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Nicci French Wachten op woensdag
Een Frieda Klein thriller
Eerder in deze serie van Nicci French verschenen Blauwe maandag en Dinsdag is voorbij , ook met Frieda Klein in de hoofdrol. Als het tienermeisje Dora Lennox op woensdagmiddag uit school komt treft ze de voordeur van het huis open aan. Hoewel de auto op de oprit staat, is het stil in huis. Dan doet Dora een verschrikkelijke ontdekking: haar moeder Ruth ligt op de grond, vermoord. Maar wie zou een doodgewone huisvrouw willen vermoorden? En waarom? Inspecteur Karlsson krijgt de zaak toegewezen....
Nederlands | 10 uur 52 minuten (463 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2013
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Nicci French Dinsdag is voorbij
De Londense psychoanalytica Frieda Klein wordt te hulp geroepen wanneer in het vervallen huis van een kwetsbare vrouw met ernstige psychische problemen het opgezwollen, met vliegen bedekte lijk van een man wordt aangetroffen.
Nederlands | 13 uur | Rubinstein, Amsterdam | 2012
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Vonne van der Meer Zondagavond
Plaats van handeling: een appartement aan de Churchilllaan in Amsterdam. Tijd: september, begin jaren negentig. Personages: Robert Blauwhuis, weduwnaar; Freeke, zijn dochter; Mila Salomons, de vrouw die hij in de oorlog in veiligheid heeft gebracht. De vrouwen mijden elkaar als waren zij rivalen in de liefde. Robert heeft zijn leven lang verzwegen wat er gebeurd is toen hij als tweeëntwintigjarige student Mila, toen nog een baby, naar een onderduikadres bracht. Door een gelukkige samenloop van omstandigheden...
Nederlands | 4 uur 21 minuten (144 MB) | AtlasContact, Amsterdam | 2011
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Natasha Illum Berg Looking at Harry and Other Stories
From Arkansas and London to Zanzibar and the Tanzanian bush, "Looking at Harry and other stories" follows a selection of unique perspectives on the human condition spanning multiple continents. An inquiry into the dichotomies of life, this short story collection features six beautifully crafted stories that all explore how there is always two sides to one coin... ©2024 Natasha Illum Berg (P)2024 Saga Egmont Natasha Illum Berg (b. 1971) is an author, hunter, and conservationist known for her debut...
Engels | 5 uur 36 minuten (246 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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Helga Jensen A Scandinavian Summer
It’s the right time for love, but is it the right place? Following her husband's untimely passing, Martha's life revolves around their daughter, Rosie. But with Rosie leaving the nest and Martha's job in jeopardy, she feels life slipping away. On a whim, fueled by a love for Scandi-noir dramas, Martha travels to Denmark. Amidst its charming landscapes, she's drawn to the serene island of Fano where she meets the handsome Lars. As romance blossoms under the Danish skies, Martha wonders: can she...
Engels | 8 uur 24 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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Kristin Harper My Grandmother’s Inn
A surprise inheritance. A second chance. A heartbreaking family secret. In the wake of heartbreak, Molly Anderson finds herself pleading with the affluent Frost family to allow her one last summer managing the Hydrangea House inn in honour of her late grandmother, Beverly. But when an elderly woman claims to know a secret about Beverly’s true connection to the Frost family, everything Molly knows about her beloved grandmother is called into question. Desperate to do whatever she can to save Hydrangea...
Engels | 7 uur 7 minuten (317 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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Mink Elliott The Glory Years
What happens when ´13 Going On 30´ meets ´Back to the Future´? Kate O'Reilly longs for the good old days when music was better, friends were aplenty, and England's football team almost reached the Euro '96 finals. But as a busy mother with a suburban home and a dependable husband, those memories seem like a distant dream. So when a freak electrical storm transports her back to 1996, Kate jumps at the chance to relive her glory days and maybe even right some wrongs. But as she dives headfirst into...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (415 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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Mary Jayne Baker The Runaway Bride
Here comes the bride... but how long can she hide? When Kitty Clayton flees her wedding, her life seems worryingly futureless. All she knows is she'd rather sleep on the streets than go back to cheating Ethan. After picking her up hitch-hiking, widowed children's author Jack Duffy takes Kitty under his wing until she gets back on her feet. And it's not long before the two grow close... But with Jack struggling to recover from the guilt he feels over his wife's death and Kitty refusing to face up...
Engels | 10 uur 23 minuten (457 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 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, Copenhagen | 2023
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Deborah Jenkins Braver
Nominated for the Writer’s Guild Best First Novel Award! Hazel has never felt normal. Struggling with OCD and anxiety, she isolates herself from others and sticks to rigid routines in order to cope with everyday life. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Virginia, a church minister, Hazel begins to venture outside her comfort zone. Having rebuilt her own life after a traumatic loss, Virginia has become the backbone of her community, caring for those in need and mentoring disadvantaged...
Engels | 8 uur 27 minuten (370 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places
"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
When a brilliant doctor's experiment goes wrong, a dangerous pursuit of separating good and evil follows... Tucked away in the dark and murky streets of London, a lawyer finds himself investigating strange incidents between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the reclusive Edward Hyde. Although seemingly nothing alike, the two are more similar than what meets the eye... This classic tale is perfect for fans of Heather Parry and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was...
Engels | 2 uur 39 minuten (116 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Mich Vraa | Jesper Bugge Kold The Nurse from the Big White Ship
From the war-torn streets of Odense to the devastated warzone of South Korea, destiny calls... Nurse Molly Dahl wants to escape the trauma of wartime Denmark by joining the hospital ship, Jutlandia, set for the battlefields of Korea. Yun, an eleven-year-old North Korean girl, flees her village which was destroyed by Napalm, seeking sanctuary from the havoc. Both Molly and Yun abandon their pasts, hopeful for a brighter future in South Korea. However, their journey becomes more treacherous than...
Engels | 11 uur 4 minuten (497 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 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, Copenhagen | 2023
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Steve Kedie Running and Jumping
Two rivals. One winner. Fresh off his fourth-place finish in his first Olympic final, British long jumper Adam Lowe finds himself standing face-to-face with the man who beat him to a medal. Little does he know, this chance encounter will spark a rivalry that, for Lowe, will become all-consuming. Through epic victories and crushing defeats, Lowe pushes himself to the brink, testing his mental, physical, professional, and personal limits. But when this fierce competition spirals out of control,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Sasha Morgan Escape to Lilacwell
She wanted an adventure. What she found was so much more... When Adira Summers ditches her barrister job for a camper van, she's aiming for adventure, not a breakdown in the sleepy hamlet of Lilacwell. But fate has other plans, as she collides with Jasper - the dashing stranger tied to The Laurels, a fading family estate. In a village blooming with secrets and charm, Adira's heart wrestles with wanderlust and the unexpected allure of staying put. Meanwhile, Jasper's crossroads between life in Dubai...
Engels | 8 uur 4 minuten (360 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide
At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...
Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2022
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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl
A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...
Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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Keri Beevis Het boothuis
Max Hunter, mijn vriend, had een prachtig huis aan het water op de Norfolk Broads geboekt als een verrassing voor de herfstvakantie. Een week weg om bij te komen van de zware maanden die volgden op de dood van mijn vader. Een kans om de leugens achter ons te laten en samen opnieuw te beginnen. Maar in de doodstille omgeving voelt het alsof iemand ons in de gaten houdt. Wanneer er vreemde dingen beginnen te gebeuren, besef ik dat deze vakantie alles behalve ontspannen zal zijn. Terwijl ik steeds...
Nederlands | ePub3, 17 MB | Boldwood Books, Amsterdam | 2025
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