Hooray! It's time for our favorite reads of the year! We love putting these posts together, so grab a hot beverage of your choice, find a comfy couch or chair or nook to settle into, and be ready to explode your TBR with all these scrumptious personal recommendations. These are the best [...]
by Sophie Colleen Geske is the author of the beloved series of books about Stuff Dutch People Like (and Say, and Eat, and Bake). The books offer a light-hearted take on Dutch culture, specifically from a non-Dutch perspective. With sharp insights and fun illustrations this series has been a [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
