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Susan Barrie The Quiet Heart
Alison had married for convenience, and when her husband died, she still had his three daughters to look after in Leyden Hall. When she meets the new master of the hall, architect Sir Charles Leyden, she finds him to be distant and quite intimidating. Yet when Sir Charles falls ill and she cares for him, she must admit that there is a softer side to him that she finds rather alluring. Does she stand a chance with this man, especially since his attentions appear to be directed at her stepdaughter...
Engels | 4 uur 39 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Victoria and the Nightingale
Victoria survives a car accident along with her employer’s son and begins to care for the boy, who is now fatherless. Sir Peter kindly enough provides the two with a place to stay. Yet Sir Peter’s fiancée who also inhabits the place is far from kind towards Victoria, whose feelings for the man of the house slowly begin to deepen. How can Victoria maintain this new-found stability in her life and the affections of Sir Peter over this vicious other woman? The romantic novel mapping out a dramatic...
Engels | 4 uur 29 minuten (197 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie The Gates of Dawn
Richard Trenchard was a man used to having his way, so when he wants his sister to pass over her secretary Melanie Brooks as a companion to his young niece, she has to succumb to his will. When Melanie turns up late to their first meeting, he is not happy. Yet things slowly begin to kindle between the two, and she has to acknowledge the romantic surroundings that Richard keeps placing them in – the English countryside and the Australian Alps – are the perfect setting for a budding love affair. ...
Engels | 7 uur 50 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie The Marriage Wheel
Federica is a hard-working 23-year-old who takes up a job as the chauffeur of the wealthy businessman Humphrey Lestrode. Not pleased with having a female driver, Lestrode is not too corteous towards Federica. When her family arrives at his cottage, things quickly change, and Federica is not at all happy at the attention her employer shows towards her attractive sister. Yet, as it turns out, she is not the only sister Humphrey has his eyes set on. The romantic tale written under one of Ida Pollock’s...
Engels | 4 uur 50 minuten (212 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Mistress of Brown Furrows
Carol Inglis is leading a glamorous life and has come far from her days at an English boarding school. Yet she feels that something essential is missing: true love from her husband. Timothy Carrington has given her everything she had wanted, and most importantly, saved her from an unfortunate life of poverty. What she wants most is true feelings from the man. Can she light the kindle between them, and does he return her love for him? The love story written under Ida Pollock's pseudonym Susan Barrie...
Engels | 7 uur 22 minuten (325 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Susan Barrie Wild Sonata
Melanie has been the ward of Sir James and called the estate of Wroxford Priory her home. When Sir James dies and the new heir – his nephew – arrives, things are not off to a great start. Thinking that Melanie is the maid, Sir Luke gives out orders and causes Melanie to move out. Yet their relationship soon changes as Sir Luke does his best to woo Melanie, whose feelings also begin to heat up. Enticing her to move back in, things soon take a different turn for the two. The novel written under one...
Engels | 4 uur 30 minuten (197 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jane Beaufort A Nightingale in the Sycamore
Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. Virginia Summers is extremely fond of the Meadow House, which has been bestowed to her by her father. Even the thought of parting with it is inconceivable, debts are beginning to make her life difficult. Then, as fate would have it, a car accident almost at her doorstep presents her with the famous and handsome, although ill-tempered musician, Charles Digby Wickham. Virginia cannot be helped but be drawn to his charming, yet infuriatingly...
Engels | 5 uur 24 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Mary Whistler Escape to Happiness
Perfect for fans of Netflix adaptation of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn. Rose had read about the wedding, a widely covered social event, and under no circumstances had imagined that she would have anything to do with such an important event. Then, to her great surprise, she finds the wounded groom at her doorstep after leaving his bride at the altar, wanting Rose’s help. Could this really be happening? Who is this mysterious and charming man acting in such a reckless manner? The intriguing love tale...
Engels | 4 uur 3 minuten (180 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Boreal Bushcraft
Living in the wild from the wild
What if you disconnect from society altogether? Urban nomads know what that's like, but they continue to live in the city in frayed corners and live on a kind of handouts and what others throw away. In countries with lots of nature and few inhabitants per square kilometer, some daredevils disconnect completely. They make a place where they live and live entirely self-sufficiently. Bushcraft is called that, the skill of living in the wild from the wild. They do have some trade with the "inhabited...
Engels | 206 pagina's (PDF) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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Leo Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court judge in 19th century Russia. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior...
