Categorie archieven: Verenigde Staten

Timothy Little – Midnight on Cape Cod

28 oktober 2025 Redactie

Timothy Little Midnight on Cape Cod review, recensie en informatie boek over door sterren verlichte reis over Cape Cod en Martha’s Vineyard. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Schiffer Publishing het boek van de kunstenaar en fotograaf Timothy Little over Cape Cod en Martha’s Vineyard in het nachtlicht.

Timothy Little Midnight on Cape Cod review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Midnight on Cape Cod, A Starlit Journey Across the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Timothy Little, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Midnight on Cape Cod

A Starlit Journey Across the Cape and Martha’s Vineyard

Auteur: Timothy Little (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: fotoboek, kunstboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
Omvang: 192 pagina’s (298 afbeeldingen)
Uitgave: gebonden boek
Prijs: $ 34,99
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon

Flaptekst boek over Cape Cod en Martha’s Vineyard

Award-winning photographer Timothy Little’s stunning nighttime images bring fans of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard on a starry adventure to highlight the magic and peacefulness of the area after dark.

Starry nights, moonlit shores, fields of fireflies—experience Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard in the middle of the night, when the skies above become a window to the universe. Meteors streak the darkness and stars trail over lighthouses while crickets sing and ocean waves lap softly nearby.

Award-winning photographer Timothy Little’s lens captures the magic that unfolds between twilight and dawn, from summer nights on the Cape Cod National Seashore to the serene snow-covered streets of Falmouth at Christmastime. Join him as he shares the stories and techniques behind some of his most iconic images, offering a glimpse into this captivating world of the Cape that comes alive in the silent hours of the night while residents and tourists sleep.

Key Features:

Nearly 300 beautiful, unique images showcase the Cape and the Vineyard in ways not often seen.
Features photographs captured via techniques including light painting, long exposure, focus stacking, tracking, and aerial photography, while providing technical insight for interested photographers and artists.
Descriptive commentary acquaints readers with the area and connects tourists with their favorite places, while personal stories share the meaning and context behind the photographs.

Timothy Little is an award-winning artist and educator living on Cape Cod with a passion for photographing landscapes after dark. He leads night photography workshops and tours across Cape Cod, sharing his techniques with thousands of visitors. His artwork has been featured in regional and national publications.

Bijpassende boeken

Ruimtevaart, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Fotoboek, Verenigde Staten

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 1 in Photographs

28 oktober 2025 Redactie

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs review, recensie en informatie nieuw ruimtevaartboek over de tragedie in 1967. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Schiffer Publishing het boek in de reeks The Apollo Photo Archive over de Apollo 1 die 27 januari 1967 door brand werd verwoest en waarbij gezagvoerder Virgil Grissom, senior-piloot Ed White en piloot Roger Chaffee om het leven kwamen.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney Apollo 1 in Photographs review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Apollo 1 in Photographs, het boek van J.L. Pickering en John Bisney en het eerste deel in de Apollo Photo Archive reeks, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Apollo 1 in Photographs

The Apollo Photo Archive 1

Auteurs: J.L. Pickering, John Bisney (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: ruimtevaartboek, fotoboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
Omvang: 272 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek
Prijs: $ 49,99
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over ruimtevaartuig Apollo 1

A detailed visual record of the Apollo 1 tragedy, written by J.L. Pickering, John Bisney and with Ed Hengeveld.

The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published.

In January 1967, the Apollo 1 command module caught fire on the launchpad, claiming the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Apollo 1, expected to be a triumphant first manned mission for the program, thus ended in tragedy and devastation.

With more than 500 photos, this volume includes the arrival and assembly of the rocket and spacecraft, crew selection and training, preflight activities, the launchpad fire, and subsequent investigation.

J.L. Pickering & John Bisney – Apollo 2 in Photographs
The Apollo Photo Archive 2
ruimtevaartboek
Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025

Bijpassende boeken

Boeken over ruimtevaart

Amerikaanse muziek, Muziek, Verenigde Staten

Amerikaanse muziek boeken

26 oktober 2025 Redactie

Amerikaanse muziek boeken. Wat is de inhoud van het boek over Amerikaanse muziek? Over welke band, zanger, zangeres of muzikant uit de Verenigde Staten gaat het boek? Wat is het onderwerp van het muziekboek of biografie? Welke auteur, schrijfster of schrijver heeft het boek geschreven?

