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Amsterdamby Ian McEwanISBN 0385494246 (0-385-49424-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amsterdam'Book summary:When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam's outcome--it's only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly's most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top. Ian McEwan is master of the writer's craft, and while this is the sort of novel that wins prizes, his characters remain curiously soulless amidst the twists and turns of plot. --Lisa Jardine [via]
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- Amsterdam: ISBN 0676972179 (0-676-97217-9)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd - Amsterdam : A Novel: ISBN 0385494238 (0-385-49423-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Amsterdam: ISBN 0786217960 (0-7862-1796-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Amsterdam: ISBN 3257232845 (3-257-23284-5)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlage - Amsterdam: ISBN 8495971054 (84-95971-05-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - Amsterdam: ISBN 0385494246 (0-385-49424-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
- Amsterdam: ISBN 0676972179 (0-676-97217-9)
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Amsterdamby Geert Mak, Philipp BlomISBN 0674009932 (0-674-00993-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amsterdam'Book summary:Cosmopolitan, stylish, even a little decadent, Amsterdam--"the Venice of the North"--is a city of legendary beauty. From a twelfth-century settlement of wooden huts at the mouth of the River Amstel, it had become by the late sixteenth century one of the great cultural capitals of Europe and a major financial center.
In this gracefully written examination of Amsterdam's soul--part history, part travel guide--the Dutch writer Geert Mak imaginatively depicts the lives of early Amsterdammers and traces the city's progress from a small town of merchants, sailors, farmers, and fishermen to a thriving metropolis. Mak's Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and magnificent monuments, but also of civil wars, uprisings, and bloody religious purges. In his delightfully instructive journey through the city and through time, Mak displays an eye for the bizarre and the unexpected: a Rembrandt sketch of a young girl executed for manslaughter; the shoe of a medieval lady unearthed during a remodeling project; a graffito foretelling the city's doom on the wall of a mansion, daubed by a deranged burgomaster with his own blood.
Amsterdam remains a magnet for travelers from around the world, and this charmingly detailed account of its origins and its history through the present day is designed to help the reader step into daily life in a truly modern city. [via]
Amsterdamby Bonnie Josephson, Micki O'FlynnISBN 3823845772 (3-8238-4577-2)
Softcover, Te Neues Pub Group
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Amsterdamby Martin Dunford, Jack HollandISBN 1858280869 (1-85828-086-9)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Amsterdamby Pierre-Yves Mercier, Knopf Guides StaffISBN 0679749144 (0-679-74914-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the Cityby Geert MakISBN 1860465986 (1-86046-598-6)
Hardcover, Harvill Pr
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Anne Frankby Doubleday StaffISBN 038542695X (0-385-42695-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again. [via]
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- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0835902358 (0-8359-0235-8)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0671690094 (0-671-69009-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0671707612 (0-671-70761-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0385040199 (0-385-04019-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0679601244 (0-679-60124-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
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- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0835902358 (0-8359-0235-8)
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Anne FrankTagebuchby Anne Frank, Fassung Von Otto H. FrankISBN 3596152771 (3-596-15277-1)
Softcover, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne FrankTagebuch'Book summary:Dieses lebendige, Einblick gewährende Tagebuch ist seit seiner ersten Veröffentlichung 1947 ein geliebter Klassiker und ein passendes Denkmal für den begabten jüdischen Teenager, der 1945 im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen ums Leben kam. 1929 geboren, bekam Anne Frank zu ihrem 13. Geburtstag ein neues, unbeschriebenes Tagebuch geschenkt, nur wenige Wochen bevor sie und ihre Familie im von den Nazis besetzten Amsterdam untertauchen mußten. Ihre wunderbar detaillierten persönlichen Eintragungen zeichnen 25 anstrengende Monate klaustrophobischer, streitgeladener Intimität mit ihren Eltern, ihrer Schwester, einer zweiten Familie und einem älteren Zahnarzt nach, der wenig Toleranz für Annes Lebhaftigkeit zeigt. Der universelle Reiz des Tagebuchs beruht auf seiner fesselnden Mischung aus den schmuddeligen Besonderheiten des Lebens im Krieg (karge, schlechte Mahlzeiten; schäbige Kleider, aus denen man längst herausgewachsen ist, die aber nicht ersetzt werden können; die ständige Angst, entdeckt zu werden) und der offenherzigen Auseinandersetzung über Gefühle, die jedem Heranwachsenden bekannt sind: "Jeder kritisiert mich, niemand erkennt meine wahre Natur, wann werde ich endlich geliebt?" Aber Anne Frank war kein gewöhnlicher Teenager: Die späteren Eintragungen verraten einen für eine kaum 15jährige bemerkenswerten Sinn für Mitgefühl und spirituelle Tiefe. Ihr Tod verkörpert den Wahnsinn des Holocaust, aber für die Millionen, die Anne durch ihr Tagebuch kennengelernt haben, ist er auch ein sehr persönlicher Verlust. --Wendy Smith [via]
