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Silvia Moreno-Garcia The seventh veil of Salome
Twee rivaliserende actrices proberen te overleven in het Hollywood van de jaren vijftig. Als een van hen de droomrol van het jaar pakt is een dramatisch einde niet te vermijden.
Fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's | Del Rey, New York | 2024
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Tara M. Stringfellow Memphis
Na het stuklopen van haar huwelijk met een marinier reist een zwarte vrouw met haar dochters terug naar Memphis waar ze hem ooit heeft leren kennen. Ze trekt in bij haar zus.
Fictie
Engels | 252 pagina's | John Murray, London | 2023
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Mariana Zapata All Rhodes lead here
Langzaam bloeit de liefde op tussen een gedumpte songwriter en een parkwachter in Colorado.
Fictie
Engels | 541 pagina's | Headline Eternal, London | 2023
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Gabriel García Márquez Until august
Een gelukkig getrouwde vrouw reist ieder jaar op 16 augustus naar een eiland in het Caribisch gebied om het graf van haar moeder te bezoeken. Tijdens een van deze reizen begint ze een affaire, en vanaf dat moment hoopt ze dat er ieder jaar iets gebeurt op 16 augustus.
Fictie
Engels | 129 pagina's | Alfred A. Knopff, New York | 2024
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Laura Purcell The silent companions
Een jonge weduwe gaat naar het verlaten landgoed van haar overleden man, maar het verleden en de vroegere bewoners van het huis laten haar niet met rust.
Fictie
Engels | 364 pagina's | Raven Books, London | 2018
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Hernan Diaz In the distance
In 1850 gaat een jonge Zweed vanuit Californië op zoek naar zijn broer die in New York zou moeten wonen, maar komt onderweg in allerlei bizarre situaties terecht.
Fictie
Engels | 336 pagina's | Daunt Books, London | 2018
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Carrie Walker Escape to the Swiss Chalet
When your life goes off-piste how do you climb back up the mountain? After a difficult heartbreak, Holly Roberts takes the unlikely step of relocating to the Swiss Alps for the winter. Working as a sous-chef for the affluent twins, Genevieve and irresistible Luca, she's plunged into an unfamiliar world of millionaires, après-ski, and fondue. Thankfully new friends, chalet girl Liv and chef Xavier, are there to be her guide in this snowy wonderland - and to teach her how to get off chair lifts! And...
Engels | 8 uur 59 minuten (397 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sue Roberts Take a Chance on Greece
When a health scare forces Orla, 29, to move in with her secretive father, she decides it's time to swap family drama for sun-soaked Greek beaches. After checking into a charming B&B, she realises the turquoise sea isn't the only eye-catching sight. Her neighbour, brooding writer Georgios, is in dire need of inspiration – and Orla seems to be the muse he's been waiting for. But over candlelit dinners and Greek wine, he persuades Orla to share her past. As soon as she does, however, Georgios abruptly...
Engels | 7 uur 29 minuten (331 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joanna Bolouri The Weekend Trip
Five old friends. Two new partners. One big problem… At Erin's Irish beach retreat, five friends reunite after a decade. Amid popping champagne and old tunes, the reunion is flourishing. But tension rises with the arrival of unfamiliar faces - was inviting partners a mistake? Becky's new girlfriend is annoying, and Beth's hubby keeps making uncomfortable compliments. The cherry on top? The flirty plane stranger is Tara's plus-one. What started as a weekend about reconnection now teeters on the...
Engels | 9 uur 9 minuten (404 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Jeannette Walls Hang the moon
Ondanks de tegenwerking van haar familie probeert de jonge Salllie Kincaid haar vaders zaken op een humane manier voort te zetten.
Fictie
Engels | 349 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2024
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Jonathan Franzen The corrections
Als de bejaarde vader van een Amerikaans gezin gaat dementeren, worden zijn drie uit zeer uiteenlopende milieus afkomstige kinderen gedwongen hun levens opnieuw te evalueren.
Fictie
Engels | 653 pagina's | 4th Estate, London | 2017
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Mink Elliott The Glory Years
What happens when ´13 Going On 30´ meets ´Back to the Future´? Kate O'Reilly longs for the good old days when music was better, friends were aplenty, and England's football team almost reached the Euro '96 finals. But as a busy mother with a suburban home and a dependable husband, those memories seem like a distant dream. So when a freak electrical storm transports her back to 1996, Kate jumps at the chance to relive her glory days and maybe even right some wrongs. But as she dives headfirst into...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (415 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Claudia Cravens Lucky Red
Nadat de roodharige Bridget haar vader heeft verloren op de prairie, belandt ze in een bordeel in Dodge waar haar vreedzame bestaan wreed wordt doorbroken door een gewelddadige bende.
Fictie
Engels | 292 pagina's | Atlantic fiction, London | 2024
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Sara Marchant Becoming Delilah
Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, "Becoming...
Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Alex Kane The Housewife
Even perfect mothers have secrets... Meet Leah, the perfect wife and mum with a closet full of skeletons - and if the secret gets out, her carefully crafted world could crumble. Then there's Annie, the gangster's moll with a sharp mind. She's not afraid to get her hands dirty, but no one knows the devastating secret haunting her. And lastly, Terry, the king of Glasgow gangland. He's ruthless when it comes to growing his empire, but his weakness is women. As their three stories collide, the lives...
Engels | 10 uur 37 minuten (474 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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Nicholas Carter Harvest of Swords
Rivalry in love and battle in this historical adventure set in the English Civil War. In the late autumn of the first year of the English Civil War, William Sparrow and Hugo Telling are again caught up in the impossible confusion tearing the country and their lives apart. This time, their greatest battles, fought on both land and sea, are with a new enemy, Lord Clavincale. As they struggle through the bitterly cold Dorset winter, their hard-won experience is enough to lead their men, but never...
Engels | 12 uur 21 minuten (541 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter King's Men Crow
It takes courage to survive in this atmospheric historical adventure set during the English Civil War. August 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Telling may be on different sides, but their dreams and desires are the same. To find the courage to fight proudly and lead their men. For the war to be over and for the love of the incomparable Bella. But only one side can win the war, and only one...
Engels | 12 uur 10 minuten (535 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Nicholas Carter Storming Party
Rivalry and battle abound in this action-packed historical adventure of the English Civil War. 1643: Sir William Waller’s army has been defeated on Roundway Down, his infantry left stranded on the bleak slopes at the mercy of the Royalist cavalry. Sir Ralph Hopton is now free to turn his attention to Parliament’s bastion in the West – Bristol. The city walls are strong enough, but Bristol has precious few men and even fewer guns with which to defend them. And to make matters worse, rumour has...
Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Louise Erdrich The mighty red
a novel
Een jonge vrouw van inheemse afkomst trouwt vlak na haar afstuderen en wordt geconfronteerd met allerleis sociale en relatieproblemen.
Fictie
Engels | 372 pagina's | Harper, New York | 2024
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