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1. Villa Des Roses
By: Willem Elsschot
3.54
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The gilt-lettered advertisement outside Madame Brulot's pension in the shabby rue d'Armaille promis… read more
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"In deze periode was Grünewald werkelijk alleenheerser, en alle levenden en doden verloren met de dag veld in het hart van Louise."-Willem Elsschot, Villa Des Roses
2. Broodje gezond
By: Bart Chabot
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Portret van de Nederlandse popzanger/kunstenaar (1946-2001). read more
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- music
- nonfiction
3. Broodje halfom
By: Bart Chabot
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
SamenvattingPortret van de Nederlandse popzanger in de periode 1996-1998. read more
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- music
- nonfiction
4. La Superba
By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
3.74
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Deze roman is een monument voor een stad zoals er maar één is, Genua, La Superba (de hoogmoedige). … read more
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5. Le otto montagne
By: Paolo Cognetti
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more
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6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
By: None , Matthew Walker
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker pr… read more
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- nonfiction
"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
7. Augustus
By: John Williams
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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8. Dit zijn de namen
By: Tommy Wieringa
3.57
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Een grensstad in de steppe. Uit de vlakte duikt een groep verwilderde vluchtelingen op. Ze veroorza… read more
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9. Bezonken rood
By: Jeroen Brouwers
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Samen met zijn moeder bracht Jeroen Brouwers zijn kleuterjaren door in het Japanse interneringskamp… read more
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10. Het zijn net mensen: beelden uit het Midden-Oosten
By: Joris Luyendijk
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Vijf jaar lang was Joris Luyendijk correspondent voor de Arabische wereld. Hij liep vluchtelingenka… read more
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11. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
12. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
13. Chess Story
By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more
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14. We Had to Remove This Post
By: Hanna Bervoets
2.93
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more
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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post
15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By: Lewis Carroll
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more
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"it's only a dream"-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
16. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
17. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
18. The Silence
By: Don DeLillo
2.66
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more
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"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"-Don DeLillo, The Silence
19. Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
By: Anjet Daanje
4.38
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Eliza May Drayden, het hoofdpersonage van Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris, is al dood als de ro… read more
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"De berg heeft zijn duistere kant verloren, het is een vriend geworden, zijn enige, want hij durft niemand meer te vertrouwen."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Alles verliest zijn waarde als het er altijd is, alsof je langzaam blind wordt. Dat hij van Sally hield, begreep hij ook pas toen ze langer de zijne was."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Een uur is een object, zo lijkt het, waarvan ze de omvang inschat aan de hand van wat haar ogen zien, en hier is niets dan duisternis, als een nachtkaars is de tijd gedoofd."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Alleen vanaf de drempel kijkend naar onze versimpelde, geordende wereld der grote dingen, ervaren we verandering, en dus Tijd. Die Tijd is het gevolg van ons onvermogen om de wereld te zien zoals hij…"-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
20. Humankind: A Hopeful History
By: Rutger Bregman
4.32
Format: 462 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more
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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History
21. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
22. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
23. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
24. Nirwana
By: Tommy Wieringa
4.07
Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition
De geschiedenis van een grootvader bepaalt het heden van een samen vertellen ze het verhaal van ee… read more
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25. Personality and Power
By: Ian Kershaw
3.88
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive bio… read more
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- nonfiction
26. De Zondvloed
By: Jeroen Brouwers
3.99
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
De zondvloed vertelt het verhaal van een jongen die opgroeit in Indië, zijn verblijf in een Japans … read more
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- nonfiction
28. Broodje springlevend
By: Bart Chabot
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
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