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Susan Barrie The Gates of Dawn
Richard Trenchard was a man used to having his way, so when he wants his sister to pass over her secretary Melanie Brooks as a companion to his young niece, she has to succumb to his will. When Melanie turns up late to their first meeting, he is not happy. Yet things slowly begin to kindle between the two, and she has to acknowledge the romantic surroundings that Richard keeps placing them in – the English countryside and the Australian Alps – are the perfect setting for a budding love affair. ...
Engels | 7 uur 50 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie The Marriage Wheel
Federica is a hard-working 23-year-old who takes up a job as the chauffeur of the wealthy businessman Humphrey Lestrode. Not pleased with having a female driver, Lestrode is not too corteous towards Federica. When her family arrives at his cottage, things quickly change, and Federica is not at all happy at the attention her employer shows towards her attractive sister. Yet, as it turns out, she is not the only sister Humphrey has his eyes set on. The romantic tale written under one of Ida Pollock’s...
Engels | 4 uur 50 minuten (212 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Mistress of Brown Furrows
Carol Inglis is leading a glamorous life and has come far from her days at an English boarding school. Yet she feels that something essential is missing: true love from her husband. Timothy Carrington has given her everything she had wanted, and most importantly, saved her from an unfortunate life of poverty. What she wants most is true feelings from the man. Can she light the kindle between them, and does he return her love for him? The love story written under Ida Pollock's pseudonym Susan Barrie...
Engels | 7 uur 22 minuten (325 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Moon at the Full
When Stephanie Blair was offered an opportunity to stay at a Parisian flat by Lione Daly, she had no idea what kind of adventures awaited her. When she met the owner of the flat, the dark and handsome Léon de Courvalles – a count, no less – she was pleased to oblige his request to accompany him on a cruise with three women he was courting. As they cruise the oceans, Stephanie meets with unforgettable trouble, intrigue and romance. The 20th-century story written by Susan Barrie, a pseudonym of the...
Engels | 5 uur 33 minuten (243 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Night of the Singing Birds
Angela is part Spanish and part English, having spent her youth in Spain. Thus a part of her protests to an arranged marriage to Don Felipe Martinez, as intriguing and charming as he may be. Torn between mixed feelings, she must decide: will she marry Don Felipe and surrender to her budding desires or choose differently? The 20th-century story was written under Susan Barrie, a pseudonym of the master of romance, Ida Pollock. A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate....
Engels | 4 uur 53 minuten (214 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie So Dear to my Heart
Virginia accompanies Lisa, her young pianist of a sister, to Switzerland where the latter can get help with her hand injury and play piano again. The famous Swiss surgeon, Dr. Leon Hanson, is charming and well able to come to the rescue. Although Lisa is usually the one to attract attention, the doctor’s gaze is this time fixed upon the sweet Virginia. How can Virginia resist, and in such stunning scenery? The intriguing tale was written in the 20th century under one of Ida Pollock’s pseudonyms,...
Engels | 7 uur 27 minuten (327 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw
A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...
Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Wild Sonata
Melanie has been the ward of Sir James and called the estate of Wroxford Priory her home. When Sir James dies and the new heir – his nephew – arrives, things are not off to a great start. Thinking that Melanie is the maid, Sir Luke gives out orders and causes Melanie to move out. Yet their relationship soon changes as Sir Luke does his best to woo Melanie, whose feelings also begin to heat up. Enticing her to move back in, things soon take a different turn for the two. The novel written under one...
Engels | 4 uur 30 minuten (197 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jeffrey Archer To Cut a Long Story Short
The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession – and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to the creative financial talents of a member of...
Engels | 7 uur 42 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Alan Hollinghurst De schoonheidslijn
WINNAAR VAN DE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 Hoe is Nick’s seks- en privéleven voluit in de Engelse tabloids beland? Terwijl Nick zijn proefschrift schrijft, woont hij bij de ouders van zijn beste vriend Toby Fedden op de zolderkamer. De heer des huizes, Gerald Fedden, is een van de belangrijke partijleden van Margaret Thatcher, en voor Nick het doorheeft wordt hij ondergedompeld in de machtige wereld vol bekende politici, drank en drugs. Wanneer zijn homoseksualiteit en de link met Gerald breed uitgemeten...
Nederlands | 19 uur 18 minuten (846 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elizabeth Byler Younts Het gefluister van het water
'Het gefluister van het water' van Elizabeth Byler Younts speelt zich af in 1956. De Afro-Amerikaanse tiener Sparrow is kort geleden met haar familie verhuisd naar het overwegend witte Pennsylvania. Sparrow draagt een zware last met zich mee: ze geeft zichzelf de schuld van het overlijden van haar broertje Carver. Haar moeder Delilah bevestigt haar schuldgevoel door haar verantwoordelijk te houden voor de gebeurtenissen rondom Carvers traumatische dood. Als de thuissituatie voor Sparrow onhoudbaar...
