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Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
Who could have known that when Rudyard Kipling wrote these Jungle Book stories in 1893-94, they would eventually inspire the Oscar nominated song "The Bare Necessities" – one of the most recognizable tunes of all time? The adventures of the young boy, Mowgli, raised by wolves in an Indian jungle, have been praised since their publication and adapted numerous times. Most people know the 1967 animated movie with Phil Harris as the charismatic bear Baloo. 2016 saw Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, and...
Engels | 5 uur 24 minuten (237 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’), ‘A House of Pomegranates’ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
Engels | 3 uur 26 minuten (156 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost
The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....
Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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
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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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William Blake Poems of William Blake
Poems of William Blake includes; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and The Book of Thel. All three are books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen syllable line. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter...
Engels | 55 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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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
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Tom Fletcher There's a monster in your book
Heb je wel gemerkt dat er een monster in je boek zit? Probeer maar of je hem eruit kunt krijgen, door te schudden, te blazen of lawaai te maken. Of kan hij misschien toch beter in je boek blijven zitten? Hardkartonnen prentenboekje met grappige kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's | Puffin Books, London | 2020
Gedrukt boek
The good fight
Advocate Diane Lockhart en haar protegee en petekind Maia Rindell gaan noodgedwongen bij een concurrerende firma werken. Samen proberen ze hun reputaties te herstellen.
Fictie
Film
Scorpion
Walther en zijn team van briljante buitenbeentjes staan klaar om grote problemen aan te pakken die alleen genieën kunnen oplossen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Film
Sable
Wanneer de vriend van Sable per ongeluk een man doodt, bedenken ze een gewaagd plan om de sporen weg te werken.
Fictie
Film
The keeping hours
Zes jaar na het overlijden van hun vijfjarige zoontje wordt een gescheiden stel weer herenigd door bovennatuurlijke gebeurtenissen.
Fictie
Film
Riverdale
Verwikkelingen in het leven van Archie (15) en zijn vrienden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie
Film
Stuart MacBride A dark so deadly
Schotse politieagent wordt op een zijspoor gezet maar weet zich te revancheren.
Fictie
Engels | 596 pagina's | HarperCollinsPublishers, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Lucifer
Duivel Lucifer Morningstar vestigt zich in Los Angeles en gaat samenwerken met Chloe Decker, rechercheur moordzaken.
Fictie
Film
Erin Entrada Kelly Hello, universe
De lompe pestkop Chet gooit de rugzak van Virgil in een droogstaande, diepe put. Omdat Virgils cavia in de rugzak zit, besluit hij af te dalen in de put. Maar hij kan er niet meer uit. Zal iemand hem vinden? Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 313 pagina's | Greenwillow Books an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [New York] | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Marc J. Francis | Max Pugh Walk with me
Documentaire over de Vietnamees-boeddhistische monnik en vredesactivist (1926- ) Thich Nhat Hanh en de gemeenschap die hij in de Dordogne stichtte.
Non-fictie
Film
Amy Lloyd The innocent wife
a novel
Een Engelse vrouw gaat naar Florida om daar in de gevangenis met een moordenaar te trouwen.
Fictie
Engels | 332 pagina's | Hanover Square Press, [Toronto] | 2018
Gedrukt boek
2017