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Crash - Niek van den Adel & Peter Smolders
This is not another story about someone who gets into a single-vehicle accident and sees the light. This is Niek’s story. A story about love, pain, dead sperm, power, a puppy, inclusivity, perseverance, humor and success.
Over 20,000 copies sold | 
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Lost Souls - Edwin Ammerlaan
After years of journalistic research and meticulous preparation, Edwin Ammerlaan has combined many facts, quotes and events from 50 years of Pink Floyd with a fictional, yet compelling coming-of-age story. By doing so, he gives the reader an intimate and unique perspective on one of the most successful bands in music history.
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The Adversary - Fred Baggen
In The Adversary all the myths and secrets of this enfant terrible are revealed: from the moment he was thirteen, lived on Mallorca and caught the eyes of all the girls of Mallorca and Spain with his stage act as a rock ‘n roll singer, followed by successes in Amsterdam as an actor, comedian, theater director, and founder of the world’s first sex theater.
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Donald Trump and American Populism - Richard S. Conley
Richard S. Conley connects Donald Trump's populist style to his predecessors. Trump’s method of communication through social media obviously differs from previous candidates and presidents with populist platforms, but his themes – a disdain for elites, grassroots support, majoritarianism, anti-intellectual discourse and nativism – borrow variably from such figures as Andrew Jackson, Huey Long, Barry Goldwater and Ross Perot. As such, Trump’s approach to governance falls within a long tradition of populism dating to the 19th Century.
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The Strange and Wonderful Life of Chas Gerretsen - Chas Gerretsen
Chas Gerretsen was born in 1943 in the Netherlands and grew up in a small-minded environment in which he quickly felt oppressed. Heavily influenced by books and movies, he left his home and traveled all around the world at age sixteen. His travels took him from crocodile hunting in Australia to becoming a cowboy in Texas. But he would become world famous as a photographer.
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My Birthday is Not My Birthdate - Sam van den Haak
Children being rescued from pitiful circumstances and living happily ever after in a loving new family. It is the romanticized narrative about adoption that people would like to believe. But what is it really like?
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The East - Maarten Hidskes
Maarten Hidskes wrote a historical novel to accompany the movie The East, made by Jim Taihuttu. The East is a grim page turner about dark period of Dutch history. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the young soldier Johan and thousands like him are being sent to the Dutch East Indies to get the colony back under control. A bunch of rebels (lead by Soekarno) has stated a declaration of independence and the Dutch government wants to quickly put an end to this call for Indonesian freedom.
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The Parrots of Moshe - Ineke Kievit
The Parrots of Moshe is a reflection on the search for Jopie, the two-year old kid that went into hiding with Ineke Kievit’s grandparents in 1943. His real name is Moshe, and survived WWII on his foster parent’s courage. He was lovingly cared for by the family, but returned to his own family after the war.
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An Officer in Afghanistan - Esmeralda Kleinreesink
In An Officer in Afghanistan Lieutenant-Colonel Esmeralda Kleinreesink offers a unique insight behind the scenes of an international military headquarters. She describes the frustrations, bureaucracy, constant tension, and how political decisions have an effect on the daily military reality.
English sample translation available | Over 2,000 copies sold | Click here for more information
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Taylor Swift - Hans van der Loo
Taylor Swift is no audacious rock chick. Just as modest and friendly as when her career started, but the girl next door has grown up. With her ability to turn personal experiences into songs, she touches millions of people all over the world. Her concerts are record-breaking, she has amassed a huge following of fanatic Swifties, and she earns billions with her albums and performances.
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Beyond Borders - Joanne Nihom
In Beyond Borders, Joanne Nihom shows what is happening in Israel, the country where she lives. She writes about the positive initiatives and inspiring people who often don't get mentioned in the media. As a Jewish woman, she shows her vulnerability in a society that is sometimes complicated for her to live in.
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Singing Rumpelstiltskin - Benjamin J. Sims
From growing up in the woodland ghetto of Cleveland, Ohio, joining the Air Force and the Freemasons, starting a music career in San Francisco in the late 1960s, playing basketball and singing in the Vietnam War, being stationed in Germany and facing a discharge hearing on false charges, and meeting people like Malcolm X, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Janis Joplin and being sacked from Isaac Hayes’ band, Ben Sims’s story is about a truly eventful life and one that resonates in 2021 because it shines a light on how Black people have to navigate society and succeed in spite of it.
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Behind The Doors - Vincent Treanor III
In his long-awaited, fascinating “tell-all” memoir, Vince Treanor, former Road Manager of The Doors, opens up – in a mildly and viciously critical tone – about the sometimes harsh reality behind the seemingly glamorous pop star life surrounding America’s most popular and successful rock group The Doors.
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Full-time Adventuress - Tamar Valkenier
From her home town in the Netherlands Tamar’s journey takes her across Europe to Istanbul by bicycle as she discovers and simultaneously pushes her physical and psychological limits. From tearful and often confusing goodbyes we share her apprehension of the unknown, follow as her confidence and skillset grows and experience the unimaginable fulfillment of a completely new existence.
Over 30,000 copies sold | German rights sold | English sample translation available | Click here for more information
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Run From the Water - Linda Westendorp
A group of six tour guides is celebrating Christmas Eve on a Thai beach in 2004. The toast to their lives by the azure water beneath the palm trees and amongst the ecstatic vacationers. The next day their paradise is hit by one of the biggest disasters in recent history, killing 230,000 people. The merry ‘Team Phuket’ instantly transforms into an untrained emergency battalion at the bizarre battlefield left behind by the sea. They rescue guests, search for missing people, and inform relatives of terrible news.
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Souvenirs - Ferry Zandvliet
Ferry is a ‘grumpy old guy’. He is angry. He is angry with his environment, his parents’ divorce, angry with everything that goes wrong, with the world at large. That stops on November 13th 2015. He and his friends are in the audience at a concert in the Parisian Bataclan theater when three men with Kalashnikovs open fire in the packed hall.
Over 15,000 copies sold | Click here for more information