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Julie Klassen De dames van Ivy Cottage
Dit is het derde deel in de zesdelige luisterboekserie Ivy Hill van Julie Klassen, over het gelijknamige lieflijke dorpje in Engeland. Rachel Ashford was vroeger vermogend, maar die tijd is voorbij. Vastbesloten om haar eigen brood te verdienen begint ze een bibliotheek. Ze stuit op twee mysterieuze zaken die ze simpelweg niet met rust kan laten. Bij het uitzoeken wat hierachter schuilgaat, krijgt ze hulp uit onverwachte hoek: een vroegere geliefde steunt haar bij haar speurtocht. Maar geen van beiden...
Nederlands | 7 uur 56 minuten (684 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Julie Klassen De herberg van Ivy Hill
Dit is het eerste deel van de zesdelige luisterboekserie Ivy Hill van Julie Klassen. Reis mee naar het Britse Wiltshire, waar op een heuvel het dorpje Ivy Hill ligt. Het kloppende hart van het dorp is herberg The Bell, waar de postkoetsen stoppen die reizigers, handelaren en vooral nieuws brengen. Jane Bell woont naast The Bell. Ooit was ze een dame van stand, totdat ze trouwde met de charmante herbergier die haar beloofde dat ze nooit één dag in haar leven hoefde te werken. Maar als hij onder...
Nederlands | 7 uur 59 minuten (690 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Femke Roobol De laatste winter
Winter 1944. De Amsterdamse Anna Verbeek in ‘De laatste winter’ van Femke Roobol vecht met haar moeder en jongere zusje tegen de honger. Er is haast geen voedsel en brandstof meer in de stad. Bovendien maakt ze zich grote zorgen om haar jongere broer Maarten, die bij de razzia in Putten is opgepakt en weggevoerd in een trein. Ook na de bevrijding ontbreekt elk bericht. Maar dan komt Anna op het spoor van een jongen die het concentratiekamp Neuengamme heeft overleefd en sprekend op haar broer lijkt......
Nederlands | 12 uur 18 minuten (708 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Gosia Nealon Her Secret Resistance
Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial...
Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Victoria Holt Dochter van het verraad
Tragedie en leed lijken Noëlle Tremaston te blijven achtervolgen, hoe hard ze er ook voor wegrent. Haar leven komt op jonge leeftijd op zijn kop te staan wanneer haar moeder, een beroemde musicalster, plotseling komt te overlijden. Wanneer ze weer begint op te krabbelen, vindt ze het geluk bij een nieuwe liefde. Maar ook dit was te mooi om waar te zijn en hun liefde wordt verscheurd door een groot geheim. Ten einde raad vlucht ze naar Parijs om al haar problemen en verdriet achter zich te laten....
Nederlands | 15 uur 1 minuut (659 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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, København | 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, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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, København | 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, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Catherine Cookson De strooien hoed
Wie had ooit gedacht dat de strooien hoed met gouden glans haar hele leven zou veranderen? In het prachtige Victoriaanse Londen krijgt Emily de prachtige hoed cadeau van haar beste vriendin. Wanneer ze naar Nice reist voor vakantie, trekt het hoofddeksel de aandacht van de aantrekkelijke Paul, en Emily weet zijn hart te veroveren. Helaas is Paul niet de lieve man wie hij leek en verwoest Emilys leven, waar zelfs haar kinderen en kleinkinderen nog de gevolgen van kunnen merken. Hoe heeft de strooien...
Nederlands | 20 uur 49 minuten (907 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Simone van der Vlugt Jacoba, dochter van Holland
Historische roman
In deze historische roman kruipt Simone van der Vlugt op overtuigende wijze in de huid van Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436). Jacoba was haar tijd ver vooruit, stak haar feministische ideeën niet onder stoelen of banken en koos ook in de liefde niet altijd voor de makkelijkste weg. Het lot was Jacoba slecht gezind. Op haar vijftiende werd zij al weduwe en snel daarna overleed haar vader, graaf Willem IV. Zo werd zij gravin van Holland, Zeeland en Henegouwen. We leren een vrouw kennen die veel te verduren...
Nederlands | 8 uur 52 minuten (511 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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, København | 2021
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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, København | 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, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Nicholas Carter Turncoat's Drum
The country is in turmoil in this thrilling historical adventure of the English Civil War. It is 1643, and the struggle between Parliament and the King erupts in the West Country, tearing families apart and setting village against village. But for some, this fight is not only about crown and country: it is far more personal than that. Royalist soldier Hugo Telling wishes Parliamentarian William Sparrow dead. This rivalry will take them across battlefields the breadth of England, and all for the...
Engels | 11 uur 25 minuten (504 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alex Gough Emperor's Axe
The fate of Rome, and thousands of lives, rests on the shoulders of one man. After murdering his brother, and taking the position of Emperor for himself, Caracalla orders a brutal purge of the supporters of Geta. Meanwhile, Caracalla’s ally Marcellus is captured by Syrian warriors. They wish to use his son, Avitus, as a puppet emperor to affirm a new Eastern Empire. Caracalla orders Silus to track down and rescue Avitus, rumoured to be Caracalla’s child. As Rome buckles beneath the weight of...
Engels | 11 uur 50 minuten (524 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alex Gough Emperor's Spear
An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier. On the Empire's Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as outside, the Emperor is provoking war. When his friend Atius goes missing in Germania, Imperial Assassin Silus is sent into the heart of the battle-torn region. Plunged into a deadly intrigue and a brutal conflict, can Silus find out who is betraying Rome? Or will the legions start falling, one by bloody...
Engels | 10 uur 21 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alex Gough Emperor's Sword
A desolate wasteland. A mission gone wrong. An impossible goal. Roman scout, Silus, is deep behind enemy lines in Caledonia. As he spies on a raiding party, he is abruptly discovered by an enemy chief and his son. Mounting a one-man ambush, everything quickly goes wrong and Silus must run for his life, the head of the enemy leader in his hands. Little does he know the price he will pay... As Silus is inducted into the Arcani, an elite faction of assassins and spies, he must return to Caledonia...
Engels | 12 uur 58 minuten (571 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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