Amerikaanse muziek boeken

Veel van de tegenwoordig populaire muziek is afkomstig uit de Verenigde Staten. Dat geldt uiteraard voor de muziekgenres maar ook voor veel van de bekendste en beroemdste bands, zangers, zangeressen en muzikanten. Veel van muziek kent de oorsprong in de Verenigde Staten. Hierbij kun je denken aan de blues, country en folkmuziek. Maar ook funk, jazz en soul hebben duidelijke wortels in de Verenigde Staten. Het is dan ook niet vreemd dat er met regelmaat boeken over Amerikaanse muziek verschijnen.

Welke nieuwe boeken over Amerikaanse muziek verschijnen er?

Op deze pagina is een overzicht te vinden van nieuwe soulmuziek boeken. De indeling is op datum van verschijnen waarbij de nieuwste boeken bovenaan de lijst staan. Links verwijzen naar uitgebreide informatie van het boek, bestelmogelijkheden en regelmatig naar een recensie of review.

Sallie Martin

Mother of Gospel Music

Auteur: Kay Norton (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: biografie, muziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: University of Illinois Press
Reeks: Music in American Life
Verschijnt: 1 juni 2026
Omvang: 208 pagina’s
Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: $ 24,95 / $ 110,00 / $ 14,95
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Inhoud boek: Sallie Martin combined fame as a performer with a far-sighted business acumen that brought Black gospel music to a national audience and laid the foundation for the industry that followed. Kay Norton’s biography follows Martin’s parallel careers from her early plans to grow the genre through her celebrity in the 1960s–1970s and eventful retirement…lees verder >

Stephen Sondheim

Art Isn’t Easy

Author: Daniel Okrent (United States)
Book type: biography
Publisher: Yale University Press
Series: Jewish Lives
Released: March 17, 2026
Length: 336 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook
Prize: $ 35.00
Order book from: Amazon / Bol
Content: Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a towering figure in American musical theater. Celebrated for his iconic Broadway shows such as Company, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods, his accolades include eight Tony Awards, multiple Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. In this intimate biography, Daniel Okrent follows Sondheim through the tumult of his upbringing and his parents’ divorce, his acquaintance with Oscar Hammerstein II and subsequent discovery of musical theater, and his rise to fame as both a lyricist and composer…read on >

Driftin’ on a Memory

Celebrating Seventy Years of The Isley Brothers

Auteur: Trenton Bailey (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: muziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Mississippi University Press
Reeks: American Made Music Series
Verschijnt: 17 november 2025
Omvang: 277 pagina’s
Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek
Prijs: $ 25,00 / $ 110,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: In Driftin’ on a Memory: Celebrating Seventy Years of The Isley Brothers, Trenton Bailey tells the story of this groundbreaking musical act. The Isley Brothers began recording as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O’Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley, and Ronald Isley in the 1950s. They have covered a wide range of genres, including gospel, doo-wop, rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, the Motown sound, funk, and disco, and their music has been sampled by numerous hip-hop artists. The Isley Brothers achieved their first hit, “Shout,” in 1959 and have reached the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart with new music in six different decades, from the 1950s to the 2000s…lees verder >

Concerto for Cootie

The Life and Times of Cootie Williams

Auteur: Steven C. Bowie (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: biografie, jazzmuziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Mississippi University Press
Reeks: American Made Music Series
Verschijnt: 17 november 2025
Omvang: 277 pagina’s
Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek
Prijs: $ 35,00 / $ 120,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman, one of the most popular bands in the country. At the time, it was a controversial move—it was still taboo for African Americans to share the bandstand with white people. Current references to the move usually reduce it to a song written by Raymond Scott, “When Cootie Left the Duke.” In reality, it was a seismic event…lees verder >

Don’t Stop

Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours

Author: Alan Light (United States)
Book type: music book
Publisher: Atria Books
To be released: November 4, 2025
Length: 288 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $19.99
Order book from: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Content: The insight to Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album Rumours, celebrating its story, mythology, and enduring impact. On January 1, 1975, struggling young singer-songwriter Lindsey Buckingham was invited to join the veteran blues band Fleetwood Mac. He agreed on the condition that his girlfriend, an equally unknown vocalist named Stevie Nicks, also be included. Within two years, Rumours was born—and went on to become one of the most popular albums of all time…read on >