Baedeker Amsterdamby Karl Baedeker (Firm), Birgit Borowski, Crispin WarrenISBN 0028606809 (0-02-860680-9)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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The Coffee Traderby David LissISBN 0375760903 (0-375-76090-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coffee Trader'Book summary:The Edgar Award-winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659-a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world's first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city's most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success-a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam's ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel. [via]
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Diarioby Ana FrankISBN 9871138679 (987-1138-67-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne FrankISBN 1556750005 (1-55675-000-5)
Hardcover, Globe Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. [via]
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- The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0385473788 (0-385-47378-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0614125472 (0-614-12547-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 1556750005 (1-55675-000-5)
Hardcover, Globe Book Co
- The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
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Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editonby Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto H. Frank, Susan MassottyISBN 0385480334 (0-385-48033-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editon'Book summary:The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank , directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010. More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit. [via]
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The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Editionby Anne Frank, David Barnouw, Gerrold van der Stroom, H. J. J. Hardy, Gerrold Van Der Stroom, Barnouw. David, Arnold J. Pomerans, Susan Massotty, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0385508476 (0-385-50847-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition'Book summary:A comparison of the three versions of Anne Frank's diary; Anne's original entries, including never-before-published material; the diary as she herself edited it while in hiding; and the best-known version, edited by her father.
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- The Diary of Anne Frank: ISBN 0883013088 (0-88301-308-8)
Softcover, Ags Pub - The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition: ISBN 0385240236 (0-385-24023-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition: ISBN 0385508476 (0-385-50847-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
- The Diary of Anne Frank: ISBN 0883013088 (0-88301-308-8)
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The Diary of Anne Frankby Goodrich, Albert HackettISBN 082221718X (0-8222-1718-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Amsterdamby Dk PublishingISBN 075662441X (0-7566-2441-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Amsterdam'Book summary:A pocket-sized travel guide of Amsterdam, for both independent and package travellers. It provides a background to the destination and a full gazetteer of the best places to see, including opening times, addresses and telephone numbers. Walks and motor tours with maps, plus information on sport, entertainment and other practical details are included too. [via]
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Een Kleine Geschiedenis Van Amsterdamby Geert MakISBN 9045012324 (90-450-1232-4)
Hardcover, Atlas
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Eyewitness Travel Guides Amsterdamby Christopher Catling, Robin PascoeISBN 078940186X (0-7894-0186-X)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyewitness Travel Guides Amsterdam'Book summary:Features: Oude Zijde, Nieuwe Zijde, the Western Canal Ring, Central Canal Ring, Eastern Canal Ring, the Museum Quarter, and Plantage. [via]
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The Fallby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679720227 (0-679-72022-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall'Book summary:Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency. [via]
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdamby David DownieISBN 0028608828 (0-02-860882-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam'Book summary:Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which attractions are overrated tourist traps and which are the secret gems that locals love. You'll get the lowdown on restaurants, lodging, and shopping, and even find out what the locals think of you. Like being taken around by a savvy local," said the New York Times. "Hipper and savvier than other guides," concurred Diversion magazine. Never shy about confronting the issues, the Irreverents are guides to real travel in the real world.
