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Annika Estassy Het is zonniger in Zuid-Frankrijk
Met het onverwachte overlijden van haar man begint een stormachtig nieuw hoofdstuk voor Louise Sörenstam. Hoe moet ze nu verder? En kende ze hem wel zo goed als ze dacht? Een buitenlands avontuur lonkt... Tegen de achtergrond van de ruige kusten van Roslagen, tegenover Stockholm, wordt het leven van Louise overhoop gegooid door de dood van haar echtgenoot Konrad. Ze heeft altijd in de schaduw van haar man geleefd en is afhankelijk van haar dochters, maar nu krijgt ze te maken met de schulden die...
Nederlands | 10 uur 37 minuten (474 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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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places
"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Steve Kedie Running and Jumping
Two rivals. One winner. Fresh off his fourth-place finish in his first Olympic final, British long jumper Adam Lowe finds himself standing face-to-face with the man who beat him to a medal. Little does he know, this chance encounter will spark a rivalry that, for Lowe, will become all-consuming. Through epic victories and crushing defeats, Lowe pushes himself to the brink, testing his mental, physical, professional, and personal limits. But when this fierce competition spirals out of control,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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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Phoebe Walker Temper
"There’s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion." Following a move to the Netherlands, a young woman dissects the developments of her new life: awkward exchanges with the people she meets, days spent alone freelancing in her apartment, her confrontation with boredom and unease. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from. As her feelings...
Engels | 4 uur 25 minuten (192 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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Hylke Speerstra Testament van de ziel
roman
Twee Friese jongens beleven een moeilijke jeugd, de een op het Friese platteland, de ander te midden van emigranten op de Canadese prairie. Beiden blijken veerkrachtig en sterk. Ze maken carrière, vinden de liefde, stichten een gezin. Als de mannen in de tachtig zijn, en allebei weduwnaar, ontmoeten ze elkaar tijdens een rodeofestival. Ze hebben aan een paar woorden genoeg om elkaars Friese wortels te herkennen, en op hun oude dag worden ze vrienden voor het leven. Samen schrijven ze hun levensverhalen...
Fictie
Nederlands | 348 pagina's (ePub2, 5,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2023
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Hans Werkman De kwekeling
roman
Een 15-jarige Groningse jongen verhuist in de jaren vijftig naar Enschede om te studeren, waar hij zich onderdompelt in een nieuwe wereld van cultuur, geloof, verliefdheid en seksualiteit.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 309 pagina's (ePub2) | KokBoekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2023
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