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Sound the jubilee: And Other Prehistoric Creatures
By Sandra Forrester, Jan Pienkowski. 1995
Eleven-year-old Maddie, who works in the big house on River Bend Plantation in North Carolina, longs for freedom. As the…
Civil War approaches and their mistress moves to her summer home on Nags Head, Maddie's family gets their chance at freedom when the bluecoats turn nearby Roanoke Island into an escaped-slave haven. For grades 6-9Mammoths on the move
By Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3The Longest Night
By Otto De Kat. 2015
A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands,…
Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War. She marries Bruno, they have two sons, and she determines to block out the years she spent in Nazi Berlin during the war, with her first husband Carl. But now, ninety-six years old and on the eve of her death, long- forgotten memories crowd again into her consciousness, flashbacks of happier years, and the tragedy of the war, of Carl, of her father, and of the friends she has lost. In The Longest Night, his impressive, reflective new novel after News from Berlin, Otto de Kat deftly distils momentous events of 20th-century history into the lives of his characters. In Emma, the past and the present coincide in limpid fragments of rare, melancholy beauty.Translated from the Dutch by Laura WatkinsonThe Longest Night
By Otto De Kat. 2015
A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands,…
Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War. She marries Bruno, they have two sons, and she determines to block out the years she spent in Nazi Berlin during the war, with her first husband Carl. But now, ninety-six years old and on the eve of her death, long- forgotten memories crowd again into her consciousness, flashbacks of happier years, and the tragedy of the war, of Carl, of her father, and of the friends she has lost. In The Longest Night, his impressive, reflective new novel after News from Berlin, Otto de Kat deftly distils momentous events of 20th-century history into the lives of his characters. In Emma, the past and the present coincide in limpid fragments of rare, melancholy beauty.Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson1917. Traición y revolución
By Juan Miguel Zunzunegui. 2017
Una historia del amor separado por las ideolog as y la nica revoluci n que nunca…
ha triunfado Europa se desangra en la Primera Guerra Mundial millones de cad veres rusos y alemanes yacen en el frente oriental mientras los poderosos se reparten el mundo Desde Londres hasta Constantinopla y de San Petersburgo a Berl n los ej rcitos esp as revolucionarios y agentes secretos destruyen los antiguos imperios y forjan los cimientos de un nuevo mundo En medio de la guerra de Europa y de la revoluci n sovi tica el misterioso agente norteamericano John Mann investiga la trama de toda una conspiraci n que involucra la muerte del misterioso Rasput n la ca da del Zar las maquinaciones de Stalin y las estrategias de Trotsky el reparto de Medio Oriente a los rabes y turcos a los bolcheviques y alemanes y al arma m s poderosa del Kaiser en su guerra contra el Imperio Ruso Vladimir Lenin La historia quecomienza en 1917 termina el 9 de noviembre de 1989 con la ca da del Muro de Berl n Anastasia y Konstantin dos sobrevivientes de la revoluci n sovi tica separados por el muro narran su versi n de los hechos mientras buscan reencontrarse Una historia del amor separado por las ideolog as de los eternos sue os frustrados de la humanidad y de la nica revoluci n que nunca ha triunfado