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Tim Birkhead Bird sense
"What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the...
Engels | 288 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Damion Hunter Birds of Prey
A gripping historical adventure set in Roman Britain
In West Britain, King Loarn of the Silures tribe leads a rebellion against their weakened Roman occupiers. Caught in the middle is Faustus, a Roman soldier with maternal ties to the Silures, trapped between loyalty to the army and compassion for his kin. A fragile peace teeters on the brink as a sudden tragedy threatens to escalate tensions, fracturing the relationship between him and his sister Silvia. With a great, final conflict on the horizon and with Silvia potentially the key to it all, Faustus...
Engels | 13 uur 32 minuten (594 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2025
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Penelope Douglas Birthday girl
Een jonge vrouw ontmoet op de avond van haar verjaardag in de bioscoop een oudere aantrekkelijke man. Hij blijkt de vader van haar vriend te zijn.
Fictie
Engels | 396 pagina's | Penelope Douglas, [New England] | 2018
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Mariatu Kamara | Susan McClelland Bite of the mango
"As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands.Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived....
Engels | 224 pagina's (2,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014
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Akwaeke Emezi Bitter
De tiener Bitter gaat naar de school Eucalyptus in Lucille: een stad in een andere wereld. Buiten de school is er veel geweld en racisme. Als Bitter een bijzonder schilderij maakt, zet ze per ongeluk een revolutie in gang. Waar hoort ze nu echt thuis? Op school of bij haar vrienden? En wat is de rol van de wraakengelen in het verhaal? Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's | Faber & Faber, London | 2022
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Tami Hoag The bitter season
Liska en Kovac, een voormalige detectiveduo, werken afzonderlijk aan verschillende moordzaken, die uiteindelijk met elkaar te maken blijken te hebben.
Fictie
Engels | 408 pagina's | Orion Books, London | 2016
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Jen Minkman Bittersweet
Antakya, 1980. Djinns and humans live together in the sprawling city once called Antioch. Seventeen-year-old Selma is struggling with feelings of emptiness and depression and secretly visits the djinns to buy one of their magic potions called Mirages. Mirages can show you your wildest dreams, but come at a price. When Selma visits the king of the djinns together with her friend Aisha, she is starting to suspect he knows more about her than he is letting on. Is there something she has lost? And is...
Engels | 59 minuten (86 MB) | Bookora, Zeist | 2024
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Bert Thurlings Bizarre legends, the CO2-syndrome, the mysteries of Ethiopia and the enigmatic king Salomon
weird mysteries, curious interpretations
The world is full of misunderstood mysteries. As tourists, we visit an ancient ruin, trying to imagine how it once was but not seeing the advanced technology that was used. Or we walk past some dusty pots in a museum but don't realize how they were made. We walk on and get on with the business of the day. Those stones? Surely they were just cut out of a rock, doesn't everyone know that? Those pots? You just bake them in an oven, right? Everyone knows that too, don't they? But then you scratch your...
Engels | ePub2 | Publisher Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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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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Priscilla Morris Black butterflies
In de lente van 1992 wordt Sarajevo beschoten. Een 55-jarige kunstenares is ervan overtuigd dat ze voorlopig veilig is. Haar echtgenoot en moeder vertrekken naar Engeland. Dan begint het beleg en zit ze in de val.
Fictie
Engels | 280 pagina's | Duckworth, London | 2023
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Nora Roberts Black hills
Verdachte omstandigheden verhogen de alertheid in een wildreservaat in South Dakota en dragen ertoe bij dat een oude liefde opbloeit.
Fictie
Engels | 538 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2010
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Becca Fitzpatrick Black ice
Britt (17) haalt haar beste vriendin Korbie over om in de voorjaarsvakantie te gaan bergbeklimmen in Wyoming. Als ze willen schuilen voor een sneeuwstorm ontmoeten ze twee jongens die hun een angstig avontuur bezorgen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Engels | 392 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2014
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R. K. Howard Black Machetes
Benjamin Wilder grew up with sparse shelter, infested provisions, and constant abuse dealt to him by his stepfather: Jessup — a.k.a. the Rabid Dog. Without a sober mother to defend him from the Rabid Dog’s wrath, Ben finds reprieve and adventure in a club of misfit boys called the Black Machetes. But the world as Ben knows it comes to an end when he witnesses an act so psychologically appalling that it forces him to run for his life. "Black Machetes" is a powerful page-turning thriller that all...
Engels | 10 uur 28 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 1
Elegant, trumpet-like lilies, she thought. But there was something off. Something not right. It was the color. It was strange, sort of pale and flesh-colored... In a sleepy seaside town outside Copenhagen, a strange light at the bottom of the harbor has the police call in a military diver with a speciality in wet crime scenes. Deep down in the dark water sits a car with the dead body of a young woman in the driver’s seat. She has a long cut in her lower abdomen. Copenhagen Police’s Felix Jørgensen...
Engels | 1 uur 14 minuten (55 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 3
With the help of a surveillance camera in a French sports equipment shop, investigators manage to identify the wetsuit victims. They turn out to be two, young, Syrian twin sisters living in an infamous refugee camp in Calais, France. But the surveillance tape also shows a suspicious man who seems to be very interested in the young girls. Another murder of a Syrian refugee in Denmark prompts Norwegian and French investigators to agree that the killer is motivated by racism. But Felix Jørgensen’s...
Engels | 1 uur 15 minuten (56 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 4
A couple of old yearbooks from a school in a posh suburb north of Copenhagen show a boy who looks eerily similar to the man with the strange eyes. But with the rest of Europe’s police focusing on border crossings and refugee camps, Felix is now on his own. He believes that the killer has a medical background, perhaps even an employee of Denmark’s largest hospital, Rigshopitalet, where the first victim worked and where the comatose woman was treated. Felix’s deputy Kathrine tries to convince him...
Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (45 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 5
When Kathrine is kidnapped, the police quickly arrest a suspect. But when it becomes clear that they’ve got the wrong man, Felix Jørgensen goes after a gynecologist with a suspended medical license. The tracks lead the investigator to a seemingly abandoned house in rural Lolland in southern Denmark. Is Kathrine in the house? Does the murderer know about their trap? And will Felix manage to save his deputy from becoming yet another victim of this madman’s scalpel? Or is it all much too late? Black...
Engels | 1 uur 20 minuten (59 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 2
At a loss to figure out the identity of the Norwegian wetsuit victim, the police send out a notice though Interpol — a black notice. At the same time, it becomes clear that this young woman’s death is somehow linked to the murder that Felix and Kathrine are investigating. When a woman bearing a scar similar to the others is found lifeless and icy cold in a forest lake north of Copenhagen, she could be the most important witness for the police — if only they are able to bring her back from the dead....
Engels | 1 uur 2 minuten (46 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Eve Chase Black Rabbit Hall
In haar zoektocht naar de perfecte plek voor haar huwelijksfeest vindt Lorna een oud Engels landhuis dat ze zich nog herinnert vanuit haar jeugd.
Fictie
Engels | 392 pagina's | Penguin Books, {Londen] | 2015
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Chuck Wendig Black river orchard
a novel
De bewoners van een klein Amerikaans dorp in Pennsylvania raken in de ban van een duistere vloek van boedrode appels uit een kleine boomgaard.
Fictie
Engels | 620 pagina's | Del Rey, New York | 2024
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