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13 Round the Table
A Family Saga
2017 || Paperback || Kooiman || De Nieuwe Boekhandel || met inkijkexemplaar
Family memoirs in the recent past are not uncommon but 13 Round the Table is quite different. In this book no less than eleven living siblings share memories from their youth in their own characteristic ways
The differences are almost greater than the similarities, which provides a fascinating range of reflections. This large Calvinistic rural family from the North part of The Netherlands, rises from the poverty of the 50s – when happiness was common - to prosperity. This book shows fami...
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Unposted letters / 1940-1942 / druk 1
correspondence, diaries, drawings, documents
2013 || Paperback || Stefan Themerson e.a. || Harmonie, Uitgeverij De
Schrijver, filmmaker en uitgever Stefan Themerson (Plock, 1910-1988) was in Polen vooral bekend door zijn kinderboeken die geïllustreerd werden door zijn vrouw Franciszka Themerson (Warschau, 1907-1988). Zij was schilder, filmmaker, grafisch ontwerper en toneelontwerper. Samen maakten zij naast kinderboeken een aantal films en richtten de befaamde uitgeverij Gaberbocchus Press op. Daar verschenen hun eigen publicaties, maar ook werk van onder anderen Jarry, Heine, Queneau en Bertrand Russell...
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Hearken
autobiography of a faithful drifter
2015 || Paperback || Rienk Kroese || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
This book is my story, as it is lived. At the end you may feel unsatisfied, but that is not of my concern. I am not here to satisfy anyone or any feeling. I wrote this book, so I could leave the streets out of love for a girl. This is not going to happen, but I continue to publish it, because I feel like this story, my story, needs to be told. It is a story about a young man that decides to do that one thing that every man has had the idea of doing, at least once in his life. And some women a...
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Genius Love Master Poetry Collection
2021 || Paperback || Kenneth D. Bolden || Sweek || met inkijkexemplaar
Its Me Again Lord!
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An extraordinary life
2017 || Paperback || Stella Jansen || Stella Jansen
From a dreamy little girl who wrote poems and songs I turned into a rebelious teenager and later on I embarked on the bumpy road to stardom and success.
From an early age I wrote and apparently I was gifted with a beautiful voice; I was put in front of the class in primary school which was quite an ordeal because I was very shy. Singing in a rock and roll band I overcame me shyness and from then on I worked hard to become a great singer. I took singing lessons with the renowned vocal coach Be...
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My all in one journal
2021 || Paperback || Laucyna Bodaan || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar
This a must have all in one journal! This journal contains more then 200 pages of journal fun. Do you like to keep everything in one place? then this all in one journal is just what you need. inside this journal you will find all types of easy planners such as, menstruation calendar, week planner, wellness planner, notes, drawing paper etc.
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Cycle Breaker
2023 || Paperback || Gurjot Kaur || Brave New Books
Everyone has setbacks in life, but only few have childhoods as nightmarish as Gurjot Kaur's. Growing up in two different cultures, she faced mental and sexual abuse, cultural taboos, an unsafe home environment, and a family that abandoned her and eventually cast her out.
This book is about her life thus far and the harmful generational patterns she has experienced—and broken. Gurjot now has the freedom to live life her way. Despite the trauma she has endured, she is strong and headed straig...
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Word Magic Kenneth D. Bolden
2023 || Paperback || Kenneth D. Bolden || Sweek
Golden Time Of Day 2023
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Heart Mama
A story of belated grief
2020 || Paperback || Susan van der Beek || Vrije Uitgevers, De
I don't know you personally and yet I know you. To the core of your being, I dare say. I can see it in your eyes when I look at you. Your strength, captured by your pain. I can feel your pain, I know what it feels like.Please tell me, how old were you when your mother passed away? Do you have any memories of her? Can you remember the way she looked at you, how she smiled and the stories she used to read to you? Can you remember the way she felt or how she smelt?
Being confronted with the deat...
The Light of Dawn
Her name was Ilona
2018 || Hardcover || Joey Kuipers || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
The idea of the book, was not there originally. It was something that started to grow during the years after I lost her. At first they were simple phrases on paper, memories and lines, in order to deal with her passing. You could see it as a journal, as where I tried to write it away from me, to spend hours on a single sentence, just to confront the memories and write them down. It was my way of dealing with the pain, my way of talking about it. During the years however, these phrases began t...