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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
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"While Anne Frank hid from the Nazis in secret rooms in the Netherlands during World War II, she confided in her diary about her life, providing the world with a primary source of what it was like to grow up fearing the wrath of Nazi Germany for simply being Jewish. This biography uses Anne Frank's most affecting writings to highlight the events of her short life. While the sidebars and fact boxes offer more information about this time period, Frank's...
3) Black lotus
Publisher
Vertical
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.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern's life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he'd been working undercover as a radio operative - or pianist - for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission - no matter the cost. Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to keep...
7) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Mini movers and shakers volume 6
Publisher
Grow Grit Press
Pub. Date
© 2020
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A devastating threat looms on the horizon...
Facing the threat of King Philip's Enterprise of England – a Spanish invasion and annexation of the country – Sir Francis Walsingham's espionage service spreads a vast spy network across Europe.
Young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez is among those agents.
After caring for hundreds of maimed and wounded soldiers returning from the fall of Sluys,
...10) 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.
11) Close to Vermeer
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Nederlands
Formats
Description
Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world – with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run – the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new...
12) Spaces Volume 1
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...
14) Marathon
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Amsterdam, August 1928. The crowd goes wild as the world's star athletes take off from the starting line for the crowning event of the Olympic Games: the marathon. Few so much as notice the short, slight Algerian runnera factory worker by daywho wears the French jersey. But that was before a strong wind, cramps, and 42.195 kilometers of ruthless competition combined to produce an astonishing upset...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...
Author
Series
Publisher
@LocutorCo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El Jinete Sin Cabeza es la traducción al español del relato clásico "La Leyenda de Sleepy Hollow". En este audiolibro, nos sumergimos en la brumosa atmósfera de Sleepy Hollow y exploramos una de las más icónicas narraciones estadounidenses: 'La Leyenda de Sleepy Hollow' de Washington Irving.
En la voz de Félix, la historia del supersticioso Ichabod Crane y su encuentro con el temido Jinete sin Cabeza cobran vida de manera vívida.
...17) Dissident X
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The revolution has been remastered and updated in this sci-fi thriller!
Hans, an American journalist with a photographic memory, escapes New York City after it falls under martial law. Traumatized by the deadly authoritarian crackdown he witnessed and harboring vital knowledge that can restore freedom and democracy back home, Hans takes refuge with a group of militant activists in Amsterdam--where a multi-national weapons manufacturer controls...
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
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
No one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed. She'll spend the summer interning in her mentor's lab in Amsterdam, and then she'll be ready for college. All she needs to do to pay for the summer abroad is agree to serve as the au pair for Dr. Reese's three-year-old. Sage has it all down to a science, but she doesn't anticipate the surprise arrival of Dr. Reese's teenage son. Ryland is...