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Anthony Doerr All the light we cannot see
a novel
Door de Tweede Wereldoorlog en D-Day raken de levens van een blind Frans meisje en een jonge Duitse militair in St. Malo met elkaar verbonden.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 531 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2023
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Tatiana de Rosnay Sarah's key
Als een Amerikaanse journaliste onderzoek doet naar de jodenvervolging in Frankrijk, stuit ze op een geheim van haar schoonfamilie.
Fictie
Engels | 316 pagina's | St. Martin's Griffin, New York | 2013
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Danielle Steel Legacy
a novel
Een Amerikaanse antropologe ontdekt na genealogisch onderzoek in South Dakota en Frankrijk de levensgeschiedenis van een van haar voorouders, een Sioux indiaanse die in de 18e eeuw in Bretagne terecht is gekomen.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 386 pagina's | Dell, New York | 2011
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Alexandre Dumas The man in the iron mask
De jonge Lodewijk XIV is aan de macht. De drie musketiers proberen erachter te komen wie de geheimzinnige gevangene in de Bastille is. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman
Engels | 71 pagina's | Macmillan, Oxford | 2005
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Meg Waite Clayton The postmistress of Paris
a novel
Een jonge Amerikaanse vrouw blijft tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Frankrijk om het Franse verzet te helpen.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman
Engels | 402 pagina's | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY | 2021
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Alexandre Dumas The three musketeers
Frankrijk, het hof van Lodewijk XIII. Drie musketiers en hun jonge vriend d'Artagnan beleven allerlei avonturen. Met kleurenillustraties, opdrachten, een MultiRom en een cd met het voorgelezen verhaal en verschillende activiteiten. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman
Engels | 67 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2010
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Victor Hugo Les misérables
Een voormalige galeislaaf probeert eerlijk te leven, ondanks de barre omstandigheden voor de armen in Frankrijk in het begin van de 19e eeuw. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sociale roman
Engels | 105 pagina's | Pearson Education, Harlow | 2008
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John Boyne The absolutist
De jonge Engelse soldaat Tristan (ik-figuur) bezoekt de familie van zijn vriend Will, die als verrader is gefusilleerd. Tristan draagt een groot geheim met zich mee. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Psychologische roman
Engels | 309 pagina's | Doubleday, London [etc.] | 2011
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Graeme Macrae Burnet The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
a historical thriller
Als een jonge serveerster op een dag niet op haar werk verschijnt, wordt een van de vaste klanten van het restaurant door een politie-inspecteur al snel als verdachte aangemerkt.
Psychologische roman | Thriller
Engels | 225 pagina's | Arcade Publishing, New York | 2017
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 1
Elegant, trumpet-like lilies, she thought. But there was something off. Something not right. It was the color. It was strange, sort of pale and flesh-colored... In a sleepy seaside town outside Copenhagen, a strange light at the bottom of the harbor has the police call in a military diver with a speciality in wet crime scenes. Deep down in the dark water sits a car with the dead body of a young woman in the driver’s seat. She has a long cut in her lower abdomen. Copenhagen Police’s Felix Jørgensen...
Engels | 1 uur 14 minuten (55 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Lotte Petri Black Notice
Episode 5
When Kathrine is kidnapped, the police quickly arrest a suspect. But when it becomes clear that they’ve got the wrong man, Felix Jørgensen goes after a gynecologist with a suspended medical license. The tracks lead the investigator to a seemingly abandoned house in rural Lolland in southern Denmark. Is Kathrine in the house? Does the murderer know about their trap? And will Felix manage to save his deputy from becoming yet another victim of this madman’s scalpel? Or is it all much too late? Black...
Engels | 1 uur 20 minuten (59 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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René Descartes Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes is often described as the first modern philosopher, but much of the content of his "Meditations on First Philosophy" can be found in the medieval period that had already existed for more than a thousand years. Does God exist? If so, what is his nature? Is the human soul immortal? How does it differ from the body? What role do sense experience and pure reason play in knowing? Descartes stands out from his predecessors because of the method he developed to treat these and other fundamental...
