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Jenny Colgan De kleine bakkerij aan het strand
In De kleine bakkerij aan het strand van Jenny Colgan staat het leven van Polly Waterford op zijn kop. Haar relatie is op de klippen en haar bedrijf is ook nog eens failliet. Kortom, ze móét weg. Ze komt terecht op Mount Polbearne, een klein schiereiland voor de kust van Cornwall, in een appartement boven een verlaten winkel. Om haar zinnen te verzetten begint ze met het bakken van brood, dat al snel meer dan een hobby wordt. Lees en leef mee met Polly die tegen wil en dank vriendschap sluit met...
Nederlands | 10 uur 37 minuten (612 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2019
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Alexandria Bellefleur Elle & Darcy
Alexandria Bellefleur bewijst zich met 'Elle & Darcy' de nieuwe ster in romcomland! Na een verschrikkelijke date besluiten Elle en Darcy dat ze nooit meer afspreken. Ze zijn te verschillend: Elle is een dromerige Twitter-astrologe die op zoek is naar haar soulmate, Darcy is een no-nonsense actuaris die niet van verrassingen houdt. Ze nemen afscheid, maar niet voor lang. Darcy wordt gek van haar bemoeizuchtige broer die matchmaker speelt en doet Elle een voorstel: tot oudejaarsavond doen ze alsof...
Nederlands | 9 uur 54 minuten (854 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2020
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Casey McQuiston Rood, wit & koningsblauw
"Het is bijna onmogelijk om mee te maken hoe Alex voor Henry valt zonder zelf verliefd op hem te worden – op hen allebei, én op dit briljante, geweldige boek." Dat schreef de New York Times Book Review bij verschijning van 'Rood, wit en koningsblauw' van Casey McQuiston. Deze heerlijke romcom gaat over Alex, zoon van de Amerikaanse president, en Henry, Britse prins. Meteen zodra zijn moeder wordt verkozen tot president, wordt Alex Claremont-Diaz gebombardeerd tot Amerikaanse royalty: hij is knap,...
Nederlands | 11 uur 8 minuten (962 MB) | Z&K, Utrecht | 2020
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Lina Wolff Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (434 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Fiona Woodifield A Wedding at the Jane Austen Dating Agency
Love, laughter, and lots of matchmaking mishaps. Sophie Johnson's life seems picture-perfect with her dream job at The Jane Austen Dating Agency and a relationship with the irresistible Darcy Drummond. But all is not as it seems. Darcy's awful mother is wrecking havoc, the agency is struggling, and then there's the amusing and disturbingly cute Henry Baxter who is making it hard for Sophie to focus. As the pressure mounts and her love life falters, Sophie must ask herself: Can she juggle it all...
Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Mary Jayne Baker The Runaway Bride
Here comes the bride... but how long can she hide? When Kitty Clayton flees her wedding, her life seems worryingly futureless. All she knows is she'd rather sleep on the streets than go back to cheating Ethan. After picking her up hitch-hiking, widowed children's author Jack Duffy takes Kitty under his wing until she gets back on her feet. And it's not long before the two grow close... But with Jack struggling to recover from the guilt he feels over his wife's death and Kitty refusing to face up...
Engels | 10 uur 23 minuten (457 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Claudia Bouteligier | Gelijn Molier | Norbert Peeters | Otto Boele Duistere dystopieën
Een hoorcollege over doemdenken in de wereldliteratuur
In deze serie behandelen zes deskundige sprekers de grootste dystopische werken uit de wereldliteratuur. Zij doen dat vanuit diverse disciplines. Bij alle verhandelingen komt de vraag naar boven welke lessen wij uit die werken kunnen leren voor het heden. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwells 1984 is misschien wel de dystopie der dystopieën. Het Orwelliaanse doemscenario is het schoolvoorbeeld geworden van vergaande staatsinmenging in het privéleven van mensen. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van...
Nederlands | 4 uur 29 minuten (388 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 2019
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Deborah Jenkins Braver
Nominated for the Writer’s Guild Best First Novel Award! Hazel has never felt normal. Struggling with OCD and anxiety, she isolates herself from others and sticks to rigid routines in order to cope with everyday life. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Virginia, a church minister, Hazel begins to venture outside her comfort zone. Having rebuilt her own life after a traumatic loss, Virginia has become the backbone of her community, caring for those in need and mentoring disadvantaged...
Engels | 8 uur 27 minuten (370 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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Jenny Colgan Wintereiland
Het is winter op het eiland Mure. Een tijd om samen door te brengen, bij een knapperend haardvuur, en te genieten met de mensen van wie je houdt – tenzij je natuurlijk per ongeluk zwanger bent van je ex-baas en niet weet hoe je het moet vertellen. Kan Flora in het seizoen van vrede op aarde haar geheim delen en haar relatie met Joël redden? Ondertussen probeert Saif, de dokter op het eiland en vluchteling uit het door oorlog verscheurde Syrië, te genieten van zijn eerste westerse kerst met zijn...
Nederlands | 9 uur 1 minuut (520 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2019
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Hannah Hendy A Terrible Village Poisoning
The local mayor has a dinner date with death… With school out for the summer, dinner ladies Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are off on holiday to the picturesque village of St-Martins-on-the-Water. But on their first night, their meal at the hotel ends in disaster, when the local mayor is found dead on the restaurant floor, supposedly poisoned by his dinner. The village has a history of poisoning, and the locals are convinced the Poisoner is back. Immediately suspicion turns on Margery and...
