Author : S. L. Berg
Publisher : TRIAD Publishing Group
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979699479
When the Gestapo demands access to his familys business documents, Marcus understands that disaster will soon befall him, his fiance, and his mother. Tragically, war breaks out and three lives are changed forever. When Marcus and Gretchen are reunited many years later, they realize love requires tenacity and the willingness to survive all life sends their way.
Author : Edward Howell
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Escapes
ISBN :
Author : Charles Paterson
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780997003468
The riveting family memoir of a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice begins in Nazi-occupied Europe and journeys home to American modernism.
Author : Beatriz Custodio Gonzalez
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 375784033X
What would you do if speaking out against injustice put your life in danger? What would you do if your whole world started falling apart around you? What would you do if your right to freedom was threatened? What would you do if you were faced with a life-or-death choice? Escape to Life, From Syria to Safety is the true story of Mohammed Al Ali, a paramedic in war-torn Syria, who dealt with death every day, but who ultimately chose life. Fleeing Syria, he kept walking, one foot in front of the other, confronting danger, heartbreak, sorrow and exhaustion at every step of the way. Facing and fighting his fears, holding on and never giving up, he kept telling himself: "It's not over until I find peace and freedom." This is one man's story, but it is also the story of every one of us who has ever taken a risk and made a brave choice that will inevitably overturn our life, but which might just open up a bright, new future. Are you faced with making life-changing decisions? Do you have the strength to choose? Mohammed's story gives us a unique insight into the human tragedy that has affected millions of Syrians, yet it also offers hope in this ever-changing world, where stability and security can no longer be taken for granted.
Author : Eckart Goebel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110258684
After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals’ thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.
Author : Eve Yohalen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452133484
Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador's residence. All Lucy can do is read about the exotic and exciting world that lies beyond the compound walls and imagine what it would be like to be a part of it. That is, until one day Lucy decides she has had enough and she and a friend sneak off for some fun. But to their horror, Lucy gets kidnapped! With only herself to rely upon, Lucy must use her knowledge of African animals, inventiveness, will, and courage to escape, and in the process embarks on an adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Includes bonus material! - Book Club Discussion Guide
Author : Tom Sullivan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0062991531
An ALA Top Ten Best Graphic Novel for Children A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the U.S. CASE NO. 001: NORJAK NOVEMBER 24, 1971 PORTLAND, OREGON 2:00 P.M. A man in his mid-forties, wearing a suit and overcoat, buys a ticket for Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 bound for Seattle. 3:07 P.M. The man presents his demands: $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. If the demands are not met, he threatens to detonate the explosive device in his briefcase. So begins the astonishing true story of the man known as D.B. Cooper, and the only unsolved airplane hijacking case in the United States. Comic panels, reproductions of documents from real FBI files, and photos from the investigation combine for a thrilling read for sleuths of all ages. What better way to draw readers into nonfiction than through an exciting graphic novel? This series will appeal to readers of series such as Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales. Fans of history and whodunits, CSI-club kids, and graphic novel enthusiasts alike will be pulled in by the suspenseful, complex, and kid-appropriate cases in this series. Sidebars provide fun facts about pre-2001 air travel, serial numbers on currency, airplane design, and more. Backmatter showcases period photos and primary source material in FBI archives.
Author : Ivan Tapia
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1781319529
Will you get to the Orwellians before the Wanstein Club get to you? The clock is ticking… Based on the global phenomenon of Escape Rooms, and following on from the international bestseller The Escape Book by Ivan Tapia, this book puts your ingenuity, wit and perseverance to the test with even more fiendish challenges, puzzles, and enigmas that you must solve to thwart the sinister Wanstein Club. Investigative journalist Candela Fuertes is at rock bottom: her fight against Castian Warnes, the head of the powerful and sinister Wanstein Club, has undermined her credibility as a journalist, and meanwhile she suspects Warnes is behind the car accident that put her boss in hospital. Corroded by the thirst for revenge, she decides to turn to the only people who can help her in a cause that seems already lost: the Orwellians, a group of hackers hell bent on revealing the secrets of the rich and famous. In order to get to the Orwellians, you and Candela must follow their trail all over London. The chapters of the book are jumbled up, and to know where to continue reading, you must solve the puzzles, optical illusions, conundrums and anagrams that you find. Each time you solve a puzzle, the number you arrive at will indicate the page from which you can continue the story.
Author : Curt Schaeffer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2014-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781500520311
Escape With One's Life-Learning to live with survival is the story of a commercial air flight from San Jose, Costa Rica to Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 21, 1989. After a short stopover in Managua, the Continental Airlines leased plane crashed into a mountainside near the Honduran capital. The author is one of fifteen survivors among the 146 people on board including thirteen North Americans. The book focuses on why the fifteen survivors were flying that day and how each of them miraculously escaped the inferno that ensued shortly after the Boeing 727-200 failed to reach its intended destination. Eyewitness accounts describe courageous and heroic actions of both survivors and local residents. Nine years after the crash, the author decided to document the experience when he watched another survivor being interviewed on Spanish language television about her survival and her support for burn victims in Nicaragua. Escape With One's Life describes the effect the tragedy had on the lives of the survivors and the family members of deceased passengers. The author's journey to understand the trauma and heal from it are the central thrust of the book with particular emphasis on the impact of trauma, the author's struggles to understand his inner conflicts and to eventually overcome them through the process of documenting his experience. Escape is a gripping account of survival and how numerous people overcame pain and suffering to move ahead with their lives.
Author : Timothy Ferriss
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0307353133
Offers techniques and strategies for increasing income while cutting work time in half, and includes advice for leading a more fulfilling life.
