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Felice Picano The Lure
Shocking and controversial, The Lure has become a classic of gay fiction with its candid description of New York’s gay subculture. The works of Felice Picano need little introduction. As one of the founding members of The Violet Quill, the foremost post-Stonewall gay writing movement, (other members included Edmund White and Andrew Holleran), Picano has published many acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction. First published in 1979, The Lure rocketed Picano to commercial literary fame....
Engels | 15 uur 23 minuten (671 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Leopard Man's Story
"King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with mysterious scars on his arms. He finds out that the murderer attended every performance of the lion-tamer in hope of seeing the lion tear his trainer apart. Who is the murderer and why did he hate the lion trainer so much? Who does the "Leopard Man" suspect and will he be able to reveal the truth? What will happen to...
Engels | 10 minuten (7,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Barbara Josselsohn The Bluebell Girls
"I am at loss of words to explain how I felt about this. I loved the plot... the author has really done an amazing job in writing this wonderful book. Well done, you have written a wonderful masterpiece... will stay with me for a long time." Goodreads reviewer. Returning home to her family’s little lake house is the perfect way for Jenna to escape her heartbreaking divorce. Her mother Sweet has been losing her memory and Jenna is sure that taking her daughter Sophie for a break with Sweet in Lake...
Engels | 8 uur 54 minuten (394 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...
Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Barbara Josselsohn The Lily Garden
She held the letter that she had found in the garden, and noticed the distinctive curls of her father’s handwriting etched on the worn paper. Her life had already been turned upside down by one family secret, would his last words force her to leave her childhood home forever? When Caroline left Lake Summers thirty years ago, she thought she’d never go back to the place where she lost her parents. But when she finds out that the town’s lily garden lovingly built by her mother is going to be destroyed,...
Engels | 7 uur 18 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Elizabeth Byler Younts De verborgen kinderen
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Elizabeth Byler Younts schetst in 'De verborgen kinderen' een aangrijpend beeld van de psychiatrie in Pennsylvania, 1937. De veertienjarige Brighton kent alleen het leven binnen de grauwe muren van gesticht Riverside. Hier wordt ze opgevoed en onderwezen door verpleegster Joann. Brighton weet niet dat Joann geheimen bewaart die een sleutel vormen tot haar verborgen verleden. Een verleden dat Brighton vasthoudt in het sombere Riverside. Brightons enige vriend en lotgenoot is de albinojongen Angel....
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | ePub2, 6 MB | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2020
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Heidi Chiavaroli Het huis tussen de appelbomen
‘Het huis tussen de appelbomen’ van Heidi Chiavaroli is een indrukwekkende historische roman voor liefhebbers van Louisa May Alcott. Een jonge vrouw vindt een gedichtenbundel en brieven van een vriendin van de beroemde schrijfster. Terwijl ze probeert meer te weten te komen over deze Johanna, vindt ze niet alleen een fascinerend levensverhaal, maar ook vergeving voor het verraad van haar zus dat haar al jaren achtervolgt. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu
Nederlands | ePub2, 5,9 MB | KokBoekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2021
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Layla Reyne De perfecte cocktail
Chef Gregory Valteau heeft altijd geweten dat een succesvol restaurant opbouwen een zware onderneming is, maar na het derde mislukte project ziet zijn culinaire toekomst in New Orleans er somber uit. Tot hij een knappe hipster ontmoet die perfect voor hem is, achter de bar en in bed. De volgende ochtend is de sexy barman snel vertrokken, maar Greg wil meer – van de man, en van zijn creatieve cocktails. Anthony Monaco is het gelukkigst als hij onderweg is en de wereld ziet. Wanneer Greg hem vraagt...
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2022
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