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Irma Joubert Het spoor van de liefde
De hartverwarmende voorgeschiedenis van Gretls Zuid-Afrikaanse ouders - een liefdesverhaal dat ontroert en bemoedigt. Johannesburg, begin jaren '30. Kate Woodroffe is een beschermd leven gewend. Als ze besluit haar studie sociologie af te sluiten met een veldonderzoek onder arme blanke Zuid-Afrikanen, zijn haar ouders dan ook niet enthousiast. Kates vader is directeur van een mijn. Hij vraagt aan Bernard Neethling, zijn felste tegenstander bij de vakbond, zijn dochter te begeleiden in de achterbuurten...
Nederlands | 9 uur 28 minuten (546 MB) | Mozaiek, Utrecht | 2020
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Lynn Austin Anker in de storm
Anna is terug in Chicago, maar het kost haar moeite om zich te concentreren op haar aanstaande huwelijk. Wat ze onlangs te weten is gekomen over haar biologische moeder laat haar niet los. Ze huurt een privédetective in om meer informatie boven water te krijgen. Maar al snel ontdekt ze dat sommige geheimen beter met rust gelaten kunnen worden. Ondertussen worden er nare roddels over Anna verspreid in de stad. Roddels die haar verloving in gevaar brengen en er uiteindelijk toe leiden dat ze haar...
Nederlands | 14 uur 28 minuten (837 MB) | KokBoekencentrum, 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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Britain Kalai Soderkvist Glass Roses
A chance meeting at a ball introduces the lovely and accomplished Eleanor to a handsome Austrian Baron. He is charmed by her beauty and goodness, but her stepsisters are jealous of her royal suitor, and Eleanor´s dreams of happiness may be swept away forever by their vicious schemes for revenge.... Feisty Isabella, meanwhile, learns that not all is as it seems when she and her father become the guests of a surly and reclusive Scottish Duke. His rough manners hide a kind heart, but his mysterious...
Engels | 11 uur 8 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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Barbara Cartland Met de moed der wanhoop
Wanneer de markies van Sarne gaat dineren met een ballerina, weet hij nog niet dat hij de volgende ochtend wakker zal worden met een echtgenote en zonder enige herinnering aan de huwelijksvoltrekking. Wanneer Selina Wardell naar Londen komt zonder geld en zonder ouders weet ze niet dat ze diezelfde avond nog gedwongen zal worden een bewusteloze man te trouwen. Tegen wil en dank zijn ze aan elkaar overgeleverd... Barbara Cartland was de meest productieve romanschrijver ter wereld. Ze heeft het...
Nederlands | 4 uur 1 minuut (176 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2018
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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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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of Tarzan
Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in ‘The Beasts of Tarzan’ (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their little son Jack are comfortably settled. But when they get kidnapped and separated, they must fight harder than ever to find a way back to each other. Tarzan returns to his roots in this particularly jungle-oriented novel in the series, and, using his primal intelligence,...
Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (247 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes
One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know that his encounters with other humans have only just begun. This 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in a pulp magazine and quickly became...
Engels | 9 uur 12 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers
Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured...
Engels | 6 uur 50 minuten (316 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James Washington Square
Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...
Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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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
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Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane’s and Rochester’s apparent differences attract them to each other, but little does Jane know that something far more damaging than social statuses will keep them apart. ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a love story that holds up over time,...
Engels | 18 uur 27 minuten (849 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and has been released from eighteen years in a Paris prison. Set in the two metropolises just prior (and during) the French Revolution, Dickens paints a distinct...
Engels | 15 uur 20 minuten (701 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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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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Simone van der Vlugt Rode sneeuw in december
Historische roman tegen de achtergrond van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Het is 1552, de vooravond van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Lideweij Feelinck krijgt een relatie met de jonge arts Andries Griffioen, aanhanger van het protestantisme. Om met hem te kunnen trouwen trotseert ze de wil van haar vader, die met haar breekt en haar onterft. Het jonge stel vestigt zich in Breda, waar ze een nauwe band krijgen met prins Willem van Oranje. Maar het politieke klimaat verandert, het protestantisme wint terrein...
Nederlands | 14 uur 2 minuten (808 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2016
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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
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