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Carla Vermaat Als de druiven rijpen
In een brief van Hanna, waarin ze aangeeft dat ze ernstig ziek is en dat ze daarom haar jongere zusje wil zien, roept bij Eline moeilijke en verdrietige herinneringen op. Ze twijfelt of ze ingaat op de uitnodiging om bij Hanna en haar gezin te logeren. Haar vriend Toby overtuigt haar dat een gratis verblijf in het mooie Toscane niet te versmaden valt. Hij begrijpt niet waarom Eline zo aarzelt. Eline is net een beetje gewend aan het idee dat ze de moeilijke confrontatie met haar zus moet aangaan,...
Nederlands | 8 uur 39 minuten (747 MB) | LuisterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2019
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Margreeth Kooiman Spagaat
Negen jaar geleden is Martha uit een ongelukkig huwelijk weggelopen. In haar wanhoop liet ze toen ook haar zoons, Maarten en Ruben, achter. Nog altijd kampt ze met schuldgevoelens, zelfs nu haar zoons volwassen zijn. Ze wil niets anders dan een goede moeder zijn. Vooral voor Ruben, die het na de dood van zijn beste vriend moeilijk heeft. Hoe kan ze het ooit goedmaken? Om een nieuw leven te beginnen komt Martha via een datingsite in contact met Peter. Ze wordt hals over kop verliefd op hem. Ruben...
Nederlands | 4 uur 30 minuten (389 MB) | LuisterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2019
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Dani van Doorn Anna's twijfels
In 1912 erft de Rotterdamse zakenvrouw Anna van Bergen een landgoed in het Brabantse Waalre en besluit er te gaan wonen. Met haar ietwat deftige en soms ironische pen beschrijft ze hoe ze met vallen en opstaan aan haar nieuwe leven went. Haar bijdehante manieren brengen haar in allerlei onverwachte situaties, die soms grappig, soms aangrijpend zijn. Ook de confrontaties met haar jonge rentmeester maken het landgoedbeheer er niet gemakkelijker op. Daarnaast krijgt ze met de liefdesperikelen van haar...
Nederlands | 6 uur 43 minuten (581 MB) | LuisterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2019
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Gerda van Wageningen Het zwijgen waard
Kort verhaal, voorgelezen door de schrijfster
Het door Gerda van Wageningen zelf voorgelezen korte verhaal Het zwijgen waard gaat over een oude vrouw, Clarissa, die altijd heeft geleerd dat zwijgen goud is. Haar moeilijke verleden, waarin ze haar pasgeboren zoon heeft moeten afstaan, is haar dochter Hanneke en kleindochter Willemijn dan ook onbekend. Maar dan blijkt op een dag dat Hanneke een brief heeft gekregen van Clarissa’s zoon Hans. Het wordt Clarissa bijna te kwaad als ze beseft dat ze zal moeten praten. De warme stem van Gerda van Wageningen...
Nederlands | 30 minuten (29 MB) | Zomer & Keuning, Utrecht | 2019
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Gerda van Wageningen Het water komt
Een rollende golf water loopt de straten in. Kunnen ze nog op tijd naar de zolder vluchten?
Het water komt is een nieuwe roman van Gerda van Wageningen over de watersnoodramp van 1953. Hoofdpersoon Mimi de Roode woont op een boerderij vlak bij het dorp Nieuwerkerk op Schouwen-Duiveland. Er zijn nogal wat spanningen in haar familie, maar ze vindt troost en een warme vriendschap bij Antje Smit. Ze is blij dat haar vriendin geluk heeft gevonden in de liefde en over niet al te lange tijd hoopt te gaan trouwen. Maar niet veel later steekt de storm op die in de nacht van 31 januari op 1 februari...
