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Katy Regan Als ik auto had kunnen rijden was ik nu niet zwanger (van mijn beste vriend)
Tess Jarvis, 28 jaar, telt de minuten af. Twee minuten, om precies te zijn. Eén streepje betekent dat de test goed is uitgevoerd, twee streepjes betekent... een schok. Als na nog een test blijkt dat ze echt zwanger is, weet Tess niet of ze nu blij moet zijn of juist niet. Haar leven staat volledig op zijn kop. En hoe leg je uit dat je dronken bent geworden en zwanger bent geraakt... van je beste vriend? Jim vindt het eigenlijk geweldig om vader te worden, maar durft net als Tess niet voor een relatie...
Nederlands | 322 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
E-book
Christina Baker Kline De bannelingen
De bannelingen, de nieuwe roman van Christina Baker Kline, speelt zich af in het Engeland en Australië van de negentiende eeuw, toen Britse veroordeelden naar Australië werden verbannen. Londen, 1840. De jonge gouvernante Evangeline raakt ongehuwd zwanger en wordt valselijk beschuldigd van diefstal, waarna ze wordt veroordeeld tot ballingschap op Van Diemen’s Land, een strafkolonie in Australië. Tijdens de overtocht raakt ze bevriend met de strijdvaardige Hazel, die zich over haar ontfermt. Hazel...
Nederlands | 10 uur 7 minuten (874 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jojo Moyes De sterrengever
Jojo Moyes is de auteur van oa 'Voor jou'. 'De sterrengever' (The Giver of Stars): Kentucky, 1937. Wanneer Alice hoort dat de bibliotheek vrouwen zoekt om te paard afgelegen huizen te bezoeken met boeken, besluit ze zich aan te melden. Ze is een prima ruiter, en dit biedt haar een ontsnapping uit het benauwende huis van haar man en schoonvader. Onder leiding van de vrijgevochten Marge vormen vijf vrouwen al snel een hechte groep, maar hun vriendschap wordt op de proef gesteld als een deel van het...
Nederlands | 14 uur 7 minuten (813 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2019
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Helen Fields Perfecte resten
Perfecte resten van Helen Fields is het eerste deel van de veelbesproken Schotse thrillerserie D.I. Callanach. Over inspecteurs Ava Turner en Luc Callanach. Voor de fans van M.J. Arlidge, Mo Hayder en Samuel Bjørk. Op een afgelegen plek in de Schotse Hooglanden staat een lichaam in lichterlaaie. Al wat achterblijft om het slachtoffer te kunnen identificeren zijn tanden en een reepje stof. Tegelijkertijd schreeuwt een vrouw om hulp in een afgesloten kamer ergens in Edinburgh. Het is Luc Callanachs...
Nederlands | 12 uur 48 minuten (737 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2019
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Kiley Dunbar Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop
A heartwarming, cosy, utterly uplifting romcom - the perfect rea
'Tis the season for finding love… and the perfect book! With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive… Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he’s nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix. When Alexandra Robinson winds up stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that’s waiting...
Engels | 10 uur 28 minuten (466 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Celia Hayes The Difference Between You & Me
Can stepping out of your comfort zone lead you to ultimate happiness? Trudy Watts has everything she's ever dreamed of: a job that she loves, a successful boyfriend, and an ultra-modern apartment in one of the most fashionable parts of London. With a long-awaited promotion due to come her way and her wedding just around the corner, Trudy's life is just perfect... That is until catastrophe strikes and her life is turned upside down. She's transferred to Turriff, a remote Scottish town to manage...
Engels | 9 uur (396 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
T.A. Williams Dreaming of Verona
Verona is the City of Love. But will Suzie find romance there or, like Romeo and Juliet, will it all end in tragedy? When Suzie is hired to accompany spoiled, abrasive Lady Alexandra Tedburn on an all-expenses-paid holiday to Italy, she fears the trip will be a disaster. But she soon discovers there’s more to Alex than shopping and tantrums, and she’s determined to help her realise her potential – against Alex’s authoritarian father’s wishes. As they settle in Verona, Suzie can’t stop thinking...
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (379 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
T.A. Williams Under a Siena Sun
Lucy needed a change of scene. She didn’t expect the change of a lifetime. Doctors Without Borders has been Lucy Young’s life for the past four years. After an emergency extraction from a conflict zone, she’s making a change from saving lives under gunfire to practising medicine in safe, serene Siena. Now treating obscenely wealthy patients at a private clinic, she's never felt less comfortable. She’s used to helping those in dire need – not those in need of a nip and tuck. Her turmoil grows when...
Engels | 7 uur 25 minuten (332 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter
"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...
Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Hans Christian Andersen The Princess and the Pea
Sir Roger Moore reads "The Princesse and the Pea", where a prince wants to find a real princess to marry. He has travelled the world, which is full of princesses, yet he could not find a real one. So, he returns home empty-handed and sad. But one stormy night, a soaking wet princess knocks on his door and asks for shelter for the night. The prince’s mother is not convinced that she is a real princess and decided to put her to the test. Sir Roger Moore is was a British actor, most famous for portraying...
Engels | 6 minuten (4,6 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders
“Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?” Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. But when Marcia, an actress, turns up at his door one night and shows him a different world, the course of both their lives are changed forever. And only one comes out the winner. Somewhat different from Fitzgerald's later work, 'Head and Shoulders'...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
R. K. Howard Error Code
What do you get when you take a witty housewife with deep, dark secrets and coop her up in a house with a frustratingly demonic dishwasher and a professional killer who just happens to look like The Gladiator? You get a thrilling tour de force of unexpected action that's peppered throughout with comedic beats and seriously dark undertones. From the opening paragraph all the way to the very end, Error Code is a non-stop romp. R. K. Howard is an American author. His "Black Machetes" has been in...
Engels | 4 uur 32 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Sometimes self-fulfilling prophecies are not all they seem. Lord Arthur Savile is a young British aristocrat about to get married. Mr. Podgers tells people’s fortunes, and he has bad news for the groom: he will commit murder. Unable to get the thought off his mind, he decides to get it over with before entering into marriage, but things do not go as planned. Hear the darkly humorous short story “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” by Oscar Wilde from the late 19th century brought to life by B.J. Harrison....
Engels | 1 uur 21 minuten (60 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Marcelino Lopez Liefdesgedoe
ken jezelf, verover een ander
Adviezen voor het zoeken en vinden van een levenspartner.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 243 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Spectrum, Houten | 2018
E-book
Gert-Jan Kloens | Grethe van Duijn Het geheim van duurzame relaties
tips en tricks om er samen iets geweldigs van te maken
Een duurzame liefdesrelatie met een vaste partner is de beste levensverzekering die je kunt afsluiten. Een overweldigende hoeveelheid onderzoek toont aan dat mensen met zo'n relatie lichamelijk en psychisch gezonder zijn en sociaal beter functioneren. Dit boek gaat over het geheim van mensen met een duurzame relatie met een vaste levenspartner. Centraal staat de vraag: wat is het geheim van deze paren? Deze vraag is tegenwoordig uiterst relevant, juist omdat duurzame relaties onder druk staan. Het...
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 182 pagina's (ePub, 6,3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
E-book
Minna Howard The Christmas Menagerie
Amelia usually loves Christmas, but this year is her first one alone since her husband passed away – though she's not quite by herself. Somehow, she's been lumbered with a menagerie of pets over the holidays, no thanks to the new village vet closing the local kennels. Between a parrot, two tortoises, and god-knows-how-many baby mice, Amelia ends up seeing a lot more of Jules the vet than she planned to. And despite her neighbours' fury for the man who shut down a local institution, she can't...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (326 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Olivia Lara Someday in Paris
Soulmates do exist... But will they find their way to each other? The year is 1954. In a small French museum, two people's lives are about to change forever. On a wintery night in December, fifteen-year old Zara meets Leon for the first time. As the power cuts out in the museum, Leon and Zara spend an hour in complete darkness, discussing their love for art, Monet and Paris. They both feel an instant connection but they have never seen each other in the light. They might not know what the other...
Engels | 13 uur 46 minuten (621 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Emma Davies The Beekeeper's Cottage
Comforted by the gentle hum of the beehives at the bottom of the garden, Grace drains the last of her tea and walks slowly back towards the little hillside house she adores. Her marriage is over, but is it too late to start her life again? Beekeeper Grace thought throwing out her cheating husband would be the hardest thing she ever did. But when she opens the door to a property developer one morning, it’s clear that keeping her beautiful home and garden – her only sanctuary throughout her miserable...
Engels | 7 uur 44 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Emma Davies The Little Shop on Silver Linings Street
Daisy Turner has worked at Buchanan’s Family Jewellers since the day she finally escaped her troubled home. With a unique talent for matching the perfect piece of jewellery to any romantic milestone, she painstakingly polishes each stunning creation every morning and safely locks them away each night, longing for the day she’ll have a love story to call her own... But everything changes one day in December when the owner announces she is retiring. She will leave the shop to whichever of her three...
Engels | 8 uur 46 minuten (403 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alys Murray Home at Summer's End
Rose Anderson is done with being known as "the nice one" in the small town where she lives. She’s done with playing third, fifth, or seventh wheel at loud gatherings on her family’s flower farm. And most of all, she is done with the pitying looks she gets about her single status from the way-too-interested townsfolk. Busy with her flower-arranging business, Rose has no time for a man, thank you very much. And it has nothing to do with the scars she still nurses from her last breakup. So when she...
Engels | 7 uur 43 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)