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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places
"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Arthur van Schendel Een zwerver verdwaald
'Een zwerver verdwaald' is het vervolg op 'een zwerver verliefd', één van Van Schendel's bekendste werken. De enigszins melancholieke Tamalone reist in de late middeleeuwen af naar Venetië, waar hij talrijke personen ontmoet. Hier in Italië zet hij zijn geliefde zwerversbestaan voort, maar het ongebonden, geromantiseerde ideaal van het zwerven blijkt soms een onmogelijke illusie. De Nederlander Arthur François Emile van Schendel (1874 – 1946) was een schrijver die bekendheid verwierf met...
Nederlands | 2 uur 41 minuten (120 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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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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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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Donna Ashcroft The Little Village of New Starts
‘I have devoured this in one sitting, Ashcroft has pulled me into the pages and made me desperate to see what was going to play out. I am a sucker for a love story and was rooting for the characters... Definitely a five star read which I highly recommend.’ Little Miss Book Lover 87 Evie Stuart is playing it safe. She lives on her family’s remote farm in the Scottish Highlands and never ventures beyond the local village of Lockton. The most unpredictable events in her life are the antics of Miss...
Engels | 8 uur 31 minuten (414 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Amy Tan De dochter van de heelmeester
In ‘De dochter van de heelmeester’ schetst Amy Tan een bewogen familiegeschiedenis die op ontroerende wijze laat zien hoe belangrijk het is om je eigen verleden te kennen. Ruth, een Chinees-Amerikaanse vrouw in de veertig, zorgt voor haar dementerende moeder. Ze heeft haar dochter nooit over haar verleden verteld. Waarom ze plotseling naar Amerika vertrok, is voor Ruth een raadsel. Maar op een dag vindt ze de aantekeningen van haar moeder waarin ze haar levensverhaal heeft opgeschreven. Eindelijk...
Nederlands | 13 uur 12 minuten (574 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Karen Clarke Summer at the Little French Cafe
In the beautiful village of Chamillon lies the Café Belle Vie, where you’ll always find croissants and friends when you need them the most – and where Elle is hoping to uncover the truth about her past... Thirty-year-old Elle Matheson has decided it’s finally time to find the mother who gave her up as a baby. With a faded postcard from the Café Belle Vie in hand – one of the very few things she has from her mother – she heads straight to the Île de Ré to begin her search. With only the postcard...
Engels | 7 uur 44 minuten (343 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Frances Mensah Williams From Pasta to Pigfoot
Be swept away by sun, sea, self-love and a delicious dollop of romance in this original, multicultural romance novel set between London and Ghana. Introducing your new, favourite girl-next-door Faye Bonsu. Dismissed as a cultural lightweight by the man she is desperate to please, under-achieving PA, Faye Bonsu, is on a mission to find love. A disastrous night out leaves pasta-fanatic Faye’s romantic dreams in tatters and underscores her alienation from her African heritage. Leaving her cosy middle-class...
Engels | 15 uur 38 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jane Davis A Funeral for an Owl
A schoolyard stabbing sends wingbeats echoing from the past. One shocking event. Two teachers risk their careers to help a boy who has nothing. Three worlds intersect and collide. The best way to avoid trouble, thinks Ayisha Emmanuelle, is to avoid confrontation. As an inner-city schoolteacher, she does a whole lot of avoidance. 14-year-old Shamayal Thomas trusts no one. Not the family, not the gang. And at school, trusting people is forbidden. Jim Stevens teaches history. Haunted by his own,...
Engels | 10 uur 14 minuten (453 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Toni Jordan Alles telt
Hoe ziet je leven eruit als je beheerst wordt door getallen? Grace telt werkelijk alles wat er te tellen valt, van de letters in haar naam tot de zaadjes op haar broodje. Zo probeert ze controle te houden over de chaos in haar leven, hartstikke logisch toch? Maar er is niemand die haar echt begrijpt. Wanneer ze op aandringen van haar zus in therapie gaat, ontmoet ze een man die haar talloze obsessies en regeltjes van tafel veegt. Misschien kun je de wereld toch niet beteugelen, hoe graag je dat ook...
Nederlands | 7 uur 24 minuten (325 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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