by Laurie Lico Albanese (2017)
A sumptuous historical novel tracing the true story of Gustav Klimt's golden masterpiece Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the woman who sat for it in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and her niece Maria Altmann who fought to reclaim it after Nazi plunder.
Laurie Lico Albanese
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Isobel Gamble, a talented young Scottish seamstress with the gift of synesthesia, flees to Salem in 1829. Abandoned by her husband, she meets an intense young writer named Nat Hawthorne and embarks on an intoxicating, forbidden affair while crafting intricate needlework.
Dr. Jack C. J. Wereldsma
Ook Rotterdam is, zoals elke Middeleeuwse stad, een ommuurde vesting geweest. Waar de muren moesten voorkomen dat vijanden binnendrongen - wat niet altijd lukte - en de poorten 's avonds werden gesloten om de bevolking tot de ochtend te vrijwaren van onwelkom bezoek. Maar liefst dertien poorten hebben op enig moment de grenzen van de stad gemarkeerd. Wereldsma schreef eerder het feuilleton 'Laurenskerk in Rotterdam: 10 jaar feuilletons 2002-2012'. Deze publicatie vertelt over de (bouw)geschiedenis van de Grote Sint Laurenskerk en over onder meer de graftomben van Witte Corneliszoon de With en Egbert Cornelis Kortenaer. Daarnaast verdiept Wereldsma zich in reisverslagen, gedichten en zelfs romans van de hand van meer of minder beroemde binnen- en buitenlandse bezoekers. Rotterdam, like every medieval city, has also been a walled fortress. Where the walls had to prevent enemies from entering - which did not always work - and the gates were closed at night to protect the population until the morning from unwelcome visitors. No less than thirteen gates have at any time marked the boundaries of the city. Wereldsma previously wrote the serial 'Laurenskerk in Rotterdam: 10 years of feuilletons 2002-2012'. This publication tells about the (building) history of the Grote Sint Laurenskerk and about the tombs of Witte Corneliszoon de With and Egbert Cornelis Kortenaer. In addition, Wereldsma explores travel reports, poems and even novels by more or less famous visitors from the Netherlands and abroad.
Tracy Chevalier
In the windswept coastal town of Lyme Regis, Mary Anning hunts for sea monsters in the jagged cliffs. When she uncovers the fossilized skeleton of an unknown creature, she rocks the scientific world. Alongside Elizabeth Philpot, an intelligent spinster with an eye for fossilized fish, Mary challenges the scientific establishment of 19th-century Britain.
Steven Pressfield
An astonishing historical recreation of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where King Leonidas and 300 Spartans held off the million-man Persian invasion force to protect the cradle of Western democracy.