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Hülya Aydogan De val van Mehmet
‘De val van Mehmet’ is de tweede roman van Hülya Cigdem na haar debuut ‘De importbruid’. Ook in haar tweede boek deelt de schrijfster het leven en de dagelijkse beslommeringen van Turkse migranten in Brabant. Mehmet woont op het platteland in Anatolië en leeft zonder problemen volgens de conservatieve normen en waarden. Maar wanneer hij met een gescheiden vrouw trouwt, verliest hij zijn goede reputatie en acceptatie van zijn familie en de gemeenschap. Samen vertrekken ze naar Nederland voor een...
Nederlands | 15 uur 35 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Eveline Karman Verknipt
Emma Doyle worstelt al jaren met de dood van haar broer Arvid met wie ze een intense band had. Het verdriet deed haar vluchten in drank maar inmiddels is ze, met hulp van een therapeut al weer geruime tijd clean. De vondst van een ketting, op de plek waar haar broer zich van het leven benam, zet een zoektocht in gang naar wat er wérkelijk gebeurde op die noodlottige dag in de schuur achter de boerderij van haar ouders. Het lijkt erop dat er mensen zijn die het verleden liever begraven laten. Mensen...
Nederlands | 10 uur 23 minuten (597 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2023
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Anna Thomas Van je familie moet je het hebben
Van je familie moet je het hebben is het eerste deel in de nieuwe hilarische serie van Anna Thomas dat gaat over drie Bloemendaalse zussen en hun demente moeder. De drie zussen Constance, Eloïse en Florentine groeiden op in weelde op een prachtig buiten in Bloemendaal. Maar ze hebben niks aan hun dubbele achternaam als het gaat om geldzorgen, laat staan bij hun relatieperikelen. Constances antiekzaak zit in het slop en ze komt erachter wat het betekent om vijftig te worden. Ze krijgt tot haar afgrijzen...
Nederlands | 8 uur 49 minuten (507 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 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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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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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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Annika Estassy Het is zonniger in Zuid-Frankrijk
Met het onverwachte overlijden van haar man begint een stormachtig nieuw hoofdstuk voor Louise Sörenstam. Hoe moet ze nu verder? En kende ze hem wel zo goed als ze dacht? Een buitenlands avontuur lonkt... Tegen de achtergrond van de ruige kusten van Roslagen, tegenover Stockholm, wordt het leven van Louise overhoop gegooid door de dood van haar echtgenoot Konrad. Ze heeft altijd in de schaduw van haar man geleefd en is afhankelijk van haar dochters, maar nu krijgt ze te maken met de schulden die...
Nederlands | 10 uur 37 minuten (474 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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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
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 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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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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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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Pam Jenoff Het verzetsmeisje
De historische roman Het verzetsmeisje van bestsellerauteur Pam Jenoff, bekend van o.a. Het weeskind en Het meisje met de blauwe ster, begint in 1942. Nadat haar verloofde wordt vermoord, kan Hannah Martel ternauwernood uit nazi-Duitsland ontsnappen. Ze vreest voor haar leven, en kan alleen nog vluchten naar haar nichtje Lily uit Brussel. In Brussel raakt ze betrokken bij een geheim verzetsnetwerk genaamd de Sapphire Line, maar ze maakt een cruciale fout... Hannahs loyaliteit wordt op de proef gesteld....
Nederlands | 11 uur 8 minuten (962 MB) | Xander, Haarlem | 2023
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