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Zarco, the Explorer
One summer day, the country lad Zarco hears a traveling minstrel sing the ballad of Prince Henry the Navigator, patron of far-flung journeys of discovery. Inspired by the bard, Zar...
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S.O.S.
A native of the Dutch North Sea island of Terschelling, the boy Dirk dreams of going to sea as his father, a merchant mariner, has done before him. When Dirk finishes grade school,...
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Pierre and His Friends
Pierre, sick and confined to bed, cannot play with other children. He must find enjoyment in what he sees outside his window: the sky above and the canal below. Pierre discovers be...
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Far Out the Long Canal
In the coastal village of Wierum, at the edge of the Sea, practically everyone could skate except the very littlest children ... and Moonta Riemersma, who was already nine. When ic...
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Run, Kevin, Run!
Orphaned and feeling shipwrecked, Kevin Robbins ends up with relatives who, unlike his own parents, are practising Christians. Unable to make the adjustment, Kevin ‘cops out’ by ru...
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The Curse of Urumbu
The story of Dutch immigrant Jack Westerbaan is fast-moving and exciting. A cowhand in Australia, he abandons his Christian faith. At some point he decides to retrace his roots but...
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The Secret Code
Hank and Dick, two teenagers, intercept a coded message destined for a heroin distributor doubling as a greengrocer. Caught snooping around the warehouse, they are abducted to an i...
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The Four Adventurers Meet The Evil Professor
When four young high school students decide to spend their summer vacation touring the country in a horse-drawn carriage, they meet up with plenty of action and whole series of exc...
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The Mystery of Old Abe
Abe is an angry old man who carries in his heart the secret pain of his daughter's and grandchild's death. His grief makes Old Abe intolerant towards everyone, but especially again...
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The Mystery of the Three-Fingered Villain
The four friends, Paul, Roger, Herb and Eddie settle into the cottage on the Overlaar estate and are looking forward to an exciting summer vacation of swimming, biking, hiking, and...
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The Big Goose and The Little White Duck
The boy wanted to buy the big gray goose and the little white duck as birthday presents for his mother. But he was short one dollar, which he had to coax from his grandfather by sa...
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Smoke Above the Lane
Friendship between a skunk and a tramp? Master story teller Meindert DeJong provide the answer to that question as he tells the tale of two lonely creatures in a hostile world. Age...
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Scout - The Treasure of Rodensteyn Castle
Volume 5
When they are invited to spend a few weeks with Uncle Arnie at the seashore, little do Tom, Carl, and Bert realize that they will be staying in the hunting lodge of a medieval cast...
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The Black Phantom of Ravenhurst
Was the driver of the cart really asleep or was he only pretending? Why did farmer Thune shiver in his bed at night? And what about that groaning wail that howled across the fields...
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The Search For Sheltie
Having shaken “the curse of Urumbu,” Jack and his dog Sheltie return to the old country. Injured in a traffic accident, Jack is laid up in a Genoa hospital. Sheltie goes on ahead t...
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Scout - The Sailing Sleuths
Volume 4
While Tom and his two friends are making plans for a vacation, Carl's father announces that he has acquired a sailboat as part of a business deal. The three boys see the chance for...
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Faded Portraits
A fictionalized memoir of family life in the former colonial Dutch East Indies, the novel is the story of the once powerful De Paulys, and especially Aunt Sophie, the matriarch, wh...
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Anak, the Eskimo Boy
Anak and his family live with their tribe in the Far North. The book describes their everyday life as they hunt for seals, caribou and walruses. Anak is being prepared to take up h...
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Judy's Own Pet Kitten
‘Christian Week’: Judy, seven or eight years of age, is the youngest member of a farm family whose rural setting could be anywhere in Canada. The story of Judy, first losing her ow...
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It Began With a Parachute
‘Christian Week’: "It is a well-told tale set in Holland near the end of the Second World War... The story, although chock-full of details about life in war-inflicted Holland, rema...
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Stand By, Boys!
Much has been written about the Flood of February 1, 1953, which inundated many low-lying coastal areas in the Netherlands. Norel uses as his plot a true but amazing story that unf...
