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Stacey Lee The downstairs girl
Amerika, 1890. De 17-jarige Chinese Jo leidt een dubbelleven. Terwijl ze werkt als dienstmeid, is ze ook Miss Sweetie, schrijfster van een veelgelezen adviesrubriek. Ze probeert dit zo goed mogelijkverborgen te houden, maar tegelijkertijd ontdekt ze geheimen over haar familie en afkomst. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sociale roman
Engels | 374 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2019
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Laura Wood A sky painted gold
Lou maakt kennis met de jonge bewoners van een groot landhuis. Zij leiden een leven vol feestjes, mooie kleren en veel glamour. Lou wordt verliefd, maar ontdekt ook de schaduwkanten, waardoor ze keuzes zal moeten maken. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 385 pagina's | Scholastic, London | 2018
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Gosia Nealon Her Secret Resistance
Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial...
Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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M.R.C. Kasasian The Horror of Haglin House
Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate. A woman is killed outside Violet’s house, then another murdered in...
Engels | 13 uur 1 minuut (587 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Emily Bain Murphy Splinters of scarlett
Denemarken, 1866. Marit (ik-persoon) is een weesmeisje met toverkracht. Haar vriendinnetje wordt geadopteerd door een rijke familie. Marit gaat bij hen in dienst. Marit wil namelijk uitzoeken wat er gebeurd is met haar vader die in een mijn van de familie is omgekomen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman | Science fiction
Engels | 391 pagina's | Pushkin Press, London | 2020
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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide
At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...
Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Mich Vraa | Jesper Bugge Kold The Nurse from the Big White Ship
From the war-torn streets of Odense to the devastated warzone of South Korea, destiny calls... Nurse Molly Dahl wants to escape the trauma of wartime Denmark by joining the hospital ship, Jutlandia, set for the battlefields of Korea. Yun, an eleven-year-old North Korean girl, flees her village which was destroyed by Napalm, seeking sanctuary from the havoc. Both Molly and Yun abandon their pasts, hopeful for a brighter future in South Korea. However, their journey becomes more treacherous than...
Engels | 11 uur 4 minuten (497 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Alex Gough Emperor's Fate
Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...
Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Ethan Bale Hawker and the King's Jewel
In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels....
Engels | 12 uur 8 minuten (533 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lynda Edwards Robin Hood
the silver arrow and the slaves
Als de sheriff van Nottingham slaven koopt om in zijn mijnen te laten werken, besluiten Robin en zijn mannen om hem te stoppen. Met foto's uit de tv-serie, opdrachten en een cd. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 56 pagina's | Scholastic, London | 2008
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Jerome K. Jerome Three men in a boat
Eind 19e eeuw maken drie Engelse vrienden een boottochtje langs de Theems en beleven veel komische avonturen. Met zwart-witillustraties, opdrachten en cd's. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 104 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2008
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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion
A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...
Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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E.K. Johnston The afterward
Kalanthe, bijna ridder en Olsa, een dief, zijn teruggekeerd van de tocht van hun leven, het redden van de wereld. Maar hun eigen leven weer oppakken, met alle moeilijkheden blijkt erg lastig. Vooral wanneer ze van elkaar gescheiden worden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Engels | 337 pagina's | Penguin Books, New York | 2020
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Lily Graham Summer at Seafall Cottage
‘Hands down one of the best books I've read in a long time. This story hooks you immediately, one cannot put it down. I even dreamed about the book!’ Goodreads Reviewer 5* Victoria Langley needs to find a refuge when her husband leaves her. She finds it, in the shape of Seafall Cottage on a Cornwall clifftop. The unkempt cottage in the village of Tregollan is a perfect place to recharge - particularly when she finds a fascinating diary from 1905. Victoria determines to solve the secrets the diary...
Engels | 9 uur 10 minuten (407 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Dee Phillips Gladiator
the story of a fighter
Een jongeman heeft vijf jaar als gladiator in Rome moeten vechten. Nu keert hij terug naar zijn stam in Groot-Brittannië. Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 47 pagina's | ReadZone, Twickenham | 2013
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Joseph Conrad The secret agent
Een armoedige Londense winkelier blijkt een Russische spion te zijn. Hij krijgt de opdracht een aanslag te plegen op het Greenwich-observatorium. Met kleurenfoto's, opdrachten, een MultiRom en een cd met het voorgelezen verhaal en verschillende activiteiten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 83 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2010
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