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C. M. Albright Shadow Banking
Set in the heart of global finance, Shadow Banking follows the lives of City hopefuls, as they try to wheel, deal and backstab their way to billions. Remember: life’s a trade... It is 1994. Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville; he thinks he’s there to start a job. But in fact, he’s at the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever. Al is joined by a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers: razor-sharp...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (586 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jackie Walsh The Secrets He Kept
A gripping, suspenseful, psychological thriller that fans of T.M. Logan, My Lovely Wife and K.L. Slater won't be able to put down. He loves you. He loves your children. He’d never put his family in danger. One of these is a lie. It started like any other day at the hairdressers where Sally works as a stylist... until her first client innocently shows her a family photograph; a photograph that causes Sally to collapse in shock. In one moment, Sally discovers that Tom has been hiding an explosive...
Engels | 8 uur 28 minuten (380 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Turncoat's Drum
The country is in turmoil in this thrilling historical adventure of the English Civil War. It is 1643, and the struggle between Parliament and the King erupts in the West Country, tearing families apart and setting village against village. But for some, this fight is not only about crown and country: it is far more personal than that. Royalist soldier Hugo Telling wishes Parliamentarian William Sparrow dead. This rivalry will take them across battlefields the breadth of England, and all for the...
Engels | 11 uur 25 minuten (504 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Javier Cercas Anatomie van een moment
Kroniek van de mislukte staatsgreep in Spanje op 23 februari 1981.
Fictie | Politieke roman
Nederlands | 539 pagina's | De Geus, Breda | 2011
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Jo Lovett The Mistletoe Pact
Two single thirty-year-olds. One marriage pact. And a night in Vegas that’s about to change everything... On Christmas Eve eight years ago Evie and Dan made a pact: if they weren’t married by thirty, they were going to marry each other. Of course, neither of them took it seriously, even if Dan has always been mesmerised by Evie’s beautiful smile, and Evie has always fancied Dan, her best-friend’s brother. But then "it" happens. They wake up on Christmas Eve, the night before Evie’s thirtieth birthday...
Engels | 9 uur 4 minuten (404 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Frances Mensah Williams From Pasta to Pigfoot
Be swept away by sun, sea, self-love and a delicious dollop of romance in this original, multicultural romance novel set between London and Ghana. Introducing your new, favourite girl-next-door Faye Bonsu. Dismissed as a cultural lightweight by the man she is desperate to please, under-achieving PA, Faye Bonsu, is on a mission to find love. A disastrous night out leaves pasta-fanatic Faye’s romantic dreams in tatters and underscores her alienation from her African heritage. Leaving her cosy middle-class...
Engels | 15 uur 38 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Susan Mallery Onverwachte flirt
Fool's Gold - kort verhaal - Onverwachte flirt Fool's Gold lijkt de ideale woonplaats, maar er is één probleem: er wonen te weinig mannen... Lerares Abby Hendrix ziet er enorm tegen op om de superslimme - en ongetwijfeld ook supersááie - chirurg Joaquin Kincaid drie weken lang te moeten vermaken in Fool's Gold. Het is dat ze haar zus, Melissa, niets kan weigeren. Maar zodra ze Joaquin in de ogen kijkt, beseft ze dat ze ook hém niets kan weigeren! Deel 20 van de serie Fool's Gold. Dit korte verhaal...
Fictie
Nederlands | 98 pagina's (ePub2) | HarperCollins, Amsterdam | 2021
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Susan Mallery Helemaal de mijne
Fool's Gold 4 - Helemaal de mijne Fool's Gold lijkt de ideale woonplaats, maar er is één probleem: er wonen te weinig mannen... Het nieuws van het mannentekort in Fool's Gold heeft inmiddels ook Hollywood bereikt. Tot afschuw van de inwoners is er een realityshow in het stadje neergestreken. Dakota Hendrix is gevraagd een oogje in het zeil te houden. Haar grootste uitdaging dient zich al snel aan, in de vorm van een grote, boze piloot uit Alaska. Deze Finn Andersson is het er totaal niet mee eens...
Fictie
Nederlands | 222 pagina's (ePub2) | HarperCollins, [Amsterdam] | 2021
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Barbara Josselsohn The Bluebell Girls
"I am at loss of words to explain how I felt about this. I loved the plot... the author has really done an amazing job in writing this wonderful book. Well done, you have written a wonderful masterpiece... will stay with me for a long time." Goodreads reviewer. Returning home to her family’s little lake house is the perfect way for Jenna to escape her heartbreaking divorce. Her mother Sweet has been losing her memory and Jenna is sure that taking her daughter Sophie for a break with Sweet in Lake...
Engels | 8 uur 54 minuten (394 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Lily Graham A Cornish Christmas
Nestled in the Cornish village of Cloudsea, sits Sea Cottage – the perfect place for some Christmas magic ... At last Ivy is looking forward to Christmas. She and her husband Stuart have moved to their perfect little cottage by the sea - a haven alongside the rugged cliffs that look out to the Atlantic Ocean. She’s pregnant with their much-longed for first baby and for the first time, since the death of her beloved mother, Ivy feels like things are going to be alright. But there is trouble ahead....
Engels | 7 uur 18 minuten (337 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Carlo Gébler I, Antigone
"I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my eyes." The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will...
Engels | 9 uur 3 minuten (401 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl
A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...
Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better...
Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (292 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Call of the Wild
Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies. Who kidnapped...
Engels | 3 uur 30 minuten (152 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads To Build a Fire
A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend – a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin. Why is the man travelling through the Canadian frozen lands? Where is he heading to? Will he manage...
Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Aimée van Bergen Het Hommelmeisje
Het Hommelmeisje is het indringende, zeer persoonlijke verhaal van een intense en tegelijkertijd onmogelijke liefdesrelatie tussen twee totaal verschillende vrouwen. Aimée, een degelijke, gerespecteerde geriater van vierendertig en Britt, een losgeslagen, sociaal-emotioneel onaangepast meisje van zesentwintig. Het is tevens een verhaal over intense menselijke verlangens die lang niet altijd redelijk zijn. Over een allesverterende liefde die niet altijd even kieskeurig of consequent lijkt. Over keuzes...
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Nederlands | 242 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | ClusterEffect, Prinsenbeek | 2020
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Trixi von Bülow Ik wou dat er eindelijk eens iets leuks gebeurde
Een jaar na haar scheiding gaat de bijna veertigjarige Fritzi op zoek naar een nieuwe man.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Nederlands | 221 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Volt, Amsterdam | 2022
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Marijke Vos Edwards keuze
roman
Ontdek het geheim van Ridgewood Hall in het eerste deel van deze meeslepende serie.1904. Edward Bellamy, de oudste zoon en erfgenaam van de graaf van Ridgewood, staat voor een onmogelijke keuze. Zijn hele leven is voor hem uitgestippeld en dus ook het huwelijk met de mooie Guinevere Parker, de dochter van een succesvolle zakenman. De komst van het Schotse dienstmeisje Gillian zet echter alles op zijn kop. Kiest Edward voor de plicht of volgt hij zijn hart? Ruim 100 jaar later. Na het overlijden van...
Fictie
Nederlands | 276 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | HarperCollins, Amsterdam | 2022
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent...
Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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