Hope: A Tragedy
Title | Hope: A Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Shalom Auslander |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2012-01-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101561289 |
A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel… His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.
Before Green Gables
Title | Before Green Gables PDF eBook |
Author | Budge Wilson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780399154683 |
An authorized prequel to L.M. Montgomery's classic series about the irrepressible red-haired orphan follows Anne's early years before her adoption by the Cuthberts.
She Believed She Could So She Did
Title | She Believed She Could So She Did PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Lacey |
Publisher | Summersdale |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2020-09-10 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1787839265 |
Packed with useful tips, positive affirmations and bite-sized biographies on women who rock, this book is a celebration of female strength and courage. No matter what your aims are for today, this month, this year or in life, it will encourage you to ignore the cynics, seize exciting opportunities and live a life that you love.
The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank
Title | The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Melnick |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780300069075 |
Examines Levin's claims that the stage adaptation of Anne Frank's diary rejected a Jewish treatment of the work in favour of a play with a universal message. The text establishes the bias of the opposition to Levin and places the issue in the context of the wider cultural struggle of the 1950s.
Anne Frank
Title | Anne Frank PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Frank |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
ISBN | 9780671430290 |
Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during the two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.
American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
Title | American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Sebba |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2007-10-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780393057720 |
Jennie (Jerome) Churchill was not merely the most talked about American woman in London society, she was also a dynamic political and social force. Sebba draws on newly discovered correspondences and archives to examine the tempestuous life of the mother of Winston Churchill.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Title | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Englander |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2012-02-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307958736 |
From the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination. “Showcases Mr. Englander’s extraordinary gifts as a writer.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, to “Peep Show” and “How We Avenged the Blums,” two stories that return to the author’s classic themes of sexual longing and ingenuity in the face of adversity, these stories affirm Nathan Englander’s place at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.