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Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. So when tragedy strikes and [...]
By Naomi We've all been there: happily reading, devouring books left and right, until one day, uh-oh! You don't really feel like reading anymore. Maybe you are a mood reader, and nothing is just right. Maybe your last book was so great, you don't know if anything will live up to it [...]
Calling all writers! The story competition of Heroes Dutch Comic Con is starting again! Organized by us in collaboration with Uitgeverij Zilverspoor, this story competition is the perfect moment to put your writing skills on display. Have you had a great story idea bouncing around in your head for ages, or is [...]
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and [...]
by Sophie Welcome to the middle of the summer, up here in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Like last month, escapism reigns supreme, with lots of Romance, Romantasy, and Fantasy titles making a (re)appearance - local author Rachel Lynn Solomon's What Happens in Amsterdam is just flying off the shelf in [...]
In Orbital, six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through [...]
By Naomi July might just be over, but we'll be celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen was born all year long! We've already done a deep dive into Jane Austen's enduring popularity in this blogpost, and we looked at many, many, many retellings of her books here. All of Jane Austen's [...]
By Naomi We're continuing to celebrate 250 years since Jane Austen was born! Jane Austen has inspired many, many authors over the years. Her work is still relevant and influential to this day. You can read more about the enduring appeal and influence of her work here. In this blogpost, we [...]
by Damla Roll for initiative! Last Thursday, our store in the Hague hosted its first Dungeons and Dragons game night in collaboration with Dobbelgangers, a group of Dungeon Masters dedicated to bring the magic to wherever they go. For those who are new to the role playing games scene, Dungeons and [...]
For someone who hates secrets, Las Vegas hairdresser Lucy Rey is about to be faced with a whole bunch of them. After discovering that her fiancé has been cheating on her with someone from his improv class, Lucy finds herself short on funds and desperate for a change of scenery. [...]
