Someone Named Eva

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 0547237669
Pages : 213 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (547 users)

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Download or read book Someone Named Eva written by Joan M. Wolf and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, blonde and blue-eyed Milada is taken from her home in Czechoslovakia to a school in Poland to be trained as "a proper German" for adoption by a German family, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.

Because of Eva

by Susan J. Gordon

Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-20
ISBN : 0815653662
Pages : 281 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (815 users)

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Download or read book Because of Eva written by Susan J. Gordon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family’s past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history. What began as a seemingly simple search for "Eva," the elderly relative who had signed Gordon's grandfather's death certificate in New York long ago, became a journey of discovery when Gordon found her in Tel Aviv. There, she heard Eva’s stories of survival during the Holocaust, especially in Nazi-occupied Budapest. Eventually, Gordon would retrace Eva’s steps in Budapest and visit ancestral towns in Ukraine to bear witness to the slaughter of entire populations of Jews. Amid remnants of loss and destruction in the small town where her grandfather was born, Gordon also uncovered details of her family’s world before relatives immigrated to America. Gordon’s journey into her past provided the deep sense of connection and belonging she needed as an adult child of divorce and abuse. Gaining insight about her family’s history, Gordon reconciles issues of betrayal and loyalty, and finally finds her place in Judaism. Part memoir, part detective story, Because of Eva is an intimate tale of one woman’s history within the epic sweep of world events in the twentieth century.

Amber Smoke

by Kristin Cast

Publisher : Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-06-09
ISBN : 1626815526
Pages : 244 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (626 users)

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Download or read book Amber Smoke written by Kristin Cast and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times–bestselling co-author of the House of Night series—a new saga “with a unique twist on Greek mythology and heart-stopping action” (#1 New York Times–bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout). In a world parallel to our own, the souls of the damned are caged, spending eternity in a torment that mirrors the suffering they created in life. They are watched over by the Furies . . . until something goes terribly wrong. Someone has opened the cage. When untold terrors cross into our world, the Furies send a great, albeit untested warrior—their only son, Alek—to bring those souls back. Alek is young and handsome, headstrong and impulsive, and he won’t be able to do it alone. Eva has grown up beautiful and beloved, but surrounded by secrets. Now, after being hunted in an ancient feud that threatens her life, she will become the hunter. With the police closing in and two worlds on the verge of crumbling, Alek and Eva must find each other, discover the limits of their powers, and work together to save everything they hold dear—including one another. “With the perfect mix of thrills and chills, along with characters who pop off the page and a gripping plot, this explosive new series is perfect for any Hunger Games and Divergent fans.” —RT Book Review “Amber Smoke keeps you riveted to the very last page.” —Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “Thrilling and funny with just the right amount of magic. Brilliant!” —Kresley Cole, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “Cast’s wit, creativity and talent shine! I turned the pages at lightning speed, ready for more! What a tasty treat!” —Gena Showalter, New York Times–bestselling author

Norma

by Sofi Oksanen

Publisher : Knopf
Release Date : 2017-09-05
ISBN : 0451493532
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (451 users)

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Download or read book Norma written by Sofi Oksanen and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.

Stay true to who you are

by Vanessa van Cartier

Publisher : Kosmos Uitgevers
Release Date : 2022-06-01
ISBN : 9043925217
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (43 users)

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Download or read book Stay true to who you are written by Vanessa van Cartier and published by Kosmos Uitgevers. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drag Race Holland winner shares way to the top in tell all memoires: 'Stay true to who you are', the extraordinary life story of Vanessa van Cartier. In Stay true to who you are top artist Vanessa van Cartier shares her dramatic life story. Hundreds of thousands of viewers witnessed her victory on Drag Race Holland at the end of 2021, but few know how long and painful her path to the top actually was. In her book, van Cartier hopes to offer support and encouragement to those in a similar situation, telling fans and other readers: always believe in yourself. Step by step Vanessa has found her way. In her book she talks about drag, prostitution, her transition, discrimination, depression and suicidal thoughts. In addition she tells readers how she found the love of her life and how she persevered and healed by surrounding herself with positive and exceptional people who encourage and support her. ‘Vanessa's story and heart and words will move you and teach you what true kindness and courage looks like. I’m so happy to have Vanessa in my life and with this book you can as well’ – Sam Smith The book contains a lot of additional background information on the topics of bullying and sexual orientation, HIV and AIDS, child abuse, cross-dressing and drag, transgender people and depression. Topics that Vanessa herself had to deal with.

