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Alan Hollinghurst De Sparsholt-affaire
In ‘De Sparsholt-affaire’ volg je de meeslepende levens van de Engelse David Sparsholt en zijn zoon Johnny. Aan de hand van hun ervaringen zie je op ontroerende wijze hoe er over een periode van zestig jaar over homoseksualiteit werd gedacht. Als zeventienjarige komt David aan het begin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in contact met twee mannelijke medestudenten. Hij is getrouwd met Connie, maar er ontstaat een hartstochtelijke vriendschap met gevoelens die hij voor Connie nooit heeft gekend. Johnny daarentegen...
Nederlands | 16 uur 16 minuten (712 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jeffrey Archer Verhaal halen
De auteur van de bestseller reeks 'Clifton-kronieken', Jeffrey Archer, presenteert ons vijftien aangrijpende korte verhalen om telkens weer te lezen. Ontdek wat er gebeurt met de onfortuinlijke jonge rechercheur uit Napels die naar een Italiaans bergdorp reist om een moord op te lossen, of met de pretentieuze schooljongen wiens ontdekking van de oorsprong van de rijkdom van zijn vader zijn leven voorgoed verandert. Volg het verhaal over de vrouw die de mannen op haar Ivy League-universiteit in de...
Nederlands | 6 uur 36 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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S.R. Grey IJskoud Verzet
IJskoud verzet is het tweede deel uit de serie Boys of Winter. Nolan Solvenson denkt in Lainey Shelburne de liefde van zijn leven te hebben gevonden. Als zij hem nog een tweede kans wil geven, tenminste… IJshockeysuperster Nolan Solvenson is de man, zowel op het ijs als eraf. Althans, dat denkt iedereen. Hoewel zijn teamgenoten nog altijd bij ‘Yoda Solvenson’ aankloppen voor advies is, lukt het hem tegenwoordig maar niet om zijn eigen leven op de rails te krijgen. En dat is allemaal de schuld...
Nederlands | 7 uur 36 minuten (656 MB) | Bookora, Zeist | 2020
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Anna Katharine Green The Amethyst Box
On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. ‘The Amethyst Box’ (1905) is a short story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a suspenseful "whodunit" with a dash of romance, which concludes thoroughly...
Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (132 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 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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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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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist
"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...
Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan
This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...
Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes
One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know that his encounters with other humans have only just begun. This 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in a pulp magazine and quickly became...
Engels | 9 uur 12 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...
Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 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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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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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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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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Ellen Lina Koningslaan
spannende liefdesroman
Als de jonge weduwe Charlie een nieuw begin wil maken met haar leven, verhuist naar haar geboortedorp en verliefd wordt op de jonge meubelmaker Finn, verandert haar leven plotsklaps in een nachtmerrie.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen | Thriller
Nederlands | 213 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Ellessy, Arnhem | 2021
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Aline van Wijnen Liefde met gebruiksaanwijzing
Freelance tekstschrijver Robin beleeft een onverwachte ontmoeting met de aantrekkelijke fotograaf Max.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2021
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Saskia Schouten Fluisterende liefde
Nadat Ilona plotseling wordt gedumpt door haar vriend gaat ze een moeilijke tijd tegemoet, maar gelukkig lijkt de liefde opnieuw op haar pad te komen.
Fictie | Protestants milieu | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Mira Loves Books, Woerden | 2020
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Jackie van Laren Zin, Lief, Ziel
echte liefde wint altijd; de complete Q-serie
Een luchtige, openhartige en vooral romantische trilogie over een Grote Liefde Iedereen kent de schathemelrijke, razend aantrekkelijke trance-dj Wessel Quist, bijnaam Q. Behalve om zijn muziek is hij ook bekend om zijn roerige liefdesleven: hij is een beruchte player met een onnavolgbare seksdrive. Nina de Wit wil na haar hippieachtige, grenzeloze opvoeding niets liever dan een burgerlijke baan, huis en man. Maar als ze bij Q Productions solliciteert op de vacature van personal assistant voor Q,...
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Nederlands | 858 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2017
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