• Elisabeth Mcneill Mistress of Green Tree Mill

  She must find the courage to accept her fate. At the age of eleven young Lizzie Mudie’s life changes forever. With the death of her mother in the most shocking disaster, Dundee has ever seen, Lizzie is forced to grow up quickly. She discovers a strength beyond her years and when an unexpected legacy bestows upon her the dilapidated Green Tree Mill, she is determined to turn things around. Lizzie becomes a formidable mistress, but is she prepared for the price she – and those she loves – will...

  Engels | 13 uur 54 minuten (613 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time

  Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge.  But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...

  Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Elisabeth Mcneill Lark Returning

  Can Lark take the path of the woman who went before her and learn to follow her heart? Lark is a much-loved forces sweetheart spreading comfort as she sings in the music halls while Scotland’s sons fight in the Great War. But despite her fortune, Lark yearns for a life away from the crowds. She sets out to make a fresh start in the Border country seeking the contentment that has eluded her. Decades earlier, Lark’s great-grandmother, Jane, found herself in the same hills, in unhappy circumstances....

  Engels | 12 uur 55 minuten (565 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Elisabeth McNeill The Storm

  When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live...

  Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Elisabeth McNeill Turn of the Tide

  They have survived the worst they could imagine – now they must face the future. After a catastrophic storm tears through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile, Jessie, her sister-in-law, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie, the lynchpin of the family, who...

  Engels | 5 uur 32 minuten (244 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Elisabeth Mcneill Wild Heritage

  Caught between the past and the future, can friendship survive in changing times? Thirteen years have passed since the railway came to the Borders, bringing changes that would radically alter the lives of the people who lived there. Yet the steam train was not the only legacy from the men who built the railway – in their wake they left several fatherless children. One such child is Kitty Scott. Wild through neglect and an outcast within the community, Kitty is a loner... until she rescues newcomer Marie...

  Engels | 19 uur 52 minuten (870 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Henry James B.J. Harrison Reads The Turn of the Screw

  A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. What are the ghosts doing in the house? Were Peter Quint and Miss Jessel murdered? Are they seek revenge? Will the governess...

  Engels | 4 uur 36 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Call of the Wild

  Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies. Who kidnapped...

  Engels | 3 uur 30 minuten (152 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Unexpected

  Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction. Why did the miner tried to kill his partners? Is it because...

  Engels | 51 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads To Build a Fire

  A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend – a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin. Why is the man travelling through the Canadian frozen lands? Where is he heading to? Will he manage...

  Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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• Robbert Jan Swiers Mary Copeland

  Victoriaanse detective

  Vier verhalen over detective Mary Copeland die in het Victoriaanse tijdperk in Londen onderzoek doet naar misdaden.

  Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman

  Nederlands | 320 pagina's (PDF, 0,7 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

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• Kees Schaepman Soldaten van God

  de Nederlandse strijders in het leger van de paus

  Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse vrijwilligers die als zoeaven dienst namen in het legertje dat de Kerkelijke Staat tussen 1861 en 1870 verdedigde tegen de Italiaanse eenheidsbeweging.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | 168 pagina's (ePub2, 4,9 MB) | WalburgPers Algemeen, Zutphen | 2021

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• Tineke Hendriks De zee, de zee alleen

  roman over het leven van Betzy Akersloot-Berg

  Het leven van de Noors-Nederlandse beeldend kunstenaar Betzy Akersloot-Berg (1850-1922), beroemd om haar zeegezichten, was één lange worsteling om als vrouw onafhankelijk te blijven en als schilder de kost te verdienen.

  Fictie | Biografie

  Nederlands | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Uitgeverij Orlando, Amsterdam | 2021

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• Kristen Heitzmann Een regenboog in de duisternis

  roman

  'Een regenboog in de duisternis' van Kristen Heitzmann gaat verder waar 'Een klein geluk' ophield. De onverschrokken Desi Brennan is net moeder geworden… én weduwe. Nadat ze ook de trouwe voorman Holt Crawford heeft ontslagen, staat ze er helemaal alleen voor. Terwijl ze worstelt om deze nieuwe realiteit onder ogen te zien, gaat het leven op de ranch gewoon door. Desi moet zichzelf bij elkaar rapen en verdergaan. Maar Holt legt zich niet zo gemakkelijk bij zijn ontslag neer. Daar is Desi hem te...

  Fictie | Historische roman | Romantische verhalen

  Nederlands | ePub2, 6 MB | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2021

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• Elizabeth Macneal Circus der wonderen

  1866: In een kustplaatsje in Zuid-Engeland woont buitenstaander Nell, vanwege haar vele moedervlekken altijd al anders dan de rest. Dan arriveert Jasper Jupiters Circus der Wonderen in het dorp en verandert alles. Nell wordt ontvoerd en leeft gedwongen verder als een deel van het circus. Langzamerhand begint ze de positieve kanten in te zien en bouwt ze een band op met Jaspers zachtaardige broer Toby. Nell wordt steeds beroemder en komt daarmee voor donkere vraagstukken te staan. Wie vertelt haar...

  Fictie | Historische roman

  Nederlands | ePub2, 4,1 MB | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2021

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• Willemijn van Dijk De Italiaanse prinses

  het rusteloze leven van prinses Marianne van Oranje-Nassau

  De Italiaanse prinses van Willemijn van Dijk is het verhaal van het verzwegen leven van prinses Marianne van Oranje-Nassau. Prinses Marianne van Oranje-Nassau (1810-1883), de enige dochter van koning Willem I, is veruit de minst bekende prinses van het Nederlandse Koningshuis. Ze trouwt op achttienjarige leeftijd met haar volle neef Albrecht, maar het huwelijk is diep ongelukkig. Ze vlucht en ontpopt zich als vrijzinnige kunstverzamelaar, componist en reiziger. Als ontdekt wordt dat ze een affaire...

  Fictie

  Nederlands | 291 pagina's (ePub2, 5,6 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2021

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