Download or read book My Maman Grete written by Michel Stermann and published by TWENTYSIX. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Rémy and Grète, a couple of educators at orphanages in which, after WW II, children of Jewish Holocaust victims were taken care of in France. Where did Rémy and Grète come from? How did they meet and match? What did Rémy endure himself in the Death Camps? Why was Grete's life so short? What were the consequences for their own children? These are the central questions this book endeavors to answer. Moreover, it contains the most interesting, surprising and moving life stories of near relatives of Grète and Rémy.
Download or read book Beneath the Fourth Flloor written by Olivia Greene and published by America Star Boooks. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurse Gretchen Randall has lived in an almost catatonic state for most of her adult life, not knowing how she became a patient at the Dove Foundation, a rehabilitation treatment center somewhere in Georgia. She walks the grounds of the center, hoping that her memory will return. While she waits, strange dreams haunt her in which patients leap to their death from the roof above the fourth floor of the residential building. Gretchen is skeptical of the blue pills given to every patient and the zombie-state it causes. More alarming are the wails of children coming from somewhere below the basement. She desperately tries to analyze what is reality and what is fiction as bits of her own sordid past return to her. Her obsession to discover the truth grows with the help of several patients and two cherubic ghosts that haunt Dove. Once the story unravels, Gretchen wonders if the truth should have been left buried in the rubble that was once her mind."
Download or read book Defending Britta Stein written by Ronald H. Balson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Newsweek's 20 New Books to Cozy Up With this Fall Defending Britta Stein is a story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption—from Ronald H. Balson, the winner of the National Jewish Book Award Chicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II—most consider him a hero. Britta Stein, however, does not. The ninety-year-old Chicago woman levels public accusations against Henryks by spray-painting “Coward,” “Traitor,” “Collaborator,” and “War Criminal” on the walls of his restaurant. Mrs. Stein is ultimately taken into custody and charged with criminal defacement of property. She also becomes the target of a bitter lawsuit filed by Henryks and his son, accusing her of defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Attorney Catherine Lockhart, though hesitant at first, agrees to take up Mrs. Stein's defense. With the help of her investigator husband, Liam Taggart, Lockhart must reach back into wartime Denmark and locate evidence that proves Mrs. Stein's innocence. Defending Britta Stein is critically-acclaimed author Ronald H. Balson's thrilling take on a modern day courtroom drama, and a masterful rendition of Denmark’s wartime heroics.
Download or read book Circle Of Vengeance written by M. J. Conner and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a handsome drifter rescues Carrie Butler from her runaway buggy, she things he may be the fulfillment of all her dreams. But is John Thornton really the chivalrous "mysterious stranger" of Carrie's thoughts? Or does his sudden appearance have a darker purpose? The foreman of the Circle C Ranch thinks the young ranch hand is hiding something--and wonders about his interest in the old Nolan place. When Carrie begins to ask questions about the burned-out Nolan homestead, people want to change the subject. What secrets lie buried there? Without doubt, Carrie's life as about to change, but will it be for good or evil? Will her love for John Thornton bring salvation to her heart or the destruction of her family?
Download or read book David My David written by Eduard Qualls and published by Danaan Press Inc. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TERROR — inflicted by one’s own society — — dealt by one’s own neighbors — How does one person, simply trying to be “a good man,” conquer a rising maelstrom of mindless abuse, of hatred? David, My David is the saga of the victory over terror of Eduard Gottlieb Meyer. A musical prodigy born to a traditional Hessian, German farm-family in 1921, Herr Meyer tells of a life extending from his early, halcyon years through the inter-war period, the ravages of the Hitler Time and World War II, and beyond, into post-war, neglectful Europe and the increasingly bipolar, 20th-century America faced by his expansive, Texas family. On an odyssey marked by joy and sadness, despair and redemption, he survives through the personal strength he learns from his family and friends, from their faith in and dedication to others, as he asserts by his actions, even in darkest condition, that Hatred is the laziest form of cowardice.™ Note: This text contains embedded QR codes that, when scanned using one of the many, freely available cell-phone barcode-reader apps, will take the reader to pages within the book's website, pages that present links to third-party locations (for free [ad-based], or subscription streaming of playlists, or for direct purchase) of the music referenced within (or suggestive of) the particular section of the text in which each QR code appears.
