• Wanda Beemsterboer Call You Right Back, Mum

  "She did not call back. Nor will she, ever again. How I started loathing those two little words, never again." In a heartbeat everything can change. This is the gripping, true story of how a young woman was murdered and a family lost a daughter. Like most young girls her age Nadine lives a life filled with family, friends and thoughts about the future. At seventeen she meets Gerold and they fall in love. But a darkness gradually falls upon their relationship and after almost three years Nadine...

  Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Anna Charlotta Petricevic GAME

  Three women are found naked and brutally murdered in central parts of Sydney - and DS Morgan Callaghan is assigned to lead the investigations of what seems to be the work of a serial killer. One of the murder victims is a young Danish citizen - and as Sydney is hosting the World Cup in a few weeks' time, Morgan has added pressure from his superiors and FIFA to find the killer before more people from all over the world descend on Sydney to watch the World Cup games. At the same time, Morgan's mother...

  Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (400 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Anna Charlotta Petricevic GONE

  Three teenage boys disappear from an exclusive suburb in Sydney. The kidnappers contact the boys' families - but two of the boys' dead bodies are found floating in the harbour before any ransom sums have been paid. DS Morgan Callaghan has taken time off work for personal reasons, but now he's called in to lead the investigations of the kidnappings and the murders - and once again, Morgan must face cruelty and violent deaths... During the course of the investigations, it becomes known that inner...

  Engels | 10 uur 24 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension

  Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...

  Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Jack London The Call of the Wild

  The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...

  Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Mary Shelley Mathilda

  On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme "disgusting and detestable". The world was,...

  Engels | 3 uur 54 minuten (177 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• 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

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Jack London White Fang

  When White Fang – part wolf, part dog – gets separated from his family, he must find a way to survive on his own. In a harsh Canadian environment that means kill or be killed. Tough surroundings and cruel masters make White Fang increasingly more aggressive and wild, but Weedon Scott, a kind gold hunter, sees the dog in him and attempts to tame him. Released in 1906, White Fang – companion novel to The Call of the Wild – was immediately successful, especially among younger readers. Ethan Hawke starred...

  Engels | 7 uur 39 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Katherine Mansfield Prelude

  "There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother‘s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. `Prelude‘ (1922) is evidence of Katherine...

  Engels | 1 uur 43 minuten (78 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective

  "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...

  Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Oscar Wilde De Profundis

  "But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...

  Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins

  Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...

  Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

  "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 | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Rick De Leeuw | Ruud Hendrickx Het grote ontbreekwoordenboek 2

  De rubriek 'het ontbreekwoord' is de voorbije twee jaar uitgegroeid tot een vaste waarde op Radio 1. Elke woensdagmiddag gaan vele duizenden luisteraars samen met Rick de Leeuw op zoek naar woorden die in de Nederlandse taal - helaas - nog niet bestaan. Kwijtruimen, leeswee, settelvet, spiegelnood, lepeltjesverdriet; ook in dit tweede deel van Het Grote Ontbreekwoordenboek zijn weer tientallen nieuwe taalvondsten samengebracht en van deskundige commentaren voorzien door enig en alwetend jurylid...

  Nederlands | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Pelckmans uitgevers, Leuven | 2024

  E-book

• Viorica Marian Meertalig

  de wonderbaarlijke voordelen van meer dan één taal spreken

  Beschrijving van de voordelen van meertaligheid aan de hand van wetenschappelijke inzichten. Met praktische tips voor het leren van een tweede taal.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2023

  E-book

• Ruud Hisgen | Adriaan van der Weel De lezende mens

  de betekenis van het boek voor ons bestaan

  Lezen is een fundamentele vaardigheid. De mens dankt kennis en kritisch denkvermogen aan het lezen. Maar het ‘diepe’ lezen staat onder druk. Het boek delft het onderspit in het gevecht om de schaarse vrije tijd en de ontlezing neemt toe. We maken ons weliswaar zorgen maar nemen het lezen zelf feitelijk voor lief. De lezende mens is een zoektocht naar de onderliggende betekenis van het lezen voor ons welzijn en onze democratische maatschappij. Het beschrijft de relatief korte geschiedenis van het...

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | ePub2 | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2022

  E-book

• Noud Bles Oekraïne

  hoog op de zuil van vrijheid; achtergronden, geschiedenis en literatuur

  Wat staat ze fier boven op de onafhankelijkheidszuil op het Majdanplein in Kyiv, Vrouwe Ukraina. Vanaf haar positie kijkt ze naar de strijd in haar land, een gevecht waarvan de uitslag onvoorspelbaar blijft. 'Oekraïne: Hoog op de zuil van vrijheid' geeft achtergronden bij de eerste oorlog in dit decennium op Europese bodem. De aanleiding om dit boek samen te stellen en uit te geven is aangrijpend en hartbrekend. Op 24 februari 2022 viel buurland Rusland het voormalige broederland Oekraïne binnen....

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | ePub2, 13 MB | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

  E-book

• Laurens De Vos Dramatische vrouwen

  een geschiedenis langs iconische theaterpersonages

  Een reis door de Europese theatergeschiedenis aan de hand van tien iconische vrouwelijke toneelpersonages.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | 336 pagina's (ePub2, 3,1 MB) | Vrijdag, Antwerpen | 2022

  E-book

• Jelle Stegeman Grote geschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal

  Beschrijving van de ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal vanaf de middeleeuwen tot de 21ste eeuw.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | 1308 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | AUP Algemeen, Amsterdam | 2021

  E-book

• Lidewijde Paris Een gedicht is ook maar een ding

  een eigenzinnige speurtocht door de Nederlandstalige poëzie

  Speurtochten door de poëzie van vroeger en nu, op basis van het werk van bekende en onbekend geworden dichters, vanuit een literaire maar ook vanuit een historische, ethische en religieuze invalshoek.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | 275 pagina's (ePub2, 3,3 MB) | J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam | 2021

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