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Katherine Arden De beer en de nachtegaal
Vasja groeit op in een middeleeuws Noord-Russisch dorpje met sprookjes van haar min. Maar voor Vasja zijn het geen sprookjes, want zij kan met de geesten praten. Als het kwaad in het dorp toeneemt, wordt ze beschuldigd van hekserij. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Nederlands | 351 pagina's | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Anne Bishop Witte kaarten
Net als er een evenwicht tussen de mensen en de Anderen tot stand lijkt te komen, komt Monty's louche broer Jimmy naar het stadspark met het plan zich te verrijken ten koste van zijn familie.
Fictie | Griezelverhaal
Nederlands | 477 pagina's | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Anne Bishop Witte kaarten
Na de mislukte opstand zijn er nog maar weinig menselijke steden over in Thaisia. Simon, Meg, Monty en de anderen (en Anderen) die onderdeel uitmaken van het Stadspark van Lakeside, werken hard om de broze vrede tussen mensen en Anderen te bewaren. Maar dan komt Jimmy, Monty’s louche broer, naar het Stadspark met het plan zich te verrijken ten koste van zijn familie – zoals altijd. Terwijl de Anderen vol interesse toekijken en hun klauwen scherp houden, lopen de spanningen binnen het Stadspark op....
Nederlands | 17 uur 3 minuten (982 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom,...
Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...
Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz
Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) of the witch Mombi, but escapes her evil clutches just in time before she turns him in to a statue. Traveling through Oz, Tip meets a bunch of whimsical creatures (some of whom we know already) who join him on an adventurous journey that will conclude...
Engels | 4 uur 28 minuten (210 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew
Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman‘s mind in the luxury of a man‘s body. `The Enchanted Island of Yew` (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author...
Engels | 4 uur 37 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Road to Oz
"Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them."A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, but the two of them end up getting lost on their way and decide to proceed to Oz instead. For once not chased by danger, they arrive just in time for Princess Ozma‘s birthday party where a great assortment of colourful characters awaits. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘ starring Judy Garland, perfectly...
Engels | 4 uur 19 minuten (193 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill
Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Wallace The Green Rust
A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...
Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt
"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...
Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...
Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anne Bishop Witte kaarten
Net als er een evenwicht tussen de mensen en de Anderen tot stand lijkt te komen, komt Monty's louche broer Jimmy naar het stadspark met het plan zich te verrijken ten koste van zijn familie.
Fictie | Griezelverhaal
Nederlands | ePub2, 1,7 MB | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2017
E-book
Katherine Arden De beer en de nachtegaal
Vasja groeit op in een middeleeuws Noord-Russisch dorpje met sprookjes van haar min. Maar voor Vasja zijn het geen sprookjes, want zij kan met de geesten praten. Als het kwaad in het dorp toeneemt, wordt ze beschuldigd van hekserij. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Nederlands | 306 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff Fantasy, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book