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The Place of Tides

2024 || Hardcover || James Rebanks || Penguin Books Ltd

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Spare

2023 || Hardcover || Prince Harry || Bantam UK

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.

For Harry, this is that story at last.

With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, a...

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Cold Crematorium

Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni

'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'

JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans

'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle

'It should be required reading'

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated

When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...

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Huygens and Hofwijck

The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens

2022 || Hardcover || Kees van der Leer e.a. || AUP Wetenschappelijk || met inkijkexemplaar

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn’s son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists.

At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote Cosmotheoros, his magnum op...

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The Dukes of Arenberg.

The Thousand-Year History of a Noble Family.

2024 || Hardcover || Isabelle Vanden Hove || Arenberg Foundation

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The Step to world peace

The Salvation

2021 || Hardcover || Lancar Ida-Bagus || Mijnbestseller.nl || met inkijkexemplaar

As a human being, I feel obligated to my fellow human beings to speak up and condemn religious falsehoods because I believe that my indifference to the suffering of others makes me just as guilty as those responsible for the suffering of others, and therefore, the best I can do is to condemn and shame those who take pleasure in abusing those who use religions as a predicate.

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Boy Friends

'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY

2022 || Hardcover || Michael Pedersen || Veltman Distributie Import Books

An intimate and original memoir of grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'With a dazzling and inventive use of language .

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My Name is Barbra

2023 || Hardcover || Barbra Streisand || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her ...

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The Collaborators

Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II

2023 || Hardcover || Ian Buruma || Veltman Distributie Import Books

In this spellbinding account of three World War Two collaborators, prize-winning historian Ian Buruma examines questions of truth as he investigates their complex and tangled lives.

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Going Infinite

The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

2023 || Hardcover || Michael Lewis || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses

'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally said-though he added that he had use for "infinity dollars"...'

Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'...