The one-dimensional Amsterdam of tulips, wooden shoes, and 17th-century architecture is the stuff of many a standard guidebook, but with its booming economy, legalized prostitution, and tolerant attitude toward recreational drug use, the city is much more than that. For savvy travelers who want to fully experience the place as the locals live it, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam is the way to go, offering the lowdown on this hip, cultivated city, where old and new sunnily coexist. You'll discover the proper way to knock back genever (Dutch gin--the potent national spirit), why Amsterdam is considered the Gay Capital of Europe, plus the inside scoop on the red-light district, complete with advice and warnings. [via]More editions of Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam:
- Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 0028637917 (0-02-863791-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 0764565680 (0-7645-6568-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 0028608828 (0-02-860882-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 0028637917 (0-02-863791-7)
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Amsterdamby Frommer's StaffISBN 0028624440 (0-02-862444-0)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Get Lost!: The Cool Guide to Amsterdamby Joe PaukerISBN 9080256102 (90-802561-0-2)
Softcover, Get Lost Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get Lost!: The Cool Guide to Amsterdam'Book summary:Joe Pauker, who refers to himself as "a goof," has compiled what is perhaps the funniest, most original guide available to the city of Amsterdam. Get Lost! The Cool Guide to Amsterdam, which is clearly not aimed at mainstream travelers, will take you to the places that standard guidebooks don't bother to cover (at least not in any detail): sex shows, hemp and 'shroom shops, and places where you can get free samples of cheese when you're too low on cash to buy food. Pauker's not shy about sharing his opinions, either. On taxis: "They're expensive, and they treat cyclists like shit, but if you really need one ... [they're] very comfortable." On banks and developers who would evict squatters: they're "conservative pigs who care more about money than people." And on cannabis: "nederwiet (Dutch grown weed, such as Northern Lights) is spectacular."
Off-the-wall humor and opinions aside, you get the feeling that Pauker really knows Amsterdam and wouldn't give you bum advice. Hotels and hostels (including the comfortable couches at Schiphol Airport), restaurants, attractions, and shopping are all covered in some detail, and obvious care was taken in selecting those establishments hip enough (and cheap enough) to make it into the book. If you're the kind of traveler who might need the Dutch translation of "stoned as a shrimp," or if you simply appreciate a fresh perspective and directions away from the trampled path, let Pauker be your guide to the "coolest, most happening city in Europe." [via]
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- Get Lost! the Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 9076499012 (90-76499-01-2)
Softcover, Scb Distributors - Get Lost! the Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 9076499039 (90-76499-03-9)
Softcover, Scb Distributors - Get Lost! the Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 9080256129 (90-802561-2-9)
Softcover, Scb Distributors - Get Lost!: The Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 9080256145 (90-802561-4-5)
Softcover, Get Lost Pub - Get Lost!: The Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 908025617X (90-802561-7-X)
Softcover, Scb Distributors - Get Lost!: The Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 9080256102 (90-802561-0-2)
Softcover, Get Lost Pub
- Get Lost! the Cool Guide to Amsterdam: ISBN 9076499012 (90-76499-01-2)
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 141774829X (1-4177-4829-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
- Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 1568951868 (1-56895-186-8)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452284937 (0-452-28493-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452287022 (0-452-28702-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Girl with a Pearl Earring: ISBN 052594527X (0-525-94527-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0002258900 (0-00-225890-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0606206736 (0-606-20673-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Girl with a Pearl Earring: ISBN 141774829X (1-4177-4829-X)
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- Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 1568951868 (1-56895-186-8)
Joe Pauker's Get Lost! the Cool Guide to Amsterdamby Joe PaukerISBN 9076499055 (90-76499-05-5)
Softcover, Get Lost Pub
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LA Chuteby Albert Camus, Germaine BreeISBN 0883324652 (0-88332-465-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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La Joven De La Perla/girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy Chevalier, Pilar VazquezISBN 8466307982 (84-663-0798-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Joven De La Perla/girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:La joven de la perla centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, La joven de la perla does contain a final delicious twist.
