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Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Recently orphaned 17-year-old David leaves his home on the Scottish countryside to seek out a rich uncle he has never met. The uncle, as it turns out, is paranoid and unpleasant, and before David can claim his inheritance he is knocked out and taken to sea to be sold as a slave in America. So begins Robert Louis Stevenson‘s adventure novel, Kidnapped (1886), a breathlessly exciting story for fans of action and suspense, and a story about two very different types of Scotsmen. Robert Louis Stevenson...
Engels | 8 uur 8 minuten (371 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Frank de Zanger A ring
a novella
Novel 'A RING' is a captivating and romantic story about Yara and her young daughter Sasha. Yara is a young Russian woman, who works in St. Petersburg as a call girl to make ends meet. A foreign architect pops up in her life and makes it even more complicated than it already is. She receives a gift that turns her life upside down. A ring plays a major role in the novel - a ring as symbol for friendship, happiness, confidence, and personal initiative. The setting of novella 'A RING' is partly in New...
Fictie
Engels | 105 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Tournesol, Soest | 2012
E-book
Karin Slaughter Broken - Will Trent/Atlanta series 4
The fourth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon, former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Jane Austen Emma (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself... 'Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend. Chided for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIt is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.''McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us'' Guardian Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Kate Atkinson Emotionally Weird
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book
Hilary Mantel Vacant Possession
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved 'Every Day is Mother's Day'.Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic.It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and rather...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
E-book