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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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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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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Yaba Badoe Wolf Light
A leopard dances under the moon. A wolf prowls. A red-beaked bird flies free. Three girls born on the same day in wolf light, the magical dusk, are bound together to protect the world. They can dazzle or destroy. They have wind-song and fire-fury at their fingertips, but their enemies are everywhere. From the bleak steppes of Mongolia and the tropical forests of Ghana to the stormy moors of Cornwall, the lands they love are plundered and poisoned. The girls must rally to perfect their skills...
Engels | 6 uur 33 minuten (291 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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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Hannah Hendy A Terrible Village Poisoning
The local mayor has a dinner date with death… With school out for the summer, dinner ladies Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are off on holiday to the picturesque village of St-Martins-on-the-Water. But on their first night, their meal at the hotel ends in disaster, when the local mayor is found dead on the restaurant floor, supposedly poisoned by his dinner. The village has a history of poisoning, and the locals are convinced the Poisoner is back. Immediately suspicion turns on Margery and...
Engels | 8 uur 3 minuten (352 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Holly Smale Het Cassandra complex
Het Cassandra complex is de nieuwe roman van bestsellerauteur Holly Smale, bekend van de serie Geek Girl. Cassandra heeft vandaag niet bepaald haar dag. Vanmorgen werd ze gedumpt door haar vriend en tegen lunchtijd werd ze ontslagen omdat ze geen 'mensenmens' is. Maar wanneer ze ’s avonds thuiskomt en haar ex opduikt alsof er niets is gebeurd, is Cassie te opgelucht om vragen te stellen. Ze is gewoon blij dat haar langste romantische relatie ooit (vier maanden) weer op het goede spoor zit… Toch?...
Nederlands | 12 uur 15 minuten (706 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2023
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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows
"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...
Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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James Ponti Tussen de tombes
Kat houdt van logica en orde, heeft een favoriet nummer van acht cijfers en kan een patroon van mijlenver herkennen. Dus wanneer een reeks cyberaanvallen belangrijke locaties in Londen treft, maakt Kats vermogen om logica te vinden in chaos haar de perfecte missieleider. Maar terwijl Brooklyn, Sydney, Parijs en Rio de ontcijferde berichten naar Egypte en de oude dodenstad van Caïro volgen, realiseert Kat zich dat er nog een andere laag onder dit mysterie zit... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Nederlands | 8 uur 35 minuten (741 MB) | De Fontein Jeugd, Utrecht | 2023
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Louise Finch The Eternal Return of Clara Hart
SHORTLISTED FOR THE YOTO CARNEGIE AWARDS 2023 Unravelling the truth, one loop at a time. When Spence witnesses his classmate, Clara, die in what looks like a tragic accident at a house party, he is caught in a flicker in the fabric of time. Waking up to relive the same day again and seeing Clara alive and well, Spence realizes he has been granted a second chance and is determined to prevent the terrible events of the party. To escape the time loop, he has to re-evaluate everything he previously...
Engels | 7 uur 29 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Rennie McOwan Jewels on the Move
Join Gavin, Clare, Michael and Mot and chase the jewels before it's too late! Having just uncovered the mysteries of the Scottish countryside, the kids are prepared for yet another outdoor adventure. But when they´re suddenly brought down a dark and dangerous path, there’s crime and criminals at every turn when some precious jewels go missing. Can they stop the runaway jewels on the move? And more importantly, can they save themselves in the process? "Jewels on the Move" is the perfect read...
Engels | 4 uur 29 minuten (203 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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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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Helena Marchmont Onderweg naar een moord
Alfie ontdekt tot zijn verbijstering dat zijn tante hem niet alleen een cottage heeft nagelaten, maar ook een klassieke Jaguar. Hij heeft echter zijn redenen om geen auto meer te rijden. De beste vriendinnen van zijn tante, Liz en Marge, halen hem over om toch weer achter het stuur te kruipen. Maar dat is pas het begin van zijn problemen. Alfie merkt dat het een bijzonder slecht idee is om de lokale politieagent tegen je in het harnas te jagen. Vooral als hij zich op de plek van een moord bevindt...
Nederlands | 93 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
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Helena Marchmont De smaak van moord
Een lokale boer van vleesrunderen wordt dood gevonden en Betty Thorndike, vegetariër en Bunburry’s enige lid van de Groene Partij, wordt als verdachte gezien. Ongeacht wat iedereen lijkt te geloven, is Betty absoluut niet de vriendin van Alfie McAlister. Maar Alfie weet wel hoe het is om valselijk beschuldigd te worden, en roept de hulp in van zijn mede-amateurdetectives, Liz en Marge, om erachter te komen wie er wel verantwoordelijk is. Alleen is er een probleem wat een onderzoek op een boerenbedrijf...
Nederlands | 97 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
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Rennie McOwan Light on Dumyat
Are you ready for an adventure? Meet Gavin, Clare, Michael and Mot - a group of friends with an unstoppable imagination for creating outdoor adventures in the remote Scottish countryside. But what happens when their latest expedition takes them down a perilous and ominous path? Hold on tight as these brave kids face thrilling and unexpected danger. With crime lurking at every corner, it's up to the kids to stop the criminals and save themselves before it is too late! Weaving an inspiring tale...
Engels | 4 uur 33 minuten (205 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Rennie McOwan The White Stag Adventure
Get ready to join Gavin, Clare, Michael and Mot on another thrilling adventure! After successfully taking down a gang of crazy criminals, the kids are now busy converting a ruined island castle into a den for themselves. But things are about to take a surprising twist when they come face to face with a strange and beautiful white stag... What mysteries do the majestic animal hold? And what secrets lie hidden within the castle's crumbling walls? Weaving an inspiring tale of childhood freedom and...
Engels | 4 uur 24 minuten (193 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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