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Chris Cooper Rascal 4 - Facing the Flames
This is the story of one brave dog's journey home. Rascal is hot and thirsty, and still miles from home and his beloved master Joel. But a dangerous forrest fire has been started by some careless campers. Can Rascal save both himself and Hailey, a girl who is just as lost and frightened as he is? Chris Cooper is the pen name of Paul Shipton, who grew up in Manchester and went to university in Cambridge. He spent several years teaching English as a foreign language and lived in Istanbul for a...
Engels | 1 uur 8 minuten (50 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Chris Cooper Rascal 5 - Swept Beneath The Waters
This is the story of one brave dog's journey home. Rascal is hungry and tired, and missing his best friend, Joel - but when he finds three little abandoned puppies, he knows that he needs to look after them. Can he keep them safe and still find his own way home to Joel? Chris Cooper is the pen name of Paul Shipton, who grew up in Manchester and went to university in Cambridge. He spent several years teaching English as a foreign language and lived in Istanbul for a year.rnrnPaul then moved into...
Engels | 1 uur 6 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Chris Cooper Rascal 6 - Racing Against Time
This is the story of one brave dog's journey home. Rascal is nearly home. He's desperate to find his owner Joel again - but then he's caught and trapped in an animal shelter! Time is running out for Rascal . . . can he and Joel find each other before it's too late? Chris Cooper is the pen name of Paul Shipton, who grew up in Manchester and went to university in Cambridge. He spent several years teaching English as a foreign language and lived in Istanbul for a year.rnrnPaul then moved into publishing,...
Engels | 1 uur 9 minuten (53 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Maggie Dallen The Rogue Debutante
Delia Langley has been a prisoner all her life - a prisoner to high society and its conventions. A prisoner to her wealthy father's overprotective measures. A prisoner to a fiance-to-be in an arrangement made by her father to have a royal heir. Now nineteen, Delia is ready to leave another prison, the manmade "city in the sky," Beau Monde, where she's been tucked away, high above London all these many years. Her marriage to Lord Thaddeus Templeton will be announced after her debutante ball, and...
Engels | 4 uur 5 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Martina André Mystery of the Templars
In 1156, the sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar brings a mysterious object from Jerusalem to his homeland in the South of France. "The Head of Wisdom", as the strange artifact is called, ensures that the Order achieves unprecedented wealth. But in October 1307, the French king fights against the Templars. All commanderies of the Templars are closed, all members arrested. Templar Commander Lieutenant Gero of Breydenbach is to flee to Germany with the "Head of Wisdom" to keep their secret. ...
Engels | 25 uur 4 minuten (1118 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel OGPU Prison
At least one battalion of flame-throwers is swinging around like a pack of crazy wild boars. Long, flaming red tongues of fire are hissing from the towers, charring every living thing. From the GPU-prison stream shoals of red prisoners. A barrage of incredible dimensions is hammering down behind the Germans. It seems like the Russians have guessed that they are pondering an escape and want to stop it with an impenetrable wall of fire, spreading as far as the eye can see. " SVEN HASSEL IS AN OUTSTANDING...
Engels | 11 uur 59 minuten (525 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Marchbattalion
A special command from the convict regiment, wearing Russian uniforms, take over four Russian T-34 tanks. Remote reconnaissance far behind the Russian lines in Caucasus. The year is 1942. Hour for hour, the tanks roll eastward. Several times, Russian departments challenge them. We follow the soldiers in their desperate struggle to find their way back to the German lines. The distances are great, the friends are few and death is always right behind them... "HASSEL IS ONE OF THE BEST EUROPEAN WRITERS,...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Assignment Gestapo
It feels as if the entire area is blown up. A long rumbling explosion shakes the German position. Then an infernal scream sounds. Through flashes of fire, they see Tiny’s huge silhouette with the light grey bowler on his head. He is standing by the end of the enemy trench with his machine gun resting on his hip. The tracer streak projectiles shoot out of the muzzle. Bewildered shapes flee in panic. - What a bunch of devils, the Russian lieutenant exclaims in admiration. "A BRILLIANT SVEN HAZEL,...
