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MJ White The Silent Child
A murdered schoolteacher. A police force under attack. A teen hiding secrets beneath silence. When a body is discovered at an abandoned Suffolk farm, DS Rob Minshull and the squad believes it’s the latest casualty of the drugs war terrorising rural communities. But when the victim is identified as a well-respected local teacher, the case is thrown wide open. While they hunt the murderer, the South Suffolk CID team face a new threat. A brutal vigilante group dispensing their own twisted justice...
Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Emma Davies The Beekeeper's Cottage
Comforted by the gentle hum of the beehives at the bottom of the garden, Grace drains the last of her tea and walks slowly back towards the little hillside house she adores. Her marriage is over, but is it too late to start her life again? Beekeeper Grace thought throwing out her cheating husband would be the hardest thing she ever did. But when she opens the door to a property developer one morning, it’s clear that keeping her beautiful home and garden – her only sanctuary throughout her miserable...
Engels | 7 uur 44 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Emma Davies The Little Shop on Silver Linings Street
Daisy Turner has worked at Buchanan’s Family Jewellers since the day she finally escaped her troubled home. With a unique talent for matching the perfect piece of jewellery to any romantic milestone, she painstakingly polishes each stunning creation every morning and safely locks them away each night, longing for the day she’ll have a love story to call her own... But everything changes one day in December when the owner announces she is retiring. She will leave the shop to whichever of her three...
Engels | 8 uur 46 minuten (403 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Helen Cox Een motief voor moord
Deel 7 in de Kitt Hartley-serie. Wanneer een gewelddadige moord een vredig dorp opschudt gaat Kitt Hartley op jacht naar de dader. Kitt ontdekt dat het slachtoffer is gewurgd met haar oude schoolsjaal en dat het motief voor de moord in het verleden ligt. Kitt komt terecht in een wereld van schoolpleingeheimen, pestkoppen en gebroken harten. Wanneer een tweede slachtoffer verdwijnt, begint de klok te tikken. Kan Kitt de vermiste vrouw terugvinden voordat het te laat is? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Nederlands | 223 pagina's (ePub2, 5,6 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
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Jill Mansell De zomer van je leven
De zomer van je leven is de nieuwe zomerse feelgoodroman van bestsellerauteur Jill Mansell. Wanneer de tieners Amber en Lachlan terechtkomen in hetzelfde pleeggezin ontstaat er algauw een hechte band. Verhuizen naar het schitterende Cornwall is het beste dat hen ooit is overkomen – en nu, als volwassenen, is hun band sterker dan ooit. Maar Amber heeft een geheim: ze is verliefd op Lachlan – haar beste vriend! - en weet dat het nóóit kan werken. Lachlan is een echte rokkenjager en absoluut geen...
Fictie
Nederlands | 314 pagina's (ePub2, 6,1 MB) | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Picture of Dorian Gray
B.J. Harrison reads the classic that has puzzled and delighted readers for over two centuries. Dorian Gray is a beautiful man, who has been immortalized in a painting. As he comes to the realization that his beauty will eventually fade, he makes a wish to never lose his beauty and retain eternal youth. Meanwhile, his age and sins continue to live on in his portrait. The late-19th-century classic by Oscar Wilde, a charming yet horrifying Gothic novel, has been adapted countless times to the screen....
Engels | 8 uur 47 minuten (383 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Herman Beliën | Fik Meijer | Paul Knevel Van Babylon tot New York
hoorcollege over 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis
De stad is een intrigerend fenomeen. Al duizenden jaren wordt er door mensen in gewoond en geleefd. Het is bovendien de plek bij uitstek waar wordt gehandeld, religie en cultuur wordt aangeboden en van waaruit wordt bestuurd. In deze collegereeks wordt een levendig overzicht gegeven van bijna 5000 jaar stadsgeschiedenis aan de hand van een aantal concrete steden in verschillende fasen van hun ontwikkeling. Ideaaltypen als de klassieke stad, de middeleeuwse stad, de barokstad en de moderne stad worden...
Nederlands | 4 uur 40 minuten | NRC Handelsblad Academie | 2008
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Katharine McMahon De dochter van de alchemist
Een 18-jarig meisje helpt in de 18e eeuw haar vader, die een leerling van Isaac Newton is, bij natuurkundige experimenten totdat ze een vrijbuiter ontmoet op wie ze onmiddellijk valt.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 383 pagina's | Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2006
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David Mark Into the Woods
If you go into the woods, you're in for a dark surprise. Thirty years ago, three girls followed a stranger into the woods. Only two returned. The surviving pair have never been able to remember what happened or what the fate of the third girl was. Local rumours talk of hippies and drugs and mystic rituals, but no one has learned the truth. This story is just what Rowan Blake needs. He's in debt, his journalistic career is in tatters – as well as his damaged body – and he's retreated to the Lake...