The Complete Johnny Cash

Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting

Auteur: Mark Stielper (Verenigde Staten)
Bijdrage van: Johnny Carter Cash
Soort boek: liedteksten, muziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: White Rabbit
Verschijnt: 30 oktober 2025
Omvang: 720 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: £ 40,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Inhoud boek: Every lyric to every song that iconic American artist Johnny Cash ever wrote. This is the complete, comprehensive catalogue of Cash’s 55-year career as a songwriter, including nearly 500 songs. Johnny Cash, ‘The Man in Black’, is one of America’s most prolific and influential songwriters, speaking through his songs to the soul of the nation while capturing the victories and losses that marked his own life. This comprehensive and definitive book collects – for the first time – every one of his song lyrics alongside never-before-seen reproductions of handwritten pages from his own notebooks…lees verder >

What Did You Hear?

The Music of Bob Dylan

Auteur: Steven Rings (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: boek over de muziek van Bob Dylan
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: The University of Chicago Press
Verschijnt: 17 oktober 2025
Omvang: 360 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: $ 29,95 / $ 28,99
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice. Folk troubadour, rock star, country crooner—for a musician who adopted so many personas, Bob Dylan always sounds like himself. While he’s written many of the most iconic and impactful lyrics of the past sixty years, Dylan’s music has also reshaped our sonic imagination with his ragged voice, wailing harmonica, and rough-hewn guitar…lees verder >

The Jazz Barn

Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

Auteur: John Gennari (Verenigde Staten)
Foto’s: Clemens Kalischer
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Brandeis University Press
Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2025
Omvang: 254 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek
Prijs: $ 35,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: This is a book about what happened in the 1950s in a barn, an icehouse, and a greenhouse in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Against the backdrop of McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the expansion of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and postwar cultural tourism, two New Yorkers bought part of a sprawling estate in Lenox, where they converted an old barn and other outbuildings into an inn that could host musical performances and seminars. The Berkshire Music Barn went on to host jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday, as well as jazz roundtables grounded in folkloric approaches to the music…lees verder >

Let Me Be Frank

The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Auteurs: Bruce H. Klauber, Andrea Kauffmann (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: Frank Sinatra Jr. biografie
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: University Press of Mississippi
Reeks: American Made Music Series
Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2025
Omvang: 277 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: $ 30,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris
Inhoud boek: Let Me Be Frank chronicles Frank Sinatra, Jr.’s life and music career, including the lifetime loyalty of his friends and bandsmen, and his notorious womanizing. It also, of course, details the challenging relationship with his father, including an incident with his father that may have changed Frank Jr. forever. He ran from comparisons to his father and lost work due to his refusal to sing his father’s songs. The book also details Frank Jr.’s kidnapping in 1963 when he was nineteen…lees verder >

Fender Telecaster

75 Years

Auteur: Dave Hunter (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: gitaarboek, muziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Quarto Publishing
Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
Omvang: 224 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: £ 35,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Inhoud boek: Embraced for its simplicity and adaptability, the Fender^® Telecaster^® guitar is a musical icon around the world and across musical genres, its distinctive design as beloved today as it was when Leo Fender introduced the guitar to the world in 1951. In Fender Telecaster 75 Years, guitar historian Dave Hunter traces Telecaster^® guitars across seven-plus decades, beginning with Leo Fender’s breakthrough design in his modest Fullerton, California, workshop…lees verder >

Mothership Connected

The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic

Auteur: Seth Neblett (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: muziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: University of Texas Press
Reeks: American Music Series
Verschijnt: 30 september 2025
Omvang: 360 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: $ 34.95
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership. Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the group’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, none of the women who helped create the sound and performed in P-Funk were invited to the ceremony and their contributions have been largely overlooked…lees verder >

Truly

Auteur: Lionel Richie (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: autobiografie, memoir, muziekboek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: William Collins
Verschijnt: 30 september 2025
Omvang: 496 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
Prijs: £ 25,00/ £ 14,99 / £ 17,99
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: As a storyteller second to none, Lionel Richie is ready to tell it all. In this intimate, deeply candid memoir, Lionel revisits hilarious and harrowing events to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don’t matter. Lionel chronicles lessons learned during his unlikely story of remarkable success—his dramatic transformation from painfully shy, ’tragically’ late bloomer to world-class entertainer and composer of love songs that have played as the soundtrack of our lives…lees verder >

