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H. G. Wells War of the Worlds

This classic, early 19th century science fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as a cautionary tale. Called by many a "chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century – a science fiction classic for all time." It was made famous by Orson Welles Mercury Theatre mid 20th Century adaptation that literally had thousands of people running for their lives at the time in the Northeast U.S. H. G. Wells was an English writer,...

Engels | 4 uur 56 minuten (215 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Ava Reid The wolf and the woodsman

Fanatieke gelovigen strijden tegen heidense burgers om de macht. Magische krachten komen daarbij in het spel.

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Engels | 416 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2022

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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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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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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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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Gods of Mars

After ten long years away from Barsoom and his beloved red Martian princess Dejah Thoris, John Carter is finally back! Unfortunately, Carter appears in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart... The second installment in Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci-fi Mars series, "The Gods of Mars" is the thrilling follow-up to "A Princess of Mars". Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American novelist. His most notable creations include the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter,...

Engels | 7 uur 37 minuten (347 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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Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 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

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Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...

Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade

Een Amerikaan die als soldaat het bombardement op Dresden heeft meegemaakt, wordt geplaagd door vreemde herinneringen. Met woordverklaringen Engels-Engels.

Fictie

Engels | 134 pagina's | Aschehoug [etc.], Copenhagen [etc.] | 1994

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Lulu Allison Salt lick

In een toekomstig Groot-Brittannië waar de meerderheid van de bevolking in steden woont en het platteland verwilderd is, gaan een plattelandsjongen en een stadsvrouw op ontdekkingstocht.

Engels | 376 pagina's | Unbound, London | 2021

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Renée Ahdieh The damned

New Orleans, 1872. Na het gevecht wordt Bastien herboren vampier, Celine (17) leidt aan geheugenverlies. Ze heeft een aantal gebeurtenissen in gang gezet die tot haar ondergang kunnen leiden én die van Bastien. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 401 pagina's | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York | 2020

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Anthony Ryan The pariah

Alwyn Scribe is een struikrover in het koninkrijk Albermaine. Na verraad wordt de struikroversbende in een hinderlaag gelokt. Hij neemt wraak.

Fictie

Engels | 561 pagina's | Orbit, London | 2022

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Robert Dinsdale The toymakers

Londen, 1906. De zwangere Cathy (15) loopt van huis weg. Ze gaat als winkelbediende werken in een sprookjesachtige, magische speelgoedwinkel. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 468 pagina's | Del Rey, London | 2018

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Rebecca Alexander The secrets of life and death

In de 16e eeuw probeert een occultist met zijn assistent in Oost-Europa de stervende nicht van de koning te redden. Wat zij daar ontdekken heeft gevolgen voor het onderzoek naar een dood meisje in een Engelse trein in het hier en nu.

Fictie

Engels | 440 pagina's | Del Rey, [Londen] | 2014

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Delilah S. Dawson | Kevin Hearne No country for old gnomes

De tegendraadse gnoom Offi Numminen uit Pell wordt ongevraagd aanvoeder van een groep magische buitenbeentjes. Om de oorlogszuchtige Haflings te verslaan moeten ze eerst hun eigen kracht ontdekken.

Fictie

Engels | 405 pagina's | Del Rey, New York | 2020

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Tom Sweterlitsch The gone world

Shannon Moss van de Naval Criminal Investigative Service moet via tijdreizen de moord op de familie van een Navy Seal en de ontvoering van diens dochter oplossen.

Fictie

Engels | 388 pagina's | Headline, London | 2015

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Adrian J Walker The end of the world survivors club

Als na een inslag van asteroïden de helft van de aarde is vernietigd en Beth en haar kinderen worden gescheiden van haar man en hun vader, moet ze alles op alles zetten om iedereen in veiligheid te brengen.

Fictie

Engels | 454 pagina's | Del Rey, London | 2019

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Vic James Bright ruin

Nu Abi en Luke zijn gered, willen ze ook hun familie redden en de Equals verslaan. Intussen doen ze verrassende ontdekkingen over de kracht Skill. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie

Engels | 486 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2018

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