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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 | Psychologische roman
Engels | 212 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2018
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Peace A. Medie Zijn enige vrouw
roman
Een jonge Ghanese vrouw wordt ten huwelijk gevraagd door de familie van een rijke man, die zelf weinig interesse in haar toont. Als ze na de huwelijksceremonie naar Accra verhuist, opent zich een volledig nieuwe wereld voor haar.
Fictie | Feministische verhalen | Psychologische roman | Sociale roman
Nederlands | Engels | Pelckmans, Kalmthout | 2022
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Aimie K. Runyan The school for German brides
In 1938 in Duitsland wordt een jonge vrouw tegen haar wil uitgehuwelijkt aan een SS-officier en naar een bruidsschool gestuurd. Daar besluit ze een Joodse vrouw, die ondergedoken is, te helpen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 10 pagina's | William Morrow, New York | 2022
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Celeste Ng Our missing hearts
a novel
Fictie | Science fiction
Engels | 335 pagina's | Penguin Press, New York | 2022
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Joris Tulkens Nicolaes Cleynaerts
christenhond tussen moslims
Beschrijving van het leven van de 16e-eeuwse Vlaamse theoloog Nicolaes Cleynaerts, die Latijns, Grieks, Hebreeuws en Arabisch kende en probeerde moslims en christenen dichter bij elkaar te brengen, maar uiteindelijk door beide godsdiensten verketterd werd.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | Engels | 265 pagina's | Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, Antwerpen | 2018
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Alexis Hall Boyfriend material
Zowel Luc als Oliver, beide dertigers, hebben ieder hun eigen redenen om hun neprelatie voor de buitenwereld in stand te houden.
Fictie | Humoristische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 448 pagina's | Sourcebooks Casablanca, Naperville, Illinois | 2020
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Gerard Reve Verzameld werk
Bundeling van het in de periode 1947-1962 in het Nederlands en Engels gepubliceerde werk van de Nederlandse schrijver (1923- ).
Fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 870 pagina's | Veen, Amsterdam [etc.] | 1998
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S.A. Chakraborty The adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Amira, een vrouwelijke piraat, wordt voor een gevaarlijke opdracht gedwongen tot een laatste riskante tocht om een ontvoerd meisje te bevrijden.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Science fiction
Engels | 483 pagina's | HarperVoyager, London | 2023
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M.R.C. Kasasian The Montford Maniac
The horrors have only just begun... When Lady Violet Thorn's unbearable Aunt Igitha unexpectedly arrives at her doorstep and disrupts her peaceful existence, it sets off unsettling events eerily reminiscent of the infamous Montford Maniac’s reign. Violet must unravel the connection between her unwelcome guest and the brutal incidents – from savage beasts at her doorstep to horrifying public executions. Is Aunt Igitha orchestrating this nightmare? Or has history repeated itself with the return of...
Engels | 10 uur 51 minuten (480 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Walt Whitman Leaves of grass
Tekst van de bundel van de Amerikaanse dichter (1819-1892) met vertaling door 20 hedendaagse Nederlandse dichters.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 191 pagina's | Querido, Amsterdam | 2005
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Gosia Nealon Her Secret Resistance
Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial...
Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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M.R.C. Kasasian The Horror of Haglin House
Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate. A woman is killed outside Violet’s house, then another murdered in...
Engels | 13 uur 1 minuut (587 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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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 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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Alex Gough Emperor's Fate
Massacres, invasions, plots. An Emperor on the edge. An Empire in peril. Caracalla is on the warpath. Time, he has decided, to put his enemies in their place. To invade the Parthians at the edge of the Empire. To destroy everything in his way. For Imperial Assassin Silus, this is a time of crisis. Forced to guard the Emperor as part of his elite bodyguard, Silus knows that the situation is untenable. As everything threatens to crumble, Silus must make the ultimate choice... and face the ultimate...
Engels | 10 uur 57 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Ethan Bale Hawker and the King's Jewel
In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels....
Engels | 12 uur 8 minuten (533 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Alex Gough Emperor's Lion
A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos... Silus, a member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine. Inducted into the Emperor’s bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden. And as the Emperor becomes ever more reckless...
Engels | 10 uur 44 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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