Taylor Swift compleet

Het verhaal van de 248 songs

Auteurs: Damien Domville, Marine Benoit (Frankrijk)
Soort boek: muziekboek
Uitgever: WBOOKS
Verschijnt: 8 september 2025
Omvang: 496 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek
Prijs: € 69,95 (intekenprijs € 59,95)
Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Inhoud boek: Taylor Swift: een geboren ster met een zelfgebouwd muzikaal imperium. Na het verschijnen van haar allereerste album, Taylor Swift, in oktober 2006 bestaat de carrière van de nog jonge Taylor Alison Swift (1989, Reading, Pennsylvania) al snel uit het ene daverende succes na het andere. Hoe weet ze zichzelf steeds te ontwikkelen zonder zichzelf te verliezen? En wat is die magie tussen haar en haar Swifties?…lees verder >

Bijpassende boeken

Boeken over muziek

Afbeelding bovenzijde: Nashville, Tennessee (T. Mossholder, Unsplash)

American Crime Novel, Amerikaanse thrillers, Verenigde Staten

New American crime novels

24 oktober 2025 Redactie

New American crime novels. What new crime novels, detectives and thrillers from the United States are coming out? Who is the author of the American thriller? When will the book be released and by which publisher?

What new American crime novels are coming out?

This page provides an overview of new American crime novels that are being released or will soon be available in bookstores. Besides information about the books’ content, you’ll also find information about the authors, the publication, and ordering options. Published reviews of the thrillers are also included.

New American crime novels in 2025

The list of new crime novels in 2025 from the United States is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Rita Mae Brown – Time Will Tell
Cozy crime novel
Publisher: Bantam
Released: 14 October 2025
Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club’s fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, “Sister” Jane Arnold is as busy as can be. She and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler’s two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. The last thing Sister needs is another mystery to solve, but when one falls into her lap, she can’t help but get involved…read on >

Nic Stone – Boom Town
Atlanta crime novel about
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: 14 October 2025
When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom Town, former headliner Michah “Lyriq” Johanssen suspects something more than a “no call, no show.” As Lyriq’s former headline partner and lover—Felice “Lucky” Carothers—also vanished under similar circumstances, Lyriq decides she’s going to find them. Delving deeper into Charm and Lucky’s disappearances, Lyriq uncovers a tangled web of deceit, privilege, and power…read on >

Chris Kraus – The Four Spent the Day Together
American crime novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: 7 October 2025
On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called “meth community,” the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles,,,read on >

Thomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket
Milwaukee crime novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 7 October 2025
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering…read on >

Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearfull Symmetry
American horror novel from 2009
Publisher: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
Released: 4 September 2025
When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed…read on >

Taylor Moore – Cold Trail
crime novel, Garrett Kohl 4
Publisher: William Morrow
Released: 29 July 2025
In the fourth pulse-pounding thriller in the series, DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must find out what’s truly tainted in the energy industry and uncover a deep-rooted plot in order to protect his new business, beloved ranch, and family…read on >

Jessa Maxwell – Dead of Summer
New England thriller
Publisher: Atria Books
Released: 22 july 2025
Orla O’Connor hasn’t been to the isolated New England enclave of Hadley Island since she graduated from high school a decade ago. As a teenager, her best friend Alice disappeared from its shores without a trace—but with plenty of rumors.,,read on >

Christina Li – The Manor of Dreams
American gothic novel
Publisher: Avid Reader Press
Released: 6 Mai 2025
Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home…read on >

Stephen Graham Jones – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Historical horror
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
Released: 18 March 2025
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story…read on >

New American crime novels in 2026

The list of new crime novels in 2026 from the United States is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Dennis E. Staples – Passing – Through a Prairie Country

Native American crime novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: March 17, 2026
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web…read on >

C. William Langsfeld – Salvation

Western noir novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: February 3, 2026
This emotionally charged Western noir explores a small rural Colorado town in a state of crisis at the height of winter. Tom Horak has just murdered his best friend, Rust Hawkins. Morris Green, the town’s Lutheran pastor, is experiencing a profound crisis of faith, questioning the very existence of God. And Marshal Thomlison, the local peace officer looking forward to retirement, is now thrown into the middle of a murder investigation…read on >

