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Anonymous B.J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While Sinbad rests, he sees a store full of fascinating luxuries and he thanks Allah for the beautiful sight. When the owner of the shop sees the poor man, he decides to invite him inside. When the two men gets to know each other, it turns out that the storekeeper...
Engels | 3 uur 3 minuten (134 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Plague
Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks together with a young boy through the desert. The two travelers walk along an old and long forgotten railway track with an important mission, a mission that can change the life of all the survivors. What was this plague and where did it come from? How...
Engels | 2 uur 19 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word/ The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!" Oscar Wilde’s poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" depicts an execution and the harsh circumstances of life in prison. Based on Wilde’s own experience in prison, the poem contains details that do not judge but simply describe, in poetic terms, that which both horrifies and moves. The famous ballad from the late...
Engels | 31 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Picture of Dorian Gray
B.J. Harrison reads the classic that has puzzled and delighted readers for over two centuries. Dorian Gray is a beautiful man, who has been immortalized in a painting. As he comes to the realization that his beauty will eventually fade, he makes a wish to never lose his beauty and retain eternal youth. Meanwhile, his age and sins continue to live on in his portrait. The late-19th-century classic by Oscar Wilde, a charming yet horrifying Gothic novel, has been adapted countless times to the screen....
Engels | 8 uur 47 minuten (383 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent...
Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Toews Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly). Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda''s life is enviable (she''s a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi''s a mess (she''s divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf''s desire to end her life. After Elf''s latest attempt,...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Toews Miriam Toews Women Talking
The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid''s Tale.†-Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Margaret Atwood The Testaments
The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid s Tale
THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'The Testaments is Atwood at her best ... To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne EnrightThe Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes? Now with additional material: book club discussion points and an interview with Margaret Atwood about...
Engels | ePub3, 2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2019
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Tijn Touber Time bender
the man who came to save the earth
Time Bender beschrijft de ontdekkingstocht van een jongeman die wordt meegesleept in een Galactische strijd die zijn weerga niet kent. De mensheid - zo ontdekt hij - bevindt zich in een sleutelpositie om de Kosmische conflicten voor eens en voor altijd op te lossen. De vraag is alleen: worden wij op tijd wakker? 'Ik heb je boek met open mond gelezen. Dit is echt next level.' Karen van Holst-Pellekaan 'Geen woorden die mijn geluksgevoel kunnen beschrijven. Mijn hart bubbelt. Eindelijk antwoorden!'...
Fictie
Engels | 250 pagina's (ePub2) | London Books, Bodegraven | 2019
E-book
Kirk Kjeldsen The Depths
After trailing spouse Marah Lenaerts suffers her third miscarriage in as many years, her husband Eden surprises her with a vacation to Malaysia, hoping it will lift her spirits. And it does, as they enjoy trading the bustle of their Shanghai life behind for the idyllic tropical paradise. But while on a diving excursion, they’re taken hostage by a group of terrorists, who take them to a remote island and hold them there for ransom. The longer that time drags on, though, the more doubts Marah begins...
Engels | 5 uur (228 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2019
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Martin Amis Heavy water and other stories
Bundel met negen zeer diverse verhalen.
Fictie
Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 0,2 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2018
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Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman
Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She''s never had a boyfriend, and she''s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.Keiko''s family wishes she''d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won''t get married.But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she''s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,1 MB | Granta Books, [Nederland] | 2018
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Olga Tokarczuk Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she''s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2018
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Paolo Cognetti The Eight Mountains
NOW A MAJOR FILM
NOW A MAJOR FILM''... with air in its lungs and love in its heart'' Guardian *****An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men they grow up to become.Pietro, an impressionable city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father''s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason....
Engels | ePub3, 5,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Hendrik Groen On the Bright Side
The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen
Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home''s director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2018
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John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky
From the bestselling author of The Heart s Invisible Furies
A deliciously dark tale of ambition'' Observer''Gripping ... chilling and darkly comic tale of unrelenting ambition'' Daily ExpressYou''ve heard the old proverb about ambition, that it''s like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don''t even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich...
Engels | ePub3, 1,4 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2018
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Genki Kawamura If Cats Disappeared From The World
A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love.Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week . . .Because...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Picador, [Nederland] | 2018
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Anita Brookner A start in life
Een jonge vrouw probeert de zware druk van thuis te ontvluchten. Ze gaat studeren in Parijs, waar zij uiterlijk en innerlijk sterk verandert.
Fictie
Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
Marian Keyes Rachel's holiday
Een jonge Ierse vrouw ervaart bergen en dalen in haar poging zich te bevrijden van haar drugsverslaving in een afkickcentrum.
Fictie
Engels | 640 pagina's (ePub, 4,3 MB) | Penguin Books, [Nederland] | 2018
E-book
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