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Book Schnee ohne Wiederkehr  Life is a Story   story one

Download or read book Schnee ohne Wiederkehr Life is a Story story one written by Leila Alice Rosenberg and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Als Michelle Thompson, eine englische Austauschschülerin, das Angebot annahm, auf die Klassenfahrt der neunten Klasse mitzukommen, dachte sie sich nicht, dass sich dort furchtbare Taten ereignen würden. Am zweiten Abend des Aufenthalts im Ski-Resort wird Jayce Barth, bekannt für den schrecklichen Umgang mit seinen Mitschülern, tot aufgefunden. Aufgrund von den hinterlassenen Beweisen am Tatort ist man sich sicher: Es war ein Mord. Da Jayce Barth jedoch kein friedlicher Mensch gewesen war und somit viele Feinde hatte, fallen die Ermittlungen nicht leicht. Michelle, welche am ersten Tag der Klassenfahrt bereits einen Vorfall mit dem Mobber hatte, wird somit zusammen mit anderen Verdächtigen ausgefragt und dunkle Geheimnisse des Opfers kommen ans Tageslicht.

Book Roter Schnee  Life is a Story   story one

Download or read book Roter Schnee Life is a Story story one written by Sophie Kappen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wenn dir alles genommen wird, was du liebst, würdest du Rache üben? Würdest du für deine Familie töten? Würdest du für Gerechtigkeit alles aufs Spiel setzen? 1935, zwei Jahre nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten in Deutschland. Die Männer der SS kommen heimlich, um die Feinde des Dritten Reichs zu töten. Wilhelmine Kaiser, eine unscheinbare 17-Jährige, muss schon bald die grausame Realität kennenlernen: Nach dem Tod ihrer Familie muss sie eine Entscheidung treffen. Ihr altes Leben zurücklassen und für das Richtige kämpfen oder aufgeben? Schon früh wird klar, dass Wilhelmine eine lebensbedrohliche Entscheidung fassen muss. Sie wird mit dem Zweifel konfrontiert, ob es das wert ist. Aber sie weiß, dass sich nichts ändern kann, wenn sie kein Risiko eingeht.

Book The Apostles  Creed

Download or read book The Apostles Creed written by Ben Myers and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What God's children believe Because Jesus is risen, the world is made new. This is the good news. That's what I believe. Join FatCat as he discovers what all God's children believe. Everyone in God's big family believes these truths. And if you believe, then you are in that family too! How do God's children grasp the message of God's word? The church's answer has always been the catechism--simple confessions of deep truths. FatCat expresses the catechism in a fun and accessible way for God's children of all ages. With vibrant illustrations and thoughtful reflections for each line of the Apostles' Creed, children can visualize, memorize, understand, and confess the faith passed down over centuries.

Book The Flying Mountain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christoph Ransmayr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780857424747
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Flying Mountain written by Christoph Ransmayr and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.

Book Sand

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolfgang Herrndorf
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2018-06-12
  • ISBN : 1681372029
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Sand written by Wolfgang Herrndorf and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . . This darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.

Book Literary Translation  Reception  and Transfer

Download or read book Literary Translation Reception and Transfer written by Norbert Bachleitner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of ‘travelling’, with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on critcism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.

Book The Z  rau Aphorisms

Download or read book The Z rau Aphorisms written by Franz Kafka and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka spent eight months in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring at his sister's house the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write his settling of accounts with life, marriage, his family, guilt and man's condition. This work provides a fresh perspective on the collective work of a genius."

Book The Brothers Grimm

Download or read book The Brothers Grimm written by J. Zipes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts - as scholars and civil servant - toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, the Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.

Book From weather observations to atmospheric and climate sciences in Switzerland

Download or read book From weather observations to atmospheric and climate sciences in Switzerland written by Saskia Willemse and published by vdf Hochschulverlag AG. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016 the Swiss Society for Meteorology (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie, SGM) celebrates its 100th anniversary. Compared to other meteorological societies it is not among the oldest ones. Nevertheless, meteorology has gone through such a remarkable evolution in the past 100 years that it is worthwhile to take a look back and recapitulate the developments of both science and SGM – and to reveal their interaction. The idea of this book is to give an overview of what has happened in the field of atmospheric sciences in Switzerland since the first systematic long-term meteorological observations until today.

