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Fay Keenan Summer in the Orchard
Sophie Henderson loves her job at Carter's Cider in the picturesque Somerset village of Little Somerby, but with summer dawning before yet another picking and pressing season, and her boss David showing no signs of wanting to hang up his cider jug, perhaps it is time to move on. She's all set to hand in her notice when Alex Fraser, an intern from Vancouver, comes to Little Somerby to learn everything he can about the cider business. With Sophie as his mentor, attraction between them starts to grow...
Engels | 8 uur 30 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Paul Auster Onzichtbaar
Adam is een jonge dichter en student aan de universiteit van Colombia. Hij is seksueel onervaren. Op een avond drinkt hij een glas wijn met professor Rudolf Born en diens mysterieuze vriendin Margot. Adam valt als een blok voor haar en gaat veel te snel in op het “indecent proposal” van professor. Niets is wat het lijkt – ook Adam zelf niet. Vertelt de jonge dichter ons, de lezers, wel het echte verhaal? Zijn zus Gwyn denkt er het hare van. Welkom in een zinderend erotisch-literair labyrint, ontworpen...
Nederlands | 10 uur 5 minuten (437 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Harold Robbins Hart zonder toegang
Als kind groeit Frankie Kane op in een weeshuis en heeft geen idee wat liefde en geborgenheid betekenen. In de onstuimige straten van New York brengt hij zijn tijd door en weet zich van kinds af aan te vermannen in de harde jaren ‘30. Hij belandt in het criminele circuit om geld te verdienen en een beter leven op te bouwen. Toch laat hij niemand toe in zijn hart, ook niet de vrouw die zielsveel van hem houdt. Hoe bouw je een beter leven op, als je niet weet wat het inhoudt? De in New York geboren...
Nederlands | 14 uur 28 minuten (632 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Anonymous B.J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While Sinbad rests, he sees a store full of fascinating luxuries and he thanks Allah for the beautiful sight. When the owner of the shop sees the poor man, he decides to invite him inside. When the two men gets to know each other, it turns out that the storekeeper...
Engels | 3 uur 3 minuten (134 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Susan Barrie Moon at the Full
When Stephanie Blair was offered an opportunity to stay at a Parisian flat by Lione Daly, she had no idea what kind of adventures awaited her. When she met the owner of the flat, the dark and handsome Léon de Courvalles – a count, no less – she was pleased to oblige his request to accompany him on a cruise with three women he was courting. As they cruise the oceans, Stephanie meets with unforgettable trouble, intrigue and romance. The 20th-century story written by Susan Barrie, a pseudonym of the...
Engels | 5 uur 33 minuten (243 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows
"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...
Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Glendy Vanderah Waar het woud de sterren raakt
Perfect voor fans van Delia Owens, Taylor Jenkins Reid en Kristin Hannah. Het hartverwarmende debuut van Glendy Vanderah draait om een onwaarschijnlijke vriendschap tussen twee vreemden en een mysterieus jong meisje dat in hun leven opduikt. Hun zoektocht naar antwoorden voert hen diep het bos in en leidt tot verrassende ontdekkingen over zichzelf en elkaar. Joanna Teale, herstellende van de dood van haar moeder en haar eigen strijd tegen borstkanker, keert terug naar het platteland van Illinois...
Nederlands | 9 uur 40 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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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Frances Mayes Het geheim van Swan
Laat je verrassen door New York Times-bestsellerauteur Frances Mayes in haar eerste roman ‘Het geheim van Swan’. Mayes is vooral bekend van haar idyllische boeken over het Toscaanse leven, zoals ‘Een huis in Toscane’ en ‘Bella Toscane’. In haar meeslepende debuutroman krijgt archeoloog Ginger Mason een telefoontje dat haar leven voorgoed verandert. Het lichaam van haar overleden moeder is om mysterieuze redenen opgegraven. Halsoverkop vertrekt ze naar haar geboorteplaatsje Swan, waar ze samen met...
Nederlands | 12 uur 11 minuten (540 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...
Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Suzanne Snow The Cottage of New Beginnings
One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over? When Annie returns to Thorndale, a village in the English countryside where she spent much of her childhood, she’s looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up the cottage her godmother left her, and fix up her broken heart. When she clashes with local hero, Jon, Annie can’t help but wonder if coming back to Thorndale was a mistake. The village has clearly changed, and the last thing she needs is more drama. But avoiding...
Engels | 8 uur 28 minuten (367 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Suzanne Snow The Garden of Little Rose
For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past. At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding. When the gorgeous Mac accepts her invite, she assumes he's joking and thinks nothing more of it... Until he turns up at the church on the wedding day. But Mac has an agenda. He wants to hire her skills as a garden historian to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana. Flora knows she...
Engels | 8 uur 34 minuten (379 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Kristien Hemmerechts Margot en de engelen
'Je moet over alles praten, want als je iets verdringt, krijg je kanker of kom je bij een psychiater terecht.' Deze les kreeg Margot maar al te vaak te horen van haar moeder. En dat terwijl ze van haar vader altijd leerde om haar eigen keuzes te maken. Haar ouders zijn radeloos wanneer ze op 18-jarige leeftijd plotseling verdwijnt met een leeggetrokken bankrekening. Probeer Margot zich te bevrijden van de goedbedoelde ouderlijke adviezen en stilgezwegen familiegeheimen? Kristien Hemmerechts...
Nederlands | 6 uur 48 minuten (300 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Kiley Dunbar Summer at the Highland Coral Beach
Escape to the Highland Coral Beach – where broken hearts can be healed. Beatrice Halliday needs a break from life. Booking a trip to the Highlands on a whim, Beatrice hopes learning Gaelic in a beautiful Scottish village might help heal her grief after losing her baby, her husband and her much-loved job in the space of months. But Port Willow Bay isn’t exactly as the website promised. Instead of learning a new language, she’s booked in to learn the ancient skill of willow weaving, her hotel room...
Engels | 8 uur 21 minuten (372 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Joost Vandecasteele Vel
Zijn mannen en vrouwen gelijk? De vlijmscherpe roman ‘Vel’ speelt hard in op het huidige MeToo debat waarin Joost Vandecasteele het tijdperk waarin we leven als visionair beschrijft. De machtsrelaties, aantrekkingskracht en passie tussen mannen en vrouwen worden op de proef gesteld. In hoeverre controleren we ons eigen gedrag? Deze rake roman duikt in de kern van het debat aan de hand van realistische personages. "Het guerrillaproza van Joost Vandecasteele is een unicum in de Vlaamse literatuur."...
Nederlands | 4 uur 59 minuten (221 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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T.A. Williams Dreaming of Italy
Up for a dream promotion, Emma won’t let anything get in her way – not even love. Working for a major Hollywood film company isn’t all glitz and glam. But when Emma gets sent to tour around Italy to scout the perfect location for a new blockbuster movie, she’s not going to complain. Especially when it could make or break her career... Historical adviser for the project Mark is a distraction that Emma does not need. As they explore Italy's beauty, Emma starts to fall for the mysterious Mark and...
Engels | 8 uur 23 minuten (366 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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