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1) Artifice
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust"--
Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel, a division of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This book picks up where crowdsourcing leaves off, covering the flashpacker skills you need for spur-of-the-moment trips to Europe's top destinations. Book cheap flights online, find rooms at AirBnB, and catch a ride with Uber. Head to the most popular hostels for a ready-made, real-life social network. Learn which cities match your interests and which can be easily combined for a longer trip.
4) Black Lotus
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An ex-special forces operative wages a one-man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter who has been kidnapped by the local crime syndicate.
Series
Publisher
Nextmedia Pty Ltd
Language
English
Description
SPACES Volume 1 by frankie magazine is a collection of eclectic interiors from around the world. This large format magazine explores the homes, studios, shops and cafes of photographers, graphic designers, vintage collectors and shop owners. With a focus on carefully curated style, SPACES celebrates the unique vision and individuality of creative people living everywhere from Melbourne to Amsterdam.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and...
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Curious readers who want to explore world history can visit cities from every inhabited contintent on earth. Each carefully researched map takes readers on a city tour at a unique moment in time—from exploring Athens in ancient Greece during the birth of democracy, to walking the beautiful lamplit streets of medieval Benin, deep in the West African rainforest. Readers can even visit China’s long-lost capital city of Xianyang—a city for which...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art, the eminent curator, taking us from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, explains art's power to illuminate our lives and reveals how great art resonates powerfully by transcending the boundaries of time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time ℗¿ "An elegant, relevant biography of a vital thinker."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ℗¿ Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many-Christians as well as Jews-as...
13) That love
Author
Series
That boy volume 4
Publisher
Jillian Dodd, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"I first met the ridiculously handsome Danny Diamond at a party some fifteen years ago. He had brilliant blue eyes, a sexy smirk, and a muscular body. We had a crazy, instant connection. So, I did what I had to do¿́¿threw myself in his direction and kissed him. And that kiss ¿́Œ was like a freaking fairy tale. At least it was until he stopped it because he was married. In my tipsy state, I replied with something cheesy like, ¿́¿Don¿́¿t...
Author
Series
Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the peaks of the Himalayas to the beaches of New Zealand and the bustling streets of Cuba, take an action-packed trip around the world with a family of globetrotting pandas. Spot the pandas as they party at a medieval festival in France and hide among tulips in Amsterdam, search for them in downtown Shanghai and find them among the crowds stargazing in the Atacama Desert."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Given complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam₂s Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of seeing is a major new ninety-minute film about one of the world₂s favorite artists. This film provides viewers with the moving and inspiring experience of seeing Vincent₂s iconic masterpieces close-up on the screen while presenting new insights and interpretations by specially invited guests and experts including V. Willem...
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings is a vivid, moving, and true story of personal discovery. As a child Janet is haunted by the eerie hush surrounding her parents' experiences. George and Katherine, two professional musicians and Holocaust survivors, bury the memories of who and what they were before, silencing the past in order to live. Music is their lifeline." --
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a...