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1. Seán Hewitt

Open, Heaven

An achingly beautiful story of first love in the English countryside . . . Lyrical, atmospheric and transporting

1. Kate Hewitt

Waar de morgen ons vindt

Een hartverscheurend boek over de liefde van een moeder voor haar kinderen en de opofferingen die ze maakt om te overleven Voor de lezers van Kristin Hannah en Nora Roberts Hewitt is een internationale bestsellerauteur, van wie wereldwijd al miljoenen boeken verkocht zijn Het laatste deel uit de trilogie over een moeder die haar kinderen helpt te overleven in een onherkenbaar veranderde wereld Liefde en familie zijn de meest prominente thema’s in de boeken van Kate Hewitt Na jaren van overleven en verwoestend verlies voelt de belofte van een nieuwe nederzetting in North Dakota als een redding. Een kans voor Alex en haar kinderen om een normaler leven terug te krijgen, weer te studeren en vrienden te maken. Een kans voor Alex om een nieuw doel te vinden en verslag te doen voor de krant van deze vreemde, nieuwe wereld waarin ze wonen. Ze maakt zelfs nieuwe vrienden als ze dichter naar Jack Wyatt, de plaatsvervangende leider van de nederzetting, toe groeit. Maar ze kan het niet helpen dat ze zich achtervolgd voelt door wat – en wie – ze achter hebben gelaten. Ze mist haar oudste dochter verschrikkelijk. Mattie koos ervoor om achter te blijven in Canada, om haar eigen toekomst te bepalen in de gemeenschap die Alex achterliet. Alex zegt tegen zichzelf dat ze daar veilig is, maar geleidelijk aan begint ze meer te begrijpen van de wereld waartoe ze behoort, en maakt ze zich steeds meer zorgen over de veiligheid van Mattie. Ze heeft al veel te veel verloren aan deze gebroken wereld. Ze wil haar dochter niet ook nog eens verliezen. Over De laatste sterren aan de hemel ‘Waanzinnig mooi. Ik las het in één ruk uit. En het mooiste van alles: er komen meer delen aan.’ Isa ***** ‘Dit verhaal heeft álles: cliffhangers, levensechte personages, spanning. Het gaat over overleven. Over vriendelijkheid, vertrouwen, vriendschap, verdriet en gevonden én gekozen familie. Over hoop.’ Iselle ***** ‘Wat een bijzondere, aangrijpende en meeslepende roman. Kate Hewitt heeft een filmische, sfeervolle en fijne schrijfstijl.’ Kim *****

1. Dylan Hewitt

The Night Getter

Dylan Hewitt was born and raised in London, England, where he still lives today. He studied for his BA degree in graphic design at lofty Central St Martins. From here, he dived into a life of art direction in the advertising world developing campaigns in every media. Behind closed doors, he is busy creating children’s books. His biggest takeaway from advertising has been that the idea is king, and he likes his ideas to have humour, charm, warmth and a spot of the surreal, just like him...

