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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Picture of Dorian Gray
B.J. Harrison reads the classic that has puzzled and delighted readers for over two centuries. Dorian Gray is a beautiful man, who has been immortalized in a painting. As he comes to the realization that his beauty will eventually fade, he makes a wish to never lose his beauty and retain eternal youth. Meanwhile, his age and sins continue to live on in his portrait. The late-19th-century classic by Oscar Wilde, a charming yet horrifying Gothic novel, has been adapted countless times to the screen....
Engels | 8 uur 47 minuten (383 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter
"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...
Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads The Room in the Dragon Volant
"The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a mysterious story about a premature burial, a theme favoured by Poe some years previously. When a chivalric young man tries to save an innocent countess from the clutches of a greedy count, little does he suspect that the whole situation could be a trap. With plenty of Gothic elements and some remarkable episodes of horror, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a haunting mystery story that will keep readers at the edge of their seat. B. J. Harrison started his Classic...
Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (204 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Laura McVeigh Lenny
A magical tale of family, loss and the healing power of the imagination and hope. In the Ubari Sand Sea in 2011, during the First Libyan Civil War, a mysterious pilot falls from the sky – a sky devil - and makes a home with the family of the little boy who rescues him. A year later, Roseville, Louisiana is faced with the threat of the ever-rising water levels, in the aftermath of economic crisis and corporate environmental damage. 10-year-old Lenny Lockhart is losing the people and the things dearest...
Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (426 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Unexpected
Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction. Why did the miner tried to kill his partners? Is it because...
Engels | 51 minuten (37 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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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better...
Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (292 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” When Benjamin Button is born he looks oddly like an old man. He's not interested in playing with other kids and he's too low on energy to participate anyway. When Benjamin turns 20 it dawns on his family that he is aging backwards. The younger he grows, the more he learns to...
Engels | 1 uur 5 minuten (47 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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Helen Grant Wish me dead
De verlegen, stille Steffi wordt door een vriendin meegenomen naar het heksenhuis in het bos. Zes meisjes doen daar een geheime wens in een doos, wat fatale gevolgen heeft. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Thriller
Engels | 391 pagina's | Penguin Books, London [etc.] | 2011
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Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
Een bejaarde vrouw die stervende is, ziet mensen en gebeurtenissen die haar leven bepaalden in flash backs aan zich voorbijgaan.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 208 pagina's | Penguin books, London | 2015
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Tricia Rayburn Siren
De zus van Vanessa (17, ik-figuur) wordt dood aangetroffen en haar vriend Caleb verdwijnt spoorloos. Dat is het begin van een reeks schrikwekkende ontdekkingen, niet in het minst over Vanessa zelf. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 377 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2011
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Susan Sallis The sweetest thing
De dood van een jongen in het Engeland van de jaren zestig van de 20e eeuw heeft langdurig invloed op het leven van de mensen om hem heen.
Fictie
Engels | 413 pagina's | Corgi Books, London | 2010
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Aidan Chambers Breaktime
Omnibus van twee boeken. Ditto probeert te bewijzen dat literatuur wel degelijk het echte leven kan weergeven. Hal wordt gearresteerd als hij danst op het graf van zijn verongelukte vriend. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 245 pagina's | Definitions, London | 2007
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Lisa Appignanesi Everyday madness
on grief, anger, loss and love
Persoonlijke beschouwingen over woede, rouw en actuele maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 261 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2018
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Mitch Albom Finding Chika
a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
Herinneringen aan het Haïtiaanse weesmeisje Chika van wie de auteur en zijn vrouw steeds meer gingen houden toen ze ernstig ziek werd.
Non-fictie
Engels | 243 pagina's | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [New York, NY] | 2019
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Death in the middle ages
Non-fictie
Engels | Frans | Duits | 291 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 1983
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Iris Murdoch Bruno's dream
Terwijl een zieke oude man angstig op de dood wacht, worden de mensen in zijn naaste omgeving geconfronteerd met gevoelens die hun houding ten opzichte van elkaar drastisch wijzigen
Psychologische roman
Engels | 293 pagina's | Chatto en Windus, London | 1969
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T.S.R. Boase Death in the Middle Ages
mortality, judgment and remembrance
Engels | 144 pagina's | Thames and Hudson, London | 1972
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