• Anna Katharine Green The Amethyst Box

  On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. ‘The Amethyst Box’ (1905) is a short story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a suspenseful "whodunit" with a dash of romance, which concludes thoroughly...

  Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (132 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• 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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• Myrtle Reed Lavender and Old Lace

  Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep., 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed's long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance...

  Engels | 4 uur 14 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Myrtle Reed At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern

  This novel begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd ball relations. Our protagonists may not communicate efficiently at first but at least they've got a sense of humours. The humourous style keeps up as well as some moments of lustre and rich feeling about the printed word itself. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author,...

  Engels | 7 uur 8 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel

  Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...

  Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Sigmund Freud Reflections of War and Death

  Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert - it is still Freud's argument - that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. Bron: Flaptekst,...

  Engels | 1 uur 15 minuten (56 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Jacob Abbott History of Julius Caesar

  The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome's Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination. History of Julius Caesar is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 4 uur 45 minuten (220 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Jacob Abbott Margaret of Anjou

  Margaret of Anjou, wife of England's Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses - the 30 year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century. Margaret of Anjou is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 4 uur 42 minuten (213 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers

  The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...

  Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 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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• Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom

  After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...

  Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery

  When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Myrtle Reed Old Rose and Silver

  Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes...

  Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Sigmund Freud Totem and Taboo

  Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood....

  Engels | 6 uur 23 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Claudia Vanzegbroeck Zwoele ritmes

  Tijdens een swingend feest bij haar beste vrienden Dan en Rebecca, betrapt Tara haar verloofde op overspel. Diep geschokt belandt ze vervolgens in een burn-out. Ze verliest haar flat en haar job en beseft dat ze er alleen voor staat. Miguel, een gepassioneerde popster met Puerto Ricaanse roots, moedigt haar aan om haar dromen te verwezenlijken. Zal ze erin slagen uiteindelijk weer het geluk te vinden? Claudia Vanzegbroeck houdt van reizen. Ze leert graag andere talen en vindt het boeiend om met mensen...

  Nederlands | 182 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Ellessy, Prinsenbeek | 2024

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• Roos Verlinden Het ware geluk

  Fleur van Oostzijden heeft veel meer in haar mars dan haar eenvoudige baantje bij een makelaar. Als ze samen met haar vriendin een week vakantie viert op Texel komt ze tot het besef dat ze naarstig op zoek moet naar het ware geluk. Zowel zakelijk als privé. Roos Verlinden groeide op in de Zaanstreek. In Amsterdam rondde ze de opleiding fysiotherapie af. Na het lesgeven aan verpleegkundigen en het vertalen van medische wetenschappelijke uitgaven, werd ze de schrijfster met inmiddels 28 feelgoodromans...

  Nederlands | 147 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Ellessy, Prinsenbeek | 2024

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• Lynn Austin Land van belofte

  roman

  Eind 19e eeuw verruillen twee reislustige zussen hun vertrouwde thuis in Chicago voor de Sinaïwoestijn, waar ze op zoek gaan naar een Bijbels manuscript.

  Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu

  Nederlands | ePub2 | Kok, Utrecht | 2017

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• Saskia Schouten Huis met geheimen

  Als ze een erfenis krijgt, kan Birthe haar droom waarmaken: een pension in Hongarije.

  Fictie | Romantische verhalen

  Nederlands | 171 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Ellessy, Prinsenbeek | 2023

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• Lynne Graham Verlaten

  Voor lezers van Vi Keeland en Penelope Ward.Het hart van de tycoonNa de dood van hun moeder krijgen Polly en Ellie Dixon het schokkende nieuws te horen dat ze een halfzusje hebben, en ze ontvangen elk een prachtige ring. De drie zusjes kunnen niet anders dan op zoek gaan naar hun ware achtergrond. Tijdens die zoektocht komen ze drie schatrijke, arrogante tycoons tegen… die hun leven voorgoed zullen veranderen!VerlatenToen de Griekse tycoon Jax Antonakos Lucy na een korte maar heftige affaire onverwacht...

  Fictie

  Nederlands | 118 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Harlequin, Amsterdam | 2023

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