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Fingersmith
2024 || Paperback || Sarah Waters || Little, Brown Book Group
From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets
Beloved
1997 || Paperback || Toni Morrison || Vintage Publishing
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love.
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The Leopard
Discover the breath-taking historical classic
2024 || Paperback || Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
As the head of the aristocratic family, Don Fabrizio is accustomed to knowing his own place in the world and expects his household to run accordingly. He is aware of the changes which are rapidly making men obsolete but he remains attached to the old ways. But Don Fabrizio will make few accommodations for the modern world.
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The Mammoth Hunters
Earth's Children, Book Three
2024 || Paperback || Jean M. Auel || Random House Publishing Group
Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla.
Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare's colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi-...
My Antonia
2019 || Paperback || Willa Cather || Vintage Publishing
Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.
Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...
The Women
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Nightingale
2025 || Paperback || Kristin Hannah || Pan Macmillan
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, worldwide bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, The Women is the story of a generation, of epic love and profound loss. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation – and a world – divided by war.
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1794 Luitenant Piper. Met onbekende bestemming
2024 || Paperback || Hans Boon || Brave New Books
Luitenant Alexander Piper is in 1794 eerste officier op het Engelse oorlogskorvet ´Champion´. Engeland is in oorlog met het Frankrijk van de revolutie. De opdracht is een nieuwe gezant naar Portugal te brengen. Dit lijkt een eenvoudige opdracht maar alles loopt anders dan gedacht. De omstandigheden brengen hem over de halve wereld.