Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN : 9780833503619
Helga, a troll, ventures into the world of people to earn her dowry to marry Lars, but things do not work out as she hopes.
Author : Helga Weiss
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393089746
A New York Times Bestseller "A sacred reminder of what so many millions suffered, and only a few survived." —Adam Kirsch, New Republic In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document her experiences in a diary. During her internment at the concentration camp of Terezín, Helga’s uncle hid her diary in a brick wall. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezín and deported to Auschwitz, there were only one hundred survivors. Helga was one of them. Miraculously, she was able to recover her diary from its hiding place after the war. These pages reveal Helga’s powerful story through her own words and illustrations. Includes a special interview with Helga by translator Neil Bermel.
Author : Linda Lawrence Hunt
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307425061
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.
Author : Peter Woodruff
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1921636513
Living history through the eyes of a young German girl. Based on a true story. Like many little girls, Helga Reiter dreams of horses. More than anything, the six-year-old wants to learn to ride and become a great equestrian. But, in 1941, the world is at war... Having overrun much Europe and North Africa, Germany's glorious military has no spare horses for frivolous childhood dreams. Stubborn as any good German shoulder, Helga, contrives several ill-fated attempts to ride. By late 1944, Helga has no choice but to forgo her dream and face a terrible reality. Her country is losing the war. As Germany is crushed between the Soviet and Allied advance, the Reiter family struggles to survive one day at a time.
Author : Nella Larsen
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667622668
Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim. Her classic novel Quicksand first appeared in 1928.
Author : Bergsveinn Birgisson
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 9781612187174
"Bjarni has long held on to a letter from former lover Helga, with whom he shared an illicit, impassioned love. Her letter invited him to leave his wife and his farm and pursue prosperity in the city, where World War II had brought an influx of American marines and opportunities for work. But he chose not to reply. Years later, as he reflects on a long and simple life among the sheep in the Icelandic hillsides, he finally finds himself ready to explain why"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Helga Jensen
Publisher : Hera books Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1912973596
'I simply couldn’t put this down. I laughed out loud several times before I’d even finished the first chapter.’ Jules Wake, author of The Spark and The Saturday Morning Park Run Amelia might have met The One. But is she twenty years too late? After her husband left her out of the blue, the only relationship 48-year-old Amelia Simpson has enjoyed recently is with Nutella and Pinot Grigio. While her 8-year-old twin boys, Jasper and Rupert, keep her busy, Amelia dreams of a life more than washing muddy rugby kits and weekly chats with best friends Sian and Jamie. Amelia needs some magic back in her life – but magic seems in short supply in her small Welsh town. So when she finds the phone number that was given to her twenty years ago by a handsome stranger in New York, Amelia wonders whether he might be The One That Got Away. But when Sian takes matters into her own hands, launching a worldwide hunt to find the handsome stranger Amelia met outside Tiffany’s two decades ago, Amelia finds herself on a flight to the Big Apple to reconnect with her ‘Perfect Patrick’. But as the two explore the sights of NYC, has Amelia reconnected with The One? Or will she discover that the sparkle she was missing is actually closer to home? A gorgeously funny and heart-warming debut romcom for fans of Sophie Ranald, Jo Watson and Beth O’Leary. Readers are falling in love with Twice in a Lifetime: ‘A joyous tale of rediscovering your dreams, love and sense of self. Sheer fun and absolute UpLit!’ Pernille Hughes, Author, Probably the Best Kiss in the World ‘I love this book so much! All I wanted was for it not to end! It's right there on my top romcoms list now.’ Natalie Normann, author of Summer Island ‘Wow, just wow...Right from chapter one I was hooked...It's funny, cute and romantic and that twist...What more can you ask for?’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘Such a cute read I read it in one sitting. This book had me smiling.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘What a fantastic read! I enjoyed the characters in the book and the story line! This was a fun, fast read’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘This book is a GEM! It’s painfully funny, totally real and the twists and turns, oh my goodness gracious!...such a feel good book.’ Reader Review ‘What an enchanting novel...I certainly laughed out loud numerous times!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review
Author : Andrew Wyeth
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780966285956
Author : Helga Schneider
Publisher : Random House
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1448163811
Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. The Bonfire of Berlin is a searing account of her survival. The grinding misery of hunger, combined with the terror of air-raids, the absence of fresh water and the constant threat of death and disease served not to unite the tenants and neighbours of her apartment block but rather to intensify the minor irritations of communal life into flashpoints of rage and violence. And with Russian victory the survivors could not look forward a return to peacetime but rather to pillage and rape. It was only gradually that Schneider's life returned to some kind of normality, as her beloved father returned from the front, carrying his own scars of the war. This shocking book evokes the reality of life in a wartime city in all its brutality and deprivation, while retaining a kernel of hope that while life remains not all is lost.
Author : Helga Hayse
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Finance, Personal
ISBN : 9780977836826
"When the lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes." With these lyrics from Jerome Kern, Helga Hayse introduces a topic that should be required reading for married women of all ages everywhere, but particularly women of a certain age who have believed that their spouses were better equipped to handle the money in the marriage. The 16 chapters are based on seminars called "A Wife's Guide to Financial Intimacy" which the author conducts monthly in the San Francisco Bay area. Chapters are short, to the point, easy to read and follow, practical and memorable. "Death and money are awkward subjects," says Hayse, "A married woman is one-half of a legal and financial partnership. Unfortunately, wives behave differently in marriage than partners do in business. However, the risks are the same. My objective is to see that women achieve the financial intimacy they deserve to make the marriage finances transparent - and protect their financial interests in case something happens to end their marriage through divorce or death." This book is a compelling page-turner that every woman should read before she says 'I Do" and refer back to annually during her marriage.
