Servaas Goddijn Books

An easy guide to many scientific mysteries, fully indexed.

Joe Watson has been to court exactly once - to be sworn in as a lawyer. He's a Webhead, a research geek who sits in front of a screen all day in the plush officers of his smart firm, looking for copyright violations in video games. But there's been a murder, a 'hate crime' and the fearsome Judge Stang has assigned the case to Watson. Hie wife and the senior partners are as eager as he is to have the case transferred to another lawyer - but Judge Stang's decsions are never revoked and Watson finds himself hurled into a maelstrom of Bigotry, murder and seduction. In a legal nightmre defending a violent client whose guilt seems certain, Watson's only allies are a diminutive, foulmouthed punk defence lawyer, and a brilliant, deliviously sexy neuroscientist whose interest in the case drifts unsettlingly between the pseronal and professional. And when his wife and kids leave, his firm disowns him and his client's gung-ho militia 'friends' start to creep out of the woods, Watson feels he's having a very bad time. . .

Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads". Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is a book of fictions, but they are also true. Over the last ten years, I have often stumbled over a scrap of history so fascinating that I had to stop whatever I was doing and write a story about it. My sources are the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life: surgical case-notes; trial records; a plague ballad; theological pamphlets; a painting of two girls in a garden; an articulated skeleton. Some of the ghosts in this collection have famous names; others were written off as cripples, children, half-breeds, freaks and nobodies. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits is named for Mary Toft, who in 1726 managed to convince half England that she had done just that. So this book is what I have to show for ten years of sporadic grave-robbing, ferreting out forgotten puzzles and peculiar incidents, asking 'What really happened?', but also, 'What if?

De tent van Margaret Atwood is een zinnenprikkelende verzameling korte verhalen, afgewisseld door illustraties van de auteur. De verhalen zijn zowel geestig als intelligent, persoonlijk als vooruitziend, en vertellen op hoogst fantasierijke wijze over een breed scala aan onderwerpen. De stukken wisselen in lengte van slechts één pagina tot meerdere pagina's. In de verhalen geeft Atwood een sluwe peptalk aan ambitieuze jongeren. Ze schrijft over de vervreemdende ervaring die we hebben wanneer we oude foto's van onszelf terugzien. Ze laat ons beleven wat Horatio werkelijk van Hamlet dacht en ze onderzoekt wat het waarlijk betekent een wees te zijn. In 'Breng Moeder terug; een bezwering' beschrijft ze hoe het leven echt was voor de huisvrouwen van vroeger en in 'De dieren verwerpen hun naam' gaat ze de geschiedenis in, met verrassende resultaten. De tent is typisch Margaret Atwood: de verhalen in deze bundel zijn controversieel en bezwerend en kunnen keer op keer worden herlezen.

Een filmster aan de top, die alles heeft wat haar hartje begeert, verlangt naar een echte vriend op wie ze kan vertrouwen.