Language: Dutch.

Nu ja, lijmen. De mensen bepraten en dan doen tekenen. En als zij getekend hebben, krijgen zij het ook werkelijk thuis.

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1470693913/

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For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of the few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple as or as conplicated as his love for Arsenal.

Fever Pitch catches what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man.

Language: English. Deutsche Übersetzung hier.

With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with Martini-soaked parties, as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.

Language: English.

Odessa, Texas has seen better days. For sale signs are everywhere, movie theaters are closed, store fronts are empty. Still, Odessa has a dream. Once a week every fall, the Panthers of Permian High School take to the football field under Friday night lights and 20 thousand fans fill the stadium with cheers for their beloved team and their own dreams.

In Friday Night Lights, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H.G. Bissinger chronicles a season in the life of Odessa, its teachers, parents, politicians - and most of all its students and players who carry the city's image on their young shoulders. This account examines the role of high school sports in America and many of the issues at the core of our society - race, politics, education and economics. A portrait of American life.

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Massive graphic novel, that everybody should read, really. Every page is a piece of art.

Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth—and frailty—of their connection.
 
At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.

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When he is asked by a fishing-enthousiastic Arab Sheikh to become involved in a project to create a salmon river in the highlands of the Yemen, fisheries scientist Dr Alfred Jones rejects the idea as absurd. But the proposal catches the eye of several senior British politicians. And so Fred finds himself forced to set aside his research and instead figure out how to fly ten thousand salmon to a desert country - and persuade them to swim there.

As he embarks on an extraordinary journey of faith, the diffident Dr Jones will discover a sense of belief, and a capacity for love, that surprises himself and all who know him.

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In July 1962, Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting, have just been married and are spending their honeymoon in a small hotel on the Dorset seashore, at Chesil Beach. The couple are very much in love despite being from drastically different backgrounds.

During the course of an evening, both reflect upon their upbringing and the prospect of their futures. Edward is sexually motivated and though intelligent has a taste for rash behaviour, while Florence, bound by the social code of another era, and as a child molested by her own father, is terrified of sexual intimacy: eventually this leads to an experience that will change their relationship irrevocably.

The novel focuses upon the couple's different personalities and attitudes and the development of their love in the dawning of a sexual awakening in 1960s Britain. 1962 was the year when the contraceptive pill became available in the United Kingdom. Before this, sex before marriage ran the risk of unwanted pregnancy and possibly unwanted marriage. Edward and Florence represent the last generation who would never have sex before marriage; in their case with disastrous results.

Language: English (look closely at the book cover!). Deutsch hier. Nederlands hier.

Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers. In the years and days following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, by grief and by the enormous force of history. From these intimate portraits, DeLillo shifts to an extrapolated vision: he charts the way the events have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory andour perception of the world.

DeLillo cleared the path with one of the first notable 9/11 novels. According to a 2007 interview in Die Zeit, DeLillo claims that originally he "...didn't ever want to write a novel about 9/11." and "...had an idea for a different book" which he had "been working on for half a year" in 2004 when he came up with an idea for the novel.

Although highly anticipated and eagerly awaited by critics, who felt that DeLillo was one of the contemporary writers best equipped to tackle with the events of 9/11 in novelistic form, the novel met once again with a mixed critical reception and garnered no major literary awards or nominations. DeLillo, however, remained unconcerned by this relative lack of critical acclaim, remarking in 2010 "In the 1970s, when I started writing novels, I was a figure in the margins, and that’s where I belonged. If I’m headed back that way, that’s fine with me, because that’s always where I felt I belonged. Things changed for me in the 1980s and 1990s, but I’ve always preferred to be somewhere in the corner of a room, observing.”

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One intended good deed turns Adam Kindred's life upside down - he loses job, reputation, home, passport, money, etc. He has no other option than going underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared and being chased by killers and acquainted to a crazy priest, a prostitute, a policewoman.

Or, how Alex Clark of The Guardian plots it: "Adam Kindred, a climatologist in flight from America and a sexual indiscretion that has thrown a spanner into his marriage and his academic career, is in London for a job interview. Dining alone, he strikes up a conversation with Philip Wang, an immunologist who subsequently leaves a sheaf of papers in the restaurant; when Adam attempts to return them, he finds his new acquaintance taking a siesta with a bread knife in his side. A clever man, Kindred immediately does two stupid things: he removes the bread knife, thus ensuring both death and fingerprints, and goes on the run, pursued by Wang's killer. With a murderer and, shortly, the police on his trail, he creates a hidey-hole in an overshadowed piece of rough ground on the Embankment and settles down to a life of subterfuge, vagrancy and killing seagulls for dinner."

Language: Dutch.

Nooit meer slapen (1966) is a peculiar novel in the work of W.F. Hermans, because it resembles his profession as a geologist. We follow Alfred Issendorf, geology student, on his expedition to Norwegian Lapland for his dissertation. His goal is to prove the hypothesis of his professor, Dr. Sibbelee, who says that the round craters squatted all around the area are caused by meteorites.

His colleagues, the rough Norwegian tundra and the down-the-drain reputation of Sibbelee, make the expedition very tough for Alfred. However, the quest makes him aware of his (geological) destiny.