Biografieën literaire auteurs (15)
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My life ruins
A true story about a life with ups and downs
2023 || Paperback || Ramona Francina || Brave New Books
In times of darkness and adversity, you never faltered. You fought against physical pain and limitations, but your spirit remained unbroken. Your determination to keep fighting and your love for our family found their way to my heart.Eduardo carried the heavy burden of his own pain while I also cared for our children. His smile, even in the midst of the most difficult moments, gave me courage. He has shown me that despite the ruins of life, there is always hope.
Thanks to your unconditional l...
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Charles Dickens: My Father as I Recall Him
2023 || Paperback || Mamie Dickens || Must-Read Classics
If, in these pages, written in remembrance of my father, I should tell you my dear friends, nothing new of him, I can, at least, promise you that what I shall tell will be told faithfully, if simply, and perhaps there may be some things not familiar to you.
A great many writers have taken it upon themselves to write lives of my father, to tell anecdotes of him, and to print all manner of things about him. Of all these published books I have read but one, the only genuine “Life” thus far ...
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Liliyana Gadyka
2023 || Paperback || Frank Libertas || Brave New Books
The beautiful city of Kiev also has some downsides. Because of its low wages and poor economy, a veritable industry has developed there in which extremely attractive decoy women have specialised in completely financially undressing unsuspecting men from the West. Not infrequently, the lover turns out to be a professional con artist working with criminal accomplices to empty the pockets of tourists and fortune seekers. Frank Libertas takes the reader into the buzzing nightlife of Kiev where, a...
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Agatha Christie
Radio 4 Book of the Week
2023 || Paperback || Lucy Worsley || Veltman Distributie Import Books
** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'
- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'A riveting portrait'
- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
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'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times
'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph
'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical...
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Autumn on Lange Straat
2023 || Paperback || Guy Wilson || Brave New Books
It is a truth rarely acknowledged that a middle-aged English man, disinterested and diminished by life on the small island, could do worse than run away and marry an Amsterdam drag queen. There is, of course, much more to the story.
A memoir of kept promises, marriage, identity, thwarted ambition, euthanasia, grief and always show tunes in the face of adversity.
‘A memoir to die for.’
Dorothy DeMoore
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Careless and Regret
The Unfair Life
2023 || Paperback || Ali Abdullah || Sweek
This story is about a boy named Ishaan, who lived in a lot of suffrage. Ishaan's parents died and he had to take care of his younger brother Ishir at a very young age, Ishaan worked so hard to take care of his brother and quit school. After the boys grew up Ishaan did not expect Ishir will change and will hate him so much
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Taco Pie 2023 Kenneth D. Bolden
2023 || Paperback || Kenneth D. Bolden || Sweek
Life Is A Beautiful Thang
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Midas Poem Jar Kenneth D. Bolden
2023 || Paperback || Kenneth D. Bolden || Sweek
One Must Seek
And Search In
Decided All Truths.
By Kenneth D. Bolden