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Literaire fictie algemeen (75)
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Horse
2022 || Paperback || Geraldine Brooks || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on painting...
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New Animal
Hardcover || Ella Baxter || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A stunning, heartbreakingly funny debut novel from a brilliant new literary voice. Sex, death, grief, running away . . . only one of these makes Amelia feel like a new animal.
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
2022 || Paperback || Ruth Ozeki || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being
Ulysses
2022 || Paperback || James Joyce || Veltman Distributie Import Books
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The Last White Man
2022 || Hardcover || Mohsin Hamid || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change
One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father a...
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Now a major TV series on Amazon Prime
2022 || Paperback || Jenny Han || Veltman Distributie Import Books
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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
Hardcover || Meg Long || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths.
On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you tu...
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Critical Role: The Mighty Nein--The Nine Eyes of Lucien
2022 || Paperback || Madeleine Roux e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Delve into the mind of Critical Role’s most charming villain in this original novel that chronicles Lucien’s early life and his fateful meeting with the Mighty Nein.
Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of Shadycreek Run to his years living off the grid and learning blood magic from the Claret Orders, the charismatic blood hunter will find a way to get the upper hand.
When Lucien is on a job in the frozen wastela...
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It's Not TV
2022 || Paperback || Felix Gillette e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The riveting inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television—by two veteran media reporters
HBO changed how stories could be told on TV. The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Game of Thrones. The network’s meteoric rise heralded the second golden age of television with serialized shows that examined and reflected American anxieties, fears, and secret passions through complicated characters who were flawed and often unlikable. HBO’s own behind-the-scenes story is...
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Stella Maris
2022 || Paperback || Cormac McCarthy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed w...