Engels | 8 uur 3 minuten (352 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sue Watson Summer Flings and Dancing Dreams
A hilariously funny, uplifting romantic comedy
A laugh-out-loud, uplifting comedy about finding the courage to be yourself, the importance of dreams, and learning to grab life by the glitter balls. Dance like nobody’s watching. Love like you’ll never get hurt… Laura Watkin’s heart isn’t broken, she’s just forgotten how to use it. After years on her own, the highlight of single mum Laura’s week is watching Strictly Come Dancing with a glass of Pinot Grigio and a large helping of imagination. With her daughter Sophie going travelling, Laura knows...
Engels | 8 uur 4 minuten (355 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Karen Clarke I'll Be Home for Christmas
A heartwarming, feel good romantic comedy
Nina Bailey loves Christmas. Except this year she doesn’t. Because it turns out that her husband-to-be has been cheating on her – and her beautiful wedding ceremony in the snow is cancelled. She’s not really in the mood to be jolly, sing carols, or go anywhere near gingerbread men – in fact, what Nina wants is to avoid the whole thing. So she’s come to stay at her Aunt Dolly’s cosy café in the south of France to nurse her broken heart. Nina is determined to get through Christmas with no tinsel,...
Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (357 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Lisa Hobman What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Poignant and uplifting, this is a story to remind hopeless romantics that you never know when true love might strike... Cassie Montgomery can remember a time where her life seemed pretty perfect. By day she was setting up her own little business in her sleek penthouse apartment, and by night sleeping on gazillion-count Egyptian cotton sheets next to her fiancée, once reputed to be Glasgow's most eligible bachelor. And yet one ordinary, fateful day, Cassie uncovers a secret that shatters her heart...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (441 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Julie Houston An Off-Piste Christmas
Prepare to spend Christmas in the Italian alps... The last thing Harriet Westmoreland wants is Christmas away from home, particularly when skiing, snow, heights and freezing her backside off are on the menu. While her own family, together with her best friend Grace's, are soon whizzing down ridiculously scary mountains in the fashionable Italian resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Harriet is stuck in the remedial class on the nursery slopes unable, it seems, to remain vertical. Tired of trying to stay...
Engels | 4 uur 2 minuten (179 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Lisa Hobman A Summer of New Beginnings
Meet Zara Bailey, a travel writer paid to cover some of the globe's most luxurious locations. Jetting from wooden huts on stilts in turquoise seas to boutique hotels with roaring fires to 7* penthouse suites with panoramic views of the world's most glamorous cities... Zara knows hers is the definition of a dream job! So she is seriously shocked to receive her next assignment; Scotland's Northcoast 500 route. By bicycle. Sleeping in a tent so basic it can't remotely be dressed up glamping! But this...
Engels | 9 uur 10 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Sue Watson Curves, Kisses and Chocolate Ice-Cream
The perfect feel good holiday romance
Dani’s on a mission to get her life back on track by the end of the summer. Running, rowing, aerobics and more, but perhaps all she needs are sweet treats and a second chance? Ten years ago, Dani fled Appledore with a broken-heart and a suitcase full of shattered dreams. Only now is she brave enough to put her past behind her and return for a summer selling homemade ice cream and getting fit by doing sit-ups by the sea. But the new-look cafe is filled with old memories of Jude, her teenage sweetheart-turned-sour....
Engels | 7 uur 48 minuten (342 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Sue Watson Ella's Ice-Cream Summer
A laugh out loud romantic comedy with extra sprinkles
Ella’s life just hit rock bottom, but can a summer by the sea mend her broken heart? When life gives you lemons… make ice cream! Life hasn’t always been easy for single mum Ella, but she has just hit an all-time low; she’s jobless, loveless, very nearly homeless and, to make matters worse, now the owner of a pocket-sized pooch with a better wardrobe than her. Packing her bags (and a bigger one for the dog), Ella sets off for the seaside town of Appledore in Devon to re-live the magical summers of...
Engels | 8 uur 37 minuten (381 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Alison Sherlock A Winter Wedding at Willow Tree Hall
A feelgood Christmas love story set in a gorgeous country village, perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Heidi Swain. Previously published as "A Way Back Home" After recent heartbreak, Skye Jackson is homeless and on the road with only a classic Airstream trailer to her name. A surprise inheritance of a rundown little lodge in the grounds of beautiful Willow Tree Hall forces her to change her plans. The only problem is that the lodge is co-owned by care-free playboy Will Harris, currently in hiding...
Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (410 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Carol Wyer Life Swap
A funny feel good read about starting again
‘I laughed, I laughed a lot … you will be guaranteed to remember it … my feel good book of 2016 so far!’ The Writing Garnet She wanted a new life and true love. But the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. All Polly has to her name is a string of failed relationships and a mountain of debt. She sees herself as a hopeless case and would do anything to change her luck. So when she’s given the opportunity to swap all she’s ever known for a life of luxury, Polly jumps at the chance. Soon, it’s...
Engels | 10 uur 45 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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