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Anna Charlotta Petricevic GAME
Three women are found naked and brutally murdered in central parts of Sydney - and DS Morgan Callaghan is assigned to lead the investigations of what seems to be the work of a serial killer. One of the murder victims is a young Danish citizen - and as Sydney is hosting the World Cup in a few weeks' time, Morgan has added pressure from his superiors and FIFA to find the killer before more people from all over the world descend on Sydney to watch the World Cup games. At the same time, Morgan's mother...
Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (400 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...
Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jack London The Call of the Wild
The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...
Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension
Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...
Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 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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Wanda Beemsterboer Call You Right Back, Mum
"She did not call back. Nor will she, ever again. How I started loathing those two little words, never again." In a heartbeat everything can change. This is the gripping, true story of how a young woman was murdered and a family lost a daughter. Like most young girls her age Nadine lives a life filled with family, friends and thoughts about the future. At seventeen she meets Gerold and they fall in love. But a darkness gradually falls upon their relationship and after almost three years Nadine...
Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Oscar Wilde De Profundis
"But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...
Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 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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Gaston Dorren De Dutchionary
woordenboek van al wat Dutch is
Double Dutch voor koeterwaals. Dutch Butt Disease voor lelijke dikke billen. Dutch treat voor juist niet trakteren. Een Dutch rose voor als je met je hamer de spijker mist en het hout raakt. Dutch oven voor een scheet in bed. Dutch courage voor sterkedrank. En een Dutch uncle geeft je op je donder. Als je naar de Engelse taal kijkt, lijkt het wel of Engelsen en Amerikanen ons laffe, lompe, lelijke, boerse, vieze, blowende, oversekste en suïcidale oplichters vinden. Die ook nog eens de straat verkeerd...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 158 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Pluim, Amsterdam | 2020
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J.A. de Bruijn Framing
over de macht van taal in de politiek, met Lodewijk Asscher, keizer Augustus, Hans van Baalen, Jan Peter Balkenende, Josiah Bartlet, Joe Biden, Stef Blok, John Boehner, Arend Jan Boekestijn, Wouter Bos, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, David Cameron, Wim van de Camp, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Job Cohen, Marcel van Dam, Tofik Dibi, Sander Dekker, Christine O'Donnell, Mohamed el-Baradei, Pim Fortuyn, Ruard Ganzevoort, Joachim Gauck, Leonard Geluk, Julia Gillard, Newt Gingrich, Sybrand van Haersma Buma, Femke Halsema, Mariëtte Hamer, Enneüs Heerma, Hans Hoogervorst, Boris Johnson, Edward Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jack Kemp, Jan de Koning, Eberhard van der Laan, Gerd Leers, Frank Luntz, Henry Mencken, Angela Merkel, Walter Mondale, Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Rob Oudkerk, Sarah Palin, Alexander Pechtold, Ronald Plasterk, Lilian Ploumen, Ronald Reagan, Kevin Rudd, Mark Rutte, Diederik Samsom, Marietje Schaake, Jan Schaefer, Ronald Sørensen, Jan Terlouw, Margaret Thatcher, Joop den Uyl, Kees Vendrik, Maxime Verhagen, Kevin White, Herman Wijffels, Geert Wilders en Halbe Zijlstra
`Nu doet u het weer, zegt Diederik Samson tegen Mark Rutte en in één klap is de wederopbouw van de PvdA in gang gezet. Vele decennia eerder heeft Ronald Reagan ook zo n moment. De hele campagne om het presidentschap brengt hij terug tot een vraag aan de Amerikaanse kiezer: gaat het jullie beter dan vier jaar geleden? Dit zijn voorbeelden van framing. Wie zijn politieke boodschap intelligent kan verpakken, kan de werkelijkheid naar zijn hand zetten, zo laat Hans de Bruijn zien in dit vlijmscherpe...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 158 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
E-book
Lidewijde Paris Een gedicht is ook maar een ding
een eigenzinnige speurtocht door de Nederlandstalige poëzie
Speurtochten door de poëzie van vroeger en nu, op basis van het werk van bekende en onbekend geworden dichters, vanuit een literaire maar ook vanuit een historische, ethische en religieuze invalshoek.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 275 pagina's (ePub2, 3,3 MB) | J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam | 2021
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Pieter Steinz Macbeth heeft echt geleefd
een reis door Europa in de voetsporen van 16 literaire helden
Reisreportages in de voetsporen van literaire helden die echt hebben bestaan.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub, 8,9 MB | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2011
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