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My Friend Anne Frank
2023 || Paperback || Hannah Pick-Goslar || Rider
THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR, WHO SHARES AN INTIMATE LOOK INTO HER LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ANNE FRANK.
'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne'
Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten...
When Hannah's family flee from the Nazis to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship with a girl just like her freshly arrived fro...
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Memories of my Father
His Life Story Against All Odds
Paperback || Therry Van Vreden || Brave New Books
In his thirty-five-year career he worked in Turkey, former Dutch Nieuw-Guinea and Indonesia. These were during the controversial cold war years in countries going through massive changes themselves coming out of colonialism. For Motorsports, this was deemed the Golden Era where sex was safe and racing dangerous. He was part of the generation that laid the foundation for Indonesian Motorsports to what it is today. In this remarkable autobiography, his son takes you on a rough-and-tumble ride t...
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Eastern Front – 500 Letters from War
The true Story of a German Soldier's incredible Journey in World War 2 – War Service, Captivity, then a Staggering Escape
2022 || Paperback || Dirk Chervatin || Bookmundo Direct
During the Second World War, Josef Chervatin was a German soldier in the 329th “Hammer” Infantry Division.
He was a man thrown into the hell of the Eastern Front and found himself at the mercy of the bombs that were going off everywhere around him.
THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT HIM GOING WAS HIS FAMILY.
He loved them dearly and always tried to be a supportive father and loving husband. Even from afar, he did his best to fill his role by writing letters. Over the years, Josef had written 500 le...
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Colored Eggs
Based on true events
2024 || Paperback || N G || Mijnbestseller.nl
Tina and Nina had a happy and careless childhood. Until the beginning of war in Croatia. After a bomb was thrown in front of their house family decided to leave Zadar. Just like many Italians at the end of the Second World War the two sisters left Zadar forever. Even though they thought they would come back just after a few days. But they never did. After the situation in Croatia got worse the whole family moved to Sweden. Their house was destroyed, looted and set on fire. In the house were v...
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Enzo Ferrari (movie tie-in)
the Man and the Machine
2023 || Paperback || Brock Yates || Random House USA
The sweeping biography of the enigmatic racer and sports car mogul who built the Ferrari brand—the inspiration for the major motion picture Ferrari directed by Michael Mann—featuring a new foreword, epilogue, and photo insert
Genius? Tyrant? Power broker? Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari’s inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Mo...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
2015 || Paperback || Harriet Jacobs || Oxford University Press
Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owners. Her sufferings, and eventual escape to the North, are described in vivid detail. This edition also includes her brother's short memoir, 'A True Tale of Slavery'.
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Scattershot
Life, Music, Elton and Me
2023 || Paperback || Bernie Taupin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."
This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who co...
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Beyond the Wand
The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
2023 || Paperback || Tom Felton || Veltman Distributie Import Books
They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage that housed the Astronomy Tower, having 'a breath of fresh air' as we referred to it. There would be painters and plasterers and chippies and sparks, and among them all would be me and Dumbledore having a crafty cigarette.
From Borrower to wizard, Tom Felton's childhood was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame saw him catapulted into the limelight aged ...
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Untamed
Stop pleasing, start living
Paperback || Glennon Doyle || Ebury Publishing
We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent - even from ourselves.For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent.
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Wonder Boy
Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
2023 || Paperback || Angel Au-Yeung e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists.
Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. About a decade l...