Download or read book Luke s Lithium written by Terri Talley Venters and published by Terri Talley Venters. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if someone cloned you? And then abducted you twenty five years later? In Luke’s Lithium, handsome Luke Allen, a witty, yet shy trust brat, volunteers at the FDNY with his firefighting comrades. Luke has it all, except for love. Abducted by Create Life Technologies, along with 5000 others, Luke learns the shocking truth behind their cloning research and their evil intentions. But the loss of his freedom comes with a silver lining, he falls for beautiful Gretchen, another abducted Create Life Clone. Luke’s Lithium is full of surprises, new romances, rescues and a switcheroo. But will Luke and Gretchen ever be free of Create Life? Luke’s Lithium is the much anticipated companion book/spin off of the Carbon Copy Trilogy, written from Luke Allen’s point of view. Luke is the twin brother of Lilly Allen, the heroine in the Carbon Copy Trilogy. Luke’s story covers the time frame of all three books in the trilogy, Carbon Copy, Tin Roof, and Silver Lining.
Download or read book The Last April written by Belinda Kroll and published by Bright Bird Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spontaneous, fifteen-year-old Gretchen vows to help heal the nation from the recently ended Civil War. On the morning of President Lincoln’s death, Gretchen finds an amnesiac Confederate in her garden and believes this is her chance for civic goodwill.But reconciliation is not as simple as Gretchen assumed. When her mother returns from the market with news that a Confederate murdered the president, Gretchen wonders if she caught the killer. Tensions between her aunt and mother rise as Gretchen nurses her Confederate prisoner, revealing secrets from their past that make Gretchen question everything she knows about loyalty, honor, and trust. The Last April is an entertaining, thoughtful novella of Ohio after the Civil War, meant to encourage readers to reflect on themes of fear and hope in uncertain political times.
Download or read book Mother of My Son written by Rachel Allord and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College student Amber Swansen gives birth alone. In desperation, she abandons the newborn, buries her secret, and attempts to get on with her life. No matter how far she runs, she can't escape the guilt. Years later and still haunted by her past, Amber meets Beth Dilinger. Friendship blossoms between the two women, but Beth's son is a constant, painful reminder to Amber of the child she abandoned. When heartache hits, causing Amber to grapple with the answers to life's deeper questions, Beth stands by her side. Yet just when peace seems to be within Amber's grasp, the truth of her past and the parentage of Beth's son comes to light and threatens to shatter not only their worlds, but the life of the teenager they both love.
Download or read book Mother Lode written by Gretchen Staebler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “. . . makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you.” —Readers’ Favorite At the age of sixty, Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubbornly independent ninety-six-year-old mother—sort of a middle-aged gap year. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will return to her own independent life. It doesn’t go as planned. Rather than a retrospective, this mother-daughter story unfolds in real time with gripping honesty, bringing the reader along with the narrator through the struggle, doubts, and complexities of caregiving and daughterhood—and the beacons of light. Penetrating the fog of her mother’s advancing dementia and myriad health issues with humor, frustration, and compassion—and wine—Staebler slowly comes to accept and respect the mother she got, if not the one she wished for. In the process, she manifests non-negotiable self-care and learns more than she wants to know about aging, cognitive loss, and the healthcare system. Any reader who is looking for a road map in caring for a family member, has ever had a mother, or is looking aging in the eye will find company on the journey in this candid, multi-award-winning memoir.
Download or read book Sing to Me Papa written by Patricia McCune Irvine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gretchen Muellers chronicle begins in the present in her Southern California garden with her granddaughter, Megan, and flashes back to Chicago in the late thirties. The Muellers are a happy family then and Papa (Gerhard) sings and tells stories of his boyhood in Furth im Wald, in eastern Germany, and also of his admiration for Adolf Hitler. During WWII U. S. authorities cannot tolerate Papas allegiance to Germany and Gretchens happy life becomes a series of painful changes and adjustmentsshe is a German in America and an American in Germany. Through the years, adversities are overcome with the help of new friends, neighbors and a tender reconciliation.
Download or read book Once Upon a Billionaire written by Jessica Clare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wedding of the century sets the stage for an unexpected romance as one repressed royal falls for his assistant in this novel in the Billionaire Boys Club series. As a member of the royal family in a small European country, Griffin Verdi’s presence is requested at the wedding of the century. The scholarly billionaire feels out of his depth in social situations, so a good assistant is required—especially when dealing with royal etiquette. Unfortunately for Griffin, he’s stuck with Maylee Meriweather, a pretty, charming, and thoroughly unsuitable woman who doesn’t know a thing about high society—but she sure can kiss. Her lack of polish may sink Griffin, because after all, even his money can’t buy class. But through Maylee’s eyes, he’s starting to appreciate the simple things in life—if simple means the most complicated woman he’s ever met. Maylee is everything Griffin isn’t—and everything he wants—if he can let down his guard and step outside his sheltered world...
