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Miniaturist novels volume 1
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English
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Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
2) Tulip fever
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English
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During the 1630's in Amsterdam, local inhabitants sought to secure immortality by having their respective portraits painted. Sophia Sandvoort sits for such a portrait next to her elderly husband Cornelis. The surroundings included objects representing her husband's piety along with a tulip. For Cornelis has made money from the speculation on this flower and its bulbs. Houwver, as Jan van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion...
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Miniaturist novels volume 2
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English
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Amsterdam in the year 1705. It is Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday. She is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms, but life at home is increasingly difficult. Her father Otto and her Aunt Nella argue endlessly over their financial fate, selling off furniture in a desperate attempt to hold on to the family home. As catastrophe threatens to engulf the household, Thea seeks refuge in Amsterdam's playhouses. She loves the performances, and the stolen...
4) Tulip fever
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English
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An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
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Adam Windjammer novels volume 2
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English
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In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now sixteen years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family's fortune, while fourteen-year-old Jade Van Helson struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father's decree that she marry a wealthy, elderly Englishman.
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"Holanda, 1654. Es el siglo de oro neerlandés, el tiempo de las ideas de Spinoza, cuando el arte de Vermeer y Rembrandt florece junto a los tulipanes que salpican de color la campiña holandesa. Allí, en una granja, Catrijn, nacida y criada en la pobreza, vive infelizmente casada; sin embargo, son tiempos de cambio, también para las mujeres. Tras enviudar, Catrijn sabe que ha llegado el momento de afrontar por sí misma el mundo que la rodea: buscar...
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