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Book review: The Ghost Ship

A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water — its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship [...]

Lilia2025-03-16T11:42:25+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, General Fiction, Kate Mosse, LGBTQ+, Molly Quell|

D&D evening in Amsterdam

By Mike Scoop! D&D initiative Dobbelgangers has made history with the first ever D&D night at the ABC. Six tables spread out over the three floors of our Amsterdam store hosted over thirty first-time and experienced adventurers. Blasts were had in a diverse range of in-game settings, ranging from North African [...]

Lilia2025-03-17T16:26:56+01:00Tags: D&D, D&D evening, event report, Games, Mike|

2025’s Most Anticipated Books by Women Authors

by Damla In honor of International Women’s History Month in March, here is a list of some of our most anticipated books of 2025 by women authors. From literary fiction to fantasy, horror to sci-fi, romance to nonfiction titles, there is something for everyone. So take a look at our roundup [...]

Damla2025-03-10T14:19:53+01:00Tags: Damla, Feminism, most anticipated books of 2025, New Releases, Women's History Month|

Book review: The Luminous Dead

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck -- enough to get her off-planet and on the [...]

Lilia2025-02-20T13:51:14+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Book review, Book Reviews, Horror, Iris, IrisW, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Horror|

Celebrating International Women’s Day

By Lília “International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated annually on March 8, honors the achievements of women across all aspects of life—social, economic, cultural, and political—while also advocating for gender equality.” International Women’s Day (IWD), declared as a holiday by Russian leader Vladimir Lenin in 1922, has been celebrated in one form [...]

Lilia2026-03-01T15:18:41+01:00Tags: Feminism, Feminist Writing, International Women's Day, Lília, Women's History Month|

March New Titles Quiz

By Sophie March is traditionally a month that features particularly many new fiction releases. We've rounded up 12 books being published in March - and 1 in April - that we are very excited about. Some of them are eagerly anticipated by many folks, others just by us, really, but we [...]

Sophie2025-02-27T16:23:16+01:00Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, New Releases, new titles, Non-Fiction, quiz, Romance, Science Fiction, Sophie, YA fiction|

ABC Bestsellers – February 2025

As a short month February came and went very quickly, and now it’s already time for our monthly list of ABC Bestsellers. These titles are taken from the sold-books data across all 3 ABCs, and gives us an insight into the books you love (to buy, at least ;-)). We have [...]

Book Review: Dream Count

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka's bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in [...]

Sophie2025-07-04T16:53:37+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Damla, Fiction, Sophie|

Context on the Russo-Ukrainian War

By Lília With all that's been happening in the world, and everything we read and hear in the media, it's very important to keep ourselves informed with accurate sources about the real situation and what's happening everywhere. Relying on information without checking trustworthy sources leads people to believe in untruths and [...]

Lilia2025-03-03T14:59:44+01:00Tags: Current Affairs, Lília, Political Science, Russo-Ukrainian Conflict|

Book review: Americanah

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the [...]

Lilia2025-02-24T16:51:02+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Damla, General Fiction|

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