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Brave New Books (18)
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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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Six clocks on the wall
king and priest in Christ
2015 || Paperback || Charmain Isaac || Brave New Books
A little girl from a small village.
Born into a poor Christian family.
Faith has always been the center point of my life. A few years ago I fully surrendered my life over to Christ, after being a muslim for eight years. At that point I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.
My childhood was a dark time. My parents did not raise me. Therefore there was always a feeling of loneliness. I started to have problems with my eye sight. Decades later I found out that I have...
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...
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Australian Rhapsody / druk 1
2015 || Paperback || Pari Alexander Schoorel || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Pari Alexander Schoorel was born in Indonesia. As a child he experienced incredible hardship in Japanese prison camps during WW2. When his family managed to move back to Holland after the war, he felt a calling and became a very well-known actor and later, in his thirties, a classical singer and composer. When he embarked on his inner journey, he became Osho’s sannyasin, which for him was “a matter of life and death.”
Pari explains:
From my very young years I’ve been searching for ...
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The embroidered shawl / Druk 2
2015 || Paperback || Anna Potter || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
'The texture of the dark folded around itself and Adelheidstraat number 191 stood to attention in it's avenue under the stars. Emma was alone in the house with all it's familiar sounds but for this one. Cocooned in blankets deliberately not listening to it, she heard the gentle sound of footsteps coming up the stairs, footsteps she recognised.'
Anna wonders why her mother is the way she is, so different from herself and her experience of life. She delves back into her mother's past to unravel...
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On love and liberty
2013 || Paperback || A. van Ditmarsch || Brave New Books
On love & liberty
- The incredible story of a young veterinarian s life in Liberia
`The night has fallen when we land in Robertsfield International Airport, and as I step out the cabin door the warm humid air hits me unexpectedly in an exciting and sensuous yet strangely comforting way. All around me are foreign sounds and unfamiliar fragrances. I want to stay here, I think. Oh! To live here and always feel this soft warm air around me, on my skin, in my hair, against my eyes.
But for a Dutc...
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Impossible Love
2015 || Paperback || Jill Kramer || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
What a journey it has been over the past 11 years! Way back in 2004 I just happened to attend a talk in The Hague about Crop Circles. Not knowing that this would be the beginning of a story in which I was confronted about my own past but also given the opportunity to receive help on how to enlighten myself and grow spiritually in this fast moving world. It's not been easy, but everything I learnt gave me insight on how to make changes in my life. A story where two people who are the main char...
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Touch of heaven
2021 || Paperback || Rita Khatchadorian || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Touch of Heaven is a story about Ellen, a 23-years-old Armenian woman living in Yerevan, who has just started working as a fashion designer. She grew up being very popular with lots of friends, and was almost engaged to the love of her life. Everything in her life seemed perfect until the day she got into an accident which left her in a coma. From that moment on, her soul has been wondering out of her body and she continuously lives in a world that is between death and life. Heaven would gran...