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Lex Croucher Gwen & Art are not in love
Prinses Gwendoline is sinds haar geboorte verloofd met hertog Arthur. Helaas kunnen ze elkaar niet uitstaan. Als beiden een geheim over de ander ontdekt, sluiten ze een verbond. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 419 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2023
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Sarah Underwood Lies we sing to the sea
Een meisje dat ontsnapt is als offer aan de zeegod Poseidon wordt door een vriendin aangespoord tot de moord op een Atheense prins om aan deze barbaarse offerpraktijken een einde te maken.
Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen | Science fiction
Engels | 488 pagina's | Electric Monkey, London | 2023
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Philip Reeve Utterly dark and the tides of time
De stroming voert Utterly en de Gorm mee naar het jaar 1971. Wanneer Utterly daar in de val loopt, moet ze leren haar krachten te gebruiken als wezen van land en zee. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman
Engels | 308 pagina's | David Fickling Books, Oxford | 2023
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Laura Wood The agency of scandal
Londen 1897. Isabel werkt voor een geheime vrouwenorganisatie. Voor haar nieuwste klus moet ze samenwerken met de man op wie ze al een tijd verliefd is. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman
Engels | 515 pagina's | Scholastic, London | 2023
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M.A. Bennett The Mona Lisa mystery
The Butterfly Club kan naar de toekomst reizen. Ze stelen dingen die in hun tijd nog niet bekend of uitgevonden zijn. Daarmee kunnen ze de loop van de geschiedenis beïnvloeden. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman | Sprookjes
Engels | 403 pagina's | Welbeck Flame, London | 2023
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Dana Schwartz Immortality
a love story
Een jonge vrouw probeert het doktersvak uit te oefenen in de 18e eeuw, terwijl alleen mannen dit mochten.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 383 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2023
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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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Sue Lynn Tan Heart of the sun warrior
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Engels | 465 pagina's | Harper Voyager, London | 2023
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Isabel Ibañez What the river knows
a novel
Als de ouders van Inez Olivera plotseling komen te overlijden, blijft Inez alleen achter. Ze reist af naar Cairo om samen met haar nieuwe voogd antwoorden te vinden omtrent de dood van haar ouders.
Fictie | Historische roman | Science fiction
Engels | 404 pagina's | Wednesday Books, New York | 2023
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Lucy Strange The storm and the minotaur
De familie van George is heel arm. Daarom gaat George, net als zijn vader in de kolenmijn werken. Door een zware storm loopt de mijn vol water. Gevangen in het donker ziet George een schimmige figuur die hem lijkt te willen helpen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 96 pagina's | Barrington Stoke, Edinburgh | 2023
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Kieran Larwood Carnival of the spider
Een spannend fantasy-verhaal dat zich afspeelt tijdens het Pruisische beleg van Parijs in 1870. Voor kinderen vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman | Sprookjes
Engels | 347 pagina's | Faber, London | 2023
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