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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
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´It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austen´s second novel Pride and Prejudice, which was first published in 1813. It follows the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five single daughters. The whole town is set aflutter by the arrival of prosperous Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy, and as the prejudice of the latter hurts the pride of headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, friendship, love, and strife enfold....
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
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When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...
Engels | ePub3, 0,2 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Anne Holt Offline - Hanne Wilhelmsen Series
THE NINTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.Long-awaited sequel to Anne Holt's massive bestseller 1222.It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen's life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne's self-imposed exile is nearing its end. When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police force doubt on the authenticity of the declaration,...
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub3, 0,7 MB) | Atlantic Books, [Nederland] | 2017
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Shamsie Kamila Shamsie Home Fire
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
_______________WINNER OF THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES_______________''The book for our times'' - Judges of the Women''s Prize''Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world'' - Guardian''Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I''ve read in a novel this century'' - New York Times_______________Isma...
Engels | ePub3, 1,9 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Getaway (Book 12)
Book 12 is the best yet in the brilliant, bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series!Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town. With the cold weather setting in and the stress of the Christmas holiday approaching, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. A few days in paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled family. But the Heffleys soon discover that paradise isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Sun-poisoning, stomach...
Engels | ePub3, 35 MB | Puffin, [Nederland] | 2017
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Simone van der Vlugt Midnight Blue
Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to Delft. There, her painting...
Engels | ePub2, 1,8 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2017
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
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Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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David Solomons My Evil Twin Is a Supervillain - My Brother is a Superhero
When Luke is confronted with Stellar, his superpowered twin from another dimension, he is highly suspicious. No one travels through time and space without a plan, and that plan is usually EVIL. So what does Stellar want? And why is he so UNBELIEVABLY IRRITATING? From his superhero hair to his rocket-powered shoes, Stellar is up to no good, and Luke must BRING HIM DOWN! Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 284 pagina's (ePub2, 1,8 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2017
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
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One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
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“Please, sir, I want some more,” Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
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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 | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jenny Han Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Lara Jean's letter-writing days aren't over in this surprise follow-up to the New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I've Loved Before and P. S. I Still Love You. Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot's coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding. But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean...
Engels | ePub2, 1,4 MB | Scholastic, [Nederland] | 2017
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Philip Pullman La Belle Sauvage
The Book of Dust Volume One; From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC series; Book of Dust Series
WINNER- AUTHOR OF THE YEAR, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED- UK AUTHOR CATEGORY, NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018 Philip Pullman''s magnificent bestseller is now in paperback, with new additional illustrations. A coming of age story like no other . . .Malcolm Polstead''s Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta is, it seems, set to become increasingly far...
Engels | ePub3, 37 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2017
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Amelia Cobb The Picky Puffin - Zoe's Rescue Zoo
When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum, the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. Zoe's very good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that's a secret!Puffins are Zoe's favourite ever animal, so when Piper arrives at the Rescue Zoo, Zoe is very happy to help her settle in. But Piper is very picky! She doesn't like her enclosure ... or her burrow ... or even her food!...
Engels | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 4,7 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2017
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Ruth Ware The Lying Game
The unpredictable thriller from the bestselling author of THE IT GIRL
I could not put this book down'' Reese Witherspoon'' IT ISN''T A GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIESThe text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you.Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2017
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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Svenska Ljud Classica
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 2 - Do You Want to be My Girlfriend?
Kara is in love with Benjamin. She has a present for him. One day, she gets a text from Benjamin. Kara is happy. But when Rose gets the same text, it all turns into a mess. And when Julie gets the text too, it really goes wrong.This is the second book in the popular series about Kara and her friends. The books are about friendships, school and getting older. It catches the audience exactly where they are. The books can be read independently of each other.Line Kyed Knudsen (b. 1971) debuted as an...
Engels | ePub2, 1,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 6 - This Means War!
The boys are playing war, and Kara wants to play too. But she has promised Julie that they were going to play hairdressers. It is boring. Kara cannot sit still. Finally, she just leaves to make a weapon. And Julie is very mad at her.This is the sixth book in the popular series about Kara and her friends. The books are about friendships, school and getting older. It catches the audience exactly where they are. The books can be read independently of each other.Line Kyed Knudsen (b. 1971) debuted as...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 7 - I Feel Sorry for You!
Kara‘s birthday is coming up. She wants a bunny. Like the one Rose has. But Kara‘s dad has lost his job. And her parents constantly fight about money. Kara thinks she has to wish for something a bit more sensible than a pet … And then something happens. Something bad!This is the seventh book in the popular series about Kara and her friends. The books are about friendships, school and getting older. It catches the audience exactly where they are. The books can be read independently of each other.Line...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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