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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers
Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured...
Engels | 6 uur 50 minuten (316 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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
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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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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist
"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...
Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes
One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know that his encounters with other humans have only just begun. This 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in a pulp magazine and quickly became...
Engels | 9 uur 12 minuten (421 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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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...
Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 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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Colleen Hoover Reminders of him
'Reminders of him' is een hartverscheurend, maar hoopvol verhaal van Colleen Hoover, de bestsellerauteur van 'It ends with us' Na vijf jaar in de gevangenis te hebben gezeten vanwege een tragische fout keert Kenna terug naar de plek waar het misging. Ze wil een rol spelen in het leven van haar inmiddels vierjarige dochter, maar iedereen lijkt vastberaden om Kenna bij haar weg te houden. De enige link met haar verleden is Ledger Ward. De twee krijgen een band, maar als iemand daar ooit achter zou...
Fictie
Nederlands | 278 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
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Colleen Hoover Too late
'Too late' is een spannende roman van Colleen Hoover, de internationale bestsellerauteur van 'It starts with us' en 'It ends with us'. Sloan heeft al twee jaar een relatie met drugscrimineel Asa. Ze voelt zich meer bezit dan mens, maar ze kan niet bij hem weg omdat hij de zorg voor haar zieke broertje betaalt. Dan ontmoet ze tijdens een college Carter. Ze krijgen gevoelens voor elkaar, maar Sloan wordt ondertussen ook steeds meer onder druk gezet door Asa. Daarom zegt ze 'ja' op zijn huwelijksaanzoek...
Fictie
Nederlands | 317 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
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Colleen Hoover It starts with us
Lily en haar ex-man hebben een goed ritme gevonden in hun co-ouderschap, maar dan verschijnt plots haar eerste liefde Atlas weer in haar leven.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Colleen Hoover Layla
'Layla' is een psychologische thriller van Colleen Hoover, de internationale bestsellerauteur van 'Verity' en 'Regretting you' Leeds is ervan overtuigd dat hij de rest van zijn leven met Layla zal zijn, maar dan belandt ze in het ziekenhuis met hersenletsel. Ze verandert zo dat hij zich niet meer met haar verbonden voelt. Dan ontmoet hij Willow en langzaam wordt hij verliefd op haar. Hiermee brengt hij echter Layla in gevaar. Hij moet kiezen, maar als hij de verkeerde keuze maakt, kan het voor...
Fictie
Nederlands | 207 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Tarah DeWitt Gekke gevoelens
Wanneer verliefd worden de clou is… Farley Jones is een chaotische en hilarisch slimme stand-upcomedian op weg naar het sterrendom. Het enige waar ze meer van houdt dan het vertellen van grappen voor een enthousiast publiek, is haar knappe manager Meyer, ook al heeft hij geen idee. Het is een kwelling om haar gevoelens voor hem verborgen te houden, maar Meyer is Farley's naaste en meest dierbare vriend geweest, en niet te vergeten van cruciaal belang voor het traject van haar carrière. Ze kan...
Nederlands | 267 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
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Colleen Hoover Maybe someday
'Maybe someday' is een gepassioneerd verhaal over vriendschap, verraad en romantiek van Colleen Hoover, de internationale bestsellerauteur van 'It starts with us' en 'It ends with us' Sydney geniet van een perfect leven: ze studeert, is verliefd op haar geweldige vriend Hunter en woont samen met haar beste vriendin Tori. Maar alles verandert wanneer ze ontdekt dat Hunter haar bedriegt, en ze moet bedenken wat haar volgende stap zal zijn. Als Sydney haar mysterieuze en aantrekkelijke buurman Ridge...
Fictie
Nederlands | 309 pagina's (ePub2, 5,9 MB) | Uitgeverij Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Jenny Hale Het huis aan het strand
Een vrouw kan dankzij een erfenis een vervallen huis aan zee kopen dat haar grootmoeder altijd al op het oog had om er een B&B van te maken. Maar het zit haar niet mee, ook niet met haar nieuwe liefde.
Fictie | Familieroman | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 244 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book