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Akala The dark lady
Londen, zestiende eeuw. Henry, een zwarte weesjongen, is zakkenroller. Maar hij droomt van een leven als dichter. Misschien kan zijn magische gave hem daarbij helpen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman
Engels | 306 pagina's | Hodder Children's Books, London | 2020
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Cathryn Constable The pearl in the ice
Begin 20e eeuw. Marina (12) heeft nog nooit de zee gezien. En dat terwijl haar vader bij de marine werkt. Aan de vooravond van van een oorlog vaart ze als verstekeling mee. Er volgt een spannende reis met spionnen en allerlei schepen die verdwijnen. En ze komt meer te weten over haar vader, verdwenen moeder en zichzelf. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman | Zeeverhaal
Engels | 298 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2019
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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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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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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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T.A. Barron Merlin
Historische roman
Engels | 18 pagina's | Puffin Books, New York | 2011
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T.A. Barron Merlin
Historische roman
Engels | 13 pagina's | Puffin Books, New York | 2011
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