Edzard Krol Libri

In de zeventiende eeuw begon de emigratie vanuit Europa naar Amerika. De eerste stop voor veel Europeanen was Manhattan, een eiland met de functie van een pier in de oceaan. Alleen op het uiterste puntje woonden mensen, een bonte verzameling Noren, Duitsers, Italianen, Afrikanen, Bohemen en leden van indiaanse volken, in een door de Nederlanders gestichte nederzetting. De bewoners vonden een manier om samen te leven op de grens van chaos en orde, vrijheid en verdrukking. De Amerikaanse geschiedenis is geschreven door de Engelsen, in hun verhalen is bijzonder weinig ruimte voor de grote rol die de Lage Landen hebben gespeeld. In "Nieuw Amsterdam" wordt deze rol in een helder daglicht geplaatst. Russell Shorto toont aan hoe groot de invloed van die eerste jaren was op het huidige New York.

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

Nel giugno del 1815, Bruxelles è in festa, con mercati affollati e carrozze colorate, mentre l'imperatore Napoleone si avvicina. La diciottenne Sophia Trenchard, una bellezza inglese, è più interessata a Lord Edmund Bellasis, erede di una delle famiglie più importanti della Gran Bretagna, che le ha procurato inviti per il ballo della duchessa di Richmond. La guerra ha creato opportunità, e Sophia è determinata a sfruttare questa occasione. Suo padre, James Trenchard, noto come "il Mago", è un abile commerciante che ha scalato la società partendo da una bancarella a Covent Garden. La madre, Anne, cerca di mantenere la famiglia con i piedi per terra e ostacola l'unione tra Sophia ed Edmund, temendo che il marito veda in questa relazione un modo per ascendere ulteriormente. Durante il ballo, un aiutante di campo interrompe la serata con un messaggio: le truppe francesi hanno oltrepassato il confine, e gli ufficiali inglesi devono tornare ai loro reggimenti. Le eleganti sale diventano teatro di commiati strazianti, compreso quello tra Sophia e Lord Bellasis. Venticinque anni dopo, i Trenchard vivono a Belgravia, un quartiere edificato da James, ora facoltoso nel settore edilizio. Vicini ai conti di Brockenhurst, i genitori di Edmund, le due famiglie sono unite da un segreto che suscita curiosità e pettegolezzi nei salotti londinesi, dando vita a eventi ricchi di colpi di scena. Con uno stile impeccabile, l'autore esplora le tensio

ONE MAN'S TRUTH IS ANOTHER MAN'S LIE. When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued. The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late 80s, documenting his relationship with the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night in 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home and the case was never solved. Peter Katz is hell-bent on getting to the bottom of what happened that night twenty-five years ago and is convinced the full manuscript will reveal who committed the violent crime. But other people's recollections are dangerous weapons to play with, and this might be one memory that is best kept buried.

THE HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED TO KNOW A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don't know this person in front of me, even though he matters more to me than anyone ever has, than anyone ever will. You go into your son's bedroom. It's the usual mess. You tidy up some dirty plates, pick up some clothes, open the wardrobe to put them away. That's when you find it. And you realize a horrifying truth... Your own son might be dangerous. Keep You Close is the chilling, relentless new thriller from the bestselling author of Need to Know.