![]() Michael Ignatieff * New Statesman * Lucid, compelling and scrupulously fair. An intensely human account of one episode in the persecution of European Jews that ended in survival. Once the drama kicks in, it turns almost into a thriller, with a handful of first-person stories woven into the larger political machinations - Ian Birrell * Mail on Sunday * Magnificent. ![]() It is as exciting as any spy thriller - Richard Overy * Sunday Telegraph * It is an inspirational saga, one in which decency and democracy defeat the forces of darkness, and it is superbly told by Bo Lidegaard. Ian Buruma * Guardian * Based on contemporary diaries written by a number of Danish Jews, Lidegaard has written of exactly how the escape of two families was planned and carried out, hour by tense hour. The story Lidegaard tells of how Danes, from the top bureaucrats, Church leaders and police officials down to the humblest fishermen, helped the Jews escape when the Germans tried to deport them to concentration camps in October 1943, is indeed astonishing and heart-warming. A tremendously stirring book - Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Magisterial. ![]() The rescue of the Danish Jews is surely one of the most extraordinary - and genuinely moving - stories of the last century. ![]()
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![]() Aza describes this invasive thoughts as being sucked into a vortex until you are “stuck inside a prison cell that is exactly the size of you, until eventually you realize that you’re not actually in a prison cell. It manifests itself in her by constatly being worried about being infected by germs and eventually dying from it. Turtles All The Way Down follows the story of a sixteen-year old girl from Indianapolis named Aza Holmes, who struggles with severe OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). Pressure’s on you John Green! Hahah *wink So this book, Turtles All the Way Down will be like a tie-breaker to determine whether I will put John Green on my priority list of authors to read Currently, I still have 3 remaining books by him which I have not yet read). I enjoyed The Fault in our Stars and put a thumbs down to Paper Towns. I have only read two of his works, The Fault in our Stars and Papertowns. The last book I read from John Green was Paper Towns. ![]() And after some intense eenie meenie miney moe-ing, I ended up with Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. So I said to myself, let me grab myself a YA book. ![]() ![]() It’s been a while since I read a YA book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the fact that it was his father, King Phillip II, who transformed Macedonia from an insignificant backwater country into the main hegemonic power in the Greek speaking world, it was Alexander’s brilliant military prowess that had given him the ability to succeed in the art of war, including during plenty of instances where his army was outnumbered. It was this comprehensive understanding of complicated battle plans, coupled by the extreme love and devotion is soldiers had for him, and the gradual decline of the Achaemenid Empire, that allowed Alexander to create one of the worlds largest empire’s the world has ever known. Most of us have, at least, a passing knowledge of the Macedonian’s grand military genius, which is normally instilled in our minds during high school history class. As many of you are already aware, the history of Alexander the Great’s conquests are far from an unfamiliar tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, award-winning author Carolyn Meyer mesmerizes readers with revelations in this novel about one of the greatest women who ever lived.īefore she was a queen, Cleopatra was a girl, and Meyer's incarnation of the future monarch longs to be treated as normal wandering the marketplace, learning to dance even as she secretly hopes to someday rule Egypt. The tale of her teenage years is a story of power and romance that stands the test of time-centuries later, Cleopatra remains a figure of mystery and intrigue. But when King Ptolemy is forced into exile, Cleopatra is left alone to fend for herself in a palace rife with intrigue and murder. Smart, courageous, ambitious, and sensuously beautiful, Cleopatra possesses the charm to cause two of history’s most famous leaders to fall in love with her. But as her cruel sisters plot to steal the throne, Cleopatra realizes there is only one person on whom she can rely-herself. Cleopatra, the third of the pharaoh’s six children, is whom her father has chosen to be the next queen of Egypt. It is the first century B.C., an ancient time of everpresent drama and danger. ![]() Meet teenage Cleopatra in this first-person account of history that captures “sibling rivalry at its most vicious” ( Publishers Weekly). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Urgent, enlightened…realistic and compelling…Traister eloquently highlights the challenge of blaming not just forces and systems, but individuals” ( The Washington Post). The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates its crucial role in women’s slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men. Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before the #MeToo movement, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic-but politically problematic. Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently-and collectively” ( Vanity Fair). ![]() ![]() And luckily, after over a year of building excitement, After We Fell premiered in theaters on Sept. A movie filled with mysterious scandals and wild twists? Count us in!Īfter We Fell and the fourth film in the franchise, After Ever After, began production in September 2020. ![]() Expect the couple to face intense obstacles and romantic challenges and deal with the impact of a new job, a move to Seattle, and the exposure of some dark family secrets. The much-anticipated third installment of the spicy series, After We Fell, will soon hit Netflix after its run in movie theaters! Continuing on the narrative from After and After We Collided, After We Fell follows the drama-fueled relationship between Tessa ( Josephine Langford) and Hardin ( Hero Fiennes Tiffin). ![]() Temperatures might be dropping as we transition from summer to fall, but if you're a fan of the After franchise, things are about to seriously heat up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband died while her children were still at home, and if Roz wanted to continue living in the old mansion that had been in her family for generations, she knew she would have to find a way to support herself and her boys. Rosalind Harper is a widow (theoretically in her mid-50’s, as she has adult sons running around). I was completely attracted to the In the Garden Trilogy, because who doesn’t read books where the main characters work together in a family-owned garden center? And, of course, in February in Ohio, there’s nothing I’d rather do than dream of spring! After enjoying Nora Roberts’s Bridal Quartet so thoroughly, and her Chesapeake Bay Saga fairly well, I decided to give another of her series a whirl. So as regular readers of my blog will know, I do enjoy some relaxing reading, especially when things are really busy at work and I’m feeling a bit stressed. The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters). ![]() ![]() Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge). ![]() ![]() ![]() May and Wayne Chambers and nephew, Scotty Nightengale. Joann was preceded in death by her husband, Leo Burns parents, Sam and Pauline Ford brother and sister-in-law, Buddy and Nancy Ford sister and brother-in-law, Betty and Guy Nightengale brothers-in-law, E.J. Joann was such an inspiration to all that knew her and will be greatly missed. She was a wife, mom, sister, aunt, friend, Granny and Ga. She was happiest when all the family could get together. Together, they worked hard as a team to raise their family and to be active members of their community. She was married to the one and only love of her life, Leo Burns. ![]() She was a lifelong resident of Fort Worth. FORT WORTH - Joann Burns, 87, passed away Tuesday, May 21, 2019, after a long battle with Alzheimer's. ![]() ![]() Perry tensed as he spotted the tail of a campfire in the distance. Much of his territory, two days to the west, looked the same. ![]() Scorched, silver in color, it was a scar left by the winter’s storms. He scanned the rolling hills, his gaze stopping at a barren stretch of land. The sky was coated with a thick layer of clouds that glowed softly with Aether light. Then he jumped up, leaping from rock to rock until he stood at the top. He reached a rise of boulders and dropped his bow, quiver, and satchel. ![]() Roar had told him she was back on the outside, had even delivered a violet with a message as proof, but Perry wouldn’t believe it until he saw her. He kept his stride even as he scanned the darkened woods, though his heart hammered in his chest. Perry followed her scent, moving swiftly through the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Normally, the prosecutor's office took care of cases of "drunken fights or domestic abuse, at the most some rape," but a case comes up in which a man is found dead in a most horrendous manner and lands on Chacaltana's desk. Punctilious and pedantic by nature, he knows every law, is familiar with every procedure and spends his days writing reports. Leaving behind a bad marriage, he jumps into his work with gusto. ![]() For most people, this would have been a step backward, or perhaps a demotion, but for Chacaltana, it's a return to his boyhood home. Like many other works of translated crime fiction, there's more than just a mystery at the heart of this book - most notably, there's the question of an uncertain future for Peru and its people.įélix Chacaltana Saldívar (Chalcatana) the main character of this novel, had requested and received a transfer to Ayacucho (which means "Place of the dead") from Lima in his role as a prosecutor. The year is 2000, when the official line is that "terrorism was eradicated and contines to be eradicated at the present time, " referring to the ongoing series of wars between the military and the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. It is a novel steeped in violence and death, often gruesome in detail, and takes place largely in the city of Ayacucho, Peru. Red April is a mix of political thriller, whodunit and a commentary on the misuse of power in a nation teeming with corruption. "This place is doomed to be bathed in blood and fire forever" ![]() |