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ACE Fisher
HERITAGE
Paperback || H.J. Roeland || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
When Ana Christina Emily (aka ACE) returned to her home after a four-year walkabout she experienced one shock after another.
Her late mother turned out to be her adoptive mother.
Her father, who went missing shortly before her first birthday, now appeared to have sneaked to England, where he recently died.
While traveling to the UK, where she was expected in Bath for the reading of her father's will, she had to change flights in Kuala Lumpur.
In the departure hall, an unknown Asian girl gav...
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In the eye of the storm
In memoriam of all the fighting souls
2022 || Paperback || Ramiro Andres Muñoz Carvajal || Brave New Books
The book tells the story of Jason, who is seriously in trouble with himself. He just can't get any further in his life. Fighting against himself and the storm of life, he fails every time. Until one day he comes into contact with an education that takes him out of the eye of the storm. This book is written for anyone who is currently battling in her or his own storm, or has already come out of it.
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The Amsterdam Tinkerbells
an erotic LGBT tale celebrating Amsterdam Gay Pride 2015
Paperback || Eric Kollen || Eric Kollen
Fifteen-year-old Fabian is on his way from New York to D
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Exit West
Paperback || Mohsin Hamid || Penguin Books
An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant FundamentalistThis is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night.This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are fa...
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Thorny Road at Dawn
2023 || Paperback || Gege Akutami e.a. || VIZ Media
Resurrect the tense conflict between the Jujutsu Sorcerers and the cursed spirits in this collection of original stories.
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Thoughts of Eons / druk 1
Hardcover || Hans Van Tigchelt || Brave New Books
HANS VAN TIGCHELT, Born in Turnhout, Belgium, in 1964, married with two children, is a lover of sportscars and bluesrock, whilst professionally he's a manager in a large multinational. Little indication thus of him concealing a writer within, let alone a poet. Admittedly, his poetry is not your usual rhyme of love or the loss of it. Reading his lines is more like coming down with the flu: the more it sets in, the more poorly you will feel...
So beware:
THOUGHTS OF EONS will upset you and m...
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Into the New Dawn / druk 3
Paperback || Karlene Rae Renes || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Dawn isn't your typical high school girl. Even though she loves fashion and feminine clothes, she dresses herself like a slouch to scare away people. To her disappointment, she gets chosen to be part of the student council, the most social position in her school.
Bullies dominate her high school life, but she doesn't mind. She doesn't listen to their name calling, their mean notes and their shameless bullying. Until one day, she finds a note at home.
"I know what happened when you were eleven"
In 'Into the New Dawn', we follow the story of an abused child, who struggles to trust people during her final year of high school. We unravel the secrets of her past and the coldness of her stalker....
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Daphne
or the road to self-confidence
Paperback || Emile Kegels || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Seeing her imaginary future with Peter fade away by the forces of another woman, Daphne seeks out her old mentor for help. The elderly woman equips her with the required mystical objects and sends her on a quest to gain self-confidence. On this journey, the young woman faces a fancy hermit, onerous sisters and clenching darkness.
A modern-day story true to the style of the great classic fairy tales. For the curious who love to explore mystery and one’s inner strength.
The Nickel Boys
2020 || Paperback || Colson Whitehead || Anchor
n this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone....
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Book Lovers
2022 || Paperback || Emily Henry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.
Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she...