By Sophie It's almost time for our favorite day of the year, Thanksgiving! We've celebrated this very American holiday since we opened in 1972 as a way to say thank you to you, our customers, for supporting us this past year, and for being such an enriching part of our [...]
By Sophie ABCxJAI: Two great flavors that go better together. The John Adams and the American Book Center have joined forces this year, and we have big plans for the future—which we want to share with as many people as we [...]
By Sophie Last Friday our Martijn and Paul visited the Casa Montessori school in Pijnacker, for a book fair. We brought a variety of kids books, from picture books to chapter books to a selection from our Kids 9-12 section. And we brought bargains too, because who doesn't love to [...]
By Sophie No Bookbits last month (vacation), but I'm happy to be diving into the book news again today! - Awards! Hot off the press: Helen Garner has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction with How to End a Story, her diaries detailing her life as a writer (and [...]
By Sophie "A book is a gift you can open again and again." - Garrison Keillor The Holiday Season is fast approaching, an opportunity for companies, organizations, and schools to gift their employees some extra food for thought! (See what we did there?) We have some great ideas lined up [...]
By Sophie This week, 20-28 September, is the first ever Week van het verboden boek in The Netherlands, and next week, 5-11 October, is Banned Books Week in the U.S. We're paying attention to it, not just because it is almost an epidemic by now over there, but because it [...]
ABCxJAI: Two great flavors that go better together. The John Adams and the American Book Center have joined forces this year, and we have big plans for the future—which we want to share with as many people as we can. That's why [...]
By Sophie Happy September! The month that everything starts up again: work, school, and the book business, too - Katabasis hit our shelves a week and a bit ago, next week will see Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets, and further on in the month we'll have The Gingerbread Bakery, [...]
By Sophie It will come as no surprise that the biggest bestseller of August, despite it going on sale only on 26 August, was Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. We have 4 editions in our assortment, but that U.S. deluxe limited edition is going fastest - and no wonder, with [...]
By Sophie ABC has joined forces with the John Adams Institute (JAI) this year. One of the ways we're supporting them is by spotlighting their excellent fall line-up (some of which you might have spotted in our general September events round-up earlier this week), because these authors and thinkers you [...]
