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Book of Days
2022 || Hardcover || Patti Smith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Awardâwinning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smithâs singular aestheticâinspired by her wildly popular Instagram.
In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message âHello Everybody!â Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith start...
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Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
2022 || Hardcover || Herman Narula || Veltman Distributie Import Books
âA fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experienceâit may actually enrich the quality of our livesâ (Adam Grant)âfrom the visionary co-founder of one of todayâs most innovative technology companies
âMind-expanding . . . This important book offers a highly persuasive argument that a new kind of virtual world, the metaverse, marks a profound new stage in this long human quest for fulfillment through creation.ââChris Anderson, Hea...
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The Greatest Self-Help Book (is the one written by you)
A Daily Journal for Gratitude, Happiness, Reflection and Self-Love
2022 || Hardcover || Vex King e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Write your own self-help book with this affirming daily journal from bestselling author of Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New High, and his wife, social media star Kaushal, promoting gratitude, happiness, reflection and self-love.
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Life Is Hard
How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
2022 || Hardcover || Kieran Setiya || Veltman Distributie Import Books
"Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better anyway" The New York Times Book Review
'An eloquent, moving, witty and above all useful demonstration of philosophy's power to help us weather the storms of being human' Oliver Burkeman, author of FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS
Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?
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Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
2022 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define granolaâand seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...
⢠Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
⢠How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
⢠How can we...
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In Love
2022 || Hardcover || Amy Bloom || Veltman Distributie Import Books
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to partâand of a womanâs struggle to go forward in the face of loss.
âWhat a book this isâfull of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.ââMeg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022âOprah Daily, BookPage
Amy Bloom began to notic...
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What Writers Read
35 Writers on their Favourite Book
2022 || Hardcover || Pandora Sykes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM :
NICK HORNBY * RUTH OZEKI * ANN PATCHETT * BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH * MARIAN KEYES * ELIZABETH STROUT * DEBORAH LEVY * TESSA HADLEY * ELIF SHAFAK * GEORGE THE POET * LEILA SLIMANI * ALI SMITH * DEREK OWUSU ...
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The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street
a Russian adventure
2022 || Hardcover || Pieter Waterdrinker || Veltman Distributie Import Books
âHistory doesnât repeat itself, it rhymes.â
One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinkerâs door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator ... with a sideline in contraband.
Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in Saint Petersburg, where he lives w...
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Number One Is Walking
My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
2022 || Hardcover || Steve Martin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy - an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss.
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
2022 || Hardcover || Christopher de Hamel || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centu...