Ruth Marie Baldwin 266687

100 Nineteenth-century Rhyming Alphabets in English, from the Library of Ruth M. Baldwin

Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 296. The library of Ruth M. Baldwin contains, at the present time, about 35,000 titles and editions of children`s books in English, all before 1900 and mostly from the nineteenth century. Though a small part of the out­pouring of children`s books in English in the nineteenth century"estimated to be as much as a quarter of a million volumes"her library is probably unique in its equal representation of American and English children`s books. How many of the books published were rhyming alphabets is difficult to say. These hundred books presented here, certainly a small part of the whole, bear publication dates around the early part of the second half of the century, and represent the whole century well, for true children`s book publishing did not precede this by much. Children and readers in general as well as students of children`s literature should find this book of books interesting. The alphabets repro­duced here are included in their entirety, many of them in color, and are grouped thematically under such topics as nature, animals, and farm life. ISBN: 9780809305094. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2964475

Catalogus: Over literatuur

Trefwoorden: 9780809305094

Andrew Gross 40739

15 Seconds

Harper, 2012. Paperback. Pp: 453. 'A total white knuckle stay-up-all-night thrill ride' (Harlan Coben) from the bestselling author of Reckless and Killing Hour. Fifteen seconds can tear a life apart. OUT OF TOWN Dr Henry Steadman has it all: a booming business, a daughter he loves, and plenty of time to enjoy life. But while visiting upstate Florida, a police-stop ends in the shooting of a local cop - with Henry as the prime suspect. OUT OF LUCK Framed for a second murder, this time of a close friend, Henry goes on the run. His only lifeline is state-trooper Carrie Holmes, no stranger to tragedy herself, who can help prove his innocence. But they are in a dead-end - the police are closing in, the killer is getting away. OUT OF TIME This is not just a set-up, it's far more personal. Henry's nightmare is complete when his daughter is kidnapped. Suddenly, survival is not enough: he must save his daughter. Everything has been taken away from him - but now, Henry has nothing left to lose. ISBN: 9780007384273. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Boeknummer: 3481962

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9780007384273

1940-50s Policeman's Work - Photos, Scrapbook, Suspenders, Whistle, Billfold+++

0. Hardcover. Ephemera, 1939-1950s. --A COP'S LIFE: DEPT. FILES, PROPERTY & NEWS STORIES -- scrapbook belonging to Baltimore Co. Maryland, Sergent Ernest P. Betz. This scrapbook is a fabulous array of police records & personal material-- news-clippings attest to the prosaic nature of violence, fear and thievery that Sgt. Betz faced daily. Betz's heroism is described in grateful letters from victims, along with his official commendations. News-clippings show Sgt. Betz's competitive nature, his enthusiasm for marksmanship, long distance running and amateur boxing. Prior to police work, Ernest Betz spent 8 years as a journeyman truck & auto mechanic. Documents show Betz filed for a furlough from police work during WW2 (for reasons not shown) and his request was denied, at which time Betz formally resigned, and returned to his former trade. Perhaps, after second thoughts Betz soon was reinstated into the Baltimore Police Dept. (based on news-clippings and his 1970 membership card from the Retired Policemen's Association). SGT. BETZ'S SCRAPBOOK-- overall excellent condition, 12"x 13", with 20 leaves (several leaves have been repaired)-- Photographs/ Newspaper clippings/ Letters from appreciative citizens/ Police incident reports/ commendations/ 2 pair of 'Police Brace' suspenders/ Embossed wallet/ Police whistle/ Maryland State Police Digest of Criminal Laws (1939 edition). Very Good.

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Boeknummer: kz84

Val McDermid 27755

1989. The brand-new thriller from the No.1 bestseller

Sphere, 2022. Paperback. Pp: 464. THE SECOND THRILLING NOVEL IN VAL MCDERMID'S NEW ALLIE BURNS SERIES1989. The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie Burns is a woman on a mission. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, Allie is determined to investigate and give voice to the silenced.Elsewhere, a ticking clock begins the countdown to a murder. As Allie begins to connect the dots and edges closer to exposing the truth, it is more shocking than she ever imagined. There's nothing like a killer story, and to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life.The brand new unmissable, heart-stopping thriller from number one bestseller, Val McDermid. ISBN: 9780751583137. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Boeknummer: 3227724

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9780751583137

[ANDREE (John)]

An Account of the Tilbury Water. Containing, a narrative of the discovery of the medicinal qualities of this spring, experiments on the water, observations on the experiments, the vertues of the water interspers'd with various cases, the manner of drinking it; and lastly several remarkable cures.

