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Phoebe Walker Temper
"There’s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion." Following a move to the Netherlands, a young woman dissects the developments of her new life: awkward exchanges with the people she meets, days spent alone freelancing in her apartment, her confrontation with boredom and unease. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from. As her feelings...
Engels | 4 uur 25 minuten (192 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads Schalken the Painter
"Schalken the Painter" is a ghost short story by Sheridan Le Fanu, taking place in the 17th-century Netherlands. An aspiring painter falls in love with his master’s niece but one day, a mysterious man comes to ask for the niece’s hand, and the master agrees. Yet the heartbroken painter can’t help but feel that is something totally wrong with this new suitor. This is a short story of about greedy family relations, and is a psychologically unnerving and ghastly tale that fans of horror fiction will...
Engels | 58 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Wanda Beemsterboer Call You Right Back, Mum
"She did not call back. Nor will she, ever again. How I started loathing those two little words, never again." In a heartbeat everything can change. This is the gripping, true story of how a young woman was murdered and a family lost a daughter. Like most young girls her age Nadine lives a life filled with family, friends and thoughts about the future. At seventeen she meets Gerold and they fall in love. But a darkness gradually falls upon their relationship and after almost three years Nadine...
Engels | 7 uur 32 minuten (330 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Syrian Dreams Foundation Cartooning Ukraine
Politieke cartoons over de oorlog in Oekraïne.
Non-fictie
Engels | 80 pagina's | Syrian Dreams Foundation, Amsterdam | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Benjamin Moser Frans Hals op de tweesprong
De tekst van de door de Amerikaanse journalist/biograaf Benjamin Moser (1976) gehouden derde Joost Zwagerman Lezing (2020) over Frans Hals, afgedrukt in het Nederlands en Engels.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 54 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Geert Mak The angel of Amsterdam
seven city stories
Many people star in this Amsterdam chronicle but the one and only protagonist is the city itself. The Angel of Amsterdam combines the dissection of the Dutch capital with a series of personal portraits. It brilliantly reveals the magic, the feel, the rituals and the forgotten world behind and beneath present-day Amsterdam. This special edition of The Angel of Amsterdam offers the international audience not only stellar writing by one of the finest of Dutch authors, but also a unique glimpse into...
Non-fictie
Engels | 177 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | 440 pagina's | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Gregory Scott Shapiro How to be orange
an alternative Dutch assimilation course
Humoristische visie van een in Nederland wonende Amerikaan op de Nederlandse samenleving en cultuur.
Non-fictie
Engels | 239 pagina's | XPat Media, The Hague | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Bernhard Schlink Objectieve wetgeving en subjectieve rechters
Dispuut over de positie van de rechter in de westerse samenleving.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 96 pagina's | Cossee, Amsterdam | 2011
Gedrukt boek
Sacha de Boer Retour New York-Amsterdam
Foto's van en interviews met Nederlandse kunstenaars in New York en Amerikaanse kunstenaars in Amsterdam.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 224 pagina's | Atlas, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Met beide voeten in de modder 2
dichter op locatie; Bob Beagrie, Andy Willoughby, Guido Utermark, Henk van Zuiden, Eva Meijer, Diann van Faassen
Gedichten en foto's van verschillende dichters over bijzondere plekken in Den Haag.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 129 pagina's | De Brouwerij, Maassluis | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Marcel Verreck Streetwise
The Hague in 28 streets
Columns over Haagse straten.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 64 pagina's | ArtNik, Deventer | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Cartooning Syria
Politieke cartoons over de oorlog in Syrië.
Non-fictie
Engels | 178 pagina's | Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas, Amsterdam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Ishmail Kamara A hundred golden horses
a journey to the Promised Land
Engels | 208 pagina's | Boekscout, Soest | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Art Zegelaar Awesome Adventures of a Remigrant
Non-fictie
Engels | 152 pagina's | EZbook.nl, Blaricum | 2022
Gedrukt boek
Glen Baxter Colonel Baxter's Dutch safari
Cartoons.
Non-fictie
Engels | 47 pagina's | De Harmonie, Amsterdam | 2012
Gedrukt boek