Sarah Crouch – The Briars

American crime novel
Publisher: Atria Books
Released: January 13, 2026
Desperate to escape a relationship gone bad, Annie Heston flees north to accept a job as a game warden in Lake Lumin, a picturesque town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. A cougar has been spotted in the area, and as Annie warns the community of the threat, she quickly discovers that not everyone in the tight-knit town is welcoming of outsiders, except for Daniel Barela, a reclusive carpenter who lives in the shadow of the mountain. They form an instant bond, though Annie soon comes to realize there is more to his past than meets the eye…read on >

Laura Dave – The First Time I Saw Him

American crime novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: January 6, 2026
Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again…read on >

Lori Rader-Day – Wreck Your Heart

American crime novel
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Released: January 6, 2026
Dahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she’s the star of her own stage at McPhee’s Tavern. As part of Chicago’s—yes, Chicago’s—country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him…read on >

Related books and information

New American novels

Amerikaanse schrijfster, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Toni Morrison – Spelen in het duister

14 oktober 2025 Redactie

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie en informatie boek over witheid in de literaire verbeelding. Op 14 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Letterwerk de Nederlandse vertaling van Playing in the Dark, het non-fictie boek uit 1993 van Toni Morrison. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Toni Morrison Spelen in het duister recensie

“Door de Amerikaanse literaire slagader aan te vallen plaatst ze zich, met argumenten, in het centrum van het hedendaagse publieke debat over wat het betekent om authentiek en oorspronkelijk Amerikaans te zijn. Ze herinterpreteert op gedurfde wijze de mogelijkheden van Amerika.” (Chicago Tribune)
“Een diepgaande herdefiniëring van de Amerikaanse culturele identiteit.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Spelen in het duister

Witheid in de literaire verbeelding

Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: literaire non-fictie
Origineel: Playing in the Dark (1993)
Uitgever: Letterwerk
Reeks: Filosofische Bibliotheek Diotima
Verschijnt: 14 november 2025
Omvang: 200 pagina’s
Uitgave: paperback
Prijs: € 24,99
Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Toni Morrison over racisme

Spelen in het duister is een van de weinige non-fictiewerken die Toni Morrison schreef. In dit boek maakt ze een messcherpe analyse van de verborgen, maar cruciale rol die Afro-Amerikanen spelen in de literaire verbeelding van wit Amerika. Ze spreekt over ‘Afrikanisme’: Afrikanen en Afro-Amerikanen vormden de vaak impliciete achtergrond van onvrijheid, waartegen de Amerikaanse idealen van autonomie en zelfredzaamheid konden worden afgezet (door witte schrijvers).

Morrison reflecteert op de impact van raciale aannames op het lezen en interpreteren van literaire werken. Door het ontrafelen van het ‘Afrikanisme’ ontstaat er een fascinerend nieuw perspectief op het werk van canonieke witte Amerikaanse schrijvers zoals E.A. Poe, Herman Melville, Will Cather en Ernest Hemingway.

In Spelen in het duister houdt Morrison ons een spiegel voor. Ze legt haarfijn de subtiele onderstromen van racisme en uitbuiting bloot die de basis vormen van veel Amerikaanse literatuur. Bovendien plaatst ze kritische vraagtekens bij het idee van ‘rasvrije’ literatuur en pleit ze voor de erkenning van de invloedrijke, maar vaak over het hoofd geziene, rol van Afro-Amerikanen hierin.

Geïllustreerd met een nawoord door de inspirerende Sibo Kanobana, levert Spelen in het duister een niet te onderschatten bijdrage aan het hedendaagse debat over racisme in Europa.

Toni Morrison is geboren op 18 februari1931 in Lorain, Ohiao, Verenigde Staten. Ze was een Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. In 1993 ontving ze de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur voor haar oeuvre. Een aantal van haar boeken wordt gezien als klassiekers van de Amerikaanse literatuur, waaronder The Bluest Eye, Beloved (dat bekroond werd met de Pulitzerprijs), en Song of Solomon. Door haar unieke stem en onwrikbare toewijding aan het vertellen van de complexe verhalen van Afro-Amerikanen heeft ze een onuitwisbare stempel gedrukt op de wereldliteratuur. Ze overleed op 5 augustus 2019 in The Bronx in New York City en werd 88 jaar oud.