Engels | 12 uur 31 minuten (547 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Court Martial
The Legionnaire swings the MG-muzzle. The smoke eats its way into the officers’ stomachs. They drop to the snow-covered ground, coloring it red. Bestial shrieks sound from the woods as a wave of fur clad soldiers storm out. They are near the Finish-Russian frontline. The machine guns snarl till the magazines are emptied. Old Man’s platoon, with Tiny the giant and Porta in the lead, fights a rough battle behind Russian lines. " AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN – HASSEL TAKES HIS ANTI-MILITARY TENDENCIES...
Engels | 11 uur 23 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Britain Kalai Soderkvist Glass Roses
A chance meeting at a ball introduces the lovely and accomplished Eleanor to a handsome Austrian Baron. He is charmed by her beauty and goodness, but her stepsisters are jealous of her royal suitor, and Eleanor´s dreams of happiness may be swept away forever by their vicious schemes for revenge.... Feisty Isabella, meanwhile, learns that not all is as it seems when she and her father become the guests of a surly and reclusive Scottish Duke. His rough manners hide a kind heart, but his mysterious...
Engels | 11 uur 8 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel The Commissar
Heide wails, jumps up and lands on the other side of the trench, where he slides through the mud like a bulldozer. Our tank starts backing up in full speed. Porta has clearly also spotted the madness lying ahead in wait of spreading death and mutilation. Nothing travels as fast as the rumor that the front troops have hit the dreaded mines. Suddenly everything goes quiet. Even the heavy Maxim gun stops. Everyone holds their breath and waits for the mine to go off. " THE CERTAIN SENSE OF DRAMATIC...
Engels | 11 uur 49 minuten (556 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Comrades of War
We hear the crawlers closing in. A T-34. They must have seen us, Tiny whispers. - Stay low until it is right here, then we run! The horrible clattering of the crawler comes closer and closer. I know this fear, creeping up the spine. It will mean certain death if they run just one second too soon. How we get up, I don’t know, the legs move automatically. The tank wiggles over the hole and crushes everything in it. Then it rumbles on... "THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS GOTTEN HIS...
Engels | 11 uur 27 minuten (538 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Bloody Road to Death
Bloody partisan fights rage in the Balkans. Grenades rain down over the streets. From the rooftops, a heavy machinegun fire strikes down on the hunting battalion. Moaning, the injured soldiers crawl for cover. Molotov cocktails explode with hollow roars, and the burning liquid splash up on humans and materiel. - Partisan, the major stutters terrified and jumps off the vehicle. Porta salutes him with an idiotic smile. - Reporting to the Major that they will probably make it hot for us! " THIS NOVEL...
Engels | 11 uur 9 minuten (490 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Sven Hassel Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino, the sacred monastery north west of Naples. The Germans have built massive defense positions. The battle of Monte Cassino in the winter and spring of 1944 turns into an indescribable hell for both the defending and attacking forces. The allies bring into action all planes, artillery and armors from many nations. The German forces are led by the best elite troops. Among them is the 27th Panzer-regiment - the penal regiment. No one expects any of them to survive - but some of them do......
Engels | 8 uur 44 minuten (386 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...
Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Nesbit The Book of Dragons
A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘, one of Edith Nesbitt’s eight dragon stories in ‘The Book of Dragons’ (1899). The tales may be over a hundred years old, but they contain a timeless quality that ignites the imagination and creates a sense of wonder. Child or adult, these stories are written with such warmth and wit, anyone will find themselves laughing...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (188 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Robert E. Howard Red Shadows
First published in Weird Tales, August 1928, alternatively titled 'Solomon Kane'. This was the first Solomon Kane story ever published. In France, Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as Le Loup. As she dies in his arms, Kane determines to avenge her death, and the trail leads from France to Africa, ending with Kane's first meeting with N'Longa. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author of a wide range of genres. He created the pulp fiction hero...
Engels | 1 uur 2 minuten (48 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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Rudyard Kipling Captain Courageous
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. 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...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (272 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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