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R. J. Belle After
Meet eight combat-injured men who sustained life-altering injuries. Hear eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstance. Hear how these incredible men manage to reshape their lives after combat. It also sets these stories within the context of current veteran healthcare, and injury, suicide, and disability statistics, and looks briefly at the impacts on the caregivers who support these men. R. J. Belle...
Engels | 3 uur 41 minuten (160 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Joyce Kostakis Streaming Sarah
In 2035 Portland, Oregon, a Homicide Detective awakens from a coma with the ability to see into parallel worlds. A Doppelgänger teaches her to stream the soul and memories of her Department's murdered victims to bring their killers to justice. Dying was the break she needed... Or so she thought. Homicide Detective Katie Hanson prided herself on being an advocate for the dead. When she returns home from the hospital after a near-death experience, she realizes the door to the spirit world remained...
Engels | 5 uur 29 minuten (243 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Beat Poet Experience The Beat Poet Experience
"The Beat Poet Experience" is formed around the poetry and dynamism of performance artist David O'Kelly, paying more than a passing nod to the Beat Poets of the 60’s. It embraces warmly all that we love and hate about ourselves with a wry twist of phrase and some of the hottest jazz licks his side of New Orleans... Reflecting the major works of Beat works such as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch" (1959) and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" (1957), the Beat Poet Experience...
Engels | 1 uur 12 minuten (55 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. V
This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Hypnos", "The Temple", "Nyarlathotep", "Unnamable" and "The Disinterment"....
Engels | 2 uur 25 minuten (106 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. II
This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Ashes", "The Hound", "Two Black Bottles", "The Tree on the Hill"...
Engels | 2 uur 22 minuten (104 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. III
This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains six of his short stories: "Dagon", "The Tree", "The Evil Clergyman", "The Very Old Folk",...
Engels | 1 uur 57 minuten (86 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. IV
This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Outsider", "The Festival", "The Green Meadow", "He" and "Till...
Engels | 2 uur 16 minuten (100 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. VI
This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with sparse, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "From Beyond", "Cold Air", "The Moon-Bog", "The Music of Erich...
Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (99 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. I
This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Horror at Martin’s Beach", "The Nameless City", "The Ghost...
Engels | 2 uur 14 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous...
Engels | 2 uur 1 minuut (93 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room
One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...
Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Infernal Trap
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Fifty thousand francs are stolen from Nicolas Dugrival’s jacket and Arsène Lupin is the main suspect. When Dugrival commits suicide, his widow swears revenge and sets an inescapable trap for our hero... The fourth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic detective series perfect for readers who love Arthur Conan Doyle’s...
Engels | 52 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer The Eleventh Commandment
Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer,...
Engels | 10 uur 51 minuten (475 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Albert A. Anderson Fading of the Light
A Love Story
"The Fading of the Light: A Love Story" is Albert A. Anderson’s touching account of the loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s disease. The poems contained in this collection were a way for him to deal with the effects this incurable illness had not only on his wife, but on him and their nearest and dearest. In publishing this incredibly personal journey, he hopes he can bring some solace to readers in a similar situation, who have to deal with a slow yet inevitable loss. Albert A. Anderson, Ph.D.,...
Engels | 56 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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A. Frank. Pinkerton Won by Crime
"'It is no use!' she cried, at last, pushing back the mass of thick black hair falling over her white brow; 'I shall never be able to get India by heart, unless I can see the places. I wish papa would let us go reconnoitering amongst the ruined temples and other mysterious buildings; it is so annoying staying here day after day, never seeing anything outside the palace.'" In "Won by Crime", the Portuguese Viceroy Don Garcia has brought his daughter Lianor and nephew Pantaleone to the wild island...
Engels | 1 uur 20 minuten (58 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Charles Rivers The Earp Brothers
"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created...
Engels | 2 uur 46 minuten (123 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Rudyard Kipling American Notes
"In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a mockery of American democracy, and whilst exhibiting the racist attitude that has made him controversial...
Engels | 2 uur 45 minuten (119 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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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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