Bijpassende boeken en informatie

American Novel, American Crime Novel, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Verenigde Staten

Sarah Crouch – The Briars

13 oktober 2025 Redactie

Sarah Crouch The Briars review and information of novel and literary thriller. Atria Books will publish the novel by Sarah Crouch, on January 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Sarah Crouch The Briars reviews

“One of my favourite reads of the year, The Briars is a show stopping, accomplished mystery that both captivated and intrigued me in equal measure – I couldn’t put it down. From the very first page, Sarah Crouch draws you into the beautifully realised setting of Lake Lumin in the Pacific Northwest with lush, lyrical descriptions that left me both longing to visit and deeply chilled. With nuanced, likeable characters, Crouch weaves a complex plot and tightens the tension until breaking point as murder haunts the lake and the past returns to shadow the present. A complex, thrilling page turner that will stay with you long after you finish reading.” (Sarah Pearse, Author of The Sanatorium)
“Sarah Crouch’s delicate and tantalizing prose in The Briars builds the scaffolding for an emotionally charged mystery as a troubled game warden probes for answers in the wilds of the lush Pacific Northwest — and in the vagaries of the treacherous landscape within. With complicated twists that build to a satisfying surprise, The Briars delivers a powerful emotional experience readers won’t be able to shake long after they put the book down. One of the best books I’ve read this year.” (Julie Carrick Dalton, author of The Last Beekeeper)

The Briars

Author: Sarah Crouch (United States)
Book type: literary thriller
Publisher: Atria Books
To be released: January 13, 2026
Length: 320 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the crime novel of Sarah Crouch

A lush and atmospheric novel of suspense following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own.

Desperate to escape a relationship gone bad, Annie Heston flees north to accept a job as a game warden in Lake Lumin, a picturesque town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

A cougar has been spotted in the area, and as Annie warns the community of the threat, she quickly discovers that not everyone in the tight-knit town is welcoming of outsiders, except for Daniel Barela, a reclusive carpenter who lives in the shadow of the mountain. They form an instant bond, though Annie soon comes to realize there is more to his past than meets the eye.

When the body of a young woman is found in the briars that border Daniel’s property, the peace Annie has found in Lake Lumin shatters. As she assists the local sheriff with the investigation, Annie must rely on her wilderness training and intuition to find a murderer hiding in plain sight.

Urgent and emotionally complex, The Briars is a captivating literary thriller that marries an exploration of human nature with a plot as thorny and twisted as the brambles for which it is named.

Sarah Crouch is born August 22, 1989 in Hockinson, Washington. She is the author of Middletide and The Briars, literary thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest, where she was raised. She is also known for her accolades in the world of athletics as a professional marathon runner.

Matching books

New American Crime Novels

Afrikaanse geschiedenis, Afrikaanse politiek, Verenigde Staten

Dennis R. McBride – A City on the Edge

30 september 2025 Redactie

Dennis R. McBride A City on the Edge review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse stad in tijden van pandemie, protest en polarisatie. Op 30 september 2025 verschijnt bij Indiana University Press het boek van Dennis R. McBride, burgemeester van Wauwatosa in Wisconsin en voormalig journalist over de situatie in Amerikaanse steden in 2020. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Dennis R. McBride A City on the Edge review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van A City on the Edge, Pandemic, Protest, and Polarization, het boek geschreven door Dennis R. McBride, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

A City on the Edge

Pandemic, Protest, and Polarization

Auteur: Dennis R. McBride (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: recente Amerikaanse geschiedenis
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Indiana University Press
Verschijnt 30 september 2025
Omvang: 314 pagina’s
Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: $ 35,00 / $ 60,00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Dennis McBride over Amerika in 2020

Some years change the course of history. 2020 was one of those years.

As a pandemic, lockdowns, and an economic downturn convulsed America, police shootings of George Floyd and other African Americans touched off the largest protest movement in U.S. history. At the same time, mass shootings soared; many states saw unprecedented increases in gun-related incidents. Churning in the background were a bitter presidential election campaign and counterprotests opposing public health measures and the election result itself.

Mayors of cities big and small struggled with some of these challenges, but Dennis McBride, the new mayor of a mid-sized, mostly-White suburb bordered by the majority-minority City of Milwaukee—called the “heartland of the heartland”—faced them all. His city, a microcosm of a troubled America, teetered on the verge of anarchy while playing a crucial role in the presidential election. A City on the Edge is the gripping story of how he and other mayors have steered America’s hometowns through a storm of personal and political divisions.