Engels | 3 uur 32 minuten (153 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Karen Clarke Escape to the Little French Cafe
A laugh out loud romantic comedy to fall in love with
On the beautiful French coast lies the Café Belle Vie, a peaceful haven offering a warm welcome and delicious pains au chocolat – and where Natalie’s quiet life is about to be turned upside down… When thirty-one-year-old Natalie Bright’s boyfriend dumps her and immediately gets engaged to his ex-girlfriend, she escapes her heartbreak and moves to the charming village of Chamillon on the Île de Ré. She’s determined to build a new life there: writing about farmer’s markets for a local magazine,...
Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (372 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Helen Pollard Return to the Little French Guesthouse
A feel good read to make you smile
Many of us long to leave everything behind and start a sun-soaked new life. Emmy Jamieson has done it: she is the manager of a beautiful guesthouse that nestles among vineyards in France. She has also found love with gorgeous Alain the accountant. Life could not be better. She is so happy that she is even confident that she can cope with the arrival of the eccentric, demanding Thomson family for a golden wedding. Then, in steps owner Rupert's poisonous ex-wife Gloria, who criticises Emmy, attacks...
Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (423 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Maurice Leblanc Madame Imbert's Safe, the Adventures of Arsene Lupin the Gentleman Burglar
A classic crime caper featuring the daring gentleman-thief turned detective, Arsène Lupin, a master of disguise, a criminal genius, and a man intent on righting wrongs when Justice can't be bothered. In this gripping tale, Lupin has set himself a challenge: to rob the millions stashed in Madame Imbert's safe. But Imbert’s private mansion is a fortress. Can Lupin outwit the police and unlock the secrets within the safe? Guaranteed to keep you guessing until the very end, this tale is perfect for...
Engels | 21 minuten (16 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Helen Pollard Summer at the Little French Guesthouse
Summer sun, chilled, white wine, and a gorgeous fiancé. Nothing could upset pure bliss ... Right? Emmy Jamieson loves her new life in the gentle hills and sunflowers of the lush French countryside, managing La Cour des Roses, a beautiful, white stone guesthouse. With marriage to caramel-eyed Alain just round the corner, things couldn’t be more perfect. The odd glass (gallon) of wine dulls the sound of Emmy’s mum in full motherzilla-of-the-bride mode, and the faint tinkling of alarm bells coming...
Engels | 9 uur 46 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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T.A. Williams Dreaming of St-Tropez
The perfect escape on the French Riviera. Sun, sea and secrets... After a disagreement with a billionaire, architect Jess Milton is ‘let go’ from her job. However fortune intervenes – an elderly client asks Jess to dog-sit overweight, but loveable dog Brutus in St. Tropez. Fed up with the mega-rich, Jess is reluctant to visit the playground of billionaires, but an all-expenses-paid trip and the promise of sunshine seals the deal. Little does Jess know how much time she’ll be spending with the...
Engels | 9 uur 2 minuten (393 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Henri Bergson An Introduction to Metaphysics
The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be helpful to anyone who seeks to go beyond simply dealing with the practical demands of daily life and consider the nature of things. Of special importance is Bergson’s claim that it is both possible and necessary to know from the inside rather than confining our attention to external perspectives and points of view. Intuition...
Engels | 2 uur 5 minuten (91 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Karen Clarke Summer at the Little French Cafe
In the beautiful village of Chamillon lies the Café Belle Vie, where you’ll always find croissants and friends when you need them the most – and where Elle is hoping to uncover the truth about her past... Thirty-year-old Elle Matheson has decided it’s finally time to find the mother who gave her up as a baby. With a faded postcard from the Café Belle Vie in hand – one of the very few things she has from her mother – she heads straight to the Île de Ré to begin her search. With only the postcard...
Engels | 7 uur 44 minuten (343 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Olivia Lara Someday in Paris
Soulmates do exist... But will they find their way to each other? The year is 1954. In a small French museum, two people's lives are about to change forever. On a wintery night in December, fifteen-year old Zara meets Leon for the first time. As the power cuts out in the museum, Leon and Zara spend an hour in complete darkness, discussing their love for art, Monet and Paris. They both feel an instant connection but they have never seen each other in the light. They might not know what the other...
Engels | 13 uur 46 minuten (621 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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