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Lynn Austin De bron van liefde
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Een arts keert getraumatiseerd terug van de Tweede Wereldoorlog en belandt in een psychiatrische inrichting. Zijn beste vriendin probeert te achterhalen wat er met hem gebeurd is en vindt een foto van een mysterieuze vrouw.
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,7 MB | KokBoekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2022
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Asha Lemmie Vijftig woorden voor regen
Japan, 1948. Een Japans meisje, dochter van een Japanse aristocrate en een Afro-Amerikaanse militair, moet vechten voor haar plaats in het leven.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 299 pagina's (ePub2, 5,8 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2022
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Danielle Steel De spionne
In De spionne van Danielle Steel volgen we het verhaal van Alexandra Wickham. Het is 1939, Groot-Brittannië is in oorlog. De beeldschone Alexandra, voorbestemd voor een leven op stand, vertrekt uit haar idyllische huis in Hampshire om in Londen als vrijwilligster in de verpleging aan de slag te gaan. Maar het feit dat ze vloeiend Frans en Duits spreekt, trekt al snel de aandacht van de geheime dienst. Binnen een jaar is Alex ondergedompeld in een nieuwe wereld. Het is haar verboden om iemand over...
Fictie
Nederlands | 219 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2022
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Susan Anne Mason Het toevluchtsoord voor gebroken harten
Als twee vrouwen een opvanghuis voor vrouwen die ongewild zwanger zijn beginnen, stuit dat op tegenstand.
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 326 pagina's (ePub2, 6 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2022
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Henny Thijssing-Boer Stil verlangen
De komst van een onbekend meisje in een Gronings dorp na de oorlog zorgt voor geluk en onrust.
Fictie | Familieroman
Nederlands | 175 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2014
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Ina van der Beek Alleen verder
Als een jonge vrouw met haar kinderen na de Tweede Oorlog alleen achterblijft, begint ze een pension om in haar levensonderhoud te voorzien.
Fictie | Familieroman | Protestants milieu | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 179 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2014
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Jan Vantoortelboom Jagersmaan
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Terug van het slagveld in Vlaanderen na de Eerste Wereldoorlog gaat een jongeman naar Amerika, maar strandt in Ierland waar een burgeroorlog woedt.
Fictie
Nederlands | 157 pagina's (ePub2, 2,6 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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Leo Blokhuis Blauwe zomer
Twee jongemannen vinden elkaar in een indorockband, beiden worstelen met de relatie met hun vader.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2019
E-book
Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension
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 hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...
Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jack London The Call of the Wild
The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...
Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Laura Lee Hope The Moving Picture Girls
Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City - times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly hoarse and he loses the role. Despite voice rest and medical treatment, Mr. DeVere's voice fails to improve, and it is impossible to find theatre work. A friend and neighbour in their apartment building suggests that Mr. DeVere tries acting in the moving...
Engels | 4 uur 29 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...
Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...
Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Clemens Wisse Neeltje van de Wilgenhoeve
Na de dood van haar moeder wordt een meisje als dienstmeisje aangenomen door een rijk, kinderloos boerenechtpaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Streek- en boerenroman
Nederlands | ePub, 0,3 MB | Kok Omniboek, Baarn | 2012
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Booth Tarkington Penrod
Eleven-year-old Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke go on a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis. "Penrod" (1914) chronicles his life, loves, and mostly the trouble he gets into. His adventures in pre-World War I Midwest have been likened to those of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain), and this first collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington was followed by two further episodes: "Penrod and Sam" (1916) and "Penrod Jashber" (1929). Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American...
Engels | 5 uur 58 minuten (264 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Anna Hamlin Weikel Betty Baird's Ventures
"'Oh, this indigent family of ours! I certainly must bestir myself and do something to support it,' said Betty Baird, airily, to her mother, yet looking determined, and straightening herself up among the cushions piled high on the broad window-seat in her room." Betty is back home with her parents on Long Islands, when she discovers her father is struggling to pay back the mortgage. She decides to help. But can a young girl in 1907 earn enough money to make a difference? And does Betty have the...
Engels | 6 uur 34 minuten (290 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” When Benjamin Button is born he looks oddly like an old man. He's not interested in playing with other kids and he's too low on energy to participate anyway. When Benjamin turns 20 it dawns on his family that he is aging backwards. The younger he grows, the more he learns to...
Engels | 1 uur 5 minuten (47 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Offshore Pirate
“You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.” Ardita, a beautiful and bored young Flapper, is hanging out on her uncle's yacht when it's suddenly captured by pirates. When Ardita meets and falls in love with the charming captain she knows she's been right to reject the boring and rich society men. But a truth lurks around the corner that will make her question everything she thinks she...
Engels | 1 uur 13 minuten (53 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Augusta Huiell Seaman The Dragon's Secret
Sixteen-year-old Leslie has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to her ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie quickly finds herself getting lonely with no one her own age to talk to. But one day, her dog digs up a metal box with an engraved dragon on it. This will lead Leslie not only to a mystery but also to a new friend. Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of...
Engels | 3 uur 25 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Amy le Feuvre Teddy's Button
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield. He wants to become a soldier just like him. But this brings contention and strife when a new girl comes to town. Nancy is just as selfishly proud as he is and from the beginning, they are enemies. Yet as time passes, they learn to put their prejudices to the side, allowing a new friendship to bloom. Amelia Sophia Le Feuvre (1861-1929) war born in Lee, Kent, the daughter of an H. M. Customs surveyor and granddaughter...
Engels | 2 uur 28 minuten (109 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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