Agent of Byzantium
10 best books like Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove): Lord Darcy, Kees de jongen, Soldier of Sidon, Blood of Tyrants, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition, The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, The Hammer and the Cross, Mistress of Mistresses, De asielzoeker, A Princess of Roumania
| Author | Randall Garrett |
| ISBN | 0743435486 |
Welcome to an alternate world where Richard the Lion-Heart did not die in the year 1199... where magic is a science and science is an art... where the great detective Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice...
| Author | Theo Thijssen |
| ISBN | 9026956037 |
“Vele mensen schijnen Kees Bakels niet eens te hebben gekend, en dat is eigenlijk niet goed te begrijpen. Is hij niet zowat de belangrijkste jongen geweest, die er ooit heeft bestaan?”
Na de vele herdrukken en verfilming van Kees de jongen sinds de eerste druk in 1923, kunnen we rustig stellen...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0765316641 |
Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in Latro in the Mist (Soldier of the Mist and...
| Author | Naomi Novik |
| ISBN | 0345522893 |
Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England’s already precarious position in the Far East. Age-old enmities and suspicions...
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition
| Author | Anne Frank |
| ISBN | 0553586386 |
Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of...
The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition
| Author | Anne Frank |
| ISBN | 0385508476 |
The only complete collection of writings by Anne Frank, this impressive volume contains three of the extant versions of her Diary (including pages that came to light in 1998), Tales from the Secret Annex (he lesser known short stories, fables, and personal reminiscences), and Cady's Life (her unfinished...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0812523482 |
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.
Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties...
| Author | E.R. Eddison |
| ISBN | 0575072849 |
The second volume in the fantasy classic most often compared with J.R.R. Tolkien
The Worm Ouroboros was the first work from E.R. Eddison that excited deeply felt enthusiasm from figures of literary stature. THE MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES, part of "The Worm" group, has long been unavailable in...
| Author | Arnon Grunberg |
| ISBN | 9038827067 |
Een beetje humaan uitbuiten, daar doe je de mensen een groot plezier mee. Christian Beck, vertaler van gebruiksaanwijzingen, ontdekt alternatieve vormen van geluk en liefde. Ooit ontmaskerde hij zelfbedrog en illusies terwijl zijn vrouw in de woestijn dieren bestudeerde. Nu leeft hij voor haar....
| Author | Paul Park |
| ISBN | 0765349507 |
This is a truly magical tale, full of strangeness, terrors and wonders. Many girls daydream that they are really a princess adopted by commoners. In the case of teenager Miranda Popescu, this is literally true. Because she is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate...
| Author | Leonard Michaels |
| ISBN | 0374126542 |
Leonard Michaels was a master of the short story. His collections are among the most admired, influential, and exciting of the last half century. The Collected Stories brings them back into print, from the astonishing debut Going Places (1969) to the uncollected last stories, unavailable since they...
| Author | Leon de Winter |
| ISBN | 9023414462 |
Lekker spannend boek wat je niet makkelijk weglegt. Dankzij een stevige griep in een dag uitgelezen.
Maar ook een boek dat tot nadenken stemt. De fel-realistische beschrijving van Israël dat in 2024 is gereduceerd tot een verpauperde stadstaat te midden van onverminderd vijandige moslim...
| Author | Anne Frank |
| ISBN | 0837172063 |
Revised and expanded version of the Critical Edition, originally published in 1986. A complete collection of Anne Frank's known writings -- different versions of her diary (as well as five recently discovered diary pages), fables, personal reminiscences and her unfinished novel, Cady's Life....
| Author | Amy Fusselman |
| ISBN | 0142002356 |
Named "It" Discovery Writer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Amy Fusselman took readers and critics alike by storm when McSweeney's published this powerful little book. In The Pharmacist's Mate, she writes of her father's death and her own attempts to become pregnant, weaving in excerpts from...
Jacoba, Dochter van Holland
| Author | Simone van der Vlugt |
| ISBN | 9041415319 |
In deze historische roman kruipt Simone van der Vlugt op overtuigende wijze in de huid van Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436). Jacoba was haar tijd ver vooruit, stak haar feministische ideeen niet onder stoelen of banken en koos ook in de liefde niet altijd voor de makkelijkste weg. We leren een vrouw kennen...
De dagboeken van Anne Frank
Deze uitgave is een integrale en letterlijke weergave van hetgeen Anne Frank gedurende ruim twee jaar als dagboek bijhield. Van dit dagboek bestaan een eerdere en een latere, door haarzelf herschreven versie.
Deze editie geeft per pagina de samenhang weer tussen:
a. Anne's eerste versie
b....
| Author | Grégoire Bouillier |
| ISBN | 0374185700 |
When the phone rang on a gloomy fall afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that it was the woman who’d left him, without warning, ten years before. And he couldn’t have guessed why she was calling—not to apologize for, or explain, the way she’d vanished from his life, but...
How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses
| Author | Gary Cox |
| ISBN | 1441188436 |
How to Be an Existentialist is a witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the other great existentialist philosophers....
