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Wendy Louise De ballerina en het zwarte schaap
Een historische familiekroniek
Wendy Louise neemt je mee naar het Amsterdam van de jaren veertig, vijftig en zestig van de vorige eeuw. Maak kennis met haar muzikale familie en geniet van het bijzondere liefdesverhaal van haar ouders in deze historische familiekroniek boordevol theater, liefde, muziek en vriendschap. Op 20 december 1940 wordt Ronald Schultze geboren. In Amsterdam wemelt het van de Duitsers en wordt de sfeer steeds grimmiger. Dit weerhoudt de vriendengroep van Ronalds ouders er niet van elke week te repeteren bij...
Nederlands | 299 pagina's (ePub3, 1,3 MB) | Lind & Co AB, Amsterdam | 2025
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Erin Langston Een nacht met de gouvernante
Twee volslagen vreemden... en een betoverende avond die ze niet kunnen vergeten. Het enige plan dat de overwerkte advocaat Gavin Sinclair heeft voor de kerstdagen, is zich terugtrekken op het landgoed van zijn zusje Cora en treuren over het feit dat zijn langverwachte promotie een prijs heeft waarvan hij niet zeker weet of hij die kan betalen. Maar wanneer een sneeuwstorm hem laat stranden in een plattelandsherberg, samen met een meisje met kuiltjes in haar wangen, neemt zijn avond een onverwachte...
Nederlands | 100 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | April Books, Hilversum | 2025
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Gosia Nealon Daughter of the Resistance
In a city scarred by war, can love and loyalty survive? In war-torn Poland, 1944, Julia searches for her missing father - a high-ranking officer - and risks everything to join the resistance in Warsaw. But her mission takes a terrifying turn when she's corralled into the ghetto by Nazis. Just when it seems she'll share her best friend's tragic fate, Nikolaj, her childhood sweetheart, resurfaces in a German uniform. Claiming to be a spy for the resistance, he saves her - but can she trust the man...
Engels | 7 uur 57 minuten (357 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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Myrtle Reed Old Rose and Silver
Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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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, Copenhagen | 2017
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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Myrtle Reed At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern
This novel begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd ball relations. Our protagonists may not communicate efficiently at first but at least they've got a sense of humours. The humourous style keeps up as well as some moments of lustre and rich feeling about the printed word itself. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author,...
Engels | 7 uur 8 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Sarah Mitchell Letters to a Stranger
"England, 1940. Dearest Ruby, you must have heard the news by now. The very worst has happened. Our countries are at war. What can I do? How can I stop this nightmare from happening? One day soon we’ll be together again. I swear. I love you. E. x" Ruby Summers is a tapestry of memories, her ninety-six years laced with both love and loss. The echoes of a wartime Norfolk summer, where young Ruby's heart entwined with Edmondo's under orchard skies, are as vivid as ever. Yet a single, haunting secret...
Engels | 9 uur 24 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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Linda Babel Suiker & schijn
Is een verstandshuwelijk wel zo'n goed idee voor lady Cordelia?
Voor alle Bridgerton-fans <p. Trouwen? Dat ziet lady Cordelia helemaal niet zitten. Maar haar broer George is vastbesloten dat Cordelia op zoek moet gaan naar een huwelijkspartner. Ze besluit een verstandshuwelijk te sluiten en vindt een geschikte kandidaat in Phillip Pemberton, de baron van Stafford. Een verloving volgt en alles lijkt in orde, totdat Cordelia in aanraking komt met inspecteur Cedric Caine, de halfbroer van de baron. Hij vindt haar niet het type voor zijn broer en zij vindt hem een...
Nederlands | 120 pagina's (ePub2, 5,9 MB) | De Verhalenfabriek, Amsterdam | 2024
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Stacy Reid Mijn mysterieuze verloofde
Belle en het beest meets Bridgerton Katherine Danvers is wanhopig. Het geld van haar familie raakt op, en aangezien haar vader niet meer leeft heeft haar gezin geen enkele manier om aan geld te komen. Hun enige redding is als haar zusje een gunstige huwelijkspartner zou vinden, maar als de ton erachter komt hoe erg het gezin al aan de grond zit, is de kans daarop verkeken. Katherine bedenkt een roekeloos plan: ze vertelt iedereen dat ze de verloofde is van de beruchte Alexander Masters, de hertog...
Nederlands | 276 pagina's (ePub2, 3,8 MB) | Love Books, Amsterdam | 2024
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William Morris The Wood Beyond the World
When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a storm carries his ship to a faraway country. A country inhabited by people he has seen before. In a vison. With novels like `The Wood Beyond the World‘ (1894) William Morris has gone down in history as the forerunner for much of the modern-day fantasy genre. C.S. Lewis, who wrote `The Chronicles of Narnia‘, cited Morris as...
Engels | 5 uur 19 minuten (247 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
When the Dashwood sisters’ father dies unexpectedly, they are cast from their comfortable home and forced to begin again in a modest Devonshire cottage. There, reserved and sensible Elinor and impulsive, romantic Marianne discover the joys and heartbreaks of love, navigating society’s expectations and the limits placed upon women of their time. Threaded with Austen’s signature wit, warmth, and keen insight into family and class, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ remains one of the most cherished tales of duty...
Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (1405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Barbara Josselsohn Secrets of the Italian Island
WWII secrets, forbidden love, and one terrible mistake... When Mia discovers an old letter, she sets out on a mission to uncover the truth about her grandmother's past. With the help of brooding local guide Leo, they sneak into the closed-off Isola di Parissi, where Mia falls in love with both the country and her guide. But as they uncover hidden and handwritten notes, Mia learns of a heartbreaking mistake her grandmother made during WWII that tore apart the island community. Will Mia be forced...
Engels | 11 uur 6 minuten (490 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2024
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T.A. Williams Chasing Shadows
Amy had it all – money, brains and beauty. And then the accident happened. The Present Day: Left blind and without her family, Amy feels she needs to escape. On a trip along the Camino de Santiago - the Way of St James - she is accompanied by the mysterious and troubled Luke. Having been set up to help Amy by a mutual friend, Luke finds he is running from his past... 1314: A Templar Knight, Luc, is also running. He meets the wife of a former comrade, now blinded in a terrifying attack: Aimee....
Engels | 10 uur 49 minuten (471 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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Henry James Washington Square
Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...
Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Henry James Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Nicholas Carter King's Men Crow
It takes courage to survive in this atmospheric historical adventure set during the English Civil War. August 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and for the love of the incomparable Bella. But only one side can win the war, and only one...
Engels | 12 uur 10 minuten (535 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Harvest of Swords
Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War. In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale. As they struggle through the bitterly cold Dorset winter, their hard-won experience is enough to lead their men, but never...
Engels | 12 uur 21 minuten (541 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Storming Party
Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War. 1643: Sir William Waller’s army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament’s bastion in the West – Bristol. The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has precious few men and even fewer guns with which to defend them. And to make matters worse, rumour has...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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Historische romantiek