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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
2023 || Paperback || Douglas Wolk || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
“Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, l...
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His Name Is George Floyd
One man's life and the struggle for racial justice
2023 || Paperback || Robert Samuels e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION*
*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*
'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES
You know how he died. This is how he lived.
Who was George Floyd? What did he hope for? What was life like for him? And why has his death been the catalyst for such a powerful global response?
The murder of George Floyd sparked a summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020, from Shetland to São Paolo, as people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man's stolen li...
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Straight from the Heart
BONNIE TYLER'S LONG-AWAITED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
2023 || Paperback || Bonnie Tyler || Veltman Distributie Import Books
You know the name and you can't mistake the voice. Now you can read the incredible story of how a shy, music-loving teenager called Gaynor Hopkins morphed into legendary international superstar Bonnie Tyler and carved out an extraordinary career that is still going strong to this day.
After five decades in the business - during which time she has recorded some of the most iconic songs of all time, travelled the world and performed for royalty and the Pope - Bonnie is sharing her fascinating j...
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir
2023 || Paperback || Baek Sehee || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR
'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
2023 || Paperback || David Sedaris || Veltman Distributie Import Books
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso
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What About Men?
2023 || Paperback || Caitlin Moran || Veltman Distributie Import Books
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn't quite right, and that the problems of feminism are also the problems of, yes, men.
So, what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if thei...
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Novelist as a Vocation
2023 || Paperback || Haruki Murakami || Veltman Distributie Import Books
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers" —New York Times Book Review
Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist...
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Loaded
The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground
2023 || Paperback || Dylan Jones || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Contemporary pop music, art, fashion, style and the avant-garde was never the same after The Velvet Underground.
Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang, around a psychedelic rock and roll band - a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol's Factory - The Velvets wer...
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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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The Darcy Myth
Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love
2023 || Paperback || Rachel Feder || Veltman Distributie Import Books
What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.