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Dirk's Dog Bello
The stormy day an English ship broke up in the terrible waters of Wicked Wife, Dirk rescued a Great Dane, Bello. After that, by the law of the sea, the giant dog belonged to him. W...
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Kaleidoscope
Dutch Poetry in Translation
The poetry selection ranges from the early Middle Ages to the Twentieth century. The left pages feature the poems in the source language (Dutch), those on the right have the Englis...
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So Much Sky
Though known primarily as a Dutch scholar, teacher, and historian of international repute - his specialty was American history - J.W. Schulte Nordholt in this lucid and intensely d...
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He Gathers the Lambs
A moving book, written not only with deep insight into the Dutch ecclesiastical, religious, social, and historical situation in which the story takes place, but also with a warm, r...
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The Escape
The Adventures of Three Huguenot Children Fleeing Persecution
‘The Messenger’: "This book... will hold its readers spellbound from beginning to end. The setting is late seventeenth century France. Early in the story the mother dies and the fa...
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The Secret Mission
A sequal to The Escape. John, the book’s main character, returns to France with a secret mission of the Dutch government. At the same time he attempts to locate his father. The aut...
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William of Orange - The Silent Prince
F. Pronk in ‘The Messenger’: "If you have ever wondered why Dutch Reformed people of former generations felt such strong spiritual ties with Dutch royalty, this is a ‘must’ reading...
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When the Morning Came
Volume 1, Freedom Series
A very interesting and informative book in which the author weaves his historical story around the life and times of 12-year old Martin Meulenberg and his family. The Meulenbergs f...
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Dispelling the Tyranny
Volume 2
A sequel to When The Morning Came, the book takes readers to Count Lodewijk’s ill-fated attempt to invade the Netherlands in 1581 and chase ou...
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Salt in His Blood
The Life of Michael De Ruyter
Called the ‘greatest Dutch Admiral’, Michael De Ruyter (1607 - 1676) was feared by his enemies and loved by his men for his fatherly approach to life. De Ruyter has been held up as...
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Forty Days & Forty Nights
The poet’s immigrant family background can be traced in such poems as ‘Pedlars of the Practical’ and ‘Forty Days & Forty Nights.’ ‘Terpstra is not afraid of taking risks. He exper...
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Playing the Trumpet From My Window
Poet, linguist, novelist, anthropologist and monk Theuws in this book is being introduced by Joseph A. Quinn, professor at the University of Windsor, who writes: (Theuws) is able t...
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Family Games
Family Games is about knowing who you are, especially in an extended family with strong traditions, or in changing times. In this short-story collection Konrad brings to life chara...
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Buffaloberries and Saskatoons
Stories and Poems from Western Canada
Stories by Pleuke Boyce, Aritha van Herk, Dick Dekker and Jane Aberson, and poetry by Sarah Klassen and Alice Van Wart. This is the 1991 anthology in our series of collections of ...
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Dutch Gifts
Stories, Poems and Creative Non-Fiction on a Netherlandic Theme
In 1990 the Netherlandic Press asked for submissions to a Literary Competition, held in celebration of its 10th Anniversary. The only prerequisite, apart from entries not having be...
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Light of the World
An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Dutch Religious and Occasional Poetry
For this introduction to the poetry of Holland’s Golden Age, the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Christopher Levenson has selected a variety of representative poems, and made them a...
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Paper Folding Fantasies
A teaching tool for primary grades
The author, a kindergarten teacher trained in the Netherlands, discovered paper folding as an excellent teaching tool for children in the primary grades. At her workshops she intro...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
Sabotage
Volume 5, the Shadow Series
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
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The Grim Reaper
Volume 3, the Shadow Series
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
USD 8.95 / CAD 10.95
The Lonely Sentinel
Volume 1, the Shadow Series
A windmill standing guard over Dutch polders; the miller's family wrestling with death and treachery; innocent children playing adult games of secrecy and intrigue; hapless refugee...
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The Partisans
Volume 4
Part of book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII by...
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With Other Words
A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Dutch Poetry by Women
If you love language and live away from the country you were born, if the language you speak daily is not the language of your childhood, and if you still have strong connections w...
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Dawning Of A New Day
The book's key characters John and Joan, childhood friends who each went their own way, meet again later in life. John finds that he still cares deeply about Joan and wants to know...