Engels | 11 uur 20 minuten (499 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Karen Clarke The Beachside Christmas
Snow is falling and there’s romance in the air. Curl up for a cosy Christmas by the fire at Seaview Cottage... When thirty-year-old Lily Ambrose’s latest relationship ends in disaster, she remembers happy childhood holidays in the seaside town of Shipley and decides it’s the perfect place for a fresh start. But when Lily arrives, the town’s spirits are as low as her own: the local celebrity due to turn on the Christmas lights has gone on a cruise instead. Keen to prove herself, she calls in a favour...
Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (422 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Emma Davies The House at Hope Corner
The view across the valley takes her breath away; everywhere she looks tiny patches of colour – ochre, chestnut, lime and purple. The farmhouse behind her glows pink in the morning sun. Finally, Flora has the home of her dreams... but is she about to lose it? Free-spirited Flora Dunbar is heartbroken at the news that she must close down her beloved little flower shop on the high street. As she packs away her pretty pots and vases and locks the door for the very last time, the only spark of hope...
Engels | 8 uur 5 minuten (473 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost
B.J. Harrison breathes life into one of Oscar Wilde’s first short stories, "The Canterville Ghost". The American Hiram B. Otis and his family move to a castle in Canterville Chase in the English countryside. They soon discover that they are not alone in the castle and that the ghost of an old tenant, Sir Simon de Canterville, is with them. Yet the family is not so easily scared, even if the ghost can take many shapes and forms. The short story from the late 19th century mixes humor with the macabre....
Engels | 1 uur 12 minuten (54 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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L.C. Tyler De heer des huizes
De heer des huizes is deel 3 in de serie 'Moord volgens het boekje'. Wanneer literair agent Elsie Thirkettle wordt uitgenodigd om de lange maar obscure misdaadschrijver Ethelred Tressider te vergezellen naar een diner in Muntham Court, kijkt ze ernaar uit om zich vrolijk te maken over zijn deftige vrienden. Wat ze niet verwacht is dat de gastheer halverwege de avond gewurgd wordt aangetroffen in zijn afgesloten studeerkamer. Aangezien er geen mogelijkheid was voor de moordenaar om te ontsnappen,...
Fictie
Nederlands | 225 pagina's (ePub2, 5,5 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Andy Redsmith Breaking the Lore
A magical, mischievous mystery perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Neil Gaimon, and Ben Aaronovitch. How do you stop a demon invasion... when you don’t believe in magic? Inspector Nick Paris is a man of logic and whisky. So staring down at the crucified form of a murder victim who is fifteen centimetres tall leaves the seasoned detective at a loss... and the dead fairy is only the beginning. Suddenly the inspector is offering political asylum to dwarves, consulting with witches, getting tactical...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (512 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Kiley Dunbar Christmas at Frozen Falls
Christmas magic can thaw the coldest of hearts... From the author of "One Winter’s Night", an uplifting, feel-good Christmas romance that will captivate readers of Holly Martin, Cathy Bramley and Milly Johnson. Sylvie Magnusson is going to be lonely this Christmas. Instead of jetting off for her honeymoon, she’s freezing at home in Cheshire. Guess that’s what happens when your fiancé dumps you a week before your wedding... Sylvie’s best friend, Nari, plans a trip to see the Northern Lights and...
Engels | 10 uur 20 minuten (458 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Harvest of Swords
Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War. In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale. As they struggle through the bitterly cold Dorset winter, their hard-won experience is enough to lead their men, but never...
Engels | 12 uur 21 minuten (541 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter King's Men Crow
It takes courage to survive in this atmospheric historical adventure set during the English Civil War. August 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and for the love of the incomparable Bella. But only one side can win the war, and only one...
Engels | 12 uur 10 minuten (535 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Storming Party
Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War. 1643: Sir William Waller’s army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament’s bastion in the West – Bristol. The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has precious few men and even fewer guns with which to defend them. And to make matters worse, rumour has...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Kate Saunders Laetitia Rodd and the case of the wandering scholar
Privédetective Laetitia Hodd, weduwe van een Anglicaanse geestelijke, gaat in het 19_eeuwse Engeland op verzoek van een rijke, stervende man op zoek naar diens broer die een zwervend bestaan leidt in de buurt van Oxford en al jaren niet meer gezien is.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 362 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2019
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Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane’s and Rochester’s apparent differences attract them to each other, but little does Jane know that something far more damaging than social statuses will keep them apart. ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a love story that holds up over time,...
Engels | 18 uur 27 minuten (849 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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