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Edith Wharton Summer
Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall’s unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Laura Lee Hope The Moving Picture Girls
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly hoarse and he loses the role. Despite voice rest and medical treatment, Mr. DeVere's voice fails to improve, and it is impossible to find theatre work. A friend and neighbour in their apartment building suggests that Mr. DeVere tries acting in the moving...
Engels | 4 uur 29 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Rudyard Kipling Captain Courageous
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (272 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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James Baldwin I am not your negro
Non-fictie
Engels | 118 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York | 2017
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Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective
"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Victor Appleton Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, The Speediest Car on the Road, is Volume 5 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone else that relies on the local bank (which is the target of a nefarious bank run scheme). Tom must solve...
Engels | 4 uur 40 minuten (209 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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Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jody Hedlund With you always
Een liefdesrelatie, tussen een zoon van een succesvolle zakenman en een arm meisje dat voor haar zussen moet zorgen, ontwikkelt zich tegen de achtergrond van de grote depressie in de Verenigde Staten.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen | Sociale roman
Engels | 359 pagina's | Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota | 2017
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Anne Helen Petersen Too fat, too slutty, too loud
the rise and reign of the unruly woman
Tien essays over een aantal beroemde, eigenzinnige Amerikaanse vrouwen (o.a Madonna, Hillary Clinton, Kim Kardashian, Serena Williams) die leven volgens hun eigen regels en niet voldoen aan wat 'men' van ze verwacht qua uiterlijk, levenswijze en/of manier van doen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 266 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2017
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Sarah Schmidt See what I have done
De leden van het huishouden vertellen elk (als ik -figuur) hun verhaal van de moord op een Amerikaans echtpaar in 1892.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 328 pagina's | Tinder Press, London | 2017
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Jonathan I. Israel The expanding blaze
how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848
Non-fictie
Engels | 755 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2017
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Dirk W. de Jong Rock and soul deep south
Overzicht in woord en beeld van muzikanten en steden in het diepe zuiden van de Verenigde Staten. Het gebied waar de rock-'n-roll onstond.
Non-fictie
Engels | 168 pagina's | Concertobooks, Amsterdam | 2017
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Hillary Clinton What happened
The author reveals what she was thinking and feeling during the latest presidential elections (2017). Now free from the constraints of running, she takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules.
Non-fictie
Engels | 494 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2017
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Viet Thanh Nguyen The refugees
Bundel korte verhalen over het cultuurverschil dat Vietnamezen ervaren die in de Verenigde Staten terecht komen.
Verhalenbundel
Engels | 209 pagina's | Corsair, London | 2017
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Kori Schake Safe passage
the transition from British to American hegemony
Engels | 389 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2017
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Rebecca Fraser The Mayflower
the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Non-fictie
Engels | 358 pagina's | St. Martin's Press, New York | 2017
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How we get free
black feminism and the Combahee River Collective
This book reconnects the roots of black feminism to contemporary activism in the United States, describing the contributions of the black feminist organization, the Combahee River Collective (CRC). Forty years ago, in 1977, the CRC founders published a statement the so-called Combahee River Collective Statement. One remarkable aspect of this radical collective was its intersectional analysis of the roots of black women's oppression and inequality. In this collection of interviews, founding members...
Engels | 191 pagina's | Haymarket Books, Chicago, Illinois | 2017
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Bernard MacMahon | Allison McGourty | Elijah Wald American epic
when music gave America her voice
Engels | 279 pagina's | Touchstone, New York | 2017
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