Though the chaos of 2020 has gradually subsided, it is still reverberating in the nation’s economy, politics, and psyche. The changes sparked by the events of that historic year continue to vex mayors and their communities. Americans and their leaders are searching for a new equilibrium. That balance will be found first in our hometowns. A City on the Edge offers a path forward.

Dennis R. McBride is the mayor of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and co-author of The Luckiest Boy in the World. He holds a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a master of public administration degree from Princeton University, and a law degree from New York University.

Bijpassende boeken

Amerikaanse politiek, Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Memoir, Verenigde Staten

Kamala Harris – 107 Days

23 september 2025 Redactie

Kamala Harris 107 Days review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen in 2024. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het nieuwe boek van Kamala Harris de voormalige presidentskandidaat voor de Democraten in 2024. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kamala Harris 107 Days review en recensie

“The brilliant, charismatic woman who came close to breaking the ultimate glass ceiling has given us an essential portrait of an unforgettable turning point in her journey…a taut, eye-opening account.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Political junkies will dig the play by play…candid, salty, incoming f-bombs!, and even a little dishy.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
“The book isn’t a winding memoir or a political treatise, and Harris doesn’t disclose any future plans. Instead, it reads like a ticking time bomb, with each chapter counting down to Election Day….Although Harris earned a reputation as guarded and circumspect, the book has the tone of someone who is finished biting her tongue. She concedes mistakes, reveals frustrations and details some of the stranger moments from her race.” (Associated Press)

107 Days

Auteur: Kamala Harris (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek boek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
Omvang: 320 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst nieuw boek van Kamala Harris over de Amerikaanse verkiezingen van 2024

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.

Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer.
You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States.
On July 21, 2024, your running mate, Joe Biden, announces that he will not be seeking reelection.
The presidential election will occur on November 5, 2024.
You have 107 days.

Written with candor, a unique perspective, and the pace of a page-turning novel, 107 Days takes you inside the race for the presidency as no one has ever done before.

Kamala D. Harris was born on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California. She served as the forty-ninth vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025—the first woman in American history to hold the office. She began her career in the Alameda County district attorney’s office before being elected district attorney of San Francisco, where her Back on Track program became a national model for reducing recidivism. As California’s attorney general, Harris prosecuted transnational gangs, big banks that defrauded homeowners, and for-profit colleges that targeted students and veterans. She defended the Affordable Care Act, fought for marriage equality, and pioneered the nation’s first open-data initiative in the criminal justice system. In the United States Senate, Harris fought for civil, immigrant, and voting rights, and gained national recognition for her incisive questioning in committee hearings. As vice president, she led efforts to strengthen global alliances and address child poverty, gun violence, student debt, maternal health, economic opportunity, and reproductive rights—casting more tiebreaking votes than any vice president in history, including for pandemic relief and the largest climate investment ever. Throughout her career, she has always fought for the only client she has ever had: the people.

Bijpassende boeken

Amerikaanse politiek boeken

Amerikaanse politiek, Verenigde Staten

Thom Hartmann – The Last American President

23 september 2025 Redactie

Thom Hartmann The Last American President review, recensie en informatie boek over het gevaar van president Donald Trump. Op 23 september 2025 verschijnt bij Berrett-Koehler Publishers het nieuwe boek van Thom Hartmann, de Amerikaanse schrijver en progressieve talkshow host. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Thom Hartmann The Last American President review en recensie

“As both a psychotherapist and a political scientist, Hartmann dives deep into the murky bilge of Trump’s brain and comes up with the detailed expose of a pathological narcissist who feeds on the easily bamboozled marks we call voters. It’ll make you sick and nauseated, but you’ll love it.” (Greg Palast, bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy)
“This work expertly lays out how Trumpism has reshaped our understanding and reliance on democracy’s most fundamental institutions. Now Americans must play the long game: defend our most valued principles to save our democracy.” (Ali Velshi, Anchor, MSNBC, and Senior Correspondent, NBC News)
“Hartmann understands that the attack on our democracy comes from the president but also an entire infrastructure of money and political power that was built over decades and that aims to turn America into an oligarchy.” (David Sirota, award-winning journalist)

The Last American President

A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink

Auteur: Thom Hartmann (Verenigde Staten)
Soort boek: Donald Trump en de Amerikaanse politiek
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Verschijnt: 23 september 2025
Omvang: 224 pagina’s
Uitgave: paperback / ebook
Prijs: $ 24,95
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Thom Hartmann over Donald Trump

From bestselling progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann comes an urgent autopsy of American democracy, showing how plutocrats, political cowardice, and systemic rot built the perfect runway for Trump’s authoritarian ascent.

