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Kiran Millwood Hargrave The island at the end of everything
Ami (12) woont met haar moeder die lepra heeft op een eilandje in de Filipijnen. Als de regering het eiland tot een leprakolonie maakt, moet Ami naar een weeshuis op een ander eiland. Samen met haar nieuwe vriendin Mari probeert Ami haar moeder terug te vinden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 244 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2017
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Lynda Edwards Robin Hood
the silver arrow and the slaves
Als de sheriff van Nottingham slaven koopt om in zijn mijnen te laten werken, besluiten Robin en zijn mannen om hem te stoppen. Met foto's uit de tv-serie, opdrachten en een cd. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 56 pagina's | Scholastic, London | 2008
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Alex Gough Emperor's Fate
Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...
Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Ethan Bale Hawker and the King's Jewel
In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels....
Engels | 12 uur 8 minuten (533 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jerome K. Jerome Three men in a boat
Eind 19e eeuw maken drie Engelse vrienden een boottochtje langs de Theems en beleven veel komische avonturen. Met zwart-witillustraties, opdrachten en cd's. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 104 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2008
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Stephen Rabley Tinkers island
Wanneer haar vader wordt beschuldigd van diefstal moeten Jenny en hij in 1798 op een schip met misdadigers naar Australië. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 16 pagina's | Longman, Harlow | 1998
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Stephen Rabley The Troy stone
Tijdens zijn vakantie in Turkije komt Mark plotseling terecht in de Oudheid bij het beleg van Troje. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 16 pagina's | Longman, Harlow | 1998
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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion
A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...
Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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E.K. Johnston The afterward
Kalanthe, bijna ridder en Olsa, een dief, zijn teruggekeerd van de tocht van hun leven, het redden van de wereld. Maar hun eigen leven weer oppakken, met alle moeilijkheden blijkt erg lastig. Vooral wanneer ze van elkaar gescheiden worden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Engels | 337 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York | 2020
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Lily Graham Summer at Seafall Cottage
‘Hands down one of the best books I've read in a long time. This story hooks you immediately, one cannot put it down. I even dreamed about the book!’ Goodreads Reviewer 5* Victoria Langley needs to find a refuge when her husband leaves her. She finds it, in the shape of Seafall Cottage on a Cornwall clifftop. The unkempt cottage in the village of Tregollan is a perfect place to recharge - particularly when she finds a fascinating diary from 1905. Victoria determines to solve the secrets the diary...
Engels | 9 uur 10 minuten (407 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Dee Phillips Gladiator
the story of a fighter
Een jongeman heeft vijf jaar als gladiator in Rome moeten vechten. Nu keert hij terug naar zijn stam in Groot-Brittannië. Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 47 pagina's | ReadZone, Twickenham | 2013
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Joseph Conrad The secret agent
Een armoedige Londense winkelier blijkt een Russische spion te zijn. Hij krijgt de opdracht een aanslag te plegen op het Greenwich-observatorium. Met kleurenfoto's, opdrachten, een MultiRom en een cd met het voorgelezen verhaal en verschillende activiteiten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 83 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2010
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Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time
Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge. But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...
Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth McNeill The Storm
When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live...
Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Arthur Conan Doyle | Patrick Nobes The hound of the Baskervilles
In de spookachtige sfeer van de eenzame en mistige moerasvlakten in Devonshire speurt Sherlock Holmes naar de oorzaak van de mysterieuze dood van Sir Charles Baskerville. Met zwart-witillustraties en opdrachten. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 104 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2019
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Olivia Lara Someday in Paris
Soulmates do exist... But will they find their way to each other? The year is 1954. In a small French museum, two people's lives are about to change forever. On a wintery night in December, fifteen-year old Zara meets Leon for the first time. As the power cuts out in the museum, Leon and Zara spend an hour in complete darkness, discussing their love for art, Monet and Paris. They both feel an instant connection but they have never seen each other in the light. They might not know what the other...
Engels | 13 uur 46 minuten (621 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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A. Frank. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
In this High Victorian detective novel, Dyke Darrel investigates the robbery of the Central Railroad’s midnight express, during which Dyke’s friend Arnold Nicholson, a messenger, was murdered. He is helped by his sister Nell, with whom he was supposed to go on holiday. Dyke Darrell turns "the Gotham of the North" - as he calls Chicago - upside down in search of the culprit. On the way he encounters old ennemies, kidnappers and masquerades, as he tries to solve "the most audacious crime of my remembrance."...
Engels | 3 uur 58 minuten (179 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Myrtle Reed Lavender and Old Lace
Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep., 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed's long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance...
Engels | 4 uur 14 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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