![]() ![]() Hansel and Gretel’s parents, meanwhile, find themselves involved in a small group of resistance fighters who terrorize collaborators. They are uneasily assimilated until a Nazi officer arrives with his own plans for the children of the village. ![]() The children (whose real names are never used, as that would reveal their Jewishness) find their way through the woods to the house of Magda, a solitary and eccentric woman who lives outside a small village in the woods. Remember now.” And thus begins a powerful and moving story about two children caught up in the events at the end of the Nazi occupation in Poland during the Second World War. Run.” As their motorcycle speeds into the distance, their stepmother calls out “Hansel and Gretel… You are Hansel and Gretel. On the side of the road and a dark and forbidding wood, a father abandons his two children with the words “Go into the woods. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Acts of violence are committed in an almost casual manner, and several murders and torture scenes are described. True to the time period it is set in, "The Paris Architect" is full of stories of courage and sacrifice, as well as stories of the horrors of humanity. Before long, though, Lucien starts to enjoy playing the part of the hero, not to mention the challenge of outwitting the Gestapo right under their noses. Lucien has no love for the Jews, but when someone offers him a large sum of money to design a hiding place for a Jew, plus a commission for a project that could define his architectural career, Lucien reluctantly agrees. ![]() "The Paris Architect" by Charles Belfoure, set in Paris during World War II, is a fictional story based on one of the most tumultuous periods in world history. And survive the German occupation, of course. 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Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fictionįrom the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.įact can be as strange as fiction. Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize ![]() Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize ![]() ![]() ![]() Anarcho-syndicalist theory therefore generally focuses on the labour movement.Īnarcho-syndicalists view the primary purpose of the state as being the defence of private property, and therefore of economic, social, and political privilege, denying most of its denizens the ability to enjoy material independence and the social autonomy which springs from it. The end goal of anarcho-syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. ![]() The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats, and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. ![]() ![]() ![]() Language eng Summary When a pond dries up, fairy scientist Esther doesn t freeze under the pressure. She’s on a mission to get her fellow fairies excited about science too will she succeed When you’re finished. ![]() Science - Experiments - Juvenile fiction We are so excited to share Fairy Science: Solid, Liquid, Gassy by Ashley Spires Esther is a fairy who believes in science and the book chronicles her investigation of the three states of matter (solids, liquids, and gasses).Label Fairy science, Solid, liquid, gassy Title Fairy science Title part Solid, liquid, gassy Statement of responsibility Ashley Spires Title variation Solid, liquid, gassy Creator ![]() ![]() Joe needs to win her back and put his life on the line to keep Violet safe. When it does Joe is forced to face the knowledge that he can’t fight Violet’s pull, she’s under his skin and filled him full to bursting. But Violet’s husband’s murderer is obsessed with her and heartbreak again haunts the door of the Winters home. With nothing left to give, Joe’s determined to live his life alone and he breaks Violet’s heart.Ĭrushed by Joe’s betrayal, Violet comes to terms with the fact that, no matter what signals he gave, Joe was not theirs to win. But Violet doesn’t know the dark secrets in Joe’s past, secrets so soul-wrenching, they’ve drained him dry. Feeling it himself, Joe feeds Vi’s hunger, breaking his own rules to keep her in his bed.Įven though Violet had only one man in her life, she’s sure Joe is giving her the signals and Vi decides she’s ready to take a second chance at life and, maybe, love. She wants to deny it, but Violet can’t beat back the hunger she feels for Joe so she gives in again and again. And that’s when she meets sinister, scarred, scarily attractive security specialist, Joe Callahan. ![]() ![]() During a cold winter night Violet has to leave her warm bed to tell her neighbor to turn the music down. Violet Winters once had it all but lost it when her husband was murdered by a criminal madman. Also in this series: For You, Golden Trail, Games Of The Heart, The Promise, Hold On ![]() |