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Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends
'Brilliant, funny and startling.' Guardian'A nuanced, page-turning portrait.' Zadie Smith'Brilliant.' Marian Keyes'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships.' Sunday TelegraphFrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. At night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [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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Helen Peters Evie's Ghost
Compelling period fiction for 9+ readers from the Waterstones Children's Prize shortlisted Helen Peters. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house in the middle of nowhere. It is all monumentally unfair. But on the first night, Evie sees a strange, ghostly figure at the window. Spooked, she flees from the room, feeling oddly disembodied as she does...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Nosy Crow, [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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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 9 - The School Camp
Kara is going on a school trip. She is looking forward to it. But Rose cries on the bus. Maybe she feels homesick? Kara wants to comfort her, but she forgets it because so much fun stuff is happening. And then, during the treasure hunt, Rose suddenly disappears …This is the ninth 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...
Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Detective
Svenska Ljud Classica
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn attempts to solve a mysterious murder which takes them onboard a steamboat back to Arkansas, gets them tangled up with diamond thieves and the ghost of a missing burglar. In this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time Tom and Huck find themselves with Uncle Silas and his family again (see "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"). Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Mark Twain was...
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Svenska Ljud Classica
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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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 3 - Kiss Me Now!
Kara and her friends are playing truth or dare in the pillow room with the boys. Kara wants to kiss Lukas. But not with the tongue, like Julie does. Suddenly, Big-Anders wants to join the game… But Kara does not want him to.This is the third book 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 author of children's books...
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 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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Donna Leon Earthly Remains
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
A moody mystery set in Italy from the New York Timesbestselling author: ';One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever. ' The Washington Post Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists. But at least he gets to do it in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In this mystery in the bestselling series, the police commissioner's endurance will truly be tested. During an interrogation of...
Engels | ePub2, 2,8 MB | Atlantic Monthly Press, [Nederland] | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Svenska Ljud Classica
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...” Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz
Svenska Ljud Classica
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 | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Svenska Ljud Classica
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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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew
Svenska Ljud Classica
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 | ePub3, 0,4 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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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 12 - Riding Horses
Kara loves visiting the riding school, and she wants to spend time with Julie and Freja, the horse, every day. Rose wants to go to the club and sew their friendship scarves.Kara tries to talk Rose into going with them to the riding school. It is not easy. Kara and Julie are going to ride Freja. And she is really looking forward to it…This is the twelfth book in the series about Kara and her friends. The books are about friendships, school and getting older. It catches the audience exactly where they...
Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Svenska Ljud Classica
Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to ‘Alice Adventures in Wonderland’, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everything is reversed, like a reflection – including logic. It makes for another absurdly funny story full of wonder and snark that, like the first book, never talks down to its young audience. The popular Tim Burton movie, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (2010), starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway, to name is...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Svenska Ljud Classica
“Off with her head!” yells the Queen of Hearts, one of the many peculiar creatures Alice encounters after falling down a rabbit hole and into an absurd fantasy world of Mad Tea Parties, nonsensical trials, and talking animals. Published In 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland became an instant success, and author Lewis Carroll broke ground with his unique take on children’s stories: Instead of the overly simplistic and sometimes dry tales that characterized the genre in the Victorian age, Carroll...
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Svenska Ljud Classica
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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Line Kyed Knudsen K for Kara 1 - Best Friends Forever
Kara and Rose are best friends forever. They have a friendship necklace and they are both going to be princesses at the costume party at the club. But then, Julie starts going to their school, and suddenly everything is different for Kara.This is the first 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...
Engels | ePub2, 6,1 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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