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F. Scott. Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club
"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was...
Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Petra Possel | Elise van Vliet Reishandboek Bonaire
praktische en culturele reisgids met alle bezienswaardigheden
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 128 pagina's | Elmar, Delft | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Anna Hamlin Weikel Betty Baird's Ventures
"'Oh, this indigent family of ours! I certainly must bestir myself and do something to support it,' said Betty Baird, airily, to her mother, yet looking determined, and straightening herself up among the cushions piled high on the broad window-seat in her room." Betty is back home with her parents on Long Islands, when she discovers her father is struggling to pay back the mortgage. She decides to help. But can a young girl in 1907 earn enough money to make a difference? And does Betty have the...
Engels | 6 uur 34 minuten (290 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Booth Tarkington Penrod
Eleven-year-old Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke go on a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis. "Penrod" (1914) chronicles his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. His adventures in pre-World War I Midwest have been likened to those of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain), and this first collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington was followed by two further episodes: "Penrod and Sam" (1916) and "Penrod Jashber" (1929). Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American...
Engels | 5 uur 58 minuten (264 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Offshore Pirate
“You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.” Ardita, a beautiful and bored young Flapper, is hanging out on her uncle's yacht when it's suddenly captured by pirates. When Ardita meets and falls in love with the charming captain she knows she's been right to reject the boring and rich society men. But a truth lurks around the corner that will make her question everything she thinks she...
Engels | 1 uur 13 minuten (53 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Daniel Mangin | Lauren McGrath New York
de reisgids voor een actieve & culturele vakantie
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 207 pagina's | Wat & Hoe, Utrecht | 2014
Gedrukt boek
Anna Katharine Green The Millionaire Baby
Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private detective, is on the case and when he discovers two lost shoes in the surrounding are – both for the same foot! – he suspects a conspiracy is at play. `The Millionaire Baby‘ (1905) is a story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a delightful mystery with fascinating characters and twist after twist after twist....
Engels | 7 uur 27 minuten (350 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Tim Jepson Vancouver
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 208 pagina's | Kosmos Uitgevers, Utrecht [etc.] | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Gregg Hurwitz De machthebbers
Een huurmoordenaar wordt ingeschakeld door een drugsbaron als zijn dochter is ontvoerd.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 332 pagina's (ePub2) | A.W. Bruna Uitgevers, Amsterdam | 2022
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Thijs Kateman Curaçao, Aruba en Bonaire
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 128 pagina's | ANWB, Den Haag | 2012
Gedrukt boek
K.L. Dionne Geworteld in het kwaad
Geworteld in het kwaad (The Wicked Sister) is de tweede thriller van Karen Dionne na Dochter van het moeras. Al jarenlang leeft Rachel in een psychiatrische inrichting, als straf voor de moord op haar ouders, die ze als kind pleegde. Maar wanneer ze door een journalistiek onderzoek nieuwe details over de moorden ontdekt, keert ze terug naar de blokhut in het afgelegen moerasgebied waar ze met haar ouders en zus woonde. Terwijl Rachel zich steeds meer herinnert over wat er echt gebeurde op de dag...
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,7 MB | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2020
E-book
F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders
“Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?” Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. But when Marcia, an actress, turns up at his door one night and shows him a different world, the course of both their lives are changed forever. And only one comes out the winner. Somewhat different from Fitzgerald's later work, 'Head and Shoulders'...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Emma Haughton De retraite
Een jonge vrouw wordt wakker in een geïsoleerd toevluchtsoord in de Mexicaanse woestijn. Langzaam maar zeker realiseert ze zich dat niet iedereen het beste met haar voor heeft en dat iemand misschien wel een moordenaar is.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 328 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Line Up Tekstprodukties Midden-Amerika en het Caribisch gebied
Introductie in woord en beeld. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 159 pagina's | The Reader's Digest, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2002
Gedrukt boek
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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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case
The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...
Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Henry James Washington Square
Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...
Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Ianthe Sahadat | Elsbeth Stoker | Fleur de Weerd Wie zijn mijn voorouders
persoonlijke zoektochten naar de doorwerking van de koloniale tijd en het slavernijverleden
De afgelopen jaren is Nederland zich steeds bewuster geworden van het koloniale verleden en de slavernij. Wat eerder doorging voor ‘de zwarte bladzijde’, wordt nu steeds meer als integraal onderdeel van de gedeelde geschiedenis gezien. Toch zijn de verhalen voor velen nog abstract, iets van lang geleden en ver weg. Voor anderen is het koloniale verleden juist innig met het heden verweven. Om meer zicht te krijgen op de doorwerking van slavernij, contractarbeid en koloniale overheersing, besloten...
Nederlands | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 34 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book