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En la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, el pintor holandés Johannes Vermeer inmortalizó en una tela a una bella muchacha adornada con un turbante y un pendiente de perla. Sus labios parecen esbozar una sonrisa sensual, pero sus ojos irradian la tristeza más profunda.Conocido como La Mona Lisa holandesa, detrás de ese enigmático rostro que esconde Griet, una joven de origen humilde que a los dieciséis años entra a trabajar como doncella en casa del artista a cambio de un mísero salario.Su extraordinaria sensibilidad y el cuidado que pone en todo lo que toca atraen al maestro, quien poco a poco la introduce en su mundo, un paraíso inundado por una luz mágica y poblado por criaturas femeninas de singular belleza. La joven de la perla es la historia de una fascinación, de cómo surge un sentimiento que se mueve entre la admiración y el amor. La luz en los ojos de Griet, la sirvienta convertida en musa, encierra el misterio más profundo en el proceso de creación de una obra de arte. Tracy Chevalier evoca la vida cotidiana en el siglo XVII holandés en esta hermosa novela sobre el despertar a la vida y al arte. [via]
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Lonely Planet Amsterdamby Nikki Hall, Rob Van DriesumISBN 1740590929 (1-74059-092-9)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Amsterdamby Rob Van Driesum, Nikki HallISBN 0864427891 (0-86442-789-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Amsterdam: City Guideby Rob Van DriesumISBN 0864424442 (0-86442-444-2)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Toleranceby Ian BurumaISBN 1594201080 (1-59420-108-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Hollandby Sean CondonISBN 0864427816 (0-86442-781-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Postcards From No Man's Landby Aidan ChambersISBN 0142401455 (0-14-240145-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postcards From No Man's Land'Book summary:Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. His plan is to go to Amsterdam to explore the city and honor his grandfather who died there during World War II. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isnt prepared for loveor to face questions about his sexuality. Most of all, he isnt prepared to hear what Geertrui, the woman who nursed his grandfather during the war, has to say. It seems that in the midst of terrible danger, Geertrui and Jacobs grandfathers time together blossomed into something more. Geertrui and Jacob live worlds apart, but their voices blend together to tell one storya story that transcends time and place and war. This extraordinary Printz-winning novel, now available in a deluxe edition with French flaps, rough-front paper, and bonus material including a new forward by the author, will be treasured for years to come. [via]
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Rick Steves' 2006 Amsterdam, Bruges, & Brusselsby Rick Steves, Gene OpenshawISBN 1566917190 (1-56691-719-0)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' 2006 Amsterdam, Bruges, & Brussels'Book summary:Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to meander around Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, climb Bruges' 14th century belfry, and stroll through Brussels' La Grand Place? With "Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges and Brussels 2006", travellers can experience everything Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels have to offer - economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, "Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges and Brussels 2006" includes opinionated coverage of both famous and lesser-known sights; friendly places to eat and sleep; suggested day plans; walking tours and trip itineraries; clear instructions for smooth travel anywhere by car, train, or foot; and Rick's newest "back door" discoveries. [via]
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Rick Steves' Amsterdam Bruges & Brussels 2004by Rick StevesISBN 1566915392 (1-56691-539-2)
Softcover, Pgw
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' Amsterdam Bruges & Brussels 2004'Book summary:Rick Steves does more than just list where to travel in Amsterdam; he gives travelers inside information on what to visit, where to stay, and how to get there--economically and hassle-free. [via]
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Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels 2007by Rick Steves, Gene OpenshawISBN 1566918057 (1-56691-805-7)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Publishing
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Ritualsby Cees NooteboomISBN 1860460488 (1-86046-048-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rituals'Book summary:Inni knew that life was chaotic. He knew that there were two ways to live it. As he did, with indolence and lethargy, a dilettante drifting along. Or as Arnold and Philip did, each in his different way creating a personal system of ritual and control to keep the emptiness of the universe at bay. [via]
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The Rough Guide Amsterdamby Rough GuidesISBN 1858285127 (1-85828-512-7)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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The Rough Guide To Amsterdamby Phil Lee, Rough GuidesISBN 1843534606 (1-84353-460-6)
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Time Out Amsterdamby Steve KorverISBN 1904978363 (1-904978-36-3)
Softcover, Time Out Guides
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Tulip Feverby Deborah MoggachISBN 0385334923 (0-385-33492-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tulip Fever'Book summary:Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever takes place in 17th-century Amsterdam, where roguish Rembrandt wannabes like Jan van Loos are just waiting to fall into ticklish situations. In this case, a paunchy merchant named Cornelis Sandvoort wanders into the artist's studio, hoping to impress posterity with a portrait of himself and his young wife. Apart from the fat commission, which van Loos can use, there is the bride to consider. Beautiful and bored, Sophia is easily swayed by his youthful passion--but this time, the raffish van Loos actually falls in love with one of his sexual conquests. The two carry out their affair with increasing doses of rashness and deception, meanwhile becoming dependent on the complicity of a servant, the astonishing gullibility of the old man, and the fast cash to be made on the tulip-bulb exchange.
