Saga Egmont: 63 books

Something is amiss at the horse farm! During the night, someone broke in completely undetected and escaped with two very expensive saddles. The thief left no trace of a forced entry, and no tracks that anyone can find. Since Tine’s cousin Gerrit is spending the day with Tine, Ina, and Alex, he offers...

The summer riding festival is coming to the Horse Farm, and it is sure to be an important event for close friends, Ina and Tine to showcase their equestrian skills. The only problem is that the girls need a third rider for their plan to take shape, and the snooty mean girls, Bettina and Sarah seem...

It’s an exciting week at the horse farm! Alex’s mare Lilian is going to be a mother, and everyone is ecstatic about the new arrival. Though the news is happy, Alex, Tine, and Ina are worried about the first-time mom. They want to make sure everything is just perfect for the birth of the little...

Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the...

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...

James Norman Hall (USA, 1887-1951) and Charles Nordhoff (USA, 1887-1947) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1920) Reader: Mike Vendetti Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co-authored "Mutiny on the Bounty". This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one.

Lécrivain britannique John Stuart Mill était lun des premiers écrivains masculins à se positionner pour légalité des sexes et à défendre la libération des femmes. Il se pencha sur la liberté économique des femmes et était de lavis que le rôle dune femme dans le mariage devait évoluer....

LAustralien Charles McCarthy est brutalement assassiné dans le Hertfordshire. Son fils James est le principal suspect ayant été la dernière personne vue à ses côtés. Cependant, ce dernier se dit être innocent. Lestrade fait appel à Holmes pour laider à élucider cette affaire. ´Le Mystère de la Vallée de Boscombe ` est extrait de ´Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes`.

Not Tonight, Darling! is a book about women whose sexual desire has disappeared completely or in part - a problem affecting ever more people. The book goes through the various causes, in couplehood or the woman‘s own life, of the problem, such as stress, being pressed for time, pregnancy and childbirth,...

The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog's home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you're beneath contempt you can say what you please. - This is the...

This romance set in Mexico tells of the journey of a native and a white man in search of the fabled Golden City of the Indians.

One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants‘ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked,...

With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal in proportion to the number of those engaged as our first expedition to Burma. The Burman policy of carrying off every boat on the river, laying waste the whole country, and driving away...

In einem Forschungslabor in Spitzbergen muss der Doktorant Kimi Hoorn überraschend das wichtigste Experiment zur Klimabeobachtung allein beenden: Sein Professor ist plötzlich spurlos verschwunden. Als dann auch noch Umweltverbände versuchen, die Forschungen für sich zu vereinnahmen, wird Kimi...