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Robyn Carr Weerzien in Virgin River
Virgin River 3 – Weerzien in Virgin RiverDe bekende Virgin River-boeken nu verfilmd voor Netflix In het plaatsje Virgin River, idyllisch gelegen in de Californische natuur, spelen de verhalen van Robyn Carr zich af. De tijd lijkt er soms stil te staan; het leven is er goed, en de mensen hebben nog tijd voor elkaar. Maar wat gebeurt er als een buitenstaander zich in dit verborgen paradijs begeeft? Melinda Monroe wil na al het drama in haar leven weg uit het drukke Los Angeles. In een impuls solliciteert...
Nederlands | 11 uur 15 minuten (648 MB) | HarperCollins Holland, Amsterdam | 2018
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Irma Joubert Kind van de rivier
In de meeslepende historische roman Kind van de rivier van bestsellerauteur Irma Joubert ontworstelt een Afrikaans meisje zich aan haar arme milieu en gaat als advocaat de confrontatie aan met het dorp – en met de liefde van haar leven. Pérsomi woont in een hutje op het terrein van de rijke meneer Fourie. Het gezin is een typisch 'bijwonersgezin': arm, onderontwikkeld en sociaal zwak. Hoe ouder Pérsomi wordt, hoe meer ze zich gaat schamen voor de vuiligheid en het gebrek aan beschaving bij haar...
Nederlands | 19 uur 18 minuten (1111 MB) | Mozaïek, Utrecht | 2018
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Lynne Graham Verrassende verleiding
Ze hebben alles. En wat ze nog niet hebben, krijgen ze met één vingerknip. Maar dan ontdekken de biljonairs dat je een bruid niet kunt kopen. Die moet je veroveren... Bastian Christou gelooft zijn ogen niet. Zijn saaie stagiaire staat op de site van een escortbureau! Op de foto ziet ze er helemaal niet saai uit integendeel, ze is beeldschoon. En laat hij nu net een date nodig hebben voor de bruiloft van zijn zus. Hoe komt haar foto terecht op een escortsite? Tot overmaat van ramp blijkt Emmie...
Nederlands | 4 uur 14 minuten (361 MB) | HarperCollins Holland, Amsterdam | 2018
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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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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...
Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green The Amethyst Box
On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. ‘The Amethyst Box’ (1905) is a short story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a suspenseful "whodunit" with a dash of romance, which concludes thoroughly...
Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (132 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case
The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...
Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 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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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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Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...
Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad...
Engels | 14 uur 18 minuten (658 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist
"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...
Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Cora Carmack Faking it
Doen ze maar alsof?
Wie houdt er nou niet van foute mannen? Max houdt zeker van foute mannen. Maar ze heeft een probleempje. Haar ouders willen langskomen en verwachten de ideale schoonzoon te ontmoeten. Niet haar ruige, vrij onbeschofte vriendje die in een band speelt en een grote tattoo in zijn nek heeft. Ze vreest dat haar ouders hun financiële steun zullen intrekken wanneer ze ontdekken dat ze al een tijdje niet meer eerlijk is geweest. Dan ontmoet ze Cade. Cade is net naar Philadelphia verhuisd en probeert zijn...
Nederlands | 9 uur 9 minuten (527 MB) | Volt, Amsterdam | 2017
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Cora Carmack Finding it
Soms moet je verdwalen om de weg te kunnen vinden
Kelsey Summers is nogal verwend en eenzaam. Ze weet niet wat ze wil met haar leven, dus gaat ze door Europa reizen, op zoek naar avontuur en zichzelf. Daar ontmoet ze de knappe, mysterieuze Jackson Hunt. Ze blijven elkaar maar tegenkomen en spreken af om een tijdje samen te reizen. Ze voelt zich enorm aangetrokken tot Jackson. Elke dag die ze samen doorbrengen in romantische Italiaanse dorpjes valt ze harder voor hem. Maar hoeveel weet ze eigenlijk van Jackson? Het lijkt erop dat hij heel wat te...
Nederlands | 9 uur 4 minuten (522 MB) | Volt, Amsterdam | 2017
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Jill Mansell Ik zie je op het strand
Romantische verwikkelingen, misverstanden en zussenrivaliteit – een feelgood verhaal dat je niet weg kunt leggen! Clemency is niet op zoek naar de liefde als ze Sam ontmoet in het vliegtuig. Maar aan het eind van de vlucht hebben ze een echte klik. Dit voelt als iets heel speciaals… maar hij verdwijnt helaas uit haar leven. Drie jaar later woont Clem weer in haar geboortedorp in Cornwall. Als haar stiefzus Belle uit Londen overkomt, verwaander dan ooit nu ze de perfecte man heeft gevonden, is Clem...
Nederlands | 9 uur 51 minuten (567 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 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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