Holocaust Cinema Complete

by Rich Brownstein

Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2021-09-17
ISBN : 1476684162
Pages : 489 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (476 users)

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Download or read book Holocaust Cinema Complete written by Rich Brownstein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many. One quarter of all American-produced Holocaust-related feature films have won or been nominated for at least one Oscar. In fact, from 1945 through 1991, half of all American Holocaust features were nominated. Yet most Holocaust movies have fallen through the cracks and few have been commercially successful. This book explores these trends--and many others--with a comprehensive guide to hundreds of films and made-for-television movies. From Anne Frank to Schindler's List to Jojo Rabbit, more than 400 films are examined from a range of perspectives--historical, chronological, thematic, sociological, geographical and individual. The filmmakers are contextualized, including Charlie Chaplin, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Roman Polanski. Recommendations and reviews of the 50 best Holocaust films are included, along with an educational guide, a detailed listing of all films covered and a four-part index-glossary.

Never Fuck Up

by Jens Lapidus

Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2013-06-18
ISBN : 030790850X
Pages : 512 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book Never Fuck Up written by Jens Lapidus and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same raw energy and verve he displayed in Easy Money, Jens Lapidus delivers an electrifying tale of Stockholm's vicious underworld. Mahmud is fresh out of jail, but he's forced to work for a brutal mob boss to pay off his debts to a drug lord. Niklas, a mercenary and weapons expert with an appetite for vigilante justice, is back in Sweden and plans to keep a low profile. But the discovery of a murdered man in his mother's building severely threatens those plans. Thomas, the volatile detective on the case, finding his efforts suspiciously stymied and the evidence tampered with, goes off the grid in search of the truth. But as the paths of these three men intertwine and the identity of the murdered man is revealed, crimes and secrets bigger, deeper, and darker than a mere murder will come to light.

The Sawtooth Slayer

by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

Publisher : Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Release Date : 2022-10-28
ISBN :
Pages : 376 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Sawtooth Slayer written by Nathan Dylan Goodwin and published by Nathan Dylan Goodwin. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 2020, Twin Falls, Idaho. A serial killer is on the loose. A nameless man is kidnapping young women from their own homes, taking them out of the city to kill them before returning their bodies to random locations around the city. Detective Maria Gonzalez heads up the investigation but has very few leads to pursue. As time passes and fears rise that the killer might strike again with a fifth victim, Maria turns to Venator—an investigative genetic genealogy company—in the hope that they can identify the killer from his DNA alone before he has the chance to take yet another life. Despite her initial reticence to take on the company’s first ever live case, Madison Scott-Barnhart and her team in Salt Lake City agree to try to reveal the identity of this barbaric serial killer. In the midst of the global pandemic that has closed the Venator office and posed both personal and professional problems for Madison, time is running out on this case. This is the second novel in the Venator Cold Case series. Although it can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story, for the best experience, begin your journey with The Chester Creek Murders.

It Takes Two

by Judith Arnold

Publisher : Judith Arnold
Release Date : 2020-10-06
ISBN : 1940547350
Pages : 230 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (94 users)

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Download or read book It Takes Two written by Judith Arnold and published by Judith Arnold . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brogan’s Point’s old Town Hall building needs to be either updated or replaced. Architect Brianna Crawford desperately hopes to win a contract to renovate the building, in part because she adores its elderly charm, in part because she has to bring some income into the tiny architectural firm that hired her, and in large part because the other finalist for the commission is Rollie Davenport, with whom she has an unpleasant history. Given his choice, Will Naukonen would vote to replace the building with Davenport’s design. It’s daring, it’s modern, it’s futuristic—and Will is a guy with his eye to the future. He’s in Brogan’s Point only temporarily, helping out at the Faulk Street Tavern, which is owned by his mother. An exciting high-tech job awaits him in Seattle. He’ll be heading west any day now, ready to develop cutting-edge computer software. But one night when he’s helping out behind the bar and Brianna is consuming some liquid courage before she has to present her Town Hall concept to the town, the song “It Takes Two” booms out of the Magic Jukebox. And Will and Brianna realize that it just might take the two of them to make their dreams come true.