The plot of Moggach's 13th novel neatly matches the speculative frenzy of the period, careening from one improbable thrill to the next. It was, to be sure, a time of stunning economic lunacy, when a single Semper Augustus bulb could be sold for "six fine horses, three oxheads of wine, a dozen sheep, two dozen silver goblets and a seascape by Esaias van de Velde." The author expertly dabs in this sort of period detail, and her chapter epigraphs quote some charming 17th-century Dutch sources on morals and conventional wisdom. Indeed, it's these quasi-surreal touches--whales washing up on the coast, chimney pots toppling into the street, women rubbing goose fat into their hands--that make the lovers' overheated sentiments so plausible. "For centuries to come," the narrator says, "people will gaze at these paintings and wonder what is about to happen." Tulip Fever gives us the chance to do exactly that. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Una Mujer Dificil / Storiesby John IrvingISBN 8483100959 (84-8310-095-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Until I Find Youby John IrvingISBN 1400063833 (1-4000-6383-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Until I Find You'Book summary:At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can't forgive. Longtime Irving readers have stayed with him through a few hits and a miss or two, but this is an all-time low. We are accustomed to Irving's work as quirky, bizarre, and off-the-wall and have forgiven all by calling such high-jinks and characters "imaginative" or "absolutely original." The only thing original about this tome is the descent into soft porn.
Jack Burns, the hero of the tale, is four years old when it all begins. He is the illegitimate son of Daughter Alice, a tattoo artist and, guess what, daughter of a tattoo artist. She takes Jack on a pilgrimage to find his womanizing father, William, a church organist and "ink addict." By seeking out church organs and tattoo parlors, she expects to find him. She doesn't, and by now we have spent more than a hundred pages in Northern European cities doing an imitation of Groundhog Day. Same story, different day: a little prostitution for Alice, a few questions asked; alas, no daddy.
Alice and Jack return to Toronto so that Jack may enter a previously all-girls school, which will admit little boys for the first time. There begins another 200 pages of the girls and the teachers abusing Jack, over and over again. By now, he is five and is, for some unfathomable reason, eminently interesting to girls and women. His "friend" Emma keeps careful track of "the little guy," as she calls Jack's penis, looking for signs of life. The worst part of all this is that none of it is funny or sad or even clever. There are wrestling vignettes, of course, and prep school tedium, but no bears. Maybe bears would have saved it. There were funny parts in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well as poignant, horrific parts in both of those and other Irving novels. This story is flat. The voice never changes; it just drones on.
Jack becomes an actor. First, he is a boy in drag because he is so pretty, then he takes transvestite parts. He and Emma, now a published novelist, live together in LA, which provides endless opportunity for name-dropping. His career eventually takes off and he gets recognition and awards, but still no daddy. Irving, it turns out, never knew his father, either. Perhaps this exercise will exorcise that demon once and for all and Irving's next book will be about something more compelling than a little boy's penis and his trashy mother's antics. If you do make it through to the book's snapper of an ending, you deserve to find out what it is on your own. Call it a reward. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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A Widow for One Year: A Novelby John IrvingISBN 0345424719 (0-345-42471-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Widow for One Year: A Novel'Book summary:John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).
Eddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her.
Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives--or at least to track her down. Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. Eddie is a lovable schlemiel, yet not too sentimentally drawn. And what set pieces Irving can write! The story of the boys' death is horrific and effective in dramatizing the character of Ted, who narrates it. Ted's attempted murder by a spurned lover is as hilarious as the VW-down-the-marble-stairway scene in A Prayer for Owen Meany (which has been adapted by Disney Studios), though not quite on a par with the celebrated "Pension Grillparzer" episode in The World According to Garp (reissued in a 20th anniversary edition by Modern Library).
