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John Kendrick Bangs Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, ”Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of “Life” and “Harper” magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing...
Engels | 3 uur 4 minuten (140 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Anna Chojnacka Kilimanjaro as medicine
Anna Chojnacka is thirty, married with two young children, and running a thriving company. She's living life to the fullest - until she's diagnosed with MS. While searching for a way to live her life without strong medication, she meets "The Iceman" Wim Hof. To gain strength, she takes his courses, exposing herself to extreme cold. Ultimately, she takes part in a climbing expedition he leads up Mount Kilimanjaro, which not only succeeds, but does so in record time. While she's completing this difficult...
Non-fictie
Engels | 99 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | [Uitgever Onmisbaar], [Amsterdam] | 2022
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Carine Green Stress reset
based on a true story
For years, the Antwerp born and raised Carine Green (34) has been suffering from physical complaints, for which she can't find a solution. That's when she meets a mysterious man, J.P. He claims he's able to help her. She meets up with him and, little by little, he shares his insight with her. It's an insight that will change her life for good as well as the life of anyone who reads this book. The cause of pain, of being unhappy, is revealed and a solution is presented to deal with the physical and...
Fictie
Engels | 108 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Beefcake Publishing, Gent | 2016
E-book
Dimitri Verhulst Spoo Pee Doo
Europe is burning, while we casually order another drink. Do we defend our freedoms or our appetite? On the clash of religious fanaticism and freedom, from whatever. Terror isn't blind, in fact it has its sights set on what the West has built. Europe shakes and trembles, feels suddenly transported by a revival of religious fanaticism back to an age that seemed to have been put to bed forever. Did we feed those monsters ourselves? The urgent need for answers and solutions meets no response. Despite...
Fictie
Engels | 93 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Danielle Steel Rushing waters
De bewoners van New York krijgen orkaan Orphelia te verwerken; het merendeel evacueert maar sommige weigeren dat.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
E-book
BA Paris Behind closed doors
Nadat Grace getrouwd is met de charmante, elegante Jack blijkt hij een sadistische psychopaat te zijn die haar zo perfect gevangen houdt dat ontsnappen onmogelijk lijkt; Jack heeft het ook gemunt op haar zusje Millie, een meisje met het syndroom van Down.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
P.K. Lynch Armadillos
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'P. K. Lynch can tell a story deep as a wound... Read this one' -- Jeanette Winterson'A truly stunning debut' -- Matt Bendoris, The Scottish Sun'Just wonderful, haunting, real... ' -- Fiona Shaw'... a brilliant first novel: pacy and un-put-downable. ' -- Vicky Feaver**Featured on Radio 4's Woman's Hour**Aggie is fifteen, a 'sub' from a 'sub' family, one of Texas' downtrodden. Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out....
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Elizabeth Strout My Name Is Lucy Barton
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge
*A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE AND THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION*An exquisite story of mothers and daughters from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge Lucy is recovering from an operation in a New York hospital when she wakes to find her estranged mother sitting by her bed. They have not seen one another in years. As they talk Lucy finds herself recalling her troubled rural childhood and how it was she eventually arrived in the big city,...
Engels | ePub3, 1 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Christopher Edge The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
When Albie's mum dies, it's natural he should wonder where she's gone. His parents are both scientists and they usually have all the answers. Dad mutters something about Albie's mum being alive and with them in a parallel universe. So Albie finds a box, his mum's computer and a rotting banana, and sends himself through time and space to find her...Quality commercial fiction, well written with real heart and adventure. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Elizabeth Fremantle The girl in the glass tower
Arbella Stuart is kandidaat voor de troonopvolging van Elizabeth I en wordt daarom opgevoed in complete isolatie uit angst voor complotten tegen haar maar met hulp van dichteres Aemilia Lanyer gaat ze op zoek naar vrijheid.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 400 pagina's (ePub) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Annie Darling The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts
A delightful new series set in a quaint old bookshop, for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan. Where happy ever after is only a page away... Once upon a time in a crumbling bookshop, Posy Morland hid in the pages of romantic novels. So when Bookend's eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put down her books and join the real world. Because Posy hasn't just inherited an ailing business, but also the attentions of Lavinia's grandson, Sebastian, AKA The Rudest Man In...
Engels | ePub2, 1,7 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Anne Rogers Ben
Diary of A Heroin Addict
As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all.... but then he found drugs. As his life descended into chaos and despair, Ben began to chronicle his daily struggles with the aid of a video camera. He was hopeful that one day his experiences could be used to educate others. Ben lost his battle against addiction and died when he was 34 as a result of medical withdrawal. His family decided to release the tapes in the hope that...
Engels | PDF, 1,8 MB | M-Y Books ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Paul Burman Grease Monkey's Tale
For Nic the mechanic 'grease monkey extraordinaire' life is becoming a journey of stories: good, bad, happy and sad. When Siobhan McConnell beautiful, dynamic, but shadowed by secrets - hurtles into his world, Nic's life bounces between tragedy, romance and thriller. Framed for armed robbery, it seems he's on the brink of losing everything until he's offered the 'job-of-a-lifetime' in the remote township of Gimbly, where very little is what it seems to be. Nic, haunted and supported by his past,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Kevin Joslin 12 Good Reasons To Look Up Uranus
Dream of becoming a Welsh language square-dance caller? Know your lucky vitamin? Look no further for the answers. 12 Good Reasons to Look Up Uranus is a hilarious collection of horoscopes as read out on Sir Terry Wogan's radio show that will brighten and enlighten every day of the months ahead. Whether a long-standing offer of marriage from Jim Davidson or a surprise offer from a small man with a firm handshake, you need to know what your stars have in store for you. The only book to guide you through...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
William Coles Mr Two Bomb
One man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world s second atomic bomb explodes into his life. As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book
Guy Mankowski Letters From Yelena
My letters to you, my darling Noah, will be maps, in which I hope I can be found. 'Yelena, a brilliant but flawed Ukrainian ballerina, comes to the UK to fulfil her dreams and dance in one of ballet's most prestigious roles: Giselle. While researching content for his new book, Yelena meets Noah, and here begins a journey of discovery. Life takes an unexpected turn, and the two write letters in which they try to provide a blueprint of their lives and find their way back to each other. But during this...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
E-book