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ABC News MailingApril: VidCon Europe, CJP discount and lots of events |
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| VidCon Europe | |
 VidCon Europe, 7-9 April in Amsterdam, will bring the internet's biggest stars and best-selling authors together with their fans for a three-day celebration. John Green, Hannah Hart, Tyler Oakley and Joey Graceffa, TomSka and Carrie Hope Fletcher, Dutch creators Kwebbelkop and Sanne Vliegenthart, and dozens of other online-video creators will be the focus of the three-day-long affair, meeting their biggest fans, performing, and hosting interactive panels. Our Iris will be visiting VidCon, so be sure to check our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram feeds this weekend for what amazing authors she might bump into (or be in the vicinity of while fangirling). We can heartily recommend the books by these authors. They are full of straight-up advice, downright silly stories, and they make terrific gifts for pretty much any teen and young adult in your vicinity. A list can be found on our website. |
| Presentation: The making of Apollo VII - XVII: The Book | |
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Join us at Spui25 in Amsterdam on Sunday 9 April for a presentation on the making of Apollo VII - XVII: The Book. Generally the Apollo astronauts are hailed as great scientists, adventurers, explorers and heroes, but rarely are they portrayed as some of the most significant photographers of all time. Four young guys, working together at an advertising agency in Amsterdam, searched for a book that would do justice to the images made by the Apollo astronauts. A book like this just didn't seem to exist, so they decided to make it themselves! They will be interviewed by independent photographer Patricia Steur. To make a reservation click here. Wired magazine featured the authors and some of the stunning images in their March 2017 issue.     Other upcoming events: Dr. Don't Time Management Consults for Creative People, The English Writing Festival: Can Anyone Write a Memoir?, and OurSharedShelf Feminist Book Club. To stay informed about our events, sign up for our monthly Events Mailing, like our Facebook page, and check our Upcoming Events page. |
| Discount on top of discount with your CJP card! | |
 Until the end of August we have a very special deal for all CJP card holders: 10% discount AND and an extra � 2.50 off two of the most hotly anticipated titles of the moment! The Upside of Unrequited is Becky Albertalli's second book, after the much-loved Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. This book promises more YA love, humor, and kooky characters. It will go on sale in the second week of April. Into the Water is the follow-up to the massive bestseller The Girl on the Train. Paula Hawkins delivers another tense psychological thriller that, by various accounts, is better than her debut. It will go on sale in May. So bring your CJP card, enjoy the double discount, and get lost in two great books! And, while you're visiting us, be sure to take your free copy of CJP magazine C., available in both stores now. |
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Iris: "I'm reading Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton as part of a co-annotation project. I'm the 5th person to read & annotate this book, and the experience has been pretty interesting so far. Sometimes it's hard to not let other people's comments distract me, but other times they add insights or references that I hadn't thought of. I guess this works especially well for detective novels, since we're all trying to figure out the clues that lead to the killer." Martijn: "I'm almost done with The Nowhere Man by Greg Hurwitz. Very enjoyable, just like the first book in the series." Renate: "300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso. A small book with seemingly random yet quotable remarks and observations about life, the art of writing, failure, love, death, sex and ambition. Read as a whole, though, 300 Arguments is a piercing work of art in itself; a story about what it is to keep trying to make something, with or without failure." Luke: "Mindset by Carol Dweck, regarding the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. Let us grow!" Pleun: "I just finished Into the Water, the new Paula Hawkins. It's a better book than The Girl on the Train. Now I'm reading Trophy Child by Paula Daly." Check out what else we're reading here. There are ebooks available for Now You See Me, Nowhere Man, Orphan X, Mindset, The Girl on the Train, and Trophy Child. |    |
| Fantastic Story Competition winner | |
 Many congratulations to Marjolijn van der Meijden, who won the Fantastic Story Competition 2017 with her story 'Death's Diner'! The 10 finalists got to read their stories aloud on the stage at Dutch Comic Con, and the big reveal was shown live on our Facebook feed. Fantastic Stories, an anthology featuring the best stories in the competition, was printed on our Espresso Book Machine and can be bought at either store. Many thanks to the Stichting ter bevordering van het fantastisch genre for co-organising this competition, to everyone who read the shortlisted titles and voted, and Dutch Comic Con for hosting the awards presentation. |
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Speaking of Dutch Comic Con... we had a blast, and we hope everyone that visited did, too! We especially want to thank the fabulous authors that joined us this year: Zen Cho, Laura Lam, Vic James, N. J. Simmonds and Sam Maggs. Their good cheer and boundless energy made our stand that much more vibrant.  You can read interviews with all the authors except Sam Maggs on Hebban.nl (in Dutch), and we have a few signed copies of their books left in both stores. More pictures of DCC2017 can also be found on our Facebook page. |
| In theaters now | |