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Journey Through the Night
This famed book captures the spirit and agony of the five harrowing years of Nazi occupation of the Netherlands remarkably well. "This is more than just a war-time adventure. The c...
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Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
This is the story of a poor brother and sister in long-ago Holland. Here Hans and his sister Gretel experience championship skating, hunger and family hardship, and countless adven...
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Hans Brinker Teacher Guide
A Guide for Teachers and Students
Interact with some of the greatest American children’s literature ever written. Intelligent, thought-provoking questions and creative activities will enable students to experience ...
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Done and Dared in Old France
Gaspard, a French Huguenot boy, was taken in by a group of outlaws, smugglars of salt. After several adventures he met the famous Huguenot pastor, Claude Brousson. Then the main st...
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The Refugees
A Tale of Two Continents
The book is a fast-paced, exciting historical novel filled with daring and adventure. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 put the lives of French protestants, called Hugu...
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Driven into Exile
A Story of the Huguenots
The Marquis la Force along with his wife and daughter flee into exile in England. Making a new living in a country so different from France is hard on the La Forces, especially whe...
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Hideout in the Swamp
Volume 2, the Shadow Series
Part of the book package: The Shadow series. One of the most exciting children’s series of the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWI...
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Crushed Yet Conquering
A Story of Constance and Bohemia
A gripping story filled with accurate historical facts about medieval and lesser known church reformer John Huss (1369-1415) of Bohemia and the so-called Hussite wars. A very capti...
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Bible Stories For Our Little Ones
This book easily can be read to children of four to eight years old but may not comprehend everything. This Story Bible tells the ways of the Lord in plain, clear, and simple langu...
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Doctor Adrian
Doctor Adrian was a scholar living in quiet seclusion in Antwerp, the Southern Netherlands, until a fugitive Protestant preacher and his daughter Rose sought sanctuary in his house...
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Stefan Derksen’s Polar Adventure
One of the sailors who was a good shot, decided to try and shoot the bear while the man was still in the wobbly boat. Because his footing was unsteady, he almost missed. The injure...
USD 11.95 / CAD 14.95
The Lion of Modderspruit
Volume 1
A historical novel about the Boers in South Africa. The author in his plot interweaves love, pathos, and loyalty. The conflict with the English not only involves the struggle to ma...
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The Young Huguenots
Father and son left the room together and the poor mother sank down in an agony of prayer by the still open window, where the moonlight came in so brightly. Monsieur de St. Croix h...
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The Dramas of Hospital Life
All the dramas we read about in this book make us aware of the patient’s challenges when submitted to a hospital. The author as a practical nurse was in the frontline, aiding peopl...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Scout - The Secret of the Swamp
Volume 1
Tom and his chum Carl and Scout, finds them self caught up in the events of World War Two. A youthful adventurer, Tom repeatedly is forced to rely on his clever dog Scout. As the A...
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Scout - The Haunted Castle
Volume 2
Tom and Scout are on vacation with Tom's two best friends, Carl and Bert, and his sisters, Ina and Miriam. On their rambles through the woods, the group of young people is stopped ...
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Scout - The Flying Phantom
Volume 3
When Tom and his friends Bert and Carl set out on an adventure during a spring vacation, they are only looking for a good time. But soon a series of baffling events draws them inex...
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Scout - The Mystery of the Abandoned Mill
Volume 6
Tom, Carl, and Bert are spending the summer on the farm. One day they run into a large surly man with a black monster of a dog. Scout and the black dog are enemies at first sight. ...
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Scout's Distant Journey
Volume 7
Scout's new adventure reacquaints us with his three friends and introduces some new characters. One is Uncle Bob, long absent in North America but now back in the old country where...
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The Scout Series - All 7 volumes
Order this collector's dream to many boys
Join Scout, Tom’s very intelligent four-legged friend on his adventures with his master, and master’s chums Carl and Bert. The stories detail courageous efforts to help liberate th...
USD 64.95 / CAD 79.95
The Beggars' Victory
Volume 3
A sequel to Dispelling the Tyranny and When the Morning Came. The author continues with the story of you...
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The Hero of Spionkop
Volume 2
The second volume of the Louis Wessels Commando series in a fictional account explores another battle between bands of South African Boers and invading English troops. The discover...
