Nina Siegal
1) The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists. The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp"--
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Set in seventeenth-century Holland, this historical novel imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings. Commissioned by a prominent Amsterdam medical guild, The Anatomical Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was one of Rembrandt's first paintings to gain public notice; the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection, and, as they prepare for that evening's big event, follows several characters, including Rembrandt himself....
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National Forest with three other children. With nothing but a few basic supplies and emergency food, the children are tasked with working together to navigate one of the Netherlands' most beautiful and wild locations and return to where their families are anxiously waiting. Karin quickly finds herself at odds with two of the older teens, and suddenly looks up to see that the other...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Her glamorous life as a style reporter transformed after an incident that relegates her to the obituary desk, Valerie Vane receives an anonymous suggestion to investigate the suspicious death of a graffiti artist. Original. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
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