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The embroidered shawl / Druk 2
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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The Street of the Three Beds
A Novel
Paperback || Roser Caminals || Monbeaulivre.fr || met inkijkexemplaar
When Roser Caminals was ten years old her family moved to a neighborhood of grid-patterned streets lined with trees and broad sidewalks; but it is the old city, with its potpourri of blind lottery peddlers, sailors from all over the world walking up from the harbor, fishmongers, tourists, door-to-door salesmen, and a variety shady characters thrown into the mix that finds its way into her fiction. The rich texture of the street life Roser Caminals witnessed during her formative years remains ...
Shattered
2024 || Hardcover || Hanif Kureishi || Hamish Hamilton
On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London.
While confined to a series of hospital wards, he fe...
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Impossible Love
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...
The Man
An action packed life story with a message for all men
2023 || Hardcover || LS Dorant || Mijnbestseller.nl
There are billions of programs,
channels and social media pages
and not one of them is dedicated
to teach women accountability.
We live in a generation where
glorifying women and
degrading men is
consider equality
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Touch of heaven
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...
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Good Tamale By Kenneth D. Bolden
2023 || Paperback || Kenneth D. Bolden || Sweek
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