The Last American President rips open America’s wounded democracy to expose a terrifying truth: Donald Trump isn’t an anomaly—he’s the inevitable product of a system engineered to fail. This searing investigation reveals how a man forged by childhood trauma, pathological narcissism, and calculated cruelty didn’t hijack democracy—he was handed the keys by those who should have been its guardians.

Hartmann uncovers the unholy alliance between Trump’s damaged psyche and America’s rotted institutions. From Fred Trump’s brutal parenting to Roy Cohn’s lessons in shamelessness, from a Republican Party that traded principles for power to billionaire donors who treated democracy as a profit center, this book exposes the assembly line that manufactured an authoritarian.

But this is about more than Trump’s past—it’s about America’s future. As climate catastrophe accelerates and fascism spreads globally, Hartmann reveals the nightmare scenario: a second Trump term that doesn’t just end American democracy but also triggers irreversible planetary damage. Through meticulous research and unflinching analysis, he shows how political cowardice and corporate greed created the perfect storm that could extinguish humanity’s last chance at survival.

This isn’t just political commentary—it’s a last-minute alarm sounding before the point of no return.

Thom Hartmann was born 7 May 1951 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Heis a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers Magazine named him America’s #1 most important progressive host and the host of one of the top 10 talk radio shows in the country every year for over a decade. A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four books, translated in multiple languages.

Bijpassende boeken

Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy – Republic and Empire

16 september 2025 Redactie

Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Republic and Empire review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse Revolutie. Op 16 september 2025 verschijnt Yale University Press het boek geschreven door de historici Trevor Burnard en Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy over crisis, revolutie en de vroege onafhankelijkheid van Amerika. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek verkrijgbaar.

Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Republic and Empire review

“In this impressive distillation of a wide range of imperial scholarship, the authors present a compelling case for recognizing both the roots and the course of the American Revolution as profoundly influenced by events in the wider British Empire following its expansion in and immediately after the Seven Years’ War.” (Stephen Conway, University College London)
“Timely, critically important contribution to our understanding of the American nation’s origins in a constitutional crisis and civil war that led half of Britain’s American colonies to declare independence. Balancing a welcome emphasis on the uncertain progress of the war with convincing accounts of why so many other colonies remained loyal, Burnard and O’Shaughnessy illuminate the contingent contexts that shaped individual and collective decisions in a revolutionary age.” (Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia)

Republic and Empire

Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

Auteurs: Trevor Burnard, Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Yale University Press
Verschijnt: 16 september 2025
Omvang: 320 pagina’s
Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Prijs: $ 35.00
Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Amerikaanse Revolutie als een mondiale gebeurtenis

A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event.

At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world in 1776. What of the loyal half? Why did some of Britain’s subjects feel so aggrieved that they wanted to establish a new system of government, while others did not rebel? In this authoritative history, Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy show that understanding the long-term causes of the American Revolution requires a global view.

As much as it was an event in the history of the United States, the American Revolution was an imperial event produced by the upheavals of managing a far-flung set of imperial possessions during a turbulent period of reform. By looking beyond the familiar borders of the Revolution and considering colonies that did not rebel—Quebec, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, India, the British Caribbean, Senegal, and Ireland—Burnard and O’Shaughnessy go beyond the republican, liberal, and democratic aspects of the emerging American nation, providing a broader history that transcends what we think we know about the Revolution.

Trevor Burnard was born on 15 October 1960 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull and director of the Wilberforce Institute. He was the author of numerous books on Caribbean plantation history and imperial history and served as editor of the Oxford Bibliography Online in Atlantic History. Burnard died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 63.

Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy was born in in 1959 in Cheshire, Engeland. He is professor of history at the University of Virginia. His books include An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean and the prizewinning The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.

Bijpassende boeken

Amerikaanse geschiedenis boeken