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Violet
Paperback || Jenine Van 't Wout || Brave New Books
"Imagine this: you rule everything. With your husband on your side, you’re the one who tells people what to do and what not to do. You make the law. You are the law. Anyone who doesn’t listen will suffer the consequences. Wouldn’t that be amazing? To be such a person? I would know. Because I am. Well, I will be, when I grow up, but I practically already am. Only the husband is missing. I am a princess. And life couldn’t be more perfect. I had everything. Dresses, a huge bed, delicious...
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Soonville
Paperback || Gen Maros || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Seventeen days in Soonville for it never to be the same again. Two bars, one brothel ,
a diner , little shop or two and a church. Then there ' s Tumpkin's Penitentiary.
Well, Ford just walks out, gets a ride ,takes on a bet and there you go . Soonville .
Last time someone was shot in Soonville was when people said it would be a town soon . Making a bet on another man's life is one thing , getting away with it another . Such a quiet town . Nothing happens unless you pay for it . Now bombs goi...
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Chinese Espresso
......priceless
2023 || Paperback || Wilma De Ruiter || Brave New Books
A roguish, loveable, forty-something London antique dealer, starts on a risky journey through Belgium and France. His partner in crime is the Bohemian Nikki Carter.
Our Harry has the incredible talent of getting into trouble at the drop of a hat. On the other hand, Nikki can bring him back down to earth with a bump. The "trouble" in this case is an assignment of stolen tableware, including a Chinese tea bowl. Their road trip takes them from Bruges in Belgium to the banks of the Loire River in...
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My hope in you
Paperback || Rita Khatchadorian || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Hermine, a 20-year-old Armenian woman who goes to her mother country Armenia to study art. Her parents immigrated to Iraq in 1917 because of the Armenian genocide, and have lived there so far. Going there to study, she meets Tigran, a 26-year-old Armenian who has always lived freely. He falls in love with Hermine as soon as he sees her, and that's where their love story begins. A love story filled with tragedies, pain, love and miracles. Hermine gets to know his past, and Tigran will have da...
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Counting black stars / druk 1
Paperback || Sam Gielen || Brave New Books
When Keaton, raised in a poor family, meets the French and charming Chloë in his last month of High School, he finds himself enjoying life again despite his terrible family conditions and the loss of his suicidal girlfriend. However, his friendship with Chloë brings him into a quandary and he is forced to run away from home. Dragging Chloë along the road, Keaton befriends the mysterious Jake, who lives on a boat and claims to be a famous painter, on his way collecting his paintings from g...
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New Horizons / druk 1
A Boy's Dream
Paperback || Lindsay Eveleen || Brave New Books
Chas, his brother and sister live in Australia. Their parents have adopted Joe, a half-caste Aboriginal. Chas and Joe share a strong bond. Joe dies young. Although heart-broken, Chas gets on with his life; he becomes a jackaroo (cowboy) and farmhand on a large station.
One day he meets buffalo hunters and joins them. After a couple of years he travels to Indonesia with a Dutch friend. He starts building houses and sells the horns and hides.
Although successful, the achievement doesn t giv...
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The Pilgrim
A camino story
2022 || Paperback || Agne-Henrik Strid || Brave New Books
A humorous feel-good novel about big loves, family, the art of self-discovery, and finding your destiny in life.
After three years in Colombia working as a humanitarian aid worker for the United Nations, Pelle Jellema leaves for the French Pyrenees, tired and disillusioned. At the French-Spanish border, his 500-mile journey on foot on the ancient Camino [The Way] to Santiago de Compostela begins. He hopes to get answers to the question of what he should do now that he is going to leave Colomb...
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Our Worlds
Paperback || Victor Venhuizen || Brave New Books
For Ezzie, life has always been like folding a thousand paper cranes: if one studies diligently, perseveres through the greatest of adversities (i.e. Blythe), and contributes to the greater scheme, all will be well in the end.
Blythe, on the other hand, would quickly get bored, crumple the paper up into a ball, declare it to be a planet stuck in a decaying orbit around a supermassive black hole and start whooshing it around your head in an ever-decreasing circle until it inevitably smashes ...
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Shattered Eye
Hardcover || Jolijn Baas || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Sam Collins is sent to a small bookshop in the heart of London for a college project, where he meets the young and beautiful Amy. She's willing to help him with his choice of book, but what else will she bring to him? Meanwhile, Sam's father keeps popping up in his life--something he is not excited about.
Follow Sam through one of the most exciting but also hardest years of his life as he tries to find his place in the world.
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Snap out of it / druk 1
a novel
Paperback || Rick Kobus || Brave New Books
Fresh out of a relationship, Brooks finds himself overcome by insecurity towards the women he meets. After a while he coincidentally comes across a very special person who might just be what he needed in this depressed state of drinking and smoking. For Brooks it seems difficult to embrace this newly found connection. Realising he may have made a big mistake, Brooks desperately tries to cling on to the idea of fixing this before it might be too late. His buddy Lex keeps him on the right track...