-
Swart Gat | 23
0€ 22,95Swart Gat is it trijentweintichste boek yn de rige fan In Fryske Odyssee. Dêryn is it libbensferhaal fan Bouke Blomhof opnommen, boer oan de Fluezen by It Heidenskip. Dit ferhaal is in ûnderdiel fan tal fan oare ferhalen, libbensbeskriuwings, mytyske teksten, novellen en romans, dy’t allegear in relaasje hawwe mei it libben fan de haadpersoan. De grutte roman oer de Blomhofs is de reade trie dy’t troch it gehiel rint.
-
Tales of Terror and Mystery
0€ 22,95Tales of Terror and Mystery is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1922 by John Murray. The collection is divided in two parts : Tales of Terror with horror stories, and Tales of Mystery with stories with strange schemes. This volume presents some of Conan Doyle s unduly neglected masterworks. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brain child, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that his tales are unbeatable for thrills and excitement.
-
Tears from Brabant
0€ 19,95This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization, wealth. Our young hero goes to Canada where he can make his dream career come true. This is also a singular love story, although it all seems to end in disaster. He then returns to the Netherlands, divorced, impoverished, disillusioned to find a new love, then losing it again and finally turning to a new form of happiness in a world that has changed beyond recognition. For those not so familiar with Dutch history the book starts with a two page short introduction to the 1700 years of Brabant history.
-
Terror-organisation: The Dawn of the True Islam and the real IRA
0€ 16,95Samir and Siobhan, a young Dutch radical Muslim and a young Northern-Irish woman, are radicalising.
Samir, from within the fundamentalist Islam, Siobhan from within the real IRA who co-operates with the terror-organisation: The Dawn of the True Islam. This international Islamic terror-organisation has developed a secret weapon: a tiny poisonous ball that is capable of destroying all life within a few minutes in a certain room or building. Siobhan is going to test the secret weapon after her training in the desert of Lybia on the murderer of her grandfather, who was killed during Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. The murderer lives in the Algarve, Portugal. After a successful test the secret weapon is going to be used to commit terror attacks in Amsterdam, London and New York. The goal is to destroy the values of the Western World and to establish a Great Islamic Empire.
-
Terug naar Arras
0€ 24,95In hypnose ontdekt Robert Nivelle, een puissant rijke kasteelheer van Le Château de Couin in de buurt van het Noord-Franse stadje Arras en tevens fokker van dure renpaarden, dat hij de reïncarnatie is van zijn overgrootvader, die tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog opperbevelhebber was van de Franse strijdkrachten. Het verklaart meteen zijn nachtmerries en hallucinaties over die periode. Bij toeval komt Nivelle erachter dat Emily Fitzgerald, de partner van een zakenrelatie in Londen, dezelfde angstdromen heeft over die oorlog.
-
Terugkeer van de Katharen
0€ 18,95In deze intrigerende roman raakt een groep mensen onder invloed van een allesoverheersende klank. Die is zo indringend dat zij het bewustzijn verliezen en later weer bijkomen in een land dat ze niet kennen.
-
The Diary of a Chambermaid
0€ 21,95The Diary of a Chambermaid was written as a satire of Parisian society in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair. Octave Mirbeau brings a journalist’s analytical eye to Celestine’s adventures as she loses her innocence and becomes as corrupt and depraved as the men who exploited her. Since its publication in 1900 it has never ceased to shock and fascinate its readers and has been made into a film by Jean Renoir in 1946 and Luis Bunuel in 1964.
-
The Last of the Legions and other Tales of long ago
0€ 22,95The Last of the Legions and other Tales of long ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Artur Conan Doyle, first published in 1922 by John Murray. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most no-ted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
-
The remarkable adventures of a loafer and Einsteins Error
0€ 19,95The famous physicist Olivier Loos compares his life with that of the loafer Tobias Vlek, he knows from his youth. As time goes by his appreciation for Tobias Vlek grows, realizing how he had failed in meeting his own expectations. His opposition against Albert Einstein met resistance with settled reputes and damaged his career. Therefore he chose for safer subjects due to sense of duty for his family.
-
The remarkable adventures of a loafer and Einsteins Error
0€ 49,95The famous physicist Olivier Loos compares his life with that of the loafer Tobias Vlek, he knows from his youth. As time goes by his appreciation for Tobias Vlek grows, realizing how he had failed in meeting his own expectations. His opposition against Albert Einstein met resistance with settled reputes and damaged his career. Therefore he chose for safer subjects due to sense of duty for his family.
-
The silent final
0€ 19,95Could the twin brothers be considered lucky, being the only concentration camp survivors from the Jewish community in Elburg. And what about the few dozen out of 660 men deported from Putten who returned after the war, were they lucky? In the Silent Final Henk Vaessen shows that for those who survived the war camps the suffering did not stop when they were liberated. For the spectator the war lasts from the beginning till the end… for the victim it lasts the rest of his life. And even then it is not over…
The story confronts the reader with controversial subjects like the ‘second and third generation syndrome’, the relationship Judaism-Christianity and anti-semitism. At the same time the author interweaves humour and gravity in the daily life of the main characters.
-
The Valley of Fear
0€ 24,95In this gruesome Sherlock Holmes tale, Holmes and Watson are called upon to investigate the mysterious shooting of John Douglas, when he is mysteriously murdered with a sawn-off shotgun at his Manor home in Sussex. The House is surrounded by a moat so the two, are at first, left baffled as to how the murderer entered or existed … or did he? Fans of the fa-mous detective will love this book, as will anyone interested in a thrilling and exciting read.