The Changing Book

by Nancy E Kraft

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-12
ISBN : 1136754814
Pages : 270 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (136 users)

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Download or read book The Changing Book written by Nancy E Kraft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the changes in books in this digital age Evolving digital formats have forced libraries’ approaches to paper book collections to change in ways unforeseen even a few years ago. The Changing Book: Transition in Design, Production, and Preservation takes an insightful look at the evolution of books from its historical origins to completely digital. This visionary source examines the continuing role of the paper book, trends in print book production, and the future of the physical book. Electronic book technologies, on demand printing, book conservation, and traditions in bookmaking are discussed in detail. These superb selections of proceedings from The Changing Book Conference held in 2005 focus on the creativity and innovative ideas important to any library professional managing library collections. This resource provides numerous photographs and illustrations, and is extensively referenced. Topics in The Changing Book: Transition in Design, Production, and Preservation include: craft bookbinding historical background of book conservation the binding, repair, and conservation problems of the hundreds of years old Kennicott Bible from Spain the shift from print to digital collections the future of print collections electronic preservation and standardization the difficulties of book conservation in foreign lands traditions of Himalayan bookmaking graphic and book design alkaline paper use book preservation programs new technologies in on demand book production and more! The Changing Book: Transition in Design, Production, and Preservation is an enlightening resource for library professionals of all types, administrators, educators, and students.

Evil Breeding

by Susan Conant

Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 2009-10-07
ISBN : 0307569500
Pages : 225 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book Evil Breeding written by Susan Conant and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's legendary pre-World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last living participants in those fabulously opulent and exclusive shows: canine fancier B. Robert Motherway. But there's something decidedly unsettling about the gracious old gent's imposing home with its acres of kennels. His dying wife wails piteously in an upstairs room, his servants are his sullen son and his downtrodden daughter-in-law, and his favorite German shepherd dog has an ill-bred snarl. Meanwhile, Holly's mail is laced with anonymous packages-old photographs, letters in German, and a brochure on pills for listless pooches. Nothing makes sense until a garroted body is found in a nearby cemetery. Suddenly Holly and her Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, are on a seventy-year-old trail of deception, decadence, and death. And either they unearth the skeletons or join them. From the Paperback edition.

Magda's Daughter

by Evi Blaikie

Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 9781558614437
Pages : 332 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (614 users)

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Download or read book Magda's Daughter written by Evi Blaikie and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To survive the long shadow of the Third Reich, many Jewish children were placed in hiding, forced to keep their true identities—names, religion, places of birth, even gender—absolutely secret. Although these "hidden children" avoided capture and murder, many of their -family members did not, and their experiences marked them for life. Evi Blaikie's passionate memoir depicts a life lived in the shadow of exile. Evelyne Juliette was born in Paris to privileged Hungarian immigrants of high intellect and great passion. Scarcely a year following her birth, France would fall to the Nazis, putting Evi's family among hundreds of thousands on the run. Her father, forced to flee Paris and go underground, never again emerged. Her mother, Madga, an indomitable woman, managed to send her young daughter to safety in Hungary before being captured in a dragnet and imprisoned in a forced labor camp. Evi, just barely three, was eventually brought by an aunt to Budapest under her cousin's passport. "Claude Pollak" would be only the first of many identites assumed to protect the shattered remnants of this young child's life. Eventually reunited with her mother, Evi would survive the war and the chaos of post-World War II Europe, but not without tremendous cost: when life blurs with survival, when one is set adrift in perpetual exile, what does it mean to go on living? In Magda's Daughter, Evi Blaikie, a natural storyteller, deftly explores the many -influences—cultural, geographic, religious—with which she had to come to terms in order to finally embrace her own true sense of home and self. Advocate and board member of the Hidden Child Foundation of the ADL, Evi Blaikie lives and writes in New York City.