Download or read book The Acorn Gathering written by Writers Uniting Against Cancer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the fight against cancer by purchasing this fund-raiser by authors Jan Chandler, Shawna R. Van Arum, Huda Orfali, Duane Simolke, Timothy Morris Taylor, and Bill Wetzel. All author and editor royalties go to funding cancer research! These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke's collection The Acorn Stories, this new anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph. Visit http://tagreviews.blogspot.com/ to read reviews.
Download or read book The Mouse Named Hero written by Melanie Shanks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small brown mouse is adopted from a pet shop. He escapes from his human family and meets three rats of the Revolutionary Pet Freedom Fighters, a secret organization that frees mistreated household pets. With them, Hero gains the confidence to attempt the Big Rescue: to free his family and all the animals in Mr. Pajolly's Pet Shop.
Download or read book The Hummingbird s Nest written by Helen Dumas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hummingbird’s Nest tells the story of a relationship between a mother, a writer in her 60s, and a daughter, an artist/lawyer in her early 30s who has also recently become a mother herself. Over the course of the story, the daughter is faced with multiple diagnoses of cancer and is given a poor prognosis. The daughter blames her mother for making her sick, while at the same time asking her mother to give her hope and the strength to go on. Through the telling of her own life story, the mother infuses her daughter with the understanding that, even though she is a cancer patient, she does have the strength to face her life as a wife, mother and professional woman. The hummingbird’s nest, which gives the book its title, is a metaphor for that place in our hearts where we feel safe despite the adversities that life throws in our path.
Download or read book The Radius of Us written by Marie Marquardt and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you fall in love with someone everyone seems determined to fear? Ninety seconds can change a life — not just daily routine, but who you are as a person. Gretchen Asher knows this, because that’s how long a stranger held her body to the ground. When a car sped toward them and Gretchen’s attacker told her to run, she recognized a surprising terror in his eyes. And now she doesn’t even recognize herself. Ninety seconds can change a life — not just the place you live, but the person others think you are. Phoenix Flores Flores knows this, because months after setting off toward the U.S. / Mexico border in search of safety for his brother, he finally walked out of detention. But Phoenix didn’t just trade a perilous barrio in El Salvador for a leafy suburb in Atlanta. He became that person — the one his new neighbors crossed the street to avoid. Ninety seconds can change a life — so how will the ninety seconds of Gretchen and Phoenix’s first encounter change theirs? Told in alternating first person points of view, The Radius of Us is a story of love, sacrifice, and the journey from victim to survivor. It offers an intimate glimpse into the causes and devastating impact of Latino gang violence, both in the U.S. and in Central America, and explores the risks that victims take when they try to start over. Most importantly, Marie Marquardt's The Radius of Us shows how people struggling to overcome trauma can find healing in love.
Download or read book Union Square written by Meredith Tax and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up where her celebrated Rivington Street left off, Meredith Tax's Union Square brims over with the passions and struggles of five indomitable women. Gutsy and engrossing, this work paints a complex, believable picture of the tumultuous years between the end of the First World War and the eve of the Second.
Download or read book The Witches of London Trilogy written by Alyxandra Harvey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in the spellbinding YA trilogy hailed as “a smashing blend of adventure, fantasy, humor, romance, and historical fiction” (Booklist). For cousins Emma, Gretchen, and Penelope, the stuffiness of 1814 London society is simply unbearable. But their fates change when a sacred glass family keepsake is accidentally shattered—and all three young women find themselves gifted with powers of witchcraft. For in the coming days, they will most certainly need them . . . The Secret Witch: London is slowly sinking into darkness as the evil beings of the magical world start to roam free, including a nefarious coven whose powerful members gain their strength from killing young witches. Emma keeps finding the bodies of their victims, leading some to suspect her of the killings. But the coven sees her as something much more—their next target. The Whisper Witch: As a Whisperer, Gretchen constantly hears the murmurs of other witches’ spells. And while this does help her to know when one of her own spells is going wrong, the assault on her magical senses makes it difficult to use her own gifts. But when something evil begins menacing London, only Gretchen and her cousins can stop a terrible sacrifice from unleashing an unspeakable darkness. The Bone Witch: Cousin Penelope has been kidnapped and forced to use her talents for reading objects to locate the bones of long-dead evil witches. Her captor plans to use the bones to reanimate their dark spirits in living bodies and unleash them on an unsuspecting world. And the only hope to stop such a nightmare rests with Gretchen, Emma, and every witch in London as they struggle to reach Penelope in time. Full of action, romance, and humor, these three witchy, wonderful young adult adventures are sure to “appeal to those who were fans of Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle series and the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer” (VOYA).
