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Wild
A Journey from Lost to Found
2023 || Paperback || Cheryl Strayed || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby
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The Young Man
2023 || Paperback || Annie Ernaux || Veltman Distributie Import Books
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.
“A sublime book.” —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle
“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.” —Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir
The ...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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1523 - THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION
What has changed in the 500 years since the first martyrs of the Reformation?
2023 || Paperback || Harry Sinnaghel || Academic & Scientific publishers
1 July 1523, Hendrik Vos and Johan van den Esschen died by burning at the stake on the Grand-Place in Brussels. They were the first martyrs of the Reformation.
Following this event, the Faculty of Protestant Theology and Religious Studies (FPTR) in Brussels organized a colloquium to discuss what has changed in the 500 years since the first martyrs of the Reformation. After an historical introduction to set the scene regarding 1 July 1523, this colloquium dealt with the consequences of the Ref...
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Finkelstein || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Epic, moving and important' Robert HarrisFrom longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father's devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.
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Love, Pamela
2023 || Paperback || Pamela Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
TO LIVE
AND DREAM
IS A WICKED DANCE.
MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE-
A CURSE,
AND A BLESSING.
PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true stor...