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Would parents rather their children be successful or happy? Kids in the US face lots of pressure to excel -- often at the expense of happiness. But does it have to be this way? Not in the Netherlands! Expats Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison -- both married to Dutchmen and bringing up their kids in the Netherlands --examine the unique environment that enables the Dutch to turn out such well-adjusted, independent children.
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"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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2015
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English
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"His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth: record visitor numbers at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington; and special crowd-control measures at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, where thousands flock to catch a glimpse of the enigmatic, wide-eyed, and enchanting Girl with a Pearl Earring, also known as the "Dutch Mona Lisa". In his lifetime, however, Johannes Vermeer's fame barely...
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Abrams
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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A visual narrative of the artist's life and work, told primarily through reproductions of his art and supplementary documentary images presented in chronological order. Contains five short critical and biographical texts. Includes a section reproducing Mondrian's known works in small black-and-white illustrations with brief captions.
"Piet Mondrian's rigorously geometric paintings in primary colors are icons of the 20th century that had a powerful...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful at being left alone, she makes a perverse plea to God; he never returns. As grief overwhelms the farm, Jas succumbs to a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies, watching her family disintegrate into a darkness that threatens to derail them all.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The general outlines of Vincent van Gogh's life-the early difficulties in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness and despair that led to his suicide-are almost as familiar as his paintings. Yet neither the paintings nor Van Gogh's story might have survived at all had it not been for his sister-in-law, the teacher, translator, and socialist Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Jo married the painter's brother, Theo,...
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