het land. Messiaanse gebedsgenezers stonden vanuit het niets op, gebedsgroepen voerden duiveluitdrijvingen uit en enorme menigten reisden door het land om een glimp op te vangen van...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 350 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Hollands Diep, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Michał Wójcik Treblinka 1943
het verhaal van de opstand in het vernietigingskamp
Op 100 kilometer van de Poolse hoofdstad Warschau lag vernietigingskamp Treblinka. Daar werden in 1942-1943 in iets meer dan een jaar tijd 900.000 mensen vermoord. Alleen in Auschwitz-Birkenau, waar 1,1 miljoen mensen om het leven kwamen, vielen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog meer slachtoffers. Op 2 augustus 1943 kwamen enkele honderden Poolse en Tsjechische Joden in Treblinka in opstand. Circa 300 van hen wisten te ontsnappen. Enkele tientallen overleefden de oorlog. Niet lang daarna werd het kamp...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2020
E-book