The Borrowed House

Author : Hilda van Stockum
Publisher : Purple House Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Borrowed House written by Hilda van Stockum and published by Purple House Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II a young German girl, who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war. New introduction by the author's son, John Tepper Marlin. "So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously. The boy shrugged his shoulders. "You could call it that. I'm just helping the van Arkels rescue innocent people from certain death. They need these identification papers and food cards to keep alive. If you betray me, all these people will either starve or be forced to give themselves up to be sent to the gas chambers of a concentration camp." "Gas chambers?" Janna looked at the boy with horror. "You mean ... they are killed?" The book looked sternly at her. "Do you think," he said, "that Germany is sending Jews to a nice vacation spa, or to pretty villages with geraniums in the windows? That's what they told us at first, though in Holland we never believed it." This book is based on a true story, and even though it deals with some hard issues brought about by the German occupation of Amsterdam, it provides an opportunity to discuss World War II from a unique perspective.

Author : Chan Ho-Kei
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802189822
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Borrowed written by Chan Ho-Kei and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.

Author : Michelle Barker
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1927485835
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year of Borrowed Men written by Michelle Barker and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War II “borrows” the men in seven-year-old Gerda’s family, the German government sends them three new men in return: Gabriel, Fermaine, and Albert, French prisoners of war who must sleep in an outbuilding and work the farm until the war is over. Gerda knows they are supposed to treat the men as enemies, but it doesn’t seem fair. Can’t they invite them into the warm house for one meal? What harm could it do to be friendly? Writing from her mother’s childhood memories of Germany during World War II, Michelle Barker shares the story of one family’s daring kindness in a time of widespread anger and suspicion. Renné Benoit’s illustrations bring warmth to the era, showing the small ways in which a forbidden friendship bloomed: good food, a much-loved doll, a secret Christmas tree. Family photographs and an Author’s Note give further insight into the life of Gerda, the little girl who proved that it isn’t so far from Feinde (enemies) to Freunde (friends).

Author : Amanda Cabot
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493412566
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Borrowed Dream (Cimarron Creek Trilogy Book #2) written by Amanda Cabot and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true. Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas to protect his daughter from a dangerous criminal. He's managed to keep his past as a surgeon a secret. But when Catherine Whitfield captures his heart, he wonders how long he will be able to keep up the charade. With a deft hand, Amanda Cabot teases out the strands of love, deception, and redemption in this charming tale of dreams deferred and hopes becoming reality.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838080402
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Borrowed Boy written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Angie Winkle plans a day-trip to Jaywick Sands to face up to a past which has cast its shadow over her life, she doesn't expect to be accompanied by four-year-old Danny, neither does she expect to have a second chance at life, but as Angie tries to do what is best for Danny she has to race against time or risk losing everything.

Author : Dave Rudden
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0723299323
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forever Court (Knights of the Borrowed Dark Book 2) written by Dave Rudden and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the brilliant Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant. Life is returning to normal for Denizen Hardwick. Well, the new normal, where he has to battle monsters in quiet Dublin bookshops and constantly struggle to contain the new powers he has been given by Mercy, the daughter of the Endless King. But Denizen may need those powers sooner than he thinks - not only are the Tenebrous stirring again but the Order of the Borrowed Dark face a new threat from much closer to home...

Author : Hilda van Stockum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883936464
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed House written by Hilda van Stockum and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeannine Atkins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429959401
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Names written by Jeannine Atkins and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother, Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Dave Rudden
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 055352299X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knights of the Borrowed Dark written by Dave Rudden and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative new fantasy will charm fans of the Ranger’s Apprentice and Rick Riordan. Denizen Hardwick is an orphan, and his life is, well, normal. Sure, in storybooks orphans are rescued from drudgery when they discover they are a wizard or a warrior or a prophesized king. But this is real life—orphans are just kids without parents. At least that’s what Denizen thought. . . . On a particularly dark night, the gates of Crosscaper Orphanage open to a car that almost growls with power. The car and the man in it retrieve Denizen with the promise of introducing him to a long-lost aunt. But on the ride into the city, they are attacked. Denizen soon learns that monsters can grow out of the shadows. And there is an ancient order of knights who keep them at bay. Denizen has a unique connection to these knights, but everything they tell him feels like a half-truth. If Denizen joins the order, is he fulfilling his destiny, or turning his back on everything his family did to keep him alive?

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Borrowed Place written by Frank Welsh and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1993 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.