Engels | 2 uur 32 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Claes Johansen Nicola and the Child Correction Centre
Nicola’s father froze. He slowly put down his knife and fork. She looked at him, shocked to see how he had suddenly turned chalky white. She began to shiver. What did her father know about the Child Correction Centre? From the moment Nicola hears about the Child Correction Centre, her life is turned upside down. She must go through one ordeal after another in order to save mankind from a terrible disaster that some greedy businessmen are about to cause. Claes Johansen (b. 1957) is one of the...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (148 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Kim Nash Amazing Grace
She’s taking her life back, one step at a time… A gorgeously uplifting, feel-good romance that will captivate readers of Cathy Bramley, Jill Mansell and Josie Silver. Grace thought she had it all. Living in a beautiful village along with her husband Mark and son, Archie, she had devoted herself to being the perfect mum and wife. Until that fateful day when she walked in on Mark kissing his secretary – and her perfect life fell apart. Now she’s a single mum, trying to find her way in life and keep...
Engels | 7 uur 20 minuten (323 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Poppy Dolan The Woolly Hat Knitting Club
Finding happiness one stitch at a time... When Dee Blackthorn’s brother, JP, breaks both wrists not only is he in need of a helping hand – or two – but the knitting shop he owns can’t function. Sisterly duties take Dee away from her demanding job and she is unceremoniously fired amidst scandalous office rumours. Dee is certain that her hot-shot nemesis, Ben, is behind it all. Back in the village of Fenwild in JP's shop, Dee bumps into Becky, an old friend who is a new mum to a premature baby. Desperate...
Engels | 9 uur 38 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Emma Davies A Year at Appleyard Farm
Down a winding lane lined with honeysuckle and wild flowers, there’s a beautiful orchard beside the rushing River Wye. There, in a little farmhouse in the furthest corner, a young woman has a difficult and life-changing decision to make... Life on Appleyard Farm is all Freya Sherbourne has ever known. Having spent her childhood playing between the blossom-heavy apple trees, Freya can’t imagine calling anywhere else home. But times have been hard since her father’s sudden death, and now that she’s...
Engels | 14 uur 19 minuten (641 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Lily Graham Christmas at Hope Cottage
In the little village of Whistling, with its butterscotch cottages and rolling green hills, snow is beginning to fall. Christmas is coming, and Emma Halloway is on her way home. When twenty-eight-year-old food writer Emma Halloway gets dumped then knocked off her bike, she’s broken in more ways than one, and returns to her family’s cosy cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. Emma hasn’t been back in some time, running from her crazy relatives and her childhood sweetheart, Jack Allen. Emma’s grandmother...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (325 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Kate Galley The Second Chance Holiday Club
It's never too late to change the habits of a lifetime... Evelyn Pringle isn't the sort to make rash decisions. Or any decisions, really – she's always left that sort of thing up to her husband. But he's been found dead, wearing his best suit, with a diamond ring in his pocket that doesn't fit her. When Evelyn finds a letter addressed to a woman on the Isle of Wight, she decides to deliver it. By hand. So begins a very unusual holiday, and an adventure no one could have predicted – least of all Evelyn...
Engels | 9 uur 15 minuten (406 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Rediscover one of the greatest love stories of all time with this new audio edition of Pride and Prejudice, masterfully narrated by actress Adjoa Andoh ('Bridgerton', 'Doctor Who'). Pride and Prejudice's prolific status as a beloved story is thanks to its dynamic, ever-evolving central characters, as well as the strength of the wit and satire wielded by Austen. It is a love story, yes, but it is also a profound critique of Georgian high society and the plight of women. Without a male heir, the...
Engels | 12 uur 34 minuten (552 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Fay Keenan Summer in the Orchard
Sophie Henderson loves her job at Carter's Cider in the picturesque Somerset village of Little Somerby, but with summer dawning before yet another picking and pressing season, and her boss David showing no signs of wanting to hang up his cider jug, perhaps it is time to move on. She's all set to hand in her notice when Alex Fraser, an intern from Vancouver, comes to Little Somerby to learn everything he can about the cider business. With Sophie as his mentor, attraction between them starts to grow...
Engels | 8 uur 30 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Kelly Heard The Silent Girl
How do you prove you’re innocent, if you don’t remember your own name? They find me covered in blood-red flowers on the side of a country road. They tell me my wounds look defensive. But they think I’m guilty of a terrible crime. People from my past – strangers now – help me piece together my story. But who can I trust when I can’t trust myself? I could never have hurt anyone. Could I? A totally gripping psychological suspense novel that you won’t be able to put down and will keep you turning...
Engels | 11 uur 3 minuten (495 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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