1. Kate Hewitt

The Last Stars in the Sky

1. Paul Hewitt

Conceptual Physics, Global Edition

Paul G. Hewitt Becoming a physics instructor and textbook authordidn't seem a likely outcome of my earlier years. I grew up in Saugus (nearBoston), Massachusetts. In my high school years, an influential counselorconvinced me that I wouldn't have to take academic courses due to my talent forart. My passions at the time were drawing comic strips, rink roller-skating,and especially boxing, which helped repel school bullies. At age 17, I won thesilver medal of the New England Amateur Athletic Union in the 112-pound class.Shortly after that, I delivered newspapers, painted signs, and learnedsilk-screen printing in Boston, where I met life-long friend Ernie Brown, whoinfluenced me to spend two winters with him in Miami, Florida. I dedicated theeleventh edition of Conceptual Physics to Ernie. In 1953, during the Koreanconflict, I was abruptly drafted into the Army. I was fortunate, however, thatthe war ended on my last day of basic training at Camp Carson in ColoradoSprings. My Army discharge occurred during the craze of uranium prospecting,which nurtured the hope of financial security. I took that gamble and remainedin Colorado to prospect for uranium, supporting myself as a sign painter in thetown of Salida. I discovered uranium-tainted rock in the Sangre de ChristoMountains that raised my hopes, but not my income. More importantly, Idiscovered and fell in love with Millie Luna. Winter snow prevented access tomy uranium claims, so I went back to Saugus, and then to escape the cold NewEngland winters, I returned to Miami. Life-changing events occurred inMiami. First, I married Millie. Second, I met sign painter and science buffBurl Grey and his intellectual mentor, Jacque Fresco. Both inspired me topursue a life of science. I returned north and with the G.I. Bill, enrolled atNewman Preparatory School in Boston to make up for high-school deficiencies. Atthe age of 27, I began college at Lowell Technological Institute (now theUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell). After I received a Bachelor of Science degreein physics, Millie and I and our two children ventured west, where I would earna Master of Science degree in physics at Utah State University (USU). There, Iwas inspired by the extraordinary teaching of Farrell Edwards and John J.Merrill. USU friends Huey and Sue Johnson influenced us to follow them to SanFrancisco, where Huey, a passionate environmentalist, began his career as WesternDirector of the famed Nature Conservancy and soon became California's Secretaryof Resources during Jerry Brown's administration. Huey also founded The Trustfor Public Land, an organization that saves tracts of land from unwantedcommercial development, and he later founded the nonprofit Resource RenewalInstitute. Best friend extraordinaire Huey passed away in 2020 fromcomplications after a fall. It was with Huey's assistance in 1964 that I washired as a long-term substitute at City College of San Francisco (CCSF). My teaching assignment was thecourse least popular among my colleagues, Physics 10, which was geared towardnon-science majors, the very students I wanted to reach. My teaching goal wasnot to swell the ranks of physicists, but to share my love of physics with allstudents. I very soon discovered that the best of my algebraic derivations wereunappreciated. Nor did students think much of my simple problems that usedequations as recipes to come up with numerical answers. My teaching evolved to"physics without numbers," and Physics 10 soon became the mostpopular elective course on campus. I yearned to teach from a new and excitingtextbook, Physics for the Inquiring Mind, by Eric Rogers, but mydepartment chair found it unacceptable because it was too large and heavy forstudents to tote around. That meant I would have to writemy own book. Inspired by the Rogers book and Basic Physics, a new,clearly written textbook by Kenneth Ford, I frantically spent the summer of1969, the year of the first Moon landing, creating Conceptual Physics.The spiral-bound result was graciously printed on campus by the collegebookstore. Its coverage of topics was in step with my nemesis as a student:information overload. It covered only the fundamentals of physics. It had nonumerical problems requiring even simple algebra. None. As such, it was a quitelocal CCSF book. Enrollment for Physics 10 hadgrown to more than a thousand per semester. Curious textbook sales representativesthought that Conceptual Physics could be more than a localbook. To make a long and interesting story short, Little, Brown and Companypublished it in 1971 (50 years ago). This was at a time when college studentsnationwide were demanding relevance in their courses. With its subtitle, A New Introduction to Your Environment, ConceptualPhysics was seen as very relevant. To add to the accuracyof the physics, Ken Ford volunteered his editorial pen to my writing. Idedicated the eighth and eleventh editions to him. Conceptual Physics becamethe dominant book for liberal arts physics courses in the United States, andalso internationally. Teaching was not confined toCCSF. On Wednesday evenings, I taught at the San Francisco Exploratorium. I wasoften honored when founder Frank Oppenheimer sat in on my classes. When musicalsounds was the topic, with his collection of woodwind instruments, Frank didthe teaching, and I sat in. Wonderful times teaching with Frank. As an author, I never went thecommon route of following an introductory textbook with an algebra/trigonometry-basedbook and then a calculus-based textbook. Instead, I elected to keepimproving Conceptual Physics for non-science students, edition after edition, a continuous strivingto increase the clarity of physics topics, to make physics a course thatstudents could love. For an algebra-based course, Phil Wolf and I wrote aproblem-solving book to supplement Conceptual Physics. It is now animportant complement to this thirteenth edition. In my personal life, my wifeMillie peacefully passed away in 2004, leaving me with three wonderful childrenand seven well-loved grandchildren. A year later I married Lillian Lee. Both ofmy marriages were to impressive women. Today, my wife Lillian, with her eye fordetail, adds clarity to my writing. Hence, I dedicate this edition to her, as Idid with previous editions. I never traveled outside of theUnited States until age 40. Since then, summers have been devoted to worldtravel. My teaching took me further afield as well, mainly to the University ofCalifornia at both Berkeley and Santa Cruz, and the two university campuses inHawaii. In Hawaii, I was also invited to teach in a video studio. Little did Irealize that those lectures would remain popular today. A move from Hilo, Hawaii, to St.Petersburg, Florida, brought me closer to my pal from my roller-skating days,Paul Ryan (pictured in all my books). Lil and I now split our time between St.Petersburg and San Francisco, continually polishing the lens through whichstudents can more clearly view their world. Nature's major rules are revealedin the laws of physics, all nicely summarized in their equations. Teachingthese equations as the rules of nature has been an awesome experience. More awesome is being born. Thechances of being born a healthy human are so miniscule that being alive is thehighest prize of the universe. But that prize comes with a certainty: beingborn means eventually dying. Before birth, our experience of the universe andall its happenings was blank. With no consciousness, there was nothing. If thatblank state is our fate after death, then there's nothing to fear. Now, ifthere's more, hooray - But there needn't be. Death as the price of birthis a fair cosmic bargain. Along with grieving the loss of loved ones, we shouldcelebrate that they knew life.

1. Kate Hewitt

De uren van de nacht

De strijd om te overleven gaat verder terwijl een familie haar weg zoekt in een wereld die voorgoed is veranderd Zeven maanden geleden vertrok ons gezin naar het afgelegen huis aan het meer van mijn ouders. Ik hoopte dat de verandering ons weer op de rails zou krijgen. In plaats daarvan stortte onze wereld compleet in. Alex is radeloos. Het huis aan het meer, de laatste veilige plek voor haar en haar familie, is afgebrand. Ze leven in het bos en hebben geen idee wat de dag van morgen zal brengen. Overal liggen gevaren op de loer. Ondertussen probeert Alex haar gezin uit alle macht bij elkaar te houden. Maar juist nu ze elkaar zo hard nodig hebben, lijkt de afstand tussen hen groter dan ooit. Lukt het ze om elkaar terug te vinden? En welke toekomst kan Alex de kinderen nog bieden? Ze moet haar gezin beschermen, ongeacht wat er op hun pad komt. Nederlandse en Vlaamse lezers over De laatste sterren aan de hemel ‘Waanzinnig mooi. Ik las het in één ruk uit. En het mooiste van alles: er komen meer delen aan.’ Isa ***** ‘Dit verhaal heeft álles: cliffhangers, levensechte personages, spanning. Het gaat over overleven. Over vriendelijkheid, vertrouwen, vriendschap, bevroren verdriet en gevonden én gekozen familie. Over hoop.’ Iselle ***** ‘Wat een bijzondere, aangrijpende en meeslepende roman. Kate Hewitt heeft een filmische, sfeervolle en fijne schrijfstijl.’ Kim *****