Nederlands | 13 uur 59 minuten (1208 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2021
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Marja Visscher Het torentje van Adelheid
In ‘Het torentje van Adelheid’ bezoekt Johan Rudolf Thorbecke de weduwe gravin Henriëtte Solger in Dresden. Haar dan vierjarige dochtertje Adelheid wordt door hem voorgelezen en roept: ‘Later trouw ik met de professor en word ik koningin van Nederland.’ In 1831 bezoekt Thorbecke de familie opnieuw en wordt hij, tot teleurstelling van moeder Henriëtte, verliefd op de negentienjaar jongere dochter Adelheid. Het wordt Thorbecke niet gemakkelijk gemaakt. De toeziend voogden laten haar niet zomaar los....
Nederlands | 9 uur 23 minuten (540 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2021
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Jane Beaufort A Nightingale in the Sycamore
Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. Virginia Summers is extremely fond of the Meadow House, which has been bestowed to her by her father. Even the thought of parting with it is inconceivable, debts are beginning to make her life difficult. Then, as fate would have it, a car accident almost at her doorstep presents her with the famous and handsome, although ill-tempered musician, Charles Digby Wickham. Virginia cannot be helped but be drawn to his charming, yet infuriatingly...
Engels | 5 uur 24 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth Mcneill Lark Returning
Can Lark take the path of the woman who went before her and learn to follow her heart? Lark is a much-loved forces sweetheart spreading comfort as she sings in the music halls while Scotland’s sons fight in the Great War. But despite her fortune, Lark yearns for a life away from the crowds. She sets out to make a fresh start in the Border country seeking the contentment that has eluded her. Decades earlier, Lark’s great-grandmother, Jane, found herself in the same hills, in unhappy circumstances....
Engels | 12 uur 55 minuten (565 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth Mcneill Mistress of Green Tree Mill
She must find the courage to accept her fate. At the age of eleven young Lizzie Mudie’s life changes forever. With the death of her mother in the most shocking disaster, Dundee has ever seen, Lizzie is forced to grow up quickly. She discovers a strength beyond her years and when an unexpected legacy bestows upon her the dilapidated Green Tree Mill, she is determined to turn things around. Lizzie becomes a formidable mistress, but is she prepared for the price she – and those she loves – will...
Engels | 13 uur 54 minuten (613 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth McNeill Turn of the Tide
They have survived the worst they could imagine – now they must face the future. After a catastrophic storm tears through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile, Jessie, her sister-in-law, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie, the lynchpin of the family, who...
Engels | 5 uur 32 minuten (244 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth Mcneill Wild Heritage
Caught between the past and the future, can friendship survive in changing times? Thirteen years have passed since the railway came to the Borders, bringing changes that would radically alter the lives of the people who lived there. Yet the steam train was not the only legacy from the men who built the railway – in their wake they left several fatherless children. One such child is Kitty Scott. Wild through neglect and an outcast within the community, Kitty is a loner... until she rescues newcomer Marie...
Engels | 19 uur 52 minuten (870 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Mitch Albom Vijf ontmoetingen in de hemel
Is er leven na de dood? Wanneer Eddie op 83-jarige leeftijd komt te overlijden, wordt hij wakker in de hemel. Hier ontmoet hij vijf mensen die van invloed zijn geweest op zijn aardse leven. Samen bespreken ze Eddie’s leven: De waardevolle momenten uit zijn jeugd, zijn militaire dienst en de laatste levensjaren komen voorbij. Pas nu hij in de hemel is, komt hij er langzamerhand achter waarom hij op deze aardbol is verschenen. Wat was de zin van zijn bestaan? Lees het in de inspirerende New York...
Nederlands | 5 uur 10 minuten (231 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Tracey Garvis Graves Gestrand
Maandenlang gestrand op een onbewoond eiland met een van je 16-jarige leerlingen... Een nachtmerrie voor de dertigjarige lerares Anna Emerson! Anna zou met haar leerling T.J. Callahan naar de Malediven gaan om samen zijn achterstand op school bij te werken. Maar tot overmaat van ramp crasht het watervliegtuig en stranden ze op een tropisch eiland. Maar na verloop van tijd zijn het niet alleen de vonken van het kampvuur die over springen... Kan Anna haar verlangens voor T.J. weerstaan? ‘Gestrand’...
Nederlands | 8 uur 37 minuten (392 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Dineke Epping De draad die ons verbindt
‘De draad die ons verbindt’ van Dineke Epping is een hartverwarmende historische roman. Zeven jaar geleden moest Eileen Brady noodgedwongen haar pasgeboren dochtertje afstaan. Inmiddels heeft ze zich opgewerkt tot naaister in een gerenommeerd atelier, maar de vraag wat er met haar dochter gebeurd is, blijft knagen. Als ze ontdekt dat Maggie bij pleegouders in het dorp Almsbrick woont, besluit Eileen te verhuizen. Ze hoopt een band op te bouwen en haar dochter uiteindelijk te kunnen meenemen. Maar...
Nederlands | 18 uur 12 minuten (1572 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2021
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