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Clemens Wisse Jouw hoeve is mijn thuis
Een jonge vrouw blijft aan het einde van de 19e eeuw na het overlijden van haar man met drie kinderen achter en heeft moeite om de touwtjes aan elkaar te knopen.
Fictie
Nederlands | 400 pagina's | Iris Oirschot, Oirschot | 2006
Grootletterboek
Eloisa James Haar Schotse hart
Vier zusters zijn begin 19e eeuw op zoek naar een geschikte huwelijkspartner.
Fictie
Nederlands | 320 pagina's | The House of Books, Vianen [etc.] | 2006
Gedrukt boek
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Diana L. Paxson Marion Bradley's voorvaderen van Avalon
Nadat twee priesteressen in paniek het zinkende eiland Atlantis hebben verlaten, vluchten ze omstreeks 2000 voor Christus naar Brittannië om daar een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen.
Fictie
Nederlands | 383 pagina's | Uitgeverij M, Amsterdam | 2005
Gedrukt boek
Bodie Thoene De stenen van Jeruzalem
De vondst van een boekrol ten tijde van de strijd om Jeruzalem in 1946 voert terug naar de tijd van Jezus van Nazareth.
Fictie
Nederlands | 364 pagina's | Gideon, Hoornaar | 2003
Gedrukt boek
Siobhan Daiko Het weesmeisje van Toscane
1944 - Wanneer een luchtaanval het ziekenhuis treft waar Carrie werkt, verandert haar leven compleet. Maar als verpleegster midden in oorlogstijd heeft ze geen tijd om te rouwen, want er zijn te veel mensen die op haar rekenen. Voor verzetsstrijder Vito is niets belangrijker dan wraak nemen voor de gruwelijkheden die zijn kameraden hebben moeten doorstaan. Maar wanneer hij een klooster bevrijdt en een groep Joodse kinderen ontdekt die zich schuilhouden, heeft hij plotseling nog een reden om voor...
Nederlands | ePub2 | Boldwood Books, Amsterdam | 2025
E-book
Siobhan Daiko Onder de orchidee
Een hartverscheurend verhaal over overleven in Hongkong tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog Hongkong 1941. De vijftienjarige Kate leidt een bevoorrecht en welgesteld leven binnen de expatgemeenschap van het vooroorlogse Hongkong. Maar wanneer de Japanners binnenvallen, wordt ze samen met haar ouders naar een interneringskamp gebracht. In de beklemmende omstandigheden van het kamp - vol vernederingen, ziektes en hongersnood - sluit Kate vriendschap met de zeventienjarige Charles. Onder de orchideeënboom...
Nederlands | ePub2 | Boldwood Books, Amsterdam | 2025
E-book
Siobhan Daiko De dochters van Toscane
Twee vrouwen - Emma, de dochter van een markies, en Rosa, de dochter van een van hun pachtboeren - worden meegesleurd in de chaos die Italië tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in zijn greep hield. Wanneer Engelse krijgsgevangenen naar het landgoed worden gestuurd, worden de levens van beide vrouwen op zijn kop gezet. Rosa rouwt om haar man die door de geallieerden is gedood en is wantrouwig tegenover de Engelse soldaten. Rosa's wantrouwen verdwijnt echter als ze een band opbouwt met de charismatische...
Nederlands | ePub2 | Boldwood Books, Amsterdam | 2025
E-book
Barbara Cartland Liefde om middernacht
Fictie
Nederlands | 349 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Olivia Lara Someday in Paris
Soulmates do exist... But will they find their way to each other? The year is 1954. In a small French museum, two people's lives are about to change forever. On a wintery night in December, fifteen-year old Zara meets Leon for the first time. As the power cuts out in the museum, Leon and Zara spend an hour in complete darkness, discussing their love for art, Monet and Paris. They both feel an instant connection but they have never seen each other in the light. They might not know what the other...
Engels | 13 uur 46 minuten (621 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Carlo Gébler I, Antigone
"I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my eyes." The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will...
Engels | 9 uur 3 minuten (401 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lady Victoria Howard Mirror Hours
Fun and Fury - a Time Travel Romance
Victoria's adventures continue through the mirror and she embarks on a Viking adventure where she is worshipped in a sexual ritual as a goddess. In the late 1930s, she arrives on the ‘Gone with the Wind’ film set where she has a sexual encounter with Clark Gable dressed as Rhett Butler. In the present-day, she meets the wealthy art collector, George Shervashidze. Then, in Bibury, she meets George’s almost complete opposite, Jude. Victoria finds her mind flitting from various men; Ragnar, George,...
Engels | 6 uur 24 minuten (280 MB) | LUST, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Lady Victoria Howard Mirror Hours
A Change of Direction - a Time Travel Romance
Victoria experiences a time slip that conjures William into her dreams. Fellow time traveller, Ruth, advises her to return the marble to Jude’s home, which she does, but the pair fall out over the ongoing land dispute. What Victoria knows for sure is that she needs to learn more about William and Molly and she wastes no time in travelling through the mirror to the Victorian era, to discover more truths. Back in the present-day, Victoria visits a Scottish castle with George but again she gets more...
Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (223 MB) | LUST, København | 2022
Luisterboek (digitaal)