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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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Lilac Mills A Stitch in Time in Applewell
It’s not just hems that are frayed in Applewell... Gracie rescues old clothes and cast-offs from Applewell’s charity shop, making them into cute and fresh outfits, which she then sells in her little shop. Turning a profit is hard at the best of times, let alone when new arrival Lucas appears... After running away from the village in his teens, Lucas has finally returned to an uncomfortable amount of fanfare and gossip. His job requires him to streamline homeless charity, UnderCover, and his plans...
Engels | 9 uur 38 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lilac Mills Make Do and Mend at Applewell
Can their marriage be mended in time for Christmas? Lottie has always been thrifty. As a mother of three, it's even more important that she stretches the household budget as far as possible. Luckily, Lottie’s penchant for taking broken items and upcycling them has worked wonders for living on a shoestring. Henry can’t face telling Lottie he’s been made redundant. Instead, he pretends to go to work as usual while frantically job hunting. The race is on to find another role before Lottie discovers...
Engels | 8 uur 14 minuten (366 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Pauline Rowson The Isle of Wight Murders
A cold, grey January morning. A woman with a gun in her hand. A corpse on an abandoned golf course. Detective Inspector Andy Horton is taking a break on the Isle of Wight. But even when he’s on holiday trouble follows him... On an abandoned golf course, Horton finds a distraught, young woman with a gun in her hand, crouching over one of the derelict bunkers. Then the smell hits him. A dead man lies there. Dressed in walking gear, his body decomposing. The woman with the gun says she’s his sister....
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Pauline Rowson The Chale Bay Murders
Meet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses. Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller. An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor. When he observes mysterious lights out at sea, he reports them to the police. The local police think...
Engels | 8 uur 20 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 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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Damion Hunter Empire's Edge
Loyalty to your people. Loyalty to Rome. Only one can remain… Centurion Faustus Valerianus has already proven his bravery and skill, marching alongside Julius Agricola for six gruelling years to conquer the north of Britain. But that was just the beginning... With Agricola back in Rome, Faustus is given a new mission: to journey to Hibernia with exiled Irish prince Tuathal Techtmar and help him reclaim his rightful throne. But victory is a fleeting thing, and back in Caledonia, fears grow that the...
Engels | 13 uur 35 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sara Marchant Becoming Delilah
Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, "Becoming...
Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Justin David Tales of the Suburbs
Growing up in the Black Country under Mrs Thatcher's iron grip, Jamie dreams of a life in a magical metropolis, rubbing shoulders with the mythical creatures from Smash Hits. Despite the quirky characters in his hometown and his mother's witty one-liners, Jamie's heart is set on something greater. Follow him through secondary school, teenage turmoil, and art school, where he falls in love with Billy and the allure of the big city. Will he choose to play it safe in Welston or take a chance on a new...
Engels | 3 uur 2 minuten (133 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Phoebe Walker Temper
"There’s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion." Following a move to the Netherlands, a young woman dissects the developments of her new life: awkward exchanges with the people she meets, days spent alone freelancing in her apartment, her confrontation with boredom and unease. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from. As her feelings...
Engels | 4 uur 25 minuten (192 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows
"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...
Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Inès Eshun De gruwel van het gezin
'Ik wil wat jij hebt, Marie, net als jaren geleden. Een gezin. Niet om het even welk gezin, niet zoals het mijne, dat me achterliet met littekens. Sommige vervaagden pas na een heel lange tijd. Een dagelijks geheugensteuntje in de spiegel dat wij een gezin waren met geheimen, en dat ik aan niemand mocht vertellen wat er thuis echt gebeurde.' In een beklijvende brief aan haar jeugdvriendin Marie onderzoekt een jonge vrouw wat het betekent om deel uit te maken van een gezin. Is het mogelijk om te verlangen...
Nederlands | 128 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Edegem | 2024
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Lize Spit De eerlijke vinder
De eerlijke vinder speelt zich eind jaren negentig af in de Vlaamse Kempen. Jimmy, die thuis een moeilijke tijd doormaakt, leeft helemaal op als de zoon van een gezin Kosovaarse vluchtelingen naast hem in de klas komt te zitten. Jimmy is de slimste maar ook eenzaamste van zijn klas. Hij ziet het als zijn missie Tristan Ibrahimi door het schooljaar heen te helpen. Alle tijd die hij niet besteedt aan het verzamelen van flippo's, brengt hij door bij het Kosovaarse gezin. Wanneer de Ibrahimi's na een...
Nederlands | 74 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Das Mag, Amsterdam | 2024
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Tsafrira Levy De kibboetsdochter
Vier generaties van een Joodse familie wonen en verhuizen tussen 1892 en 1976 naar verschillende landen, steden en dorpen, waaronder twee kibboetsen. Hun dagelijkse leven omvat het tijdsgewricht van toen: met alle oorlogen, vervolgingen, genocide en ballingschap van dien. Met zwart-witafbeeldingen.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sociale roman
Nederlands | 450 pagina's (ePub3, 10 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2024
E-book
Elje van Turennout Uitzicht
‘Vandaag is weer zo’n dag. Zo’n dag dat het niet lukt. De scherpe, smalle vlakken van mijn tanden staan gekerfd in mijn onderlip. Ik heb me nooit eerder gerealiseerd dat rouwen zo hard werken is. Ieder stukje dat ik heb verloren moet op één of andere manier opnieuw langskomen. Ik moet het bekijken, voelen, erkennen, ervan houden en dan met opeengeklemde kaken loslaten. Tot ik alles in mijn handen heb gehad. Dat was in elk geval wat ik dacht…’ Uitzicht is het vervolg op het verhaal dat Norah vertelde...
Nederlands | 221 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Hartklopper, Heerenveen | 2024
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Louis Couperus De berg van licht
Het leven van de androgyne Heliogabalus, een Syrische zonnepriester die in de jaren 218-222 als keizer over het Romeinse Rijk regeerde.
Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 398 pagina's (ePub2, 5,1 MB) | LJ Veen Klassiek, Amsterdam | 2023
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Annejet van der Zijl Rijke mensen zijn anders
Een in ongenade gevallen Duitse politica en een Nederlandse rechercheur komen vijanden tegen op hun pad, maar de meest gevaarlijke vinden ze in zichzelf.
Fictie | Thriller
Nederlands | 206 pagina's (ePub2, 4 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2023
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