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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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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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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery

When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Rudyard Kipling Captain Courageous

Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen year old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action...

Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (272 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...

Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...

Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green That Affair Next Door

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth’s female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. ‘That Affair Next Door’ (1897) is Anna Katharine...

Engels | 11 uur 3 minuten (518 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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G. A. Henty The Dragon and the Raven

The vikings have invaded England. King Alfred and a young thane knight, Edmund, must fight to save his lands. Artfully blending fiction and the history of this volatile time in England, “The Dragon and the Raven” is an entertaining, romantic, and a fun adventure from G. A. Henty, whose stories were known for their historical accuracy. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include “The Dragon & The Raven”...

Engels | 7 uur 17 minuten (336 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

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 | 11 uur 13 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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Charlotte de Winter The Keykeeper

Finlay Reid, a 33-year-old Scottish homicide detective, unexpectedly acquires the 'gift' to access someone's thoughts and memories. An ability meant to help a Halfway, a deceased person still wandering the earth, move on. When he is given the investigation into the brutal murder of an English scientist he stubbornly ignores this unwelcome gift as much as he can. The scientist's wife, Robyn Ashton, is his main suspect but their first meeting turns out very differently than he expected. During the...

Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Zilverbron, Naaldwijk | 2024

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Rob Bakker The Plot of Europe

Amsterdam, during the Euro Summit, the German Chancellor stays in the best-guarded suite of the city's best-guarded hotel. Yet one morning he is found dead in bed: murdered... . While mutually antagonistic German and Dutch authorities feverishly pour themselves into the case, a plot unfolds that betrays unparalleled and very well thought-out planning. The political thriller Het Complot Tegen Nederland is the story of a successful attack and its (euro)political consequences. The Conspiracy Against...

Engels | 252 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Nobel Boeken, Baarn | 2024

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The Dutch Sherlock

Forty Years of Detective Work by the Famous Dutch Forensic Pioneer Co van Ledden Hulsebosch

In the beginning of the 20th century, inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels of Arthur Conan Doyle, scientists began to make their appearance at the crime scene. It was quickly discovered that studying the ‘silent witnesses’, crime-related physical evidence and traces, could provide a wealth of information. In many countries pioneers started to shape this new science area by formulating key principles and introducing novel methods and instrumentation. In the Netherlands, Co van Ledden Hulsebosch...

Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024

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Xandra Lammers Snowflakes

With her departure for a house-sitting home in the far north, Julia hopes her life will take a new turn away from her old existence. Right after she arrives at the snowy white house, in a suburb of the town, the neighbour makes a loud noise. The residents of the house-sitting home soon leave for the south. In a cupboard, Julia finds newspaper articles that tell of a tragedy that happened in the nearby hotel, a mystery she wants to unravel. In the neighbourhood's only shop, she meets Eileen, who,...

Engels | 125 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Publisher Boekenbent, [Barneveld] | 2024

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Koen van Zon | Matthew Broad | Aleksandra Komornicka | Paul Reef | Alessandra Schimmel | Jorrit Steehouder The Unfinished History of European Integration

Revised Edition

The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union. From the aftermath of the First World War to the EU of 27 member states and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it guides the reader past the main events, crucial sites and key actors that shaped the EU we know today. How did it evolve from a market project to a geopolitical force, what explains the expansion of its membership, institutions, policies and the resistance to this growth, and why does it function...

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024

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Peter Römer DeKok and the kiss of death

Rechercheur DeKok onderzoekt de moord op een geliefde Amsterdamse, wiens man banden met de onderwereld blijkt te onderhouden.

Fictie

Engels | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 5,6 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2024

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Vivian Helena Murdered in cold blood

To get away from her troublesome ex-boyfriend for a while, Kate decides to supervise a ski camp for children at the Les Portes du Soleil ski resort. Before the children have even arrived, the camp is overshadowed by a murder. When another death occurs a day later, the camp is stopped. Kate no longer knows who she can trust. Especially for her roommate Tristan, she has extremely conflicting feelings for. Fear and attraction are dangerously close to each other while a heavy snowstorm rages outside....

Engels | 203 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Zors Books, [Edegem] | 2023

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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Temple of Zong? Never heard of.

novel

Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a dream said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents a small skeleton. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript...

Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,8 MB) | [Artscience], [Amsterdam] | 2023

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Baantjer DeKok and the mask of death

Women are checking in to Slotervaart Hospital, but not checking out. According to hospital files, they were never even there. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder are called upon to investigate this alarming disappearing act. Eerily, the people closest to these vanishing women all comment on a change in their faces: they have become listless, fatigued, and seemingly wear a ‘mask of death’. All indications point to foul play, but the bodies have yet to turn up. DeKok is stumped as to how these women are...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

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Baantjer DeKok and the somber nude

A beautiful, free-spirited young woman has gone missing, and those closest to her fear for her life. Inspector DeKok is soon called upon to find out her whereabouts. It quickly becomes clear that this Nanette may have harbored a dark side, one that embraced blackmail, emotional cruelty, and a wicked selfishness. The more DeKok learns of the beguiling Nanette, the more he feels that he is on the trail of a dead woman. DeKok’s suspicions are confirmed with a phone call: the dismembered body of a...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

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