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Inherent vice
2024 || Paperback || Thomas Pynchon || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2020 || Paperback || Jonathan Safran Foer || Penguin
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
Confederacy of Dunces
‘Probably my favourite book of all time’ Billy Connolly
2024 || Paperback || John Kennedy Toole || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.
The Bell Jar
2001 || Paperback || Sylvia Plath || Faber & Faber
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer.
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere
2023 || Paperback || Satoshi Yagisawa || Kings Road Publishing
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.
Hidden in Jinbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.
Twenty-five-year-old Takano has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Ojisan, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoki left him...
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Das kleine Nähcafé am Fluss
2024 || Paperback || Sabine Schmidt || Blanvalet
Ein idyllisches Haus am Fluss mit blauen Fensterläden, eine Gruppe von Frauen, die die Leidenschaft zu Nähen verbindet und eine neue Chance für die Liebe …
Maura ist eine Powerfrau, die alles im Griff hat. Als sie die Nachricht erreicht, dass ihre Tante gestorben ist und Maura deren Haus geerbt hat, macht sie sich widerwillig auf den Weg in ihre alte Heimat, die sie mit 18 fluchtartig verlassen hat. Mauras Plan: Die Beerdigung so schnell wie möglich hinter sich bringen, Tante Hetties Ha...
Daydream
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Grace || LYX
Der TIKTOK-Megahit geht weiter!
Als Henry Turner zum neuen Captain des Eishockeyteams ernannt wird und ausgerechnet im ultraschweren Kurs seines meistgehassten Professors landet, wird klar, dass das neue Semester an der UCMH alles andere als ein Spaziergang werden wird. Doch Henry hat Glück im Unglück: Nachdem er aus Versehen den Buchclub von Halle Jacobs crasht, bietet die akademische Ãœberfliegerin ihm an, ihm Nachhilfe zu geben - für einen Preis. Denn Halle sucht dringend Inspiration fÃ...
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Julia's Winkeltje
2024 || Paperback || Regina Jansen || Bookmundo
Afscheid van een oud vertrouwd leven. Een wild idee geboren uit wanhoop waaruit Julia alleen maar weet dat het gezellig moet zijn. Maar helpt het haar? Lukt het haar? Lukt het op haar leeftijd en in de overgang om een nieuw levensdoel op te starten? Julia staat voor een uitdaging om een nieuwe weg in haar leven in te slaan.
On the Road
Penguin Essentials
2024 || Paperback || Jack Kerouac || Penguin
Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
Beginners
The Original Version 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2024 || Paperback || Raymond Carver || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date.