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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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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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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. IV

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Outsider", "The Festival", "The Green Meadow", "He" and "Till...

Engels | 2 uur 16 minuten (100 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. III

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains six of his short stories: "Dagon", "The Tree", "The Evil Clergyman", "The Very Old Folk",...

Engels | 1 uur 57 minuten (86 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. I

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "The Horror at Martin’s Beach", "The Nameless City", "The Ghost...

Engels | 2 uur 14 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. V

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Hypnos", "The Temple", "Nyarlathotep", "Unnamable" and "The Disinterment"....

Engels | 2 uur 25 minuten (106 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. II

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with spare, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "Ashes", "The Hound", "Two Black Bottles", "The Tree on the Hill"...

Engels | 2 uur 22 minuten (104 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. VI

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you’re about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits—all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with sparse, simple language, making Lovecraft’s fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "From Beyond", "Cold Air", "The Moon-Bog", "The Music of Erich...

Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (99 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Sheridan le Fanu Green Tea

"Green Tea" tells the haunting story of a man plagued by a demonic monkey. The unnamed narrator, a trained surgeon who can’t practice because of the loss of two of his fingers, is organising the papers of his deceased mentor, the famous German physician Dr. Martin Hesselius. In doing so, he stumbles upon a strange case, dating back sixty-four years. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer, known for his ghost and paranormal stories. He studied law at Trinity College in Dublin....

Engels | 1 uur 31 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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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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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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Leigh Bardugo Hell bent

Alex Stern, die geesten kan zien, wordt ingehuurd om de geheime genootschappen van de universiteit van Yale in de gaten te houden. Wanneer haar mentor in de Hel wordt opgenomen, besluit zij hem terug te halen.

Fictie

Engels | 481 pagina's | Gollancz, London | 2023

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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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Gregory Maguire Wicked

the life and times of the wicked witch of the west; a novel

Door de ogen van de Slechte Heks van het Westen lijkt het land van Oz een stuk minder dromerig, maar ook genuanceerder, gevaarlijker en corrupter.

Fictie

Engels | 456 pagina's | William Morrow, New York, NY | 2024

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Gwenda Bond Suspicious minds

Amerika, 1969: een groep studenten raakt als proefpersoon betrokken bij een programma waarbij het leger experimenteert met verdovende middelen. Geleidelijk aan ontdekken ze dat er in het geheime laboratorium ook andere experimenten worden gedaan.

Fictie

Engels | 301 pagina's | Century, London | 2019

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David Wong Futuristic violence and fancy suits

De in een trailerpark opgegroeide Zoey erft een fortuin van haar steenrijke vader, zijn stad-zonder-regels en een wapen dat mensen onoverwinnelijk maakt, maar er zijn meer geïnteresseerden in haar erfenis.

Engels | 374 pagina's | Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, New York | 2015

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Gregory Maguire A lion among men

a novel

Brrr, de Laffe Leeuw uit de wereld van Oz, wordt door de non Yackle gedwongen om naar zijn eigen leven terug te kijken: het lijkt een vergeefse zoektocht naar vriendschap en acceptatie.

Fictie

Engels | 311 pagina's | William Morrow, New York, NY | 2024

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Lauren Beukes The shining girls

Omdat een jongeman in Chicago in verschillende tijddimensies leeft, denkt hij sinds 1931 jonge vrouwen te kunnen vermoorden en ermee weg te komen.

Fictie

Engels | 407 pagina's | Harper, London | 2013

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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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Patrick Lee Only to die again

Ex-militair Sam Dryden krijgt een telefoontje van een oud-collega met het verzoek zonder papieren en mobieltje naar een afgesproken plek te komen waar ze vier meisjes bevrijden uit een caravan.

Fictie

Engels | 373 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2015

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