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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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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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Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom

After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...

Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Maisey Yates In de armen van de cowboy

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Nederlands | 381 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2018

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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost

The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....

Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...

Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...

Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 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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Giovanna Fletcher Some kind of wonderful

Een 28-jarige vrouw probeert zichzelf terug te vinden als haar relatie na tien jaar wordt beëindigd. De warmte van haar familie en nieuwe vrienden helpen haar bij deze zoektocht.

Fictie

Engels | 391 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2018

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Claudia Tijms Angélina

De levens van Angélina, haar geliefden en haar dochtertje worden sterk bepaald door de gebeurtenissen en het geweld tijdens de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (1936-1939).

Fictie

Nederlands | 305 pagina's | Elikser Uitgeverij, Leeuwarden | 2017

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Milly Johnson The queen of wishful thinking

Bonnie zit gevangen in een liefdeloos huwelijk en droomt van een betere toekomst.

Fictie

Engels | 478 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS Company, London | 2017

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Rachel Rhys Dangerous crossing

Een Engels dienstmeisje raakt tijdens een overtocht naar Australië in 1939 bevriend met rijke passagiers, die niet zo perfect zijn als ze lijken. Twee passagiers komen niet levend aan.

Fictie

Engels | 366 pagina's | Doubleday, London | 2017

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Helen Dunmore Birdcage walk

Eind 18e eeuw verzet een Britse vrouw uit een radicaal milieu zich tegen haar conservatieve man en ontrafelt zijn geheime verleden.

Fictie

Engels | 406 pagina's | Hutchinson, London | 2017

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Gerda van Wageningen Zomer op Moerland

Rond 1900 zijn er veel huwelijkskandidaten voor de erfgename van een wijnhuis. Vervolg op 'Het Huis Moerland'.

Fictie

Nederlands | 212 pagina's | Zomer & Keuning familieromans, Kampen | 2003

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Historische verhalen

korte verhalen uit de Gouden Eeuw

Fictie

Nederlands | 239 pagina's | Uitgeverij Historische Verhalen, Leiden | 2017

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Julia James Nachten met de Italiaan

Fictie

Nederlands | 174 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2018

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Maisey Yates Cowboy om te zoenen

Fictie

Nederlands | 381 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2018

Gedrukt boek
HelenKay Dimon | Lisa Child Verborgen dreiging

Fictie

Nederlands | 414 pagina's | Harlequin Holland, Amsterdam | 2017

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Clive Cussler | Justin Scott De messentrekker

Detective Isaac Bell infiltreert in een toneelgezelschap dat door de VS reist, omdat hij vermoedt dat een seriemoordenaar meereist en telkens nieuwe slachtoffers maakt.

Fictie

Nederlands | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 5,1 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2024

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