Book The Story of a Life

Download or read book The Story of a Life written by Aharon Appelfeld and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old the Nazis occupied Czernowitz, his hometown. They penned the Jews into a ghetto and eventually sent whoever had not been shot or starved to death on a forced march across the Ukraine to a labor camp. As men, women, and children fall away around them, Aharon and his father miraculously survive, and Aharon, even more miraculously, escapes from the camp shortly after he arrives there. The next few years of Aharon’s life are both harrowing and heartrending: he hides, alone, in the Ukrainian forests from peasants who are only too happy to turn Jewish children over to the Nazis; he has the presence of mind to pass himself off as an orphaned gentile when he emerges from the forest to seek work; and, at war’s end, he joins the stream of refugees as they cross Europe on their way to displaced persons’ camps that have been set up for the survivors. Aharon eventually makes his way to Palestine; once there, he attempts to build a new life while struggling to retain the barely remembered fragments of his old life, and he takes his first, tentative steps as a writer. As he begins to receive national attention, Aharon realizes his life’s calling: to bear witness to the unfathomable. In this unforgettable work of memory, Aharon Appelfeld offers personal glimpses into the experiences that resonate throughout his fiction.

Book Raul Walch  It s a Great Pressure to Be Here

Download or read book Raul Walch It s a Great Pressure to Be Here written by Francesca Gavin and published by Kerber Verlag. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Raul Walch is a sculptor and conceptual artist. Yet, in his site-specific interventions, he turns into a critical investigator, performer, and activist as well. Aside from being a survey of his artistic practice, It’s a great pressure to be here, is a wry comment on the globalized present, the human condition, and contemporary societal issues. A topical glossary, encompassing inspirations, ideas, people, and places, scholarly essays, and an interview convey how artistic engagement can become instrumental in the examination and possible transformation of the given socio-political realities"--publisher's description.

Book A Companion to Twentieth century German Literature

Download or read book A Companion to Twentieth century German Literature written by Raymond Furness and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing in particular with the East German literary scene and the changing literary landscape after reunification. In addition to basic biographical facts, the Companion offers summaries, information on involvement in literary groups and political developments, schools and movements, critical terms and aspects of the other arts, including film.

Book Warfare and Society

Download or read book Warfare and Society written by Ton Otto and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book straddles the disciplines of archaeology and social anthropology. Its 25 contributions (divided into 6 sections with separate introductions) successively scrutinise the concept of war in philosophy, social theory and the history of anthropological and archaeological research; discuss warfare in pre-state and state societies; and assess its relationship to rituals, social identification and material culture.

Book The Apostles  Creed

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Myers
  • Publisher : Lexham Press
  • Release : 2018-05-09
  • ISBN : 9781683590880
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Apostles Creed written by Ben Myers and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Christian faith is mysterious not because it is so complicated but because it is so simple. A person does not start with baptism and then advance to higher mysteries. In baptism each believer already possesses the faith in its fullness. ... In the same way, it takes considerable effort to begin to comprehend all that we have received in Christ. Theological thinking does not add a single thing to what we have received. The inheritance remains the same whether we grasp its magnitude or not. But the better we grasp it, the happier we are. So this small book is an invitation to happiness. I have written it with a glad heart, and I hope it will be helpful for others who want to comprehend the mystery of faith in all its 'breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love Christ that surpasses knowledge' (Eph 3:18-19)."--Preface, pages xv-xvi

Book Stefan Zweig

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randolph J. Klawiter
  • Publisher : University of North Carolina S
  • Release : 2020-05
  • ISBN : 9781469657653
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Stefan Zweig written by Randolph J. Klawiter and published by University of North Carolina S. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1965, this volume presented the only comprehensive bibliography of the writings of the Austrian novelist, journalist, and playwright Stefan Zweig and of the books and articles about his work.

Book A Slap in the Face

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  • Author : Abbas Khider
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-03-22
  • ISBN : 9781803090009
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book A Slap in the Face written by Abbas Khider and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany. In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein's defeat. But Hussein wasn't the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas Khider unfolds his story, we learn both the secret struggles he faced in his homeland and the battles with prejudice, distrust, poverty, and bureaucracy he has to endure in his attempts to make a new life in Germany. As he erupts in frustration at his caseworker, and finally forces her to listen to his story, we get an account of a contemporary life upended by politics and violence, told with a warmth and humor that, while surprising us, does nothing to lessen the outrages Karim describes.

Book The Knights of Modernism

Download or read book The Knights of Modernism written by Branko Vraneš and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Failing to become attuned to the real role of the chivalric ideal at the beginning of the era of the modern novel, commentators missed the chance to adequately review the role of chivalry at the end of that period. The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.