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Now in theaters across the country: Life, Animated, a documentary about Ron Suskind and his autistic son, who found a way to communicate through Disney movies. The movie is based on Suskind's book Life, Animated. Many more movies in theaters are based on books: The Ghost in the Shell, Hidden Figures, and Lion, to name a few. We keep a regularly updated list of them on our website. |  |
| New & Notable Titles - Fiction | |
| Some of these books may not be in stock yet. You can pre-order them by clicking on the title and then on "Add to Cart". | |
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American War by Akkad o el An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. | |
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Exit West by Hamid Moshin An ebook is available here. In an unnamed city teetering on the brink of civil war, a young couple embarks on a furtive love affair. As unrest explodes, the couple finds a door and leave behind their homeland and old lives. Wide-angled and specific in its depiction of the forces that are wracking our world, and the lives that are uprooted and reshaped in the process is an epic both completely of our time and for all time. | |
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Fantastic Stories by DCC Anthology featuring the best stories from the Fantastic Story Competition 2017, organised by ABC and the Stichting ter bevordering van het fantastisch genre. Printed on ABC's Espresso Book Machine. | |
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Hogwarts Library by J. K. Rowling Three classic volumes from J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, now in a beautifully redesigned boxed set! Inside readers will find books treasured by users of the great library at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander's master work on magical creatures; Quidditch Through the Ages, a comprehensive history of the game and its rules; more | |
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Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway more | |
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Sleeping Giants: Themis Files Book 1 by Sylvain Neuvel An ebook is available here. Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger... "We always look forward. We never look back." That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklyn, a brilliant scientist and the leading world more | |
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The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski An ebook is available here. The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no more | |
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The Mandibles: a Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver An ebook is available here. 'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. | |
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The Walking Dead Volume 27: The Whisperer War by Image Comics THE WHISPERER WAR PART 1 The time has come. The forces are aligning. The war has begun! Has Rick brought about the demise of everything he's built? Or will he triumph once again? Know this... there will be a cost. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #157-162. | |
| New & Notable Titles - Non Fiction | |
| Some of these books may not be in stock yet. You can pre-order them by clicking on the title and then on "Add to Cart". | |
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Connectography by Parag Khanna An ebook is available here. Imagine a map of the world in your mind. Now erase all the borderlines. Now replace those borderlines with new lines connecting regions. Those new lines represent highways, railways, canals, Internet cables and electricity grids--in a word, connectivity. We're hurtling into a future shaped less by countries than by supply chains--a world in which the most connected powers, and people, will win. | |
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Graphic: 500 Designs That Matter by Phaidon Editors Five hundred of the most iconic graphic designs of all time, from the beginnings of mechanical reproduction to the present | |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince by Mayte Garcia In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the deeply personal story of their relationship and offers a singular perspective on the music icon and their world together: from their unconventional meeting backstage at a concert (and the long-distance romance that followed), to their fairy-tale wedding more | |
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The Naked Diplomat ( a.k.a. Naked Diplomacy ) by Tom Fletcher An ebook is available here. Previously published as Naked Diplomacy. Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? In the next 100 years, the world will need to deal with the same amount of social development witnessed in the last 43 centuries � from the rebirth of the city state, the battle for new energy, and disappearing borders, to the more | |
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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations more | |
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Utopia for Realists: and How We Can Get There (Gratis geld voor iedereen) by Rutger Bregman An ebook is available here. From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty - it's time to return to utopian thinking. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think more Also featured on our Blog | |
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Weaponized Lies by Daniel Levitin An ebook is available here. A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world where the line between truth and lies is increasingly blurred by euphemistic terms such as 'post-truth', 'counter-knowledge', 'fringe theories' and others. In a world where anyone can become an expert at the click of a button, we're worse equipped than ever to more | |
