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Josie Silver One day in December
a Christmas love story
Als Laurie in de bus oogcontact maakt met Jack, slaat er een vonk over. Toch zal het nog tien jaar duren voordat ze elkaar in de armen kunnen sluiten.
Fictie
Engels | 418 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2018
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Jean Pendziwol The lightkeeper's daughters
Tiener Morgan raakt bevriend met de oude en bijna blinde Elizabeth en ontrafelt familiegeheimen tijdens het voorlezen van dagboeken van Elizabeths vader die vuurtorenwachter was op een klein eiland.
Fictie
Engels | 310 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2018
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Bernard Cornwell Fools and mortals
Londen, eind 16e eeuw: als de tekst van William Shakespeares 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' wordt gestolen, gaat Williams jongere broer Richard ernaar op zoek.
Fictie
Engels | 369 pagina's | HarperCollinsPublishers, London | 2017
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Clive Cussler | Justin Scott The cutthroat
an Isaac Bell adventure
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
Engels | 393 pagina's | Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London] | 2017
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Jill Santopolo The light we lost
Een jonge vrouw in New York staat voor een dilemma: kiest ze voor een stormachtige maar onzekere liefde voor een kunstzinnige man of voor een zekere carrière aan de zijde van een liefhebbende kantoorman.
Fictie
Engels | 321 pagina's | HQ, one place. many stories, London | 2017
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Patricia Sands Drawing lessons
In een poging zichzelf te hervinden als haar demente echtgenoot in een vegetatieve staat is gekomen, reist een vrouw af naar Zuid-Frankrijk voor een kunstworkshop van twee weken.
Fictie
Engels | 338 pagina's | Lake Union Publishing, Seattle | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Abdulrazak Gurnah Gravel heart
Als een jongeman van Zanzibar naar Londen verhuist, moet hij wennen aan de andere omgeving en probeert hij in het reine te komen met zijn gevoelens tegenover zijn gescheiden ouders.
Fictie
Engels | 261 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2017
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Joanna Davidson Politano Lady Jayne disappears
Engeland, 19e eeuw. Een jonge vrouw komt na de dood van haar vader bij haar rijke familie wonen en gaat op onderzoek uit om zo het laatste boek van haar vader te voltooien.
Fictie
Engels | 373 pagina's | Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan | 2017
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Jane L. Rosen Nine women, one dress
a novel
Het volgen van het romantische leven van een klein, zwart jurkje van het ontwerp tot de klant, biedt de mogelijkheid om een kijkje te nemen in de dromen en de geheimen van de moderne bewoners van New York.
Fictie
Engels | 257 pagina's | Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Kate Furnivall The betrayal
Een jonge Franse vrouw riskeert haar leven uit schuldgevoel voor de moord op haar vader die niet de man blijkt te zijn die zij dacht. Dan ontdekt ze dat haar tweelingzus ook geheimen heeft.
Fictie
Engels | 436 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS company, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
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 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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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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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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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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Myrtle Reed Old Rose and Silver
Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of Tarzan
Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in ‘The Beasts of Tarzan’ (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their little son Jack are comfortably settled. But when they get kidnapped and separated, they must fight harder than ever to find a way back to each other. Tarzan returns to his roots in this particularly jungle-oriented novel in the series, and, using his primal intelligence,...
Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (247 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan
This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...
Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes
One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know that his encounters with other humans have only just begun. This 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in a pulp magazine and quickly became...
Engels | 9 uur 12 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce...
Engels | 13 uur 2 minuten (599 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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2017