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Annika Estassy De wijngaard tussen berg en zee
Vastbesloten om haar huwelijk en haar hond niet te verliezen, gaat Nelly in de Franse zon op zoek naar de beste versie van zichzelf. Mats, met wie Nelly twintig jaar heeft samengewoond en die nu van haar wil scheiden, is van plan om hun geliefde hond Pollux mee te nemen. Om dat te voorkomen, en er zeker van dat het zijn gevoelens weer zal aanwakkeren, neemt Nelly het radicale besluit om met Pollux naar Frankrijk te vertrekken. Daar gaat ze aan de slag in een wijngaard en bij een pension, genaamd...
Nederlands | 5 uur 54 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sue McDonagh Dromen in het kunstcafé
Kan "Saaie Rosie" haar leven nieuw pit geven en bewijzen dat ze heus niet zo saai is? Rosie Bunting heeft haar hele leven voor anderen gezorgd, vaak ten koste van haar eigen dromen en ambities. Maar als ze hoort dat iemand haar als saai omschrijft, besluit ze dat het tijd is voor verandering. Rosie realiseert zich niet dat de brochure over outdooractiviteiten die ze in het plaatselijke Kunstcafé krijgt, het begin zal zijn van een zomer waarin ze in een neonkleurige legging van een klif in Wales...
Nederlands | 10 uur 24 minuten (463 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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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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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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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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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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Donna Ashcroft The Little Village of New Starts
‘I have devoured this in one sitting, Ashcroft has pulled me into the pages and made me desperate to see what was going to play out. I am a sucker for a love story and was rooting for the characters... Definitely a five star read which I highly recommend.’ Little Miss Book Lover 87 Evie Stuart is playing it safe. She lives on her family’s remote farm in the Scottish Highlands and never ventures beyond the local village of Lockton. The most unpredictable events in her life are the antics of Miss...
Engels | 8 uur 31 minuten (414 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide
At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...
Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Karen Clarke Summer at the Little French Cafe
In the beautiful village of Chamillon lies the Café Belle Vie, where you’ll always find croissants and friends when you need them the most – and where Elle is hoping to uncover the truth about her past... Thirty-year-old Elle Matheson has decided it’s finally time to find the mother who gave her up as a baby. With a faded postcard from the Café Belle Vie in hand – one of the very few things she has from her mother – she heads straight to the Île de Ré to begin her search. With only the postcard...
Engels | 7 uur 44 minuten (343 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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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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