Paths to Teaching the Holocaust

by Tibbi Duboys

Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2008-01-01
ISBN : 9087903847
Pages : 190 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (87 users)

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Download or read book Paths to Teaching the Holocaust written by Tibbi Duboys and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths to Teaching the Holocaust edited by Tibbi Duboys is an important new book. It offers contributions by childhood, middle and secondary teacher educators from various regions and universities in the continental United States. The array of material is a strength of this unique book.

True North

by Aurelia Skye

Publisher : Amourisa Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
ISBN :
Pages : 513 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book True North written by Aurelia Skye and published by Amourisa Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything North Campbell believes about her life is a lie. She doesn?t discover that until the night her father dies, and she learns he wasn?t her father. He kidnapped her as a baby from her birth parents, Jim and Carol Allis. They seem ecstatic to find her, but she quickly learns they, along with their powerful dragon-shifter ally Pytor Douglas, have nefarious plans for her. She runs straight into the arms of another mysterious group, and they tell her she?s a Trueblood?descended from all the mythic races and capable of great power. She?s at risk, but the Council assigns her six bodyguards, and the Oracle has seen her future husband is among the six. North is dragged from realm to realm to learn how to use her powers. That task seems impossible?almost as impossible as choosing just one man from among the six mythics entrusted with her protection. How can she choose between a vampire, an angel, a demon, a witch, a dark elf, and a wolf-shifter when each of the men is perfect for her in different ways? Dare she risk everything and choose them all? Will she have a chance to make the decision, or will Pytor?s group get her first? This is 150,000+ words and tells the complete story as a standalone.

The Story of Beautiful Girl

by Rachel Simon

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
ISBN : 1409051854
Pages : 352 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (49 users)

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Download or read book The Story of Beautiful Girl written by Rachel Simon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK Pennsylvania, 1968. 'Hide her.' Two words that would change all of their lives - for ever. On a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger's door. When Martha, a retired schoolteacher, answers their knock, her world changes for ever. Her visitors are Lynnie and Homan, who have fled The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded with their newborn baby. But the police are closing in and their freedom is about to be snatched away. Moments before she is taken back to the School, bound and tied, Lynnie utters two words to Martha: 'Hide her.' And so begins the heart-rending story of Lynnie, Homan, Martha and baby Julia - lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, but drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.

Queer Cities, Queer Cultures

by Jennifer V. Evans

Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-08-28
ISBN : 1441111662
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (441 users)

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Download or read book Queer Cities, Queer Cultures written by Jennifer V. Evans and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the stories we typically tell about Europe and its watershed moments in the post 1945 period. The book considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968 and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades, raising questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forcing us to think about how we define sexual liberalization - and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. An international team of authors explores the role of America in shaping particular forms of subculture; the significance of changes in legal codes; differing modes of queer consumption and displays of community; the difficult fit of queer (as opposed to gay and lesbian) politics in liberal democracies; the importance of mobility and immigration in modulating queer urban life; the challenge of AIDS; and the arrival of the internet. By exploring the queer histories of cities from Istanbul to Helsinki and Moscow to Madrid, Queer Cities, Queer Cultures makes a significant contribution to our understanding of urban history, European history and the history of gender and sexuality.

Historical Fiction for Young Readers (grades 4-8)

by John Thomas Gillespie

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 1591586216
Pages : 489 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (591 users)

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Download or read book Historical Fiction for Young Readers (grades 4-8) written by John Thomas Gillespie and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2008 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to historical fiction for readers in grades four through eight, listing eighty titles of works for this age group and providing plot summaries, characters, historical background, and selected passages for discussion.