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Arjo Vanderjagt Ik, Piccardt!

een Franse Ommelander 1636 -1712

Landsadvocaat en syndicus Henric Piccardt (1636-1712) schrijft vanuit Groningen aan zijn vriend, de Franse musicus Jean-Henry d’Anglebert (1635-1691), over zijn leven, de liefde en het geloof.

Fictie

Nederlands | 386 pagina's | Uitgeverij Nobelman, Groningen | 2023

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Lal Goerdayal Terugkeer van Pershad

Een biotechnologe en een oncoloog in opleiding worden verliefd op elkaar en maken een spirituele reis door India. Niet lang na hun huwelijk slaat het noodlot toe, maar de vrouw weigert te accepteren dat haar echtgenoot voorgoed verdwenen is.

Fictie

Nederlands | 400 pagina's | aquaZZ, Arnhem | 2023

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Claudia Cravens Lucky Red

Nadat de roodharige Bridget haar vader heeft verloren op de prairie, belandt ze in een bordeel in Dodge waar haar vreedzame bestaan wreed wordt doorbroken door een gewelddadige bende.

Fictie

Engels | 292 pagina's | Atlantic fiction, London | 2024

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Jeannette Walls Hang the moon

Ondanks de tegenwerking van haar familie probeert de jonge Salllie Kincaid haar vaders zaken op een humane manier voort te zetten.

Fictie

Engels | 349 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2024

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Alexandria Bellefleur The fiancée farce

Tansy verzint een relatie met Gemma maar ontmoet haar dan toevallig op een feestje. Ontstaat er tussen de twee meer dan slechts een verstandshuwelijk?

Fictie

Engels | 401 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2023

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Martha Hall Kelly The golden doves

Parijs, 1943. Een Amerikaanse en een Franse vrouw belanden in het concentratiekamp Ravensbrück nadat ze zijn opgepakt vanwege hun activiteiten voor het Franse verzet. De twee vrouwen overleven het kamp en gaan tot het uiterste om gerechtigheid te krijgen voor hun geliefden.

Fictie

Engels | 508 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2023

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Wilbur Smith | Tom Harper Nemesis

Parijs, 1794. Een man kijkt toe hoe zijn moeder naar de guillotine wordt gebracht en weet dat hij er alles aan moet doen om aan hetzelfde lot te ontsnappen.

Fictie

Engels | 460 pagina's | Zaffre, London | 2023

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Rani Selvarajah Savage beasts

De Griekse mythe van Medea en Jason verpakt in een historisch avonturenverhaal dat speelt in 1757 in India en in Kaap de Goede Hoop, in de beginperiode van het kolonialisme.

Fictie

Engels | 374 pagina's | One More Chapter, London | 2023

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Corina Bomann Sturmtage

Roman

Een jonge arts-assistente in een Berlijns ziekenhuis probeert tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog haar patiënten te beschermen. De tuinman van de kliniek, met wie zij een liefdesrelatie begint, wordt opgeroepen voor militaire dienst.

Fictie

Duits | 620 pagina's | Penguin Verlag, München | 2023

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Sara Marchant Becoming Delilah

Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, "Becoming...

Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lina Wolff The Polyglot Lovers

'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover,...

Engels | 7 uur 54 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alison Ragsdale The Child Between Us

When I first met you, darling Marina, you were just five years old. You took my breath away, with your long, dark waves and pink cheeks. You needed me, and I instantly knew I’d do anything to protect you. When six years ago, my heart was shattered, I was left utterly broken – but I didn’t know just how lost I was until you filled that hole in my heart. You quickly became the centre of my world, your sweet laugh my favourite sound. But then things started to change... I put my pain down to work stress,...

Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sophie Flynn If They Knew

"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...

Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close

She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...

Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places

"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...

Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Kennedy Kerr Dreams of Magpie Cove

Ellie McTavish’s world turns upside down when a deadly diagnosis comes out of nowhere. Feeling adrift as she recovers from life-saving surgery at home, she impulsively bids on a vintage caravan, only to discover the next day that she’s won it. So she grabs her friend Fee and takes it on an impromptu road trip...well, that’s the plan, until it breaks down outside the tiny village of Magpie Cove in Cornwall. Unexpectedly stranded, the two women don’t have much choice but to stay there until it’s fixed....

Engels | 6 uur 27 minuten (291 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter

'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...

Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...

Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alex Kane The Housewife

Even perfect mothers have secrets... Meet Leah, the perfect wife and mum with a closet full of skeletons - and if the secret gets out, her carefully crafted world could crumble. Then there's Annie, the gangster's moll with a sharp mind. She's not afraid to get her hands dirty, but no one knows the devastating secret haunting her. And lastly, Terry, the king of Glasgow gangland. He's ruthless when it comes to growing his empire, but his weakness is women. As their three stories collide, the lives...

Engels | 10 uur 37 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lilac Mills Make Do and Mend at Applewell

Can their marriage be mended in time for Christmas? Lottie has always been thrifty. As a mother of three, it's even more important that she stretches the household budget as far as possible. Luckily, Lottie’s penchant for taking broken items and upcycling them has worked wonders for living on a shoestring. Henry can’t face telling Lottie he’s been made redundant. Instead, he pretends to go to work as usual while frantically job hunting. The race is on to find another role before Lottie discovers...

Engels | 8 uur 14 minuten (366 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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