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Belonging by nora krug5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Her quest, spanning continents and generations, pieces together her family’s troubling story and reflects on what it means to be a German of her generation. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier in Italy. ![]() ![]() In her late thirties, after twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child and young adult. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Nora Krug's story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As more documents become declassified over the coming years, I will be freer to speak openly about my role during that dark period in our history.įor now, I shall confine myself to correcting a few of the more glaring inaccuracies in recent press reports. ![]() I am not yet in a position to tell the full story of my activities during the two decades that Gellert Grindelwald terrorised the Wizarding World. ![]() Professor Albus Dumbledore agreed to provide a foreward that met the case and we were both delighted that the book raised so much money for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.įollowing the declassification of certain secret documents kept at the Ministry of Magic, the Wizarding World has recently learned a little more about the creation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I was permitted to re-issue the book, only on condition that a disclaimer was included assuring Muggle readers that it was a work of fiction. ![]() The Ministry of Magic consented to this unprecedented release to raise money for Comic Relief, a well respected Muggle charity. In 2001, a re-print of the first edition of my book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, was made available to Muggle readers. ![]()
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Christian robinson gaston5/19/2023 ![]() Almost all children wonder whether there are others exactly like them somewhere out in the universe, doing the same thing at exactly the same time. Simple geometric shapes and expanses of empty space make the spreads easy to consider, and Robinson nails the pacing, using each page turn for a comic or conceptual beat. ![]() The girl’s similar returns the toy and the two part happily, order restored. ![]() Soon, the girl and her cat meet their own doubles, who enter upside down on the opposite page. Each child has “another,” readers see-a double, a twin. Eventually, they arrive at a place where children of many ethnicities and appearances play. ![]() As she and her cat follow, spot illustrations on white spreads show the two in a topsy-turvy journey through portals, over a conveyer belt and Escher-like stairs, and into a ball pit. Caldecott Honor artist Robinson’s wordless solo debut opens in the middle of the night, when a brown-skinned girl with beaded braids is woken by a disturbance: a black cat that looks just like hers slinks through a glowing hole in her bedroom wall, takes her cat’s mouse toy, and exits. ![]()
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Freaky friday book mary rodgers5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Hal was born clasping a list of people he wanted to meet. “Daddy may even have been my main selling point,” she muses. She died of heart failure on Jat the age 83. Freaky Friday was adapted into a movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in 1976 and a remake movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003. As for Mummy, she “wouldn’t get down on her knees to play with us because she’d then have to send her pants to be pressed.” It makes sense that Rodgers proposed titling her memoir “What Do You Really Think?” (Green confides this in one of the footnotes that form a lively running counterpoint to her first-person narrative.) She gleefully skewers frenemies like playwright Arthur Laurents, and she’s equally forthright (if less nasty) about lifelong friends like producer-director Hal Prince, to whom she was “practically engaged” when he was an ambitious undergraduate. She wrote childrens books including Freaky Friday, A Billion for Boris, The Rotten Book, and Summer Switch. Looking at a photograph of her father smiling fondly at her 3-year-old self, she wonders, “Where did that nice man go?” Hypercritical Daddy disliked her broad smile, winced at her loud laugh and frequently told her she was fat, Rodgers remembers. About the Book A truly funny story about a (13-year-old) girl who awakens one morning in her mothers body, and-during an incredible day of revelation and. ![]() Blunt candor is a Rodgers operating principle, beginning with what she has to say about her parents. ![]()
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Dead Chest Island by J.J. Parsons5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Is the tunnel really there and where does it lead Edison and Jonathan concoct a crazy scheme to borrow a boat and search. Are you ready to expand your reading horizons beyond sorcerers and vampires? Dead Chest Island is perfect for adventurous girls, boys, and dolphins ages 8-12 who are fascinated by the "secrets" of science and the "magic" of technology. Sitting beside a smokey fire, Edison and his new friend Jonathan hear a curious tale of pirates and a cabin boy who is swept into an underwater tunnel on Dead Chest Island. Find out how the three adventurers deal with a treacherous tidal wave, shadowy dolphinbots, puzzling petroglyphs, a mysterious crystal, and a seriously evil band of spies. ![]() But the motor sputters and dies, triggering an amazing chain of events. They set off on a sunny Caribbean afternoon, planning to return in time for supper. Edison’s loudmouth sister is a vexing last-minute participant in the quest. ![]() Is the tunnel really there and where does it lead? Edison and Jonathan concoct a crazy scheme to borrow a boat and search for the tunnel. Sitting beside a smokey fire, Edison and his new friend Jonathan hear a curious tale of pirates and a cabin boy who is swept into an underwater tunnel on Dead Chest Island. ![]()
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Big little lies moriarty5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Madeline is the glue that holds everything together in this story, and she’s by far my favourite character. ![]() At first these asides can be both confusing and off-putting, but as the character developments hook you in, the foreshadowing in these asides starts to add to the intensity of what’s transpiring.īig Little Lies rotates between the perspectives of three mothers Madeline, Jane and Celeste. The asides are mainly quirky subtexts that add to the soap opera like effect of the drama as it plays out. These asides feature some of parents from the school gossiping during an investigation carried out by a detective. Moriarty builds up to this act of violence using short asides at the beginning and/or end of chapters. Big Little Lies takes the maliciousness one step further with a tale about a group of Kindergarten parents that ends in violence on a school trivia night. Perhaps it was her ability to subtly make light of people’s malicious intent. ![]() There was something about her writing style that appealed to me. Last year I read Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret and loved it. ![]()
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The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Jones is a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety.Ħ. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)Ī satirical masterpiece that’s never been out of print, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in EnglishĬlarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her unscrupulous nouveau-riche family to marry a wealthy man she detests, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart.” ![]() Crusoe’s world-famous novel is a complex literary confection, and it’s irresistible.ģ. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)īy the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions, spin-offs and translations. ![]()
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Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They are similar, but different, and for some reason I didn't find this book quite so sad. Like Code Name Verity, this book is both brilliant and horrific. When the women begin to get executed, that is the message given to the survivors. Rose and the Rabbits dream of escape, rescue and telling the world. For instance, a bullet would be put in a girl's leg and the staff would watch to see what happened to the leg. This is in theory for the benefit of the German front line and finding ways to fix their wounds. ![]() There, she meets the Rabbits, a group of young women and even girls who are experimented on. Not quite a concentration camp, but similar. However the plan goes wrong, and eventually Rose ends up in a women's work camp. She is from America, and has friends in high places who eventually manage to get her a flight to France, every female pilot's dream. She works for the civil air force, ferrying planes back and forth to be used, often broken or damaged planes to be fixed. Rose is a young pilot in WW2, and along with a small group of others, she is female. I wouldn't quite call it a sequel, as it would be easy to read it if you hadn't read Code Name Verity, however I would recommend reading Code Name Verity first, as it gives you a better perspective on some of the characters in Rose Under Fire. Rose Under Fire is the follow-on from Code Name Verity, by the brilliant Elizabeth Wein. ![]()
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Healing developmental trauma heller5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They describe how early trauma impairs the capacity for connection to self and others and how the ensuing diminished aliveness is the hidden dimension that underlies most psychological and many physiological problems. An essential piece of trauma literature, this "well-organized, valuable book" draws from somatic-based psychotherapy and neuroscience to offer "clear guidance" for coping with complex PTSD (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger)Īlthough it may seem that people suffer from an endless number of emotional problems and challenges, Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre maintain that most of these can be traced to five biologically based organizing principles: the need for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality. ![]() |