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Luke Cassidy Iron Annie
Twee Ierse vrouwen, Aoife en Annie, reizen naar Engeland om daar in gedeeltes 10 kilo cocaïne te verkopen, terwijl ze onderweg seksuele diensten uitdelen.
Fictie
Engels | 295 pagina's | Bloomsbury Circus, London | 2021
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...
Engels | 10 uur 56 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Karen Gregory Skylarks
Joni en Annabel hebben een heel verschillende achtergrond. Toch worden ze verliefd op elkaar. Hun relatie gaat goed, totdat Joni en haar familie uit hun huis worden gezet. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 319 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2018
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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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Susan Coolidge What Katy Did
"To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy." Twelve-year-old Katy Carr desperately wants to be good. But being a wild and hot-headed tomboy, it seems so much easier to start being good tomorrow than it does today. Even when her kind and patient invalid cousin comes to visit, Katy‘s resolution to change only lasts a few hours. But soon she will have much more in common with her cousin than she wished and it will confine her to her room perhaps forever. Will it make her finally able to uphold her promise?...
Engels | 4 uur 35 minuten (212 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...
Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Sara Crewe is devastated when the news of her beloved father’s death in India reaches her at her boarding school in London. Miss Minchin, the heartless and greedy headmistress, immediately moves Sara to the attic and forces her to become her servant. Despite being used to luxury, Sara quickly adjusts to her new life and never stops being kind and polite to everyone. Little does she now that someone out there is looking for her, and they might be much closer than they think. Author Frances Eliza...
Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anne Sewell Black Beauty
Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owner, he encounters mistreatment in many forms, but luckily, his journey is not without love either. Being herself an invalid, author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) seemed particularly aware of the importance of kindness toward all living creatures. She wrote...
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Maeve Haran The time of their lives
Vier Engelse vrouwen van ruim zestig jaar, die al bijna een halve eeuw hecht bevriend zijn, hebben ieder op hun eigen manier problemen met het ouder worden.
Fictie
Engels | 522 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2014
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Sabina Khan The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali
Fictie
Engels | 332 pagina's | Scholastic Children's Books, London | 2019
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Kalynn Bayron Cinderella is dead
Op het royal ball wordt elk meisje gekozen door een man. Maar Sophia wil niet gekozen worden.
Fictie
Engels | 385 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London, Oxford, New York | 2020
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Jodi Picoult Sing you home
Een Amerikaanse muziektherapeute die dolgraag kinderen wil maar onvruchtbaar is, vindt na haar scheiding onverwacht nieuwe liefde bij een vrouw die haar kinderwens steunt.
Fictie | Familieroman
Engels | 466 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2011
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Alexandria Bellefleur Written in the stars
a novel
Elle en Darcy leren elkaar kennen tijdens een blind date. Hoewel er tussen beide vrouwen een zekere aantrekkingskracht is, lijken hun werelden ver uit elkaar te liggen.
Fictie | Humoristische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 370 pagina's | Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY | 2020
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Eva Baltasar Boulder
Twee lesbische vrouwen hebben jarenlang de perfecte relatie. Maar daar komt de klad in als een van hen bezeten raakt, eerst door haar kinderwens en daarna door het moederschap.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Engels | 105 pagina's | And other stories, Sheffield | 2022
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Tara Westover Educated
Autobiografisch relaas van een jonge vrouw die zich ontworstelt aan een strenge mormoonse gemeenschap in Idaho en in Harvard en Cambridge gaat studeren.
Non-fictie
Engels | 334 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2018
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Vertaalwerk met Passie Kotomisi
de kracht van klederdracht
Inleiding in woord en beeld tot de geschiedenis, het gebruik en de betekenis van de Surinaamse kotomisi-dracht.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 95 pagina's | Het Klederdrachtmuseum, Amsterdam | 2019
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Kristien Suenens Humble women, powerful nuns
a female struggle for autonomy in a men's church
Nineteenth-century female congregation founders could achieve levels of autonomy, power and prestige that were beyond reach for most women of their time. With a subject hidden for a long time behind a curtain of modesty and mystery, this book recounts the fascinating but ambiguous life stories of four Belgian religious women. A close reading of their personal writings unveils their conflicted existence: ambitious, engaged, and bold on the one hand, suffering and isolated on the other, they were both...
Non-fictie
Engels | 380 pagina's (PDF, 30 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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