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A collection of short stories stemming from the Romanian author's detention in a Nazi concentration camp as a child evokes a sense of the horror and absurdity of war and Romanian politics.
Author : Norman Manea
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1994-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802133717
A collection of short stories stemming from the Romanian author's detention in a Nazi concentration camp as a child evokes a sense of the horror and absurdity of war and Romanian politics.
Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444930176
Eleven magical short stories to enjoy round the clock from one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton. Join Twiddle the gnome on his search for his grumpy runaway donkey Kick-up. Find out what happens when the rocking-horse, teddy and all the other toys come alive. And laugh at Twisty the Brownie as he learns the hard way why it's unwise to pull nasty faces. Ideal for bedtime, reading aloud or alone, these magical short stories for 5-8 year-olds will enchant a new generation of children. Look out for more O'Clock tales: Five O'Clock Tales, Six O'Clock Tales, Seven O'Clock Tales and Eight O'Clock Tales. Enid Blyton has been delighting readers for more than seventy years with her endless summers of fun, adventure and magic. Enid's best-loved characters include Noddy the wooden boy, Timmy the dog from The Famous Five and the mischievous twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan from the much-loved boarding school series St Clare's! First published in 1944, this edition contains the original text, illustrations and the following stories: The Good Turn; The Boy Who Heard Too Much; The Skittle-Policeman; Tick-Tock's Tea-Party; The Runaway Donkey; The Surprise Party; The Enchanted Doll; When the Toys Came Alive; The Brownie Who Pulled Faces; All the Way to Toy-Town; Poor Old Scarecrow!
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Author : J. A. Henderson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152062408
When a scientific experiment goes haywire, a hidden military base is thrown into chaos and its up to a small group of genius teens that lives there to find a way out of certain destruction.
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1798
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Author : Clive Stafford Smith
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781568584096
Every time human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith lands in Cuba, he takes the eight o'clock ferry to the windward side; his journey ends at Guantánamo Bay. One of the few people in the world who has ongoing independent access to the prison, Smith reveals the grotesque injustices that are perpetrated there in the name of national security—including the justifications created to legitimate the use of torture and the bureaucratic structures that have been put in place to shield prison authorities from legal accountability. By bearing witness to the stories of the forty prisoners that he represents, Smith asks us to consider what is done to American democracy when the rule of law is jettisoned in the name of combating terrorism.
Author : Peter Force
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Page : 968 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 964 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Colonies
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Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618708960
Explores time and how we think about it in a different way--as a series of events in the natural world, some of them directly observable, others not.
Author : Norman Manea
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802133755
Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, "gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination. . . . Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account. . . . What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic