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The duchess

In 1774 wordt de zeventienjarige Georgiana Spencer uitgehuwelijkt aan een van de machtigste mannen van Engeland. Hij wil dat ze voor hem een opvolger baart, maar is verder meer geïnteresseerd in zijn honden. Georgiana stort zich op het sociale leven van de Engelse upper-class

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Alex Gough Emperor's Fate

Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...

Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion

A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...

Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Kevin Sands The assassin's curse

a Blackthorn key adventure

Parijs, 1665. Apothekersleerling Christopher gaat samen met zijn vrienden Tom en Sally op zoek naar de moordenaar die de hele Franse koninklijke familie wil doden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

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Engels | 532 pagina's | Aladdin, New York | 2017

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Holly Webb The water horse

Olivia is troonopvolgster van Venetië. Ze ziet haar stad ten onder gaan aan overstromingen. Dan ontmoet ze het waterpaard Lucien, de bewaker van de stad. Kunnen ze samen de stad redden? Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

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Engels | 249 pagina's | Orchard, London | 2015

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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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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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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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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 Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Psychopathology of Everyday Life, is a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author's most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and clearly demonstrates that the hitherto considered impassable gap between normal and abnormal mental states is more apparent than real. This translation is made of the fourth German edition, and while the original text was strictly followed, linguistic...

Engels | 7 uur 13 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Sarah Williams Becoming Jane

Verhaal over de beroemde Britse schrijfster Jane Austen die schreef over geremde passies in een zeer klassebewuste maatschappij. In het verhaal wordt de eerste liefde van Jane als twintigjarige belicht. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

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Engels | 56 pagina's | Pearson Education, Harlow | 2008

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Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...

Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Jane Davis At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock

London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide. Like most working-class daughters, Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger. Star of the silver screen, Ursula Delancy, has just been abandoned by the man she left her husband for. Already hounded by the press, it won’t be long before she’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Patrice...

Engels | 14 uur 34 minuten (635 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Wilbur Smith | Tom Harper Ghost fire

In de 18e eeuw raken in India de jonge Theo en Conny van elkaar gescheiden en terwijl Theo aan de Engelse kant van de Frans-Engelse oorlog strijdt, kiest zus Conny voor de Franse generaals.

Fictie

Engels | 397 pagina's | ZAFFRE, London | 2019

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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide

At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...

Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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Tracy Rees Amy Snow

In Victoriaans Engeland wordt een vondeling opgenomen door een vooraanstaande familie en opgevoed door de bedienden en de dochter des huizes, die na haar dood middels brieven het meisje op een zoektocht stuurt.

Fictie

Engels | 569 pagina's | Quercus, London | 2015

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Joanna Goodman The home for unwanted girls

a novel

Quebec, jaren '50. Baby Elodie groeit op in een weeshuis nadat haar moeder, de 15-jarige Maggie, haar gedwongen heeft afgestaan maar Maagie kan haar dochter niet vergeten en begint een zoektocht.

Fictie

Engels | 364 pagina's | Harper, New York | 2018

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Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time

Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge. But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...

Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth Mcneill Mistress of Green Tree Mill

She must find the courage to accept her fate. At the age of eleven young Lizzie Mudie’s life changes forever. With the death of her mother in the most shocking disaster, Dundee has ever seen, Lizzie is forced to grow up quickly. She discovers a strength beyond her years and when an unexpected legacy bestows upon her the dilapidated Green Tree Mill, she is determined to turn things around. Lizzie becomes a formidable mistress, but is she prepared for the price she – and those she loves – will...

Engels | 13 uur 54 minuten (613 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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