The Mystery of the Smashing Glass
Title | The Mystery of the Smashing Glass PDF eBook |
Author | William Arden |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9780394865508 |
Three young detectives try to trap an invisible vandal who has been breaking car windows all over town.
The Mystery of the Purple Pirate
Title | The Mystery of the Purple Pirate PDF eBook |
Author | William Arden |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-05-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781312575431 |
A hidden treasure is suspected, some criminals with a plan show up, and the Three