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Carla

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50 years of The American Book Center

Stubbornly independent: The American Book Center celebrates 50 years of bookselling! In 1972, Sam Boltansky and Mitch Crossfield opened up a bargain bookstore next to Madame Tussaud’s in Amsterdam, selling remainder books and magazines that came from America. Lynn Buller, a fellow American, joined them while on vacation from her home in Minnesota [...]

2022-12-20T11:32:46+01:00

Interview: A Story On the EBM machine

Interview: A Story On the EBM machine Hi María! Thank you for taking the time to chat about yourself and our famous EBM Betty. Before we jump into who Betty is, I think our readers would also  love to get to know you better. Could you tell me something about yourself? [...]

2022-08-27T14:23:56+02:00Tags: , , |

Judge A Book By Its Cover

The Top 5 Best YA Covers of 2021 As the saying goes, I know we are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but with these covers that will be hard. They are extremely eye catching and some of them may be the reason my To-Be-Read pile is so [...]

2022-08-27T14:24:27+02:00Tags: , , |

5 Books That Will Help You to Improve in Business and Leadership

5 Books That Will Help You to Improve in Business and Leadership Today we have selected 5 incredibly inspiring titles that can help you start and improve your own business. Whether you have just started your own activity, need a guide on how to manage your employees or want to learn [...]

2022-06-16T15:55:22+02:00

How High We Go in the Dark

"How High We Go in the Dark is a science fiction story about a plague that reshapes the world as we know it. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying human remains buried for millennia and revealed by melting permafrost due to climate change. Here they discovered the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. As quarantine and safety protocol aren’t adhered to among the scientific team, the deadly virus escapes and starts infecting the researchers."

2025-02-11T14:47:12+01:00Tags: , , |

Book-to-screen adaptations: Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

Books to movies - Bridgerton by Julia Quinn The second season of Bridgerton is approaching at a quick pace and those waiting for it to start, including myself,  are getting antsy. How to solve this? Read the books, of course. But, wait! Books?!? But Bridgerton is a TV series!  Most viewers [...]

2024-07-21T11:13:09+02:00Tags: , |

ABC Staff Picks February 2022

Here are our recommendations for February! And here we are again with a new episode of our ABC Staff Picks, with titles that have been recently released, will come out shortly, or we’re just simply really excited about. Today we present 9 very different titles, from Crafts, to Sci-Fi, middle-grade and even [...]

2023-04-06T12:02:31+02:00Tags: , , |

New year, new goals: our staff’s reading goals for 2022

Whenever January comes around, many people set New Year’s resolutions such as eating healthier, exercising more often, or being more productive. As booksellers and book lovers, there’s another resolution that’s important to us: reading more books. Although the first months of this new year are over already, there’s still plenty of [...]

2022-06-16T16:15:30+02:00Tags: |
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