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Book Review: Die

In the nineties, six teenagers disappeared into a fantasy role-playing game. Only five returned. Nearly thirty years later, these broken adults are dragged back to discover the game isn’t finished with them yet. Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + the Divine) and Stephanie Hans (We Called Them Giants)’s award-winning, critical hit [...]

Damla2025-08-29T11:58:53+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, D&D, Fantasy, Games, Graphic Novels, Mike|

ABCxJAI Membership Drive

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 [...]

Sophie2025-09-01T14:39:55+02:00Tags: ABC Booklover Card, ABC x JAI, JAI, John Adams Institute, membership|

ABC In the Wild: Prose Posse

By Else A couple of months ago, the ABC started to sell books at our local reading club Prose Posse. They have meetings about once a month at different locations in Amsterdam. In October they will even have a meeting at the ABC Amsterdam. We make a fun selection of [...]

Damla2025-09-08T13:39:13+02:00Tags: ABC Events, Else, Fantasy, Romantasy|

ABC Bestsellers – August 2025

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 [...]

Sophie2025-09-16T16:40:51+02:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2025, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Matty, memoir, Romance, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Sophie, Sywert, YA fiction|

Book Review: The CIA Book Club

In Memoriam: Derk Sauer On July 31, 2025, we heard that Derk Sauer, founder of The Moscow Times, died. This brought memories of our participation in the 1997 Moscow Book Fair (read our blog post about it here). We ran a small ad in The Moscow Times announcing that the American [...]

Damla2025-08-25T16:09:39+02:00Tags: ABC History, Book review, Book Reviews, Lynn, Military History, Non-Fiction, Politics|

Book Review: Saga

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery [...]

Damla2025-08-24T13:54:18+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Graphic Novel, Mike, Saga, Science Fiction|

Back to School: Student and Teacher discount

By Sophie The South of the country already has a week of school under their belts, and the Middle and North will follow shortly: it's Back to School season! Now, at ABC we've always had a soft spot for schools, libraries, and learning - not exactly surprising, right? Those [...]

Sophie2025-09-16T16:39:34+02:00Tags: back to school, school fairs, schools, Sophie, student discount, students discounts, teacher discount|

A Journey to the Underworld

by Damla and Iris Ever needed a job recommendation so bad that you would walk through hell to get it? Alice Law has. Literally. R.F. Kuang’s greatly anticipated new book hits the shelves this coming Tuesday, on the 26th of August. Merging myth and magic, ambition and rivalry, the early reviews [...]

Damla2025-08-16T17:42:52+02:00Tags: Books set in the underworld, Chuck Palahnuik, Damla, Dante Alighieri, Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Iris, Iris W., J.R.R. Tolkien, Katabasis, Leigh Bardugo, Philip Pullman, R.F. Kuang, Rachel Smythe, Steven L. Peck|

Book Review: The Guncle

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 [...]

Damla2025-08-07T12:57:48+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Sophie, Steven Rowley|

Help! I’m in a reading slump and I can’t get out!

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 [...]

Naomi2025-08-11T17:33:22+02:00Tags: Naomi|

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