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Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
2025 || Paperback || David A. Sinclair e.a. || Atria Books
From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.
For decades, experts have believed that we are at the mercy of our genes, and that natural damage to our genes—the kind that inevitably happens as we...
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Het Haags Studentencabaret van Rinus Ferdinandusse
2025 || Paperback || Rudie Kagie || Uitgeverij De Kring
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Hoe je taal maakt en hoe taal je raakt
2025 || Paperback || Marjolijn Voogel || Walburg Pers
Taal is overal. Mensen maken taal, maar ook omgekeerd: taal maakt wie wij zijn. Dit boek biedt een frisse blik op taal en taalgedrag. Marjolijn Voogel neemt je mee op een fascinerende reis door de veelzijdige domeinen van taal: van de eerste babybrabbels tot straattaal van jongeren, van Friese terpen tot Haagse retoriek, van chat tot de synthetische taal van AI-tools. Aan de hand van persoonlijke ervaringen legt ze de verborgen regels en verhalen van taal bloot. Ontdek hoe taal verandert, ver...
Fade into You
2025 || Paperback || Amber Smith e.a. || Margaret K. McElderry
When Jessa and Bird join forces to break up their best friends’ toxic relationship, they start to fall for each other in this swoony ’90s romance from bestselling author Amber Smith and Sam Gellar, perfect for fans of She Gets the Girl.
Bird and Jessa don’t have much in common. Bird is an aspiring poet, still finding herself after a transformative summer away at writing camp. Jessa lives for the discovery of new music, using it to block out the dysfunction waiting for...
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Practising Spanish Grammar / Druk 4
2025 || Paperback || Angela Howkins e.a. || Taylor & Francis Group Limited
Practising Spanish Grammar can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin and Moreira-Rodríguez). Designed to engage even the most grammar-shy students, this is an ideal resource for intermediate to advanced students.
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
2025 || Paperback || Oscar Wilde || Simon & Schuster
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Wilde’s classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular...
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The Everything Essential Latin Book
All You Need to Learn Latin in No Time
2025 || Paperback || Richard E Prior || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
The Everything Essential Latin Book is your perfect introduction to this fascinating language. With easy-to-follow instructions and simple explanations, this portable guide covers the most important basics of Latin.
Still Bobbi
2025 || Paperback || Bobbi Brown || S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
At last, Bobbi Brown, iconic and innovative makeup maven and entrepreneur, shares her personal story of invention and reinvention in her captivating memoir.
Bobbi Brown is a trailblazer in the beauty industry. A New York Times bestselling author of nine makeup tutorial books to date, she is the founder of both her namesake beauty brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and her four-year-old clean beauty brand, Jones Road. Recognized as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2021, included...
All the Cool Girls Get Fired
How to Let Go of Being Let Go and Come Back on Top
2025 || Paperback || Laura Brown e.a. || Gallery Books
Turn losing your job into an epic comeback with this unfiltered, comprehensive, GPS guide to rebuilding your career on your terms.
So, you got fired, laid off, restructured, canned. Welcome to the club, baby! In today’s seismically changing job market, getting fired doesn’t automatically mean you failed; it’s a rite of passage.
With their decades of experience in high-stakes leadership roles, Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill know firsthand the challeng...
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The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek
2025 || Hardcover || James Romm || Scribner
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades ...