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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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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. 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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Susan Glaspell B.J. Harrison Reads A Jury of Her Peers
"A Jury of Her Peers" is a short story by Susan Glaspell, adapted from her one-act play "Trifles" exploring a murder mystery. The detectives trying to solve the crime are two women, making it one of the first pieces feminist detective fiction. It targets the vainglorious and absent-minded decisions of men, and highlights female’s psychology and powerfulness of feeling. It is a crime and mystery short story that is both fast-paced entertaining, a must read. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sax Rohmer B.J. Harrison Reads The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
"The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu" is the second novel in the Fu-Manchu series, in which the villainous doctor returns to Britain in order to undermine the country's power. He has survived the previous novel’s deadly attackand is now on the move against the forces of good, embodied by detective Smith and Dr. Petrie, who always disrupt his plans. Fu-Manchu’s fanatical devotion to world domination and all things evil make Rohmer’s novel a joyride through the actions and thoughts of his superbly-crafted...
Engels | 8 uur (351 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Charmian Clift Mermaid Singing
In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece. Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended. A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. "Mermaid...
Engels | 8 uur 16 minuten (361 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jane Davis At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock
London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide. Like most working-class daughters, Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger. Star of the silver screen, Ursula Delancy, has just been abandoned by the man she left her husband for. Already hounded by the press, it won’t be long before she’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Patrice...
Engels | 14 uur 34 minuten (635 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sax Rohmer B.J. Harrison Reads The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
"The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu" is the first book in the Fu-Manchu series, about the notorious evil mastermind. In the crime fiction world, Fu-Manchu stands on equal grounds with Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis. Rohmer created an archetypal villain who is very much a product of his times, and a reflection of the social and political conditions. Fu-Manchu’s plans are always attacked and challenged by Detective Nayland Smith, who gives his all to defeat the mad doctor. A compelling and fast-paced...
Engels | 7 uur 51 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Florian Illies Liefde in tijden van haat
1929-1939
Terwijl Jean-Paul Sartre cheesecake eet met Simone de Beauvoir in Kranzler-Eck in Berlijn, Henry Miller en Anaïs Nin wilde nachten beleven in Parijs en F. Scott Fitzgerald en Ernest Hemingway gepassioneerde affaires in New York beginnen, zien Bertolt Brecht en Helene Weigel zich net als Thomas en Katia Mann genoodzaakt een veilige haven te zoeken. Dit alles gebeurt op het moment waarop de nationaalsocialisten de macht grijpen in Duitsland, boeken verbranden en het geweld tegen Joden begint.Florian...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Jeffrey Archer To Cut a Long Story Short
The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession – and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to the creative financial talents of a member of...
Engels | 7 uur 42 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl
A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...
Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer Twelve Red Herrings
An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive... a female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle... a young artist gets the biggest break of her career... a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration... an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein’s death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... How will they react? How would you? Twelve Red Herrings is the third collection of irresistible short stories from master storyteller,...
Engels | 9 uur 22 minuten (408 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Felice Picano The Lure
Shocking and controversial, The Lure has become a classic of gay fiction with its candid description of New York’s gay subculture. The works of Felice Picano need little introduction. As one of the founding members of The Violet Quill, the foremost post-Stonewall gay writing movement, (other members included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), Picano has published many acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction. First published in 1979, The Lure rocketed Picano to commercial literary fame....
Engels | 15 uur 23 minuten (671 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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Addison Armstrong Het licht van Luna Park
1926. Verpleegster Althea Andersons hart breekt als ze weer getuige is van een baby die sterft in Bellevue Hospital. Wanneer ze leest over verbazingwekkende overlevingskansen van baby's die in couveuses behandeld worden, voelt het als het wonder waarnaar ze op zoek was. Maar de dokters van Bellevue wijzen deze onconventionele geneeskunde af en dwingen Althea tot een hartverscheurende keuze. 25 jaar later valt Stella Wright uit elkaar. Haar moeder is overleden, ze heeft ontslag genomen en haar huwelijk...
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 253 pagina's (ePub2, 4 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
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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Brenda Meuleman Engel van Mesopotamië
Engel van Mesopotamië van Brenda Meuleman gaat over de lotgevallen van de excentrieke en eigenzinnige Helen King. Helen is een vrouw die bijna alles wat ze onderneemt tot een succes maakt, maar ze draagt een zware last met zich mee. Toen ze jong was stierf haar broertje in haar bijzijn als gevolg van een ongeluk. Deze gebeurtenis, versterkt door haar moedige karakter en tomeloze ambitie, brengt haar ertoe verre reizen naar desolate, gevaarlijke gebieden te ondernemen. Na de hoogste bergtoppen van...
Fictie
Nederlands | 249 pagina's (ePub2, 4,2 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Max Hastings Operatie Pedestal
de vloot die zich in 1942 een weg naar Malta vocht
Operatie Pedestal was een cruciale hulpmissie die uitgroeide tot een epische, bloedige zeeslag en een cruciaal moment in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In 1942 had de Luftwaffe Malta in een wurggreep. In de maanden april en mei lieten ze in de hele Blitz meer bommen op het eiland vallen dan op Londen. Britse pogingen om voorraden en versterkingen aan te brengen mislukten met zware verliezen, en de mensen op Malta naderden de hongerdood toen de Axis probeerde hun overgave af te dwingen. In zijn kenmerkende...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 22 MB | Hollands Diep, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book