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Colleen Hoover All your perfects
Zielsverwanten Quinn en Graham kampen na zeven jaar huwelijk met hun onvervulde kinderwens, leven langs elkaar heen en stevenen af op een scheiding.
Fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2022
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Sophie Kinsella Surprise me
Een jong stel, woonachtig in Wansworth bij Londen, hervinden elkaar door relationele perikelen waarbij de vrouw ook zichzelf opnieuw ontdekt.
Fictie
Engels | 351 pagina's | Bantam Press, London | 2018
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Jill Mansell This could change everything
Als Essie onbedoeld een e-mail verstuurt aan al haar contacten zorgt dat voor veel ellende maar biedt haar ook nieuwe kansen.
Engels | 406 pagina's | Headline, London | 2018
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John Boyne A ladder to the sky
Een talentloze Britse schrijver wordt door zijn nietsontziende ambities tot plagiaat gedreven totdat hij door een zich als student van zijn werk voordoend familielid van een van zijn slachtoffers wordt ontmaskerd.
Fictie
Engels | 433 pagina's | Black Swan, London | 2019
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Lucinda Riley The moon sister
Tiggy's story
Zeven zussen krijgen na het overlijden van hun rijke adoptiefvader aanwijzingen over hun afkomst. Deel 5 gaat over Tiggy die in Spanje op zoek gaat naar haar familiegeschiedenis.
Fictie
Engels | 741 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2019
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Jojo Moyes Still me
Een jonge Britse vrouw neemt een grote stap buiten haar comfortzone met een nieuwe baan bij een rijk gezin in New York en ontdekt snel dat extra geld extra problemen oplevert.
Fictie
Engels | 470 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2019
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Julian Barnes The only story
Een oudere man vertelt in retrospect over de hemelse maar uiteindelijk tragische tienerliefde voor een toen meer dan twee keer zo oude vrouw.
Fictie
Engels | 212 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
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
Engels | 531 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2023
Gedrukt boek
Delia Owens Where the crawdads sing
Als een jong meisje opgroeit in de moerassen van North Carolina blijkt het leven vol gevaren te zijn.
Fictie
Engels | 391 pagina's | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York | 2022
Gedrukt boek
The last kingdom
Nadat een Engelse edelman is opgegroeid tussen de Vikingen in Noord-Engeland ten tijde van koning Alfred de Grote, maken zijn banden met beide groepen het voor hem moeilijk om partij te kiezen.
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Svenska Ljud Classica
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Svenska Ljud Classica
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Svenska Ljud Classica
“Please, sir, I want some more,” Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Mary Shelley Mathilda
Svenska Ljud Classica
On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme “disgusting and detestable”. The world was,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Svenska Ljud Classica
Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane’s and Rochester’s apparent differences attract them to each other, but little does Jane know that something far more damaging than social statuses will keep them apart. ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a love story that holds up over time,...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Helen Peters Evie's Ghost
Compelling period fiction for 9+ readers from the Waterstones Children's Prize shortlisted Helen Peters. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house in the middle of nowhere. It is all monumentally unfair. But on the first night, Evie sees a strange, ghostly figure at the window. Spooked, she flees from the room, feeling oddly disembodied as she does...
Engels | 304 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Nosy Crow, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Svenska Ljud Classica
´It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austen´s second novel Pride and Prejudice, which was first published in 1813. It follows the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five single daughters. The whole town is set aflutter by the arrival of prosperous Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy, and as the prejudice of the latter hurts the pride of headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, friendship, love, and strife enfold....
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Svenska Ljud Classica
Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...
Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Svenska Ljud Classica
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017
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