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The Hiding Place
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The Hiding Place

By Corrie Ten Boom , Elizabeth Sherrill , John Sherrill , Tim Foley (illustrator)

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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank

By Anne Frank , B.M. Mooyaart (translator) ,

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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Anne Frank Remembered

By Miep Gies , Alison Leslie Gold ,

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Rembrandt's Eyes
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Rembrandt's Eyes

By Simon Schama ,

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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life And Letters From Westerbork
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Etty Hillesum

By Etty Hillesum ,

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Alfabet/Alphabet
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Alfabet/Alphabet

By Sadiqa de Meijer ,

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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
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The Cut Out Girl

By Bart Van Es ,

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Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins-And WWII Heroes
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Three Ordinary Girls

By Tim Brady ,

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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Thunderclap

By Laura Cumming ,

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Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry
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Ashes in the Wind

By Jacob Presser ,

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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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Eye of the Beholder

By Laura J Snyder ,

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Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
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Tulipmania

By Anne Goldgar ,

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Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
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Think Least of Death

By Steven Nadler ,

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The Puritans in the Diocese of Peterborough
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The Puritans in the Diocese of Peterborough

By W.J. Sheils ,

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The Homesick Texan Cookbook
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The Homesick Texan Cookbook

By Lisa Fain ,

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Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807
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Pirates on the Chesapeake

By Donald G. Shomette ,

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Transnational Art Crime
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Transnational Art Crime

By Edgar Tijhuis ,

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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
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The Embarrassment of Riches

By Simon Schama ,

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The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings
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The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum's Writings

By Klaas Smelik ,

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The Dutch and Their Delta: Living Below Sea Level
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The Dutch and Their Delta

By Jacob Vossestein ,

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Spinoza: A Life
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Spinoza

By Steven Nadler ,

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Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory Over the West
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Lost Colony

By Tonio Andrade ,

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A Brief History of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise
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A Brief History of Bali

By Willard A. Hanna ,

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Miffy's Birthday
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Miffy's Birthday

By Dick Bruna ,

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The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
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The Company and the Shogun

By Adam Clulow ,

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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages

By Johan Huizinga , Rodney J. Payton (translator) , Ulrich Mammitzsch (translator)

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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
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Amsterdam

By Russell Shorto ,

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The Herring Gull's World: Study of the Social Behaviour of Birds
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The Herring Gull's World

By Niko Tinbergen ,

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Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination
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Watching Dallas

By Ien Ang ,

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Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
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Operation Chowhound

By Stephen Dando-Collins ,

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Johannes Vermeer: On Reflection
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Johannes Vermeer

By Stephan Koja ,

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Faring to France on a Shoe
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Faring to France on a Shoe

By Valerie Poore ,

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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
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The Sisters of Auschwitz

By Roxane van Iperen ,

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All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
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All Ships Follow Me

By Mieke Eerkens ,

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The Persecution of the Jews in Photographs: The Netherlands 1940-1945
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The Persecution of the Jews in Photographs

By Rene Kok , Erik Somers ,

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Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal
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Justice in the Balkans

By John Hagan ,

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God's Smuggler
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God's Smuggler

By Brother Andrew ,

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The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Diary of Anne Frank

By Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett ,

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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
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The Last Embassy

By Tonio Andrade ,

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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
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Homo Ludens

By Johan Huizinga ,

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The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and The Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries
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The Waning of the Middle Ages

By Johan Huizinga ,

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Pawn Power in Chess
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Pawn Power in Chess

By Hans Kmoch ,

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Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability: Best Practice from European Cities
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Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability

By Andrea Colantonio , Tim Dixon ,

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The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
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The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

By Vincent van Gogh ,

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The Van Gogh Sisters
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The Van Gogh Sisters

By Willem-Jan Verlinden ,

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Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed
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Etty Hillesum

By Patrick Woodhouse ,

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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
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Vincent and Theo

By Deborah Heiligman ,

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How to be Orange
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How to be Orange

By Gregory Scott Shapiro , Floor de Goede ,

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To Walk It Is To See It: 1 Couple, 98 Days, 1400 Miles on Europe's GR5
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To Walk It Is To See It

By Kathy Elkind ,

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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
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My Friend Anne Frank

By Hannah Pick-Goslar , Dina Kraft ,

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The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher
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The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher

By Bruno Ernst ,

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Infidel
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Infidel

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ,

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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
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Brilliant Orange

By David Winner ,

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The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust
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The Wolf at the Door

By Geoffrey Cocks ,

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Vincent Can't Sleep: Van Gogh Paints the Night Sky
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Vincent Can't Sleep

By Barb Rosenstock , Mary GrandPre (illustrator) ,

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Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600-2000
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Exploring the Dutch Empire

By Catia Antunes (editor) , Jos Gommans (editor) ,

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Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713
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Empire at the Periphery

By Christian J. Koot ,

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Eating in Theory
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Eating in Theory

By Annemarie Mol ,

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Things We Couldn't Say
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Things We Couldn't Say

By Diet Eman , James Schaap ,

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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Diary of a Young Girl

By Anne Frank , B.M. Mooyaart (translator) ,

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Kin Types
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Kin Types

By Luanne Castle ,

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Learning to Change
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Learning to Change

By Léon de Caluwé , J. "Hans" G. Vermaak ,

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