Author : Ruth Yaffe Radin
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 9780060285210
A young Jewish girl living with her family in the town of Lida at the beginning of World War II recalls the horrors of life under first the Russians then the Nazis, before fleeing to join Tuvia Bielski, a partisan who tried to save as many Jews as possible. Based on a true story.
Author : Rebecca Frankel
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 125026765X
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.
Author : Erin Hunter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006154793X
Sasha has decided to forge a life outside of the Clans and away from Tigerstar's evil plots and plans. But life as a rogue is much harder than she expects, and Sasha soon starts to lose hope. Will she be forced to wander alone forever, scrapping for every meal and fighting with the cruel, territorial cats who dwell in the alleys of Twolegplace?
Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429913460
Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love. Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac. But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Sylvain Tesson
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0847841405
A journalist embarks on the adventure of a lifetime—living in a remote cabin in Siberia—in this Thoreau-esque meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. “…wry, exuberant, and a perfect balm for anyone who dreams of running away to the middle of nowhere.” —San Francisco Chronicle No stranger to inhospitable places, journalist Sylvain Tesson exiles himself to a wooden cabin on Siberia’s Lake Baikal—a full day’s hike from any “neighbor”—with his thoughts, his books, a couple of dogs, and many bottles of vodka for company. Writing from February to July, he shares his deep appreciation for the harsh but beautiful land, the resilient men and women who populate it, and the bizarre and tragic history that has given Siberia an almost mythological place in the imagination. Rich with observation, introspection, and the good humor necessary to laugh at his own folly, Tesson’s memoir is about the ultimate freedom of owning your own time. Only in the hands of a gifted storyteller can an experiment in isolation become an exceptional adventure accessible to all. By recording his impressions in the face of silence, his struggles in a hostile environment, his hopes, doubts, and moments of pure joy in communion with nature, Tesson makes a decidedly out-of-the-ordinary experience relatable. The awe and joy are contagious, and one comes away with the comforting knowledge that “as long as there is a cabin deep in the woods, nothing is completely lost.”
Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307522962
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims.
Author : Carrie Ryan
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375891978
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power. And, when the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death? [STAR] "A bleak but gripping story...Poignant and powerful."-Publishers Weekly, Starred "A postapocalyptic romance of the first order, elegantly written from title to last line."-Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan "Intelligent, dark, and bewitching, The Forest of Hands and Teeth transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty. Mary's world is one that readers will not soon forget."-Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of City of Bones "Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth is like cracking Pandora's box: a blur of darkness and a precious bit of hope pour out. This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it."-Melissa Marr, bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange "Dark and sexy and scary. Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down."-Justine Larbalestier, author of How to Ditch Your Fairy
Author : Samuel Isaacson
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2020-05-06
Category :
ISBN :
"Charming and whimsical, with sinister undertones." David Lowrie (The Hellscape Gamebook Series) "Immersive! The most like going for a real walk in the countryside we can do at the moment." James Spearing (My Gamebook Adventures) "An enchanting romp...reminds this reader of the classic gamebooks of the 80s." Adam C Mitchell (I, Virus) "The writing is good...I want to find out where the tiny shoes are!" Victoria Hancox (Nightshift, The Alchemist's Folly) A brave knight wakes up and is surprised to be in the middle of an enchanted forest, with no memories of the previous night and only a bunch of mysterious herbs as a clue to what the evening consisted of. That brave knight is you. Try to escape from the forest while piecing together what you did last night. On your journey you will encounter a raft of strange inhabitants, including dwarves, elves, goblins, pixies, the Green Man and, of course, the Black Knight, who's a real piece of work. Beautifully illustrated throughout, all you need is a quill and ink to get started.
Author : Conrad Richter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1400077885
An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.
Author : Tina Potter
Publisher : Uglytent, LLC
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780999579275
When we last saw Ember, she had followed her intuition into the forest, determined to uncover the secrets that were buried deep inside. And she did so, only to be bombarded on her way out by a ruthless storm, violently interrupting her mission to reveal the villainous truth. From the faithful beginning of 'Secrets in the Forest' until its brutal end, the premier installment of Tina Potter and Kenny Dietrich's breakthrough Survival Ember series kept us learning both practically and spiritually, and reminds us to reflect on our own connection to nature while also addressing one of the most pressing problems in the world today. Book 2 is no different, as we continue to follow the valiant quarry of sixteen-year-old Ember and her survivalist father, John, as they uncover the true nature and intention of Niki, the suspicious woman from the woods. Join Ember on a journey within her own mind, as it inevitably leads her, yet again, into the cryptic, enigmatic depths of the forest. Will it remain as the comforting asylum of her past, or will the darkness take over for good?
