![]() ![]() Anna's father is a famous author and journalist who has published criticism of Hitler’s party. The children hear that their father has sought refuge in Prague, Austria, along with Anna's older brother Max. Elsbeth, who is not Jewish, says the whole thing is silly and wants it to go away. Anna has never thought about Judaism in-depth, but she tells Elsbeth that she’s technically Jewish because of her mother. They discuss his pledge to ban Jews from Germany. The girls see fliers for his campaign around town. It is a few months before March 1933, and Adolf Hitler is running for Chancellor of Germany. The novel opens with the nine-year-old protagonist, Anna, walking around Berlin with her good friend Elsbeth. Its themes include survival, politics' incursion on domestic life, and the challenges of growing up. It won Germany’s top prize for children’s fiction in 1974. This coming of age novel was published in 1971. The family traveled around Europe for several years before settling in London, where Kerr completed middle and high school. ![]() Her father was the prominent cultural critic Alfred Kerr. Kerr is of German-Jewish heritage, and her family left Germany once Hitler rose to power in 1933. Kerr wrote and illustrated the book to explain her own history to her children. ![]() The children’s novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr, is the first in a trilogy based on the author’s experience during WWII. ![]()
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![]() I hope that this book will serve to release the deeply intuitive self within each of my readers, and to bring to the foreground of consciousness whatever particular insights will serve you most. “You have each lived other existences, and that knowledge is within you though you are not consciously aware of it. It is only because you are so busily concerned with daily matters that you do not realize that there is a portion of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown by the ordinary self. The universe speaks to each of us in this regard…. ![]() ![]() “Each individual has access to intuitional knowledge and can gain glimpses of inner reality. Seth Speaks has withstood the test of time and is still considered one of the most dynamic and brilliant maps of inner reality and human potential available today. It clearly and powerfully articulates the furthest reaches of human potential, and presents the concept that we are independent of our physical image and have access to intuitional knowledge and other dimensions of reality. One of the most powerful of the Seth books, Seth Speaks is an essential guide to conscious living. ![]() Seth’s clear presentation of the furthest reaches of human potential, the eternal validity of the soul, and the concept that we create our own reality according to our beliefs, has rippled out to affect the lives of people in. From the Bestselling Author of The Nature of Personal Reality The books written by Seth have sold over seven million copies and have been translated into over eleven languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, last summer, the gardeners used the hotbed to provide a space for growing flax. 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Raised bed allowed gardeners to adjust the composition of the soil, adding or lessening acidity depending on the plant being cultivated. 16th-century engraving of a gardener working on his raised garden beds (“The Gardener’s Labyrinth,” Thomas Hill). ![]() ![]() ![]() In all those things, it shows that if you listen carefully, if you open your eyes wide, the world is full of wonders. Warm, lyrical and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Mini Nakamura, this book ranges through joy and pain, encountering love, motherhood and heritage, racism and the destruction humans can wreak. ![]() ![]() Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. World of Wonders : In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (2020, Hardcover) 4 product ratings About this product Brand new 10.99 New (other) 9.39 Pre-owned 6.16 Make an offer: Pre-owned 1 watching Stock photo Brand new: Lowest price 10. 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It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder’ – James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home, but no matter where she was transplanted she was able to turn to our worlds fierce and funny creatures for guidance. ![]() ‘Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new … This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List. ![]() Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. ![]() No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs-Rachel’s father. In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.īorn into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abducted By A New Threat To The Republic, Pax And Electra, The Children Of Darrow And Sevro, Must Trust In Ephraim, A Thief, For Their Salvation-and Ephraim Must Look To Them For His Chance At Redemption. Beset By Political And Criminal Enemies, Can She Outwit Her Opponents In Time To Save Him? Once A Red Refugee, Young Lyria Now Stands Accused Of Treason, And Her Only Hope Is A Desperate Escape With Unlikely New Allies. On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign Of The Republic, Campaigns To Unite The Republic Behind Her Husband. But Theirs Are Not The Only Fates Hanging In The Balance. Determined To Bring Peace Back To Mankind At The Edge Of His Sword, He Must Overcome Or Unite The Treacherous Gold Families Of The Core And Face Down Darrow Over The Skies Of War-torn Mercury. But As He Leaves Death And Destruction In His Wake, Is He Still The Hero Who Broke The Chains? Or Will Another Legend Rise To Take His Place? Lysander Au Lune, The Heir In Exile, Has Returned To The Core. ![]() Now, Outlawed By The Very Republic He Founded, He Wages A Rogue War On Mercury In Hopes That He Can Still Salvage The Dream Of Eo. ![]() For A Decade Darrow Led A Revolution Against The Corrupt Color-coded Society. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the wisecracking Broadway guys and dolls of Damon Runyon to the glittering ballrooms of Edith Wharton, from the jazz- soaked nightspots of Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin to the starry- eyed tourists in John Cheever and Shirley Jackson to the ambitious immigrants conjured by Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz- this is New York in all its grittiness and glamour. Writers have always been enthralled and inspired by New York City, and their vibrant and varied stories provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the city’s high life, low life, nightlife, and everything in between. An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of Christmas Stories, Love Stories, and Stories of the Sea. ![]() ![]() His objective is to have maintenance work done on his time machine and when he goes to pick it up, he encounters his future self. He makes one trip to a city in Minor Universe 31, a residential and entertainment world made mostly from a science fiction "substrate," where the company for which he works is headquartered. Charles's parents, a few clients, and several street performers are the only other humans that he encounters during the course of the story. Accompanied only by his dog and a computer that has the pixilated face of a female and a cartoon-like voice, Charles hopes to one day locate his father in some alternate universe to which he apparently has traveled in a time machine. ![]() The protagonist is a lonely and rather sad fellow, who spends much of his non-working hours drifting along in his capsule, thinking about his past and his parents, especially his father who disappeared long ago. As the novel progresses, it is revealed that this man's name is the same as that of the author, Charles Yu. He makes calls on people who have rented time machines for recreational purposes but have become stuck in time and must be rescued by him. It concerns a young man who has spent most of the past decade in a small time machine in his job as a time machine repairman. Charles Yu's debut novel, How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, could be described as a story about contemporary family life disguised as science fiction. ![]() ![]() The icy blue eyes sweep and pierce, and then the lids slowly descend in a gesture as expressive of disgust as it is possible to imagine. She pauses in dismay, and the grim aspect becomes a little grimmer. Advancing to greet Algernon, she registers the presence of his friend Jack Worthing (David Furr). Bedford’s Lady Bracknell enters the drawing room of her nephew Algernon Moncrieff (Santino Fontana) as she would enter any room, with the authority of one who believes firmly in her right to be welcomed anywhere, preferably with tea and cucumber sandwiches. ![]() Within seconds of sweeping onstage, and with a wordless gesture as funny as it is subtle, the great actor Brian Bedford proves beyond question that gender is of no importance whatsoever in portraying the imposing Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s greatest comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” ![]() ![]() I can’t believe it’s been five years now since the book came out! And the movie turning two! What a world! I was a little nervous to revisit the Dumplin’-verse because there’s always the danger of ruining a good thing, ya know? But ultimately, I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun writing a book as I did Pumpkin. Has this been exciting to revisit? (I’m personally so excited to revisit!) I’m pretty thrilled because you’re set to release another companion novel in the Dumplin’-verse this year! Dumplin’ released in 2015 and became a #1 New York Times bestseller, and the Netflix adaptation came to screens a few years later in 2018. Hi, Farrah! I’m so delighted to be chatting with you today. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m so excited we could make this happen. Thanks so much for taking the time to chat with me today. ![]() |