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Sarah Mitchell Letters to a Stranger

"England, 1940. Dearest Ruby, you must have heard the news by now. The very worst has happened. Our countries are at war. What can I do? How can I stop this nightmare from happening? One day soon we’ll be together again. I swear. I love you. E. x" Ruby Summers is a tapestry of memories, her ninety-six years laced with both love and loss. The echoes of a wartime Norfolk summer, where young Ruby's heart entwined with Edmondo's under orchard skies, are as vivid as ever. Yet a single, haunting secret...

Engels | 9 uur 24 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

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Mink Elliott The Glory Years

What happens when ´13 Going On 30´ meets ´Back to the Future´? Kate O'Reilly longs for the good old days when music was better, friends were aplenty, and England's football team almost reached the Euro '96 finals. But as a busy mother with a suburban home and a dependable husband, those memories seem like a distant dream. So when a freak electrical storm transports her back to 1996, Kate jumps at the chance to relive her glory days and maybe even right some wrongs. But as she dives headfirst into...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (415 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

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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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Saskia Noort Stromboli

Honderdduizenden lezers genieten wekelijks van de column van het schrijversechtpaar Sara Zomer en Karel van Bohemen, waarin ze ogenschijnlijk openhartig verslag doen van hun gezinsleven. Maar achter de façade van hun bohemienbestaan ettert al jaren een dagelijks leven vol afgunst, wrok en zelfs geweld. Na weer een nachtelijke uitbarsting is het genoeg: Sara besluit Karel te verlaten. Al snel komt Sara alleen te staan - niemand wil nog iets met haar te maken hebben. Om haar leven weer op de rails...

Nederlands | 7 uur 56 minuten (457 MB) | Lebowski Publishers, Amsterdam | 2018

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Esther Verhoef Tegenlicht

Een meeslepende roman over de verstrekkende gevolgen van een ontregelde jeugd. Vera Zagt heeft het niet gemakkelijk gehad als kind. Haar moeder zat vaker in een psychiatrische inrichting dan dat ze thuis was, haar autoritaire vader behandelde haar alsof ze een van zijn rekruten was en gepest worden op school was ook eerder regel dan uitzondering. Als volwassene heeft Vera nog altijd een beschadigd zelfbeeld. Ze is inmiddels twintig jaar samen met Lucien Reinders, een succesvol ondernemer. Haar huwelijk,...

Nederlands | 9 uur 17 minuten (396 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2013

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Jan Zegers De worsteling naar geluk

Schokkend en onherstelbaar leed in het land van Axel

Na het overlijden van oma, van moeders kant, was er een doos met familiebescheiden bij mijn ouders terechtgekomen. De doos bevatte wat aktes, ondertrouwkaarten, berichten van overlijden, foto’s en oude kranten. Eén van die kranten was het Geïllustreerd Politie Nieuws, een zondagsblad van 28 februari 1892. Deze krant, nog steeds in het bezit van de familie, doet verslag van de moord op de Catspoldersche dijk op donderdag 1 oktober 1891 en van de openbare rechtszitting op 23 februari 1892 voor de...

Nederlands | 11 uur 18 minuten (813 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2013

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Tatiana de Rosnay Het huis waar jij van hield

Een Parijse vrouw vecht voor haar huis vol herinneringen. Parijs, tweede helft 19de eeuw. Door de ambitieuze stadsvernieuwingswerken van baron Haussmann verdwijnen er complete wijken van de kaart. De huizen van duizenden Parijzenaars worden onteigend. Ondertussen kabbelt het leven van Rose Bazelet rustig voort, ze leest Le Petit Journal en maakt wandelingen in de tuinen rond het Palais du Luxembourg. Tot de dag waarop de noodlottige brief komt: haar huis ligt op het tracé van de boulevard Saint-Germain...

Nederlands | 5 uur 30 minuten | Rubinstein, Amsterdam | 2011

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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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Sophie Flynn If They Knew

"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...

Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 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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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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Lotte Kirkeby The Reunion

Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together. In English for the first time, readers of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson will be thrilled to discover the debut short story collection of a celebrated...

Engels | 3 uur 20 minuten (146 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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Lina Wolff The Polyglot Lovers

'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover,...

Engels | 7 uur 54 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 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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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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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 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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