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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Plague

Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks together with a young boy through the desert. The two travelers walk along an old and long forgotten railway track with an important mission, a mission that can change the life of all the survivors. What was this plague and where did it come from? How...

Engels | 2 uur 19 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Joyce Kostakis Streaming Sarah

In 2035 Portland, Oregon, a Homicide Detective awakens from a coma with the ability to see into parallel worlds. A Doppelgänger teaches her to stream the soul and memories of her Department's murdered victims to bring their killers to justice. Dying was the break she needed... Or so she thought. Homicide Detective Katie Hanson prided herself on being an advocate for the dead. When she returns home from the hospital after a near-death experience, she realizes the door to the spirit world remained...

Engels | 5 uur 29 minuten (243 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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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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J.R.R. Tolkien The two towers

being the second part of The lord of the rings

Epos, waarin mythische, nauw aan de mens verwante wezens het rijk van de boze machten binnengaan om een onheilspellende ring onschadelijk te maken.

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Engels | 442 pagina's | HarperCollins, London

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Naomi Novik Temeraire

In de Napoleontische oorlog tussen Engeland en Frankrijk zetten beide landen een luchtmacht van draken tegen elkaar in; een jonge Engelse scheepskapitein krijgt de beschikking over een zeer bijzondere draak. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

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Nederlands | 271 pagina's | Mynx, Amsterdam | 2008

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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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Wesley Chu The art of prophecy

De uitverkoren Wen Jia lijkt nier aan de profetie te kunnen voldoen om in het alternatieve China een eeuwenoude oorlog te beëindigen en moet zich met behulp van een aantal vrienden bewijzen.

Fictie

Engels | 512 pagina's | Daphne Press, UK | 2023

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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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Brian S. Ference Purgatory of the Werewolf

What's worse than realizing you're a werewolf? Being chased by a monster hunter with a demon eye. Dorian survived being eaten alive, but time is running out to save himself and his loved ones before the full moon. He flees England and enlists with the Royal Navy hoping to escape the monster. But will his ship carry him to a new life before the full moon or plunge him into the horror of war? This is the second book in "The Wolf of Dorian Gray" series. Brian S. Ference is an American author from...

Engels | 6 uur 7 minuten (267 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Sophie Mackintosh The water cure

Drie zusjes worden door hun ouders volkomen geïsoleerd opgevoed in een oud, verlaten hotel op een verder onbewoond schiereiland waar zij vooral leren zich te wapenen tegen de giftige buitenwereld en de dodelijke aanraking van mannen.

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Engels | 248 pagina's | Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, UK | 2018

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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew

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 | 4 uur 37 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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L. Frank Baum The Road to Oz

"Roads," observed the shaggy man, "don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them."A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, but the two of them end up getting lost on their way and decide to proceed to Oz instead. For once not chased by danger, they arrive just in time for Princess Ozma‘s birthday party where a great assortment of colourful characters awaits. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘ starring Judy Garland, perfectly...

Engels | 4 uur 19 minuten (193 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...

Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz

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 | 4 uur 28 minuten (210 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Margaret Atwood Het jaar van de vloed

Als een wereldwijde epidemie bijna alle mensen op aarde heeft gedood, proberen twee vrouwen van een sekte te overleven. Sluit aan op 'Oryx en Crake'.

Fictie

Nederlands | 449 pagina's | Prometheus, Amsterdam | 2009

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Renée Nault The handmaid's tale

Graphic novel van de dystopische roman 'The handmaid's tale' uit 1985 over een maatschappij waarin vrouwen geheel ondergeschikt zijn aan de man en de hoofdpersoon in dienst is bij een echtpaar om kinderen te baren.

Fictie

Engels | 240 pagina's | Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York | 2019

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Erik Nieuwenhuis Ben

Een man overlijdt na een bizar ongeluk, maar leeft na zijn dood verder als digitaal brein.

Fictie

Nederlands | 365 pagina's | Thomas Rap, Amsterdam | 2016

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Jeff VanderMeer Aanvaarding

Elke expeditie naar Gebied X, waar 30 jaar geleden iets onaards neerstortte, leidt tot doodslag, waanzin, hallucinaties, mentale overname, fysieke mutatie, een dubbelganger of een monster.

Fictie

Nederlands | 367 pagina's | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2015

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Jeff VanderMeer Autoriteit

Paranoïde wetenschappers onderzoeken bizarre gebeurtenissen rond een alles vernietigende grens, o.a. door ondervraging van overlevenden van een expeditie.

Fictie

Nederlands | 411 pagina's | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2015

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Terry Pratchett Kleingoderij

Een simpele kloosterbroeder op een bizarre schijfvormige planeet wordt voor grote problemen geplaatst wanneer zijn god rechtstreeks tegen hem begint te spreken.

Fictie

Nederlands | 275 pagina's | MYNX, Amsterdam | 2008

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