London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1740. Second edition with additions, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), [4], i [i.e. iii]-iv, [7]-40pp., pp. [5-6] misnumbered i and iv, title page a little dusty, recent quarter red morocco, marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper cover. John Andree, (1697/8–1785), physician, was the co-founder of the London Hospital. "During his life he was best-known as the physician who extolled the medicinal properties of the alterative water derived from a particular well in the village of West Tilbury, Essex. His tract An Account of the Tilbury Water (1737) remained in print for half a century; the water was promoted as a 'true specifick' for diarrhoeas and all kinds of fluxes, and was considered to be 'fitted by nature to absorb and correct the acrimonious contents of the stomach and bowels'."—(ODNB). Wellcome on-line, no. 10628708.

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Boeknummer: 36898

Trefwoorden: MEDICINE HYDROLOGY TILBURY WATER

Jean-Paul Sartre 13591

The Age of Reason

Penguin, 2001. Paperback. Pp: 299. The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom, translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by David Caute in Penguin Modern Classics. Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the distant threat of the coming of the Second World War. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an iconoclastic French philosopher, novelist, playwright and, widely regarded as the central figure in post-war European culture and political thinking. Sartre famously refused the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964 on the grounds that 'a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution'. His most well-known works, all of which are published by Penguin, include The Age of Reason, Nausea and Iron in the Soul. If you enjoyed The Age of Reason, you might like Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'For my money. the greatest novel of the post-war period' Philip Kerr, author of the Berlin Noir trilogy. ISBN: 9780141185286. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 1800448

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9780141185286

Noel Malcolm 115399

Agents of Empire. Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

Allen Lane, 2015. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 604. In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of Empire describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its European hinterland by members of a Venetian-Albanian family, almost all of them previously invisible to history. They include an archbishop in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at the Venetian embassy in Istanbul. Through the life-stories of these adventurous individuals over three generations, Noel Malcolm casts the world between Venice, Rome and the Ottoman Empire in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, diplomacy, the grain trade, slave-ransoming and anti-Ottoman rebellion. He describes the conflicting strategies of the Christian powers, and the extraordinarily ambitious plans of the sultans and their viziers. Few works since Fernand Braudel's classic account of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, published more than sixty years ago, have ranged so widely through this vital period of Mediterranean and European history. A masterpiece of scholarship as well as story-telling, Agents of Empire builds up a panoramic picture, both of Western power-politics and of the interrelations between the Christian and Ottoman worlds. ISBN: 9780241003893. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2848926

Catalogus: Geschiedenis

Trefwoorden: 9780241003893

Michael Thomas Ford 218545

Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me & Other Trials of My Queer Life

Alyson Books, 1998. Paperback. Pp: 248. What can you expect from a kid who packs his toys for the Second Coming, insults the woman whose life inspired "The Sound of Music," and fears that the host of "Romper Room" is out to get him? In the case of Michael Thomas Ford, you can expect a wild ride through a very strange life filled with one surprise after another. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes thought-provoking, always wickedly funny, Ford takes on everything from the horrors of shopping and the search for a gay gene to Martha Stweart dependency and Alec Baldwin's chest. ISBN: 9781555834319. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2600168

Catalogus: Over literatuur

Trefwoorden: 9781555834319

James Patterson 29395

Alex Cross, Run

Penguin Random House, 2013. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 416. Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognise him - by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime. ISBN: 9781846057830. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 1937144

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9781846057830

All in a Lifetime an Album of Words and Photographs Depicting Life in and Around the Village of Worthen from the Turn of Century to the Beginning of the Second World War

Shropshire: Pentabus, 1982. Ring Bound Card Covers. 37pp, illustrated,; Quarto. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 87457

John Boyne 38206

All the Broken Places. The Sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Doubleday. Paperback. Pp: 416. When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving 'Exceptional, layered and compelling.This books moves like a freight train, with force and consequence for the reader' Amy Bloom From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence. Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself? All the Broken Places is a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her past and a present in which it is never too late for bravery. ISBN: 9780857528865. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3016641

Catalogus: Literatuur

Trefwoorden: 9780857528865

John Boyne 38206

All the Broken Places

Doubleday, 2022. Hardcover. Pp: 384. 'Beautifully told and gripping from first page to last' Sunday Express'An incredible feat of storytelling. and an old-fashioned page-turner' Donal Ryan'Gripping and well-honed.consummately constructed, humming with tension' Guardian'You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving________________________________ From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can't help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace. For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief and remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself? The new novel from John Boyne, WATER, is available for pre-order now._______________________________ Praise for John Boyne 'A master storyteller' Daily Express'One of the best novelists of Ireland' Sunday Express'Boyne offers writing of insight and beauty' Observer'John Boyne is a maestro of hisoritical fiction' John Irving. ISBN: 9780857528858. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3487047

Catalogus: Literatuur anderstalig

Trefwoorden: 9780857528858

Mike Gayle 39721

All the lonely people. Can Hubert bird find the place where he belongs?