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In This Hour
A Story of World War II and the Floods of 1953
The book vividly weaves the tapestry of a small Zeeland island village where several characters passionately debate complex issues tied to events of the day, such as the WWII Nazi ...
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Nobody's Boy
The author in a compelling plot, follows the ways of ‘foundling’ Remi who gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer when his ‘foster’ parents fall on hard times. Going from ...
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Nobody's Girl
The book, published in France under the title En Famille, follows Nobody's Boy as a companion juvenile story, similarly earning praise as one of the world’s supreme juvenile storie...
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Van Rijswijk Series 1
A compilation of the Word of the King series. These Bible stories are told so seven-year old children can understand and use them as readers while adults read them to the younger o...
USD 22.95 / CAD 27.95
Van Rijswijk Series 2
A compilation of the books from the 'In Father's Footsteps' series. The church history stories of John Knox and Martin Luther are told so seven-year old children can read and under...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
The Tekko Series
Suddenly a wild thought went through Tekko's mind. If his baby sister didn't recover? Then…then…he would go to the white medicine man! For a moment he was startled by the thought. ...
USD 21.95 / CAD 26.95
The Shadow Series
Five volumes
One of the most exciting series by a master story teller, about the emotional time of the German occupation of the Netherlands during the WWII (1940-1945). The setting is typically...
USD 43.95 / CAD 55.95
The Freedom Series
Four volumes
This four book series by Piet Prins tells four stories of young Martin Meulenberg who, with his parents, fled Spanish persecution in the Netherlands. USD 39.95 / CAD 49.95
A Cup of Cold Water
The Compassion of Nurse Edith Cavell
“The secret password is yorc,” the princess whispered. Edith longed for her girlhood in England, when her secrets had been kept safe by her dog Reddie. But now in God’s timing, Edi...
USD 11.95 / CAD 15.95
Tangled in Time
The author presents a captivating story of a young girl's travel in time back to the harsh realities of the Depression years. The book opens with Janna's world being turned upside ...
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Emma's Cold Day
Emma, the plucky but foolish cluck, is back and about to demonstrate one more time that being a chicken is not all it’s cracked up to be. In her latest escapade, Emma is one game h...
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Emma at the Fair
Fall is in the air as Emma, the plucky hen, scratches happily around the farmyard. This is no ordinary day; the family is going to the fair and Emma is invited. Even sharing the ri...
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Wake up, Henry Rooster!
Henry is a young rooster who loves to have fun. He plays cards with the goats, listens to moosic with the cows, and pops corn with the pigs. After a long night of fun, however, Hen...
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Emma and the Coyote
Most chickens have enough sense to run when a coyote comes near. Not Emma. She thinks she can outfox a hungry canine despite the warnings of the farmer and his family. One day the ...
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Wings like a Dove
The Courage of Queen Jeanne d'Albret
Jeanne d’Albret, born in 1528, is the only daughter of the King and Queen of Navarre, an area straddling the Pyrenees. Siding with her beloved Huguenots, Jeanne steps onto the batt...
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Iseult, We Are Barren
Dutch born, Maria Jacobs has as a poet and publisher, played an active role in the development of Canadian literature, and in the League of Canadian Poets. ‘In this publication (he...
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Dutch Medley
Poems and Stories
Pleuke Boyce, a writer, poet and literary translator, shows in her distinctive poems and stories an understanding of both Dutch and Canadian society. ‘She has the ability to deal w...
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The Scent of Spruce
Madzy Brender à Brandis wrote her first book Land for our Sons in 1958. An excerpt telling about the ‘old Holland’ which she left, and Canada, her new home country, is included, al...
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Special Nests
Special Nests is the story of Ricky van Hout, a high school history teacher, recuperating from an operation at her son Paul’s home. She is preparing her lessons for her class, usin...
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Captain Kintail
Captain Kintail is a long poem. The setting is a campground on the shore of Ontario’s Lake Huron, where a group of people have gathered for a weekend retreat - a weekend made longe...
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Dutch Voices
A Collection of Poems and Stories by Dutch Canadians
“As usual (these books) are published with care and a fine feeling for variety. The cover is after a painting ‘On the Heels of Winter’ by Dick Dekker, and is in harmony with the fi...
