Archive for the ‘Peter’ Category

What We’re Reading: Both Stores

Friday, April 27th, 2012




Ester: Lover Mine – J. R. Ward
Hans: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Hayley: Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives – Richard Wiseman
Ilse: Hoog sensitieve personen – Elaine Aron (in English: The Highly Sensitive Person)
JeroenE: The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin – Masha Gessen
JeroenW: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Suzanna Clarke
Jesse: Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
Jilles: A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick and Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days – Jared Cade
Jitse: In the Shadow of the Sword – Tom Holland
Karin: Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry
Klaartje: Lord of the Flies – William Golding and The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders – John E. Sarno
Lynn: The Keep – Jennifer Egan
Our Not-Irritating-Maarten-Of-The-No-Lists: Het spoor van de eenhoorn: De geschiedenis van een dier dat niet bestaat – Willem Gerritsen
Marten: Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire – Judith Herrin
Nadine: That’s What I AmAvo Kaplanian
Nicki: Demons Are Forever – Xenia Alexiou & Kim Baldwin
Nyjolene: The End of Illness – David B. Agus
PeterH: Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
Renate: Say Her Name – Francisco Goldman and Farther Away – Jonathan Franzen
Sander: De Kapellekensbaan – Louis Paul Boon (in English: Chapel Road)
Sara: Before I Go To Sleep – S. J. Watson
Sigrid: The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table – Tracie McMillan
Simone: Hush Money – Robert B. Parker
Sophie: Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson
Steven: Shockaholic – Carrie Fisher and And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft – Mike Sacks
Tom: Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson

This Just In: Consciousness

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Five Newly Arrived Titles from the Consciousness and Spirituality Sections:

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What We’re Reading: Amsterdam

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

What we’re reading: Amsterdam

Saturday, May 7th, 2011


Jeroen: In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise by George Prochnik

Peter: The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Hayley: The Liar by Stephen Fry; Superfreakonomics by Levitt and Dubner

Max: Life by Keith Richards; The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop by Dan Charnas; Last Shop Standing : Whatever Happened to Record Shops? by Graham Jones; Deep Soul Ballads: From Sam Cooke to Stevie Wonder by Laurence Cole

Maarten: Beschreven Blad by Remco Campert; Things and More Things by Ivan T. Sanderson

Tiemen: Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama

Femke: After the Ecstacy, The Laundry by Jack Kornfield

About Us: Peter

Monday, October 12th, 2009

In a series of interviews conducted by ABC’s Maria Minaya, we’re going to introduce you to (almost) everyone who works at The American Book Centers in Amsterdam and The Hague.

Books form an integral part of our lives not only because they’re our bread and butter, but because our passion for them came first. Our mission is to pass them on. By reading these interviews you’ll discover the faces behind your favorite sections and get a glimpse of who we are.

Meet Peter

Where were you born?
In a hospital in Oldham, near Manchester in the north of England.

What was your favorite food as a kid and what did you hate?
Favorite: steak and kidney pudding. My grandmother use to make it. Hated: eggs in all forms, except when just an ingredient.

Were you read to as a child?
Yes, but the memory is vague. I went through a few phases of reading at about 10, 12 and 14 years of age. Liked it then. But not much now. Reading made me feel like I was disappearing and I didn’t like that. I liked being in the here and now.

Did you have books in your house while growing up?
Yes, books we’d received as gifts, some old novels that had been handed down through the family. And we visited the local lending library.

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