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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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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
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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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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 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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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...
Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Korina Miller | Kate Armstrong | James Bainbridge | Adam Karlin | John Lee | Carolyn McCarthy | Phillip Tang | Ryan Ver Berkmoes | Benedict Walker Canada
top sights, authentic experiences
Non-fictie
Engels | 324 pagina's | Lonely Planet, Carlton, Victoria | 2017
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Sheena Kamal Eyes like mine
Half-Indiaanse vrouw van middelbare leeftijd leeft als ex-verslaafde een ondergronds leven in Vancouver als assistente van privédetectives, tot ze haar eigen dochter, die ze bij de geboorte heeft afgestaan, moet zien te vinden.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | 368 pagina's | ZAFFRE, London | 2018
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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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Korina Miller | Kate Armstrong | James Bainbridge | Anna Kaminski | Adam Karlin | John Lee | Carolyn McCarthy | Phillip Tang | Ryan Ver Berkmoes | Benedict Walker Canada
Non-fictie
Engels | 894 pagina's | Lonely Planet, Carlton, Victoria | 2017
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Becky Ohlsen | Robert Balkovich | Celeste Brash | John Lee | Craig McLachlan | MaSovaida Morgan | Brendan Sainsbury The Pacific Northwest's best trips
32 amazing road trips
Non-fictie
Engels | 366 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Dublin] | 2022
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Margaret Atwood Moral disorder
Elf subtiel met elkaar verbonden verhalen waarin een vrouw enkele gebeurtenissen uit haar leven, van kind tot oudere, beschrijft.
Fictie | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 260 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2006
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Brendan Sainsbury | Ray Bartlett | Oliver Berry | Gregor Clark Canada
top sights, authentic experiences
Non-fictie
Engels | 324 pagina's | Lonely Planet, Carlton, Victoria | 2020
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Best road trips Canada
escapes on the open road
Non-fictie
Engels | 381 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Carlton, Victoria] | 2022
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Peter Heller The river
Studievrienden Jack en Wynn een kanotocht in Canada te gaan maken maar terwijl ze van de ongerepte natuur genieten zien ze in de verte een bosbrand naderen en horen ze een noodkreet.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 253 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2020
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Michael Ondaatje In the skin of a lion
a novel
Tijdens een lange, nachtelijke autorit vertelt een Canadees zijn levensverhaal aan het dochtertje van zijn pas overleden vriendin.
Fictie
Engels | 243 pagina's | Secker & Warburg, London | 1987
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The Pacific Northwest
Non-fictie
Engels | 257 pagina's | Lonely Planet, [Carlton, Victoria] | 2022
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Martha Brooks Mistik Lake
Odella (17) heeft als enige een joyride over het ijs van 'Mistik Lake' overleefd. Drie vrienden zijn omgekomen. Als ze met haar ouders verhuist, blijven de raadsels hen achtervolgen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 207 pagina's | Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2007
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