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Jody Hedlund Waar het geluk wacht
roman
Een jonge vrouw besluit New York te verlaten en naar het Westen te reizen in de hoop daar werk te vinden en zo haar twee zusjes en twee weeskinderen te kunnen redden van de zogenaamde 'kindertreinen'.
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 363 pagina's | Kok, Utrecht | 2018
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Tamera Alexander Het hart als inzet
roman
Nadat een jonge, welgestelde vrouw een gearrangeerd huwelijk heeft afgeslagen, volgt ze haar passie en gaat lesgeven aan de eerste universiteit voor voormalige slaven in de Verenigde Staten.
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 364 pagina's | Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, Franeker | 2018
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Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Een 32-jarige vrouw vertelt aan haar psychiater hoe ze 16 jaar eerder, in 1843, in Canada tot levenslang is veroordeeld voor medeplichtigheid aan de moord op haar werkgever en diens huishoudster.
Fictie | Historische roman | Psychologische roman
Nederlands | 421 pagina's | Prometheus, Amsterdam | 2017
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Katy Moran De ontembare wil van Lady Harewood
Een eigenzinnige Engelse Lady wordt ontvoerd door haar vaders vijanden en komt terecht in een wereld van intrige. Gelukkig is er de charmante graaf om haar te helpen.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 448 pagina's | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2022
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Philip Dröge Pelgrim
leven en reizen van Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Geromantiseerde biografie van de Nederlandse arabist en islamkenner Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), die eind negentiende eeuw betrokken was bij de pacificatie van Atjeh.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 355 pagina's | Spectrum, Houten | 2017
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Jan Tomasowa Pattimura
opstand van de paradijsvogels; roman
In 1817 ontketenen Molukse vrijheidsstrijders op het eiland Saparoea een grote volksopstand tegen het Nederlandse koloniale bewind.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 188 pagina's | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2017
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Laila Ibrahim Mosterdzaad
‘Mosterdzaad’ van Laila Ibrahim (bekend van ‘De eerste krokus’) schetst een aangrijpend beeld van de dramatische nasleep van de slavernij. Ohio, 1868. Samen met haar dochter keert voormalig slavin Mattie na jaren terug naar de plantage waar zij ooit vandaan vluchtte. Ze is geschokt als ze ziet hoe weinig er op de plantage is veranderd sinds de afschaffing van de slavernij: de vroegere slaven leven nog steeds onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden. Mattie probeert haar achtergebleven familie over te...
Nederlands | 10 uur 1 minuut (577 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2020
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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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Myrtle Reed At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern
This novel begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd ball relations. Our protagonists may not communicate efficiently at first but at least they've got a sense of humours. The humourous style keeps up as well as some moments of lustre and rich feeling about the printed word itself. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author,...
Engels | 7 uur 8 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Myrtle Reed Lavender and Old Lace
Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep., 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed's long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance...
Engels | 4 uur 14 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sarah Orne Jewett Deephaven
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on vacation to an unforgettable seaside village where time runs slower and small pleasures are intensified. Much space is given to outdoor rambles and sights and events of daily living that draw you into another era. Jewett's loving and gentle descriptions...
Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (244 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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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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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...
Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman
Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...
Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 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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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Herman Melville Typee
The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee‘ (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Engels | 11 uur 35 minuten (539 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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