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Cold Crematorium
Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni
'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'
JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans
'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle
'It should be required reading'
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated
When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...
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Boy Friends
'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY
2022 || Hardcover || Michael Pedersen || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An intimate and original memoir of grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'With a dazzling and inventive use of language .
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My Name is Barbra
2023 || Hardcover || Barbra Streisand || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her ...
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Elon Musk
2023 || Hardcover || Walter Isaacson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked h...
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The Promised Party
Kahlo, Basquiat and Me
2023 || Hardcover || Jennifer Clement || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement's early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City - the prequel to Widow Basquiat
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In Love
2022 || Hardcover || Amy Bloom || Veltman Distributie Import Books
This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love and shared life experiences led them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss.
“What a book this is—full of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Oprah Daily, BookPage
Amy Bloom began to notic...
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
1900 || Hardcover || Maria Bamford || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about showbusiness, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Suzuki violin training, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.
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The Book-Makers
A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
2024 || Hardcover || Adam Smyth || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.
Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books tha...
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Every Man for Himself and God against All
2023 || Hardcover || Werner Herzog || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.
From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: what we are capable of in exceptional circumstances and what th...