Nederlands | 7 uur 14 minuten (625 MB) | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2018
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Alex Kane The Housewife
Even perfect mothers have secrets... Meet Leah, the perfect wife and mum with a closet full of skeletons - and if the secret gets out, her carefully crafted world could crumble. Then there's Annie, the gangster's moll with a sharp mind. She's not afraid to get her hands dirty, but no one knows the devastating secret haunting her. And lastly, Terry, the king of Glasgow gangland. He's ruthless when it comes to growing his empire, but his weakness is women. As their three stories collide, the lives...
Engels | 10 uur 37 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Alison Ragsdale The Child Between Us
When I first met you, darling Marina, you were just five years old. You took my breath away, with your long, dark waves and pink cheeks. You needed me, and I instantly knew I’d do anything to protect you. When six years ago, my heart was shattered, I was left utterly broken – but I didn’t know just how lost I was until you filled that hole in my heart. You quickly became the centre of my world, your sweet laugh my favourite sound. But then things started to change... I put my pain down to work stress,...
Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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, København | 2023
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Lilac Mills Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell
George can’t throw anything away. But he’s in danger of throwing away a chance at love. George Nightingale is a hoarder with a house full of junk. For years he’s kept it a secret, rarely leaving his house and keeping social interactions to a minimum, but his carefully balanced system is now under threat... Nessa Millbrook can’t wait to get settled into her new home in quaint, rural Applewell. Everyone in the village is so friendly – except her neighbour, George, who wants nothing to do with her....
Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (409 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows
"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...
Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Donna Ashcroft The Christmas Countdown
It’s that time of year again, snowflakes are fluttering and the countdown to Christmas has begun! Twenty-seven-year-old Holly Devine has just had her heart well and truly broken. Hurt by the two people she loves the most, she flees to her eccentric Aunt Clara’s cosy cottage to hide away over the winter season. But kind, impulsive Aunt Clara has other ideas... She’s not about to see her favourite niece wallowing in sadness during the most wonderful time of the year. So, with the help of her close...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sasha Morgan Escape to Lilacwell
She wanted an adventure. What she found was so much more... Adira Summers has spontaneously quit her high-flying career as a barrister in London. She needs to escape from the rat race and, encouraged by her bohemian gran, has bought a campervan to do so. Taking off for a tour around Britain, disaster strikes early on when her van breaks down outside the quaint village of Lilacwell. But things look up after she meets handsome Jasper, who is visiting to check on his ailing uncle and his crumbling...
Engels | 8 uur 4 minuten (360 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Kiley Dunbar Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop
A fairytale ending isn’t just for fiction... The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months after the winter flood that destroyed all its wares. When newest resident Joy Foley arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl, she is set to drag the Bookshop into the 21st century by virtue of her tech expertise. But Joy has a secret. She is on the run from Radia Pearl’s father. She can’t settle down here or anywhere... So when Radia Pearl befriends Monty Bickleigh, ex-fisherman...
Engels | 10 uur 2 minuten (444 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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, København | 2023
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Lorraine Wilson This is Our Undoing
Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister...
Engels | 13 uur 50 minuten (606 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Teresa F. Morgan Cocktails at Kittiwake Cove
Be swept away to Cornwall in this summery tale of love and new beginnings! After a tough break-up, Rhianna is determined to put her heart on hold and focus on opening her beachside cocktail bar. But fate has other plans when she reconnects with her holiday fling, the irresistible Joe Trescott. As Joe helps Rhianna navigate her new town and business, sparks fly and old flames reignite. But will Rhianna resist Joe's player charm and stay true to her career aspirations? Escape to Cornwall's sun-kissed...
Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (409 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Teresa F. Morgan Sunsets and Happy Ever Afters
Escape to Somerset and Cornwall in this fun and flirty romance! After a painful divorce, Maya Rosevear is determined to find love again. But with her busy schedule running a mobile beauty business and raising her kids, she turns to online dating. Along the way, she unexpectedly forms a friendship with Sam Trescott, the father of her daughter’s best friend. As they navigate their own emotional baggage, Maya and Sam can't help but wonder if they're destined to be more than just friends. Will...
Engels | 7 uur 41 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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