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Felice Picano The Lure
Shocking and controversial, The Lure has become a classic of gay fiction with its candid description of New York’s gay subculture. The works of Felice Picano need little introduction. As one of the founding members of The Violet Quill, the foremost post-Stonewall gay writing movement, (other members included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), Picano has published many acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction. First published in 1979, The Lure rocketed Picano to commercial literary fame....
Engels | 15 uur 23 minuten (671 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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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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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost
The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....
Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 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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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad...
Engels | 14 uur 18 minuten (658 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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Carla Cassidy | Cassie Miles Ritueel van angst
Fictie | Romantische verhalen | Thriller
Nederlands | 413 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Carla Cassidy Ritueel van angst
FBI-profiler Amberly Nightsong wordt naar Mystic Lake gestuurd vanwege drie moorden met ritualistische kenmerken. De sheriff van het stadje, Cole Caldwell, denkt aanvankelijk dat hij haar hulp niet nodig heeft – hij heeft slechte ervaringen met de bemoeienis van de FBI. Maar wanneer de moordenaar Amberly als pion probeert te gebruiken in zijn zieke spel, belooft Cole met haar samen te werken aan het opsporen van de dader. Bovendien wil hij haar beschermen, al was het alleen maar omdat ze onverwacht...
Fictie
Nederlands | 145 pagina's (ePub2) | Harlequin, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Marianne Hoogstraaten | Theo Hoogstraaten Amalia's erfenis
Verlies jezelf in de geschiedenis van de stammoeder van ons koningshuis! De zeventienjarige Amalia van Solms vlucht samen met koningin Elisabeth van Bohemen naar ’s-Gravenhage. In korte tijd weet ze zich op te werken van hofdame tot vertrouwelinge van de koningin. Dat wordt ook opgemerkt door prins Frederik Hendrik van Oranje-Nassau, die als een blok valt voor de mooie Amalia. Maar zij geeft zich niet snel gewonnen en gaat tot het uiterste om haar nageslacht een glorieuze toekomst te bezorgen. Bron:...
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 320 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2019
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Janie Crouch | Lena Diaz Dodelijke valstrik
Voormalig Army Ranger Jace Eakin moet de mol vinden binnen Omega Sector die informatie lekt naar een beruchte terrorist. Hij weigert te geloven dat het zijn ex-vriendin is, SWAT-agent Lillian Muir, ondanks hun gecompliceerde verleden en het feit dat ze overduidelijk een geheim met zich meedraagt. Wanneer hun oude liefde weer in alle hevigheid oplaait, zweert hij haar te beschermen met zijn leven. Begaat hij een enorme vergissing door haar weer zo dichtbij te laten komen?Dit verhaal is ook verkrijgbaar...
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Harlequin, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book