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Naked Trees
This book is prose, written with the sensibility of a poet and has been divided into two parts: ‘On the Street Where She Lives” and ‘A Deciduary’, a book of tree lore. Doug Watling...
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What Happens To Memory
This collection of poems includes many previously unpublished, as well as a selection of Vanderlip’s earlier work. “What happens to memory in this work is that it becomes the raw m...
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Transplanted Lives
Dutch-Canadian Stories and Poems
Stories by Ine Schepers, Miep van der Zwaan-Verkley, Lini R. Grol, Marieke Jalink-Wijbrans; and Poetry by Leon Meersseman, Marieke Jalink-Wijbrans, Lini R. Grol. “This book itself...
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Insight
Canadian Writers View Holland
A Collection of Poems about Holland and the Dutch by Canadian Writers. “This anthology works the other way around. It brings together poems, written by Canadian poets, which have H...
USD 5.95 / CAD 7.95
The Scout of Christiaan de Wet
Volume 3
The Boer War continued to ravage the South African provinces of the Orange Free State and Transvaal. The English invaders, emboldened by their troop surges, are relentless in their...
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The Victor of Nooitgedacht
Volume 4
Defeat and loss, ruin and devastation seem to be the order of the day for the Boers. Two of the book’s main characters, including Boer leader Jan Potgieter, find themselves in capt...
USD 10.95 / CAD 12.95
Louis Wessels Boer War package
A series of five books, one order, one shipment, and Save!: The Lion of Modderspruit, The Hero of Spionkop<...
USD 47.95 / CAD 59.95
For the Heart of Holland
Volume 4
Spanish General Valdez had cordoned Leiden off with his troops. Rather than attack the city, he used a different tactic to do the work for him: starvation. When the food rations ra...
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The Carpenter of Zerbst
Otto Maehler was forbidden to join the procession to meet Johan Tetzel, the peddler of indulgences, who was coming to the town of Zerbst. Otto’s father called Tetzel a blasphemer, ...
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The Colonist of Southwest Africa
Volume 5
After three years of fighting, the bloody Boer War was nearing its bitter end. Even though the Boer armies seemed defeated by the superior British armed forces, many Boer commandos...
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The Kings Service
A Story of the Thirty Years’ War
The author of this historical novel has delicately woven a tapestry of events surrounding the Thirty Year War in which King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden gives his life for the Prote...
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Boris
It was hunger that drove 12 year-old Boris and his friend Nadia to forage for potatoes in the off-limit No-Man’s land that separated the Russian and German lines around the besiege...
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Rob and Roland
A little dog walked along the road. It was a puppy with brown ears and a brown spot on his head. But he was not happy. He was hungry and but who will take care of him? A charming c...
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Rob and Roland on the Farm
Two storks had built a nest using branches and straw on it. Mother Stork perched on the edge of the nest. She kept watch over her children. She also looked around at the wide world...
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A Long Way
From the cold, harsh waters of Northern Europe to the tropical islands of the Dutch East Indies, the author in his novel captures the visual and spiritual dynamics of these two wor...
USD 22.95 / CAD 29.95
Prince and Heretic
A Novel on William the Silent, Prince of Orange Nassau, Vol.1
William of Orange, also known as the Taciturn, received his education at the Royal court before becoming Holland’s stadtholder, or governor, of the deeply devout Roman Catholic Phi...
USD 14.95 / CAD 19.95
William, by the Grace of God
A Novel on William the Silent, Prince of Orange Nassau, Vol.2
The sequel to Prince and Heretic. In an attempt to regain his control of the Lowlands, King Philip II of Spain is prepared to make any concession, except that of freedom of conscie...
USD 15.95 / CAD 19.95
Vandehulst's 21 Young Children Book package
Generations of children were raised with these great stories from the pen of master story teller and elementary school principal W.G. van de Hulst, stories just reprinted for a new...
USD 124.95 / CAD 149.95
My Favorite Story Book
Children Love Stories. They snuggle up to parents or older siblings to hear them, one again, from their favorite story book. Author Willem Van de Hulst honed his skills at telling ...
USD 16.95 / CAD 19.95