Irving has the effrontery to get away with practically any scene that comes into his head--Ruth winds up an eyewitness to a hooker's murder in Amsterdam, a Dutch detective starts tracking her down (just as Ruth is hunting Marion), and the multiple plot strands all converge in a finale that neatly echoes the opening scene. It's all done with the outrageously coincidental yet minutely realistic brio of Charles Dickens, with a sad, self-conscious jokiness like that of Irving's mentor, Kurt Vonnegut. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Ana Frank: Diario de una Adolescenteby Anne FrankISBN 1400002672 (1-4000-0267-2)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ana Frank: Diario de una Adolescente'Book summary:Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenia sus oficinas. Estas ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a diversos campos de concentracion. En esta buhardilla y en las mas precarias condiciones, Ana, a la sazon una nina de trece anos, escribio un estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Ana y de sus acompanantes. Ana murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira. [via]
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Diario / Diaryby Ana FrankISBN 8497593065 (84-9759-306-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diario / Diary'Book summary:Anne Frank's diary is a modern classic, the living testimony of a Jewish girl caught in the nightmare horror of Hitler's Final Solution. Her extraordinary story can be read in over 50 languages, and millions of copies are in print in various editions throughout the world. [via]
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Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frankby Anne FrankISBN 9681500555 (968-15-0055-5)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frank'Book summary:Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenia sus oficinas. Estas ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a diversos campos de concentracion. En esta buhardilla y en las mas precarias condiciones, Ana, a la sazon una nina de trece anos, escribio un estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Ana y de sus acompanantes. Ana murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira. [via]
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Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944by Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto FrankISBN 9035125622 (90-351-2562-2)
Hardcover, B. Bakker
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Een Kleine Geschiedenis Van Amsterdamby Geert MakISBN 9025404162 (90-254-0416-2)
Hardcover, Atlas
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Rituelenby Cees NooteboomISBN 9029532629 (90-295-3262-9)
Hardcover, Arbeiderspers
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La Chuteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360105 (2-07-036010-5)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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Journalby Anne FrankISBN 2253001279 (2-253-00127-9)
Softcover, Librairie Generale Francaise, LGF
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal'Book summary:De juillet 1942 à août 1944, une petite fille juive partage le sort précaire de sept personnes contraintes de se cacher pour échapper à la gestapo. Tandis que les nazis ajoutent un chapitre capital et sanglant au "Bréviaire de la haine", elle note dans son journalier les menus faits et gestes de la communauté. Anne Frank tient la chronique d'une microsociété clandestine, sans rien abandonner de sa propre subjectivité. Malgré la réclusion, la peur, le monde extérieur en feu, elle reproduit fidèlement la gamme des sentiments que lui inspirent son âge et son coeur : tour à tour irritée, tendre, injuste, amoureuse. Comme si, se sentant menacée par l'imminence d'un destin tragique, elle voulait vivre en accéléré l'histoire de sa sensibilité. [via]
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Anne FrankTagebuchby Anne Frank, Fassung Von Otto H. FrankISBN 3596113776 (3-596-11377-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne FrankTagebuch'Book summary:Dieses lebendige, Einblick gewährende Tagebuch ist seit seiner ersten Veröffentlichung 1947 ein geliebter Klassiker und ein passendes Denkmal für den begabten jüdischen Teenager, der 1945 im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen ums Leben kam. 1929 geboren, bekam Anne Frank zu ihrem 13. Geburtstag ein neues, unbeschriebenes Tagebuch geschenkt, nur wenige Wochen bevor sie und ihre Familie im von den Nazis besetzten Amsterdam untertauchen mußten. Ihre wunderbar detaillierten persönlichen Eintragungen zeichnen 25 anstrengende Monate klaustrophobischer, streitgeladener Intimität mit ihren Eltern, ihrer Schwester, einer zweiten Familie und einem älteren Zahnarzt nach, der wenig Toleranz für Annes Lebhaftigkeit zeigt. Der universelle Reiz des Tagebuchs beruht auf seiner fesselnden Mischung aus den schmuddeligen Besonderheiten des Lebens im Krieg (karge, schlechte Mahlzeiten; schäbige Kleider, aus denen man längst herausgewachsen ist, die aber nicht ersetzt werden können; die ständige Angst, entdeckt zu werden) und der offenherzigen Auseinandersetzung über Gefühle, die jedem Heranwachsenden bekannt sind: "Jeder kritisiert mich, niemand erkennt meine wahre Natur, wann werde ich endlich geliebt?" Aber Anne Frank war kein gewöhnlicher Teenager: Die späteren Eintragungen verraten einen für eine kaum 15jährige bemerkenswerten Sinn für Mitgefühl und spirituelle Tiefe. Ihr Tod verkörpert den Wahnsinn des Holocaust, aber für die Millionen, die Anne durch ihr Tagebuch kennengelernt haben, ist er auch ein sehr persönlicher Verlust. --Wendy Smith [via]
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