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Lee Child Verleden tijd
In Verleden tijd, het 23e deel van de Jack Reacher-thrillerserie van Child Lee, bevindt Reacher zich toevallig in een kleine stad in New Hampshire, waar zijn vader vandaan komt. Maar als hij op zoek gaat naar diens vroegere huis, blijkt er helemaal nooit een Reacher in New Hampshire te hebben gewoond. Familiegeheimen komen terug en achtervolgen Jack Reacher in deze opwindende thriller – zijn persoonlijkste avontuur tot nu toe. Lee Child is winnaar van de prestigieuze Diamond Dagger Award 2013. In...
Nederlands | 14 uur 23 minuten (829 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2018
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Thomas Engström Ten zuiden van de hel
Ten zuiden van de hel is het tweede boek van Thomas Engström in het kwartet over Ludwig Licht, ex-Stasi-agent en cia-topspion in de voormalige ddr, nu barkeeper en freelance problem solver. Het eerste boek uit de serie, Ten westen van de vrijheid, werd genomineerd voor Beste Zweedse Boek van het Jaar. Pennsylvania, USA, verkiezingen 2012. Een jongeman wordt dood gevonden in een vervallen motel, met een brief waarin hij politicus Ron Harriman ervan beschuldigt zijn hart te hebben gebroken. Ludwig...
Nederlands | 8 uur 52 minuten (511 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2017
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Aaf Brandt Corstius Het jaar dat ik 30 werd
Het perfecte cadeau voor kersverse dertigers, door bekende NRC-NEXT-columniste. In Het jaar dat ik 30 werd doet Aaf op geestige wijze verslag van wat zij gedurende een jaar meemaakt. Ze vertelt over haar bindingsangstige geliefde Meneertje Knipperlicht, over haar mislukte verhuizing naar New York (voor hem), over de kunst van het logeren maar ook over het gevaar van samenleven met een kat. Aaf loopt over van de goede voornemens. Maar dan verschijnt Meneertje Knipperlicht na een korte afwezigheid...
Nederlands | 3 uur 56 minuten (347 MB) | J.M. Meulenhoff, Bc amsterdam | 2016
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Graeme Simsion Het Rosie effect
Don Tillman is en Rosie Jarman zijn terug Als je hebt genoten van de internationale bestseller Het Rosie Project, dan mag je Het Rosie Effect niet missen! Don Tillman en Rosie Jarman zijn getrouwd en wonen in New York. Juist als Don wil vertellen dat Gene, zijn schuinsmarcherende beste vriend uit Australië komt, heeft Rosie nieuws: ze is zwanger. Op zijn geheel eigen wijze verwerft de autistische Don in no time alle kennis over vader worden. Maar zijn oude zwakheden komen weer boven en brengen...
Nederlands | 12 uur 13 minuten (703 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2015
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Barbara Josselsohn Secrets of the Italian Island
WWII secrets, forbidden love, and one terrible mistake... When Mia discovers an old letter, she sets out on a mission to uncover the truth about her grandmother's past. With the help of brooding local guide Leo, they sneak into the closed-off Isola di Parissi, where Mia falls in love with both the country and her guide. But as they uncover hidden and handwritten notes, Mia learns of a heartbreaking mistake her grandmother made during WWII that tore apart the island community. Will Mia be forced...
Engels | 11 uur 6 minuten (489 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Kristin Harper My Grandmother’s Inn
A surprise inheritance. A second chance. A heartbreaking family secret. In the wake of heartbreak, Molly Anderson finds herself pleading with the affluent Frost family to allow her one last summer managing the Hydrangea House inn in honour of her late grandmother, Beverly. But when an elderly woman claims to know a secret about Beverly’s true connection to the Frost family, everything Molly knows about her beloved grandmother is called into question. Desperate to do whatever she can to save Hydrangea...
Engels | 7 uur 7 minuten (317 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Herman Beliën Van Babylon tot New York
hoorcollege over 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis
De stad is een intrigerend fenomeen. Al duizenden jaren wordt er door mensen in gewoond en geleefd. Het is bovendien de plek bij uitstek waar wordt gehandeld, religie en cultuur wordt aangeboden en van waaruit wordt bestuurd. In deze collegereeks wordt een levendig overzicht gegeven van bijna 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis aan de hand van een aantal concrete steden in verschillende fasen van hun ontwikkeling. Ideaaltypen als de klassieke stad, de middeleeuwse stad, de barokstad en de moderne stad worden...
Nederlands | 4 uur 40 minuten | NRC Handelsblad Academie | 2008
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Sara Marchant Becoming Delilah
Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, "Becoming...
Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Lacey-Crane The City of Second Chances
Has she already met The One? What if Mr Right had come along at the wrong time...? Evie Grant is forty-five years old, a widow, and single mum of two children about to leave the nest. Suddenly alone in the family home, Evie realizes she hates her job, hardly goes out and hasn't had a date since who knows when... So it feels like fate when the opportunity arises for a girls trip to New York City. Staying with her sister on the Upper East Side, Evie is enchanted by a snow-covered city consumed by...
Engels | 10 uur 38 minuten (467 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Barbara Josselsohn The Cranberry Inn
A gorgeous and feel good Christmas romance
Laurel and her son Simon are planning on a quiet Christmas at home in New York, when she gets a call from her father saying he needs her in Lake Summers in the heart of the Adirondacks. As twinkling lights go up and snowflakes begin to fall, Laurel can’t wait to leave New York behind to help her father run the family business and make snow angels with her son, even if it’s just for Christmas. But when she walks through the door, she’s shocked to find the inn in disrepair, and a letter saying her...
Engels | 7 uur 25 minuten (332 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Barbara Josselsohn The Lily Garden
A heart-warming, feel-good summer romance
A family secret. A new romance. And a summer she will never forget. When Caroline left Lake Summers thirty years ago, she thought she’d never return 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, she knows fate is calling. Dropping everything at her office in Chicago, she knows she is the only person who can save the garden. Caroline and her daughter Lee are welcomed home by the warm smile of her...
Engels | 7 uur 18 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Barbara Josselsohn The Bluebell Girls
An absolutely gorgeous and uplifting summer romance
Three generations. One summer that will change everything. Jenna has returned to the sunny shores of Lake Summers, tucked under the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, with her daughter Sophie to care for her aging mother, Sweet. Recently divorced, Jenna finds comfort in lazy afternoons along the water and long nights watching Sweet tell Sophie stories about her long-lost loves. When she meets Sweet’s new next-door neighbor, Troy, she recognizes him instantly as the boy with whom she shared...
Engels | 8 uur 54 minuten (394 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune
Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire’s son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics...
Engels | 16 uur 10 minuten (705 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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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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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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Edith Wharton Summer
Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall’s unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room
One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...
Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...
Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy
"It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses." Shortly after his father’s death, the sweet and optimistic boy, Cedric, and his American mother discover that he is a lord and heir to a large fortune. His grandfather invites them to stay with him in England but wants nothing whatsoever to do with them. It does not take long for the loving boy to warm his grandfather’s bitter heart, however, but conflict lurks just around the corner. Someone...
Engels | 5 uur 56 minuten (270 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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