Hodder. Paperback. Pp: 368. Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone. He just needs to realise it. In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship and fulfilment. But Hubert Bird is lying. The truth is day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul. Until, that is, he receives some good news - good news that in one way turns out to be the worst news ever, news that will force him out again, into a world he has long since turned his back on. Now Hubert faces a seemingly impossible task: to make his real life resemble his fake life before the truth comes out. Along the way Hubert stumbles across a second chance at love, renews a cherished friendship and finds himself roped into an audacious community scheme that seeks to end loneliness once and for all. Life is certainly beginning to happen to Hubert Bird. But with the origin of his earlier isolation always lurking in the shadows will he ever get to live the life he's pretended to have for so long? From bestselling author Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People is by turns a funny and moving meditation on love, race, old age and friendship that will not only charm and uplift, but also remind you of the power of ordinary people to make an extraordinary difference. ISBN: 9781473687417. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.

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Boeknummer: 2684903

Catalogus: Romantische fictie

Trefwoorden: 9781473687417

Harold Evans 51775

The American Century

Knopf, 1998. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 710. "In a style at once trenchant and easygoing, Harold Evans leads us on a walk through the century now drawing to a close, taking us back over ground that far too many of us have let slip from our memories." -Shelby Foote, author of The Civil WarThe American Century is an epic work. With its spectacular illustrations and incisive and lucid writing, it is as exciting and inspiring as the hundred years it surveys. Harold Evans has dramatized a people's struggle to achieve the American Dream, but also offers a thoughtful and provocative analysis of the great movements and events in America's rise to a position of political and cultural dominance. There are 900 photographs, several hundred brought to light for the first time, and the richly researched narrative offers many surprises. In 1889, when the United States entered the second hundred years of its existence, it was by no means certain that a nation of such diverse peoples, manifold beliefs, and impossible ideals could survive its own exceptional experiment in democracy or manage to avoid a headlong slide into oblivion. Evans describes what happened to the democratic ideal amid the clash of personalities and the convulsions of great events. Here are assessments of the century's nineteen presidents, from Benjamin Harrison, who brought the Stars and Stripes into American life in 1889, to the movie star who waved it so vigorously a hundred years later. Here are the muckrakers who exposed the evils of rampant capitalism, and the women who fought to make a reality of the rhetoric of equality. Here are the robber barons-the Carnegies, the Rockefellers, and the Morgans - carving out great empires of unparalleled wealth, turning their millions into foundations for public benefit. Here are Al Capone and J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ku Klux Klan, Joe McCarthy and Dwight Eisenhower. Here is the American heartland at peace (but on the wagon), America in two world wars, and at war with itself in the sixties. Evans analyzes the central questions of the era. Among them: How did the tradition arise that government should not meddle in business? How did anti-colonial America become an imperial power? How much was democracy threatened by the influence of money? What was the nature of American isolationism? Why did Woodrow Wilson take the United States into World War I? What caused the Great Depression, and why did it last so long? Did Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal succeed or fail? Did the protests of the sixties go too far? Was Vietnam a noble cause? Has the Watergate scandal been blown up out of all proportion? Who deserves the credit for the end of the Cold War? Throughout, Harold Evans lets us see how America prospered because of the power of an idea: the idea of freedom. The nation did not simply become the largest economic and military power, send men to the moon and jeans and consumer capitalism to Red Square-it strengthened Western society through acts of courage, generosity, and vision unequaled in history. The British may claim the nineteenth century by force, and the Chinese may cast a long shadow over the twenty-first, but the twentieth century belongs to the United States. This is America's story as it has never been told before. With 900 photographs. ISBN: 9780679410706. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 1663336

Catalogus: Geschiedenis

Trefwoorden: 9780679410706

Jean Weso 198318

Amsterdam Strangler

JAWS MEDIA. Paperback. Pp: 264. The tulips are in bloom and spring is caressing the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, streets, parks and café terraces are packed with locals and tourists getting the most out of some exceptionally mild March weather. Alas, a serial killer has chosen Holy Week and the Easter weekend to terrorise the Dutch capital, upsetting the usual atmosphere of conviviality. Inspector Rinus Rompa, having only recently returned to the Amsterdam Criminal Investigation Department from a lengthy mental and physical rehabilitation, has, by the skin of his teeth, managed to stay sober for 110 days. His white-knuckled sobriety and fragile state of mind come under severe threat as he embarks on putting a stop to a ruthless and ferocious strangler, while having to deal with mistrust and tension at HQ, an obstinate reporter, and an increasing chaotic private life. Amsterdam Strangler is the second book featuring Inspector Rinus Rompa and his colleagues from the Amsterdam Criminal Investigation Department. ISBN: 9789492962034. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2342556

Catalogus: Thrillers

Trefwoorden: 9789492962034