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Pieter Aspe De butlerknop
Commissaris Pieter Van In bevindt zich op een doodlopend spoor wanneer hij de moord op een vrouw probeert te ontrafelen. Samen met zijn collega Guido Versavel komt hij erachter dat het slachtoffer zich eerder zelf schuldig maakte aan een inbraak bij haar ex-geliefde. Zij probeerde een compromitteerde usb-stick te bemachtigen. Wat voor belastend materiaal stond hier op? Werd ze vermoord als brute afrekening voor de inbraak? ‘De butlerknop’ neemt een onverwachte wending wanneer Van In en zijn vrouw...
Nederlands | 10 uur 34 minuten (461 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Carmen Korn Tijd om opnieuw te beginnen
Het is 1949; de nazi’s zijn verslagen. Het geluid van de bombardementen is nog maar net weggestorven. Hamburg ligt in puin. Velen hebben iemand verloren. Henny is op zoek naar haar vriendin Käthe, die verdwenen is. Lina opent een boekwinkel in de stad en Ida is teleurgesteld over haar relatie met de Chinese Tian. Het tweede deel van de trilogie vertelt verder over het leven van de vriendinnen en hun kinderen, die op hun beurt hun eigen verhaal hebben. Ondertussen voltrekken zich op de achtergrond...
Nederlands | 18 uur 38 minuten (1073 MB) | Signatuur, Amsterdam | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Isa Maron Eindspel
De Noordzeemoorden 4
In een kleine woning in Amsterdam-Noord worden de gruwelijk toegetakelde lichamen van een hoogbejaard stel gevonden. Rechercheur Maud Mertens stort zich op de zaak, terwijl ze samen met haar collega Niels werkt aan een zaak waarbij er hoofden zijn gevonden in de tuin van de villa. Kyra Slagter vertrekt naar Londen, de seriemoordenaar die meer lijkt te weten van de verdwijning van haar zus wil praten. Ze komt steeds dichterbij, gevaarlijk dichtbij... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Nederlands | 12 uur 41 minuten (731 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan
This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...
Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
G. K. Chesterton The Trees of Pride
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most prolific English writers of all time. He wrote poems, plays, essays, newspaper...
Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (107 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Leo Tolstoj Father Sergius
The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit. Despite his being removed from the world, he...
Engels | 1 uur 56 minuten (89 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Leo Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court judge in 19th century Russia. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior...
Engels | 2 uur 32 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...
Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman
Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...
Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce...
Engels | 13 uur 2 minuten (599 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt
"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...
Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anne Sewell Black Beauty
Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owner, he encounters mistreatment in many forms, but luckily, his journey is not without love either. Being herself an invalid, author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) seemed particularly aware of the importance of kindness toward all living creatures. She wrote...
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...
Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Kaouther Adimi De boekhandel van Algiers
Drie met elkaar verbonden verhalen: de liefde voor literatuur in een leenboekwinkeltje in Algiers, de Algerijnse gschiedenis tussen 1930 en 2017 en hoe de situatie nu wordt gezien door Ryad uit Parijs.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Rhys Bowen | Erica Feberwee Oorlogsdochters
Lord Westerham heeft vijf dochters die allemaal hun plek in de wereld proberen te vinden, terwijl de Tweede Wereldoorlog in alle hevigheid losbarst. Dochter Pamela werkt in het diepste geheim voor MI5 in Londen, terwijl haar zus Margot bij het Franse verzet betrokken raakt. De rest van het gezin deelt hun landgoed met het leger en probeert het leven in het dorp op een zo normaal mogelijke wijze voort te zetten. Als ze een dreigend bericht ontvangen, worden alle verhoudingen echter op scherp gezet:...
Fictie
Nederlands | 327 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Xander, Haarlem | 2021
E-book
Carmen Korn Tijd om opnieuw te beginnen
De lotgevallen van vier vriendinnen tussen 1949 en 1969 in Hamburg.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 540 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Signatuur, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Arjaan van Nimwegen Burengeruchten
Als zijn moeder overlijdt en zijn vader vertrekt, woont Thomas samen met zijn oudere zus in het grote herenhuis en raakt hij steeds verder in geestelijk verval.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Nederlands | 172 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book