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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl

A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...

Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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J.A. Andrews You Let Him In

The second book from J A Andrews, author of Mummy’s Boy. The only thing she was guilty of was trusting him... All Jenny Clifton ever wanted was to be the ideal wife and mother. When she married Michael in a fairytale wedding, followed by the birth of baby Daniel, her life was complete. Yet just three years later, the shine has faded. Now, money is tight, and the occasional argument has become daily screaming matches between Jenny and Michael. Something needs to change... and it does, when Michael...

Engels | 8 uur 49 minuten (389 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Jeffrey Archer The Fourth Estate

Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father’s newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than...

Engels | 19 uur 34 minuten (851 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Damion Hunter The Emperor's Games

The final thrilling instalment of The Centurions, an epic historical adventure set in Ancient Rome. Correus and Flavius, half brothers and rivals, have won respect in service to the Empire. Correus, an esteemed soldier in the Roman Army of Eagles, has been entrusted with the honoured task of running the Emperor’s brutal games. Flavius, a Centurion at his brother’s side, has risen to become the Emperor’s most trusted advisor. Now Correus has been given the deadly task of quelling a barbarian uprising...

Engels | 15 uur 30 minuten (680 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Damion Hunter The Centurions

Against the mighty splendour of the glorious Roman Empire, unfolds the magnificent new saga, perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden. Correus and Flavius. Half-brothers, sons of a brilliant general. One, son of a slave woman, is a born warrior destined to excel. The other, a nobleman by birth, must struggle relentlessly to succeed. When they both join the Centuriate, a position Flavius has always known he will inherit, and one that Correus has long coveted, it is together that they face the brutal reality...

Engels | 15 uur 26 minuten (930 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time

Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge. But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...

Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 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 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 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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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 The Storm

When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live...

Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Emily Ruskovich Idaho

a novel

Een vrouw probeert te achterhalen wat voor vreselijks gebeurd is met de eerste vrouw en dochters van haar dementerende man.

Fictie

Engels | 308 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2017

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Kate Kerrigan The dress

Een jonge Engelse vrouw komt via haar werk in de modewereld op het spoor van een bijzondere en verborgen gebleven familiegeschiedenis uit de jaren vijftig in Amerika.

Fictie

Engels | 381 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2016

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Karma Brown The choices we make

Een ongewenst kinderloze vrouw krijgt het ultieme cadeau van haar hartsvriendin, maar het cadeau heeft een te hoge prijs.

Fictie

Engels | 316 pagina's | MIRA®, Don Mills, Ontario | 2016

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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl

"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...

Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads Bernice Bobs Her Hair

"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent...

Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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R. K. Howard Black Machetes

Benjamin Wilder grew up with sparse shelter, infested provisions, and constant abuse dealt to him by his stepfather: Jessup — a.k.a. the Rabid Dog. Without a sober mother to defend him from the Rabid Dog’s wrath, Ben finds reprieve and adventure in a club of misfit boys called the Black Machetes. But the world as Ben knows it comes to an end when he witnesses an act so psychologically appalling that it forces him to run for his life. "Black Machetes" is a powerful page-turning thriller that all...

Engels | 10 uur 28 minuten (456 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Anonymous B.J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While Sinbad rests, he sees a store full of fascinating luxuries and he thanks Allah for the beautiful sight. When the owner of the shop sees the poor man, he decides to invite him inside. When the two men gets to know each other, it turns out that the storekeeper...

Engels | 3 uur 3 minuten (134 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Mary Alice Monroe The summer girls

Omdat een vrouw denkt dat haar familie uit elkaar groeit, nodigt ze hen uit om haar tachtigste verjaardag te komen vieren in haar strandhuis

Fictie

Engels | 389 pagina's | Pocket Books, New York | 2014

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Elizabeth Jane Howard Confusion

De Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft een verwoestend effect op diverse leden van een Engelse upper-middle class familie en op hun specifieke manier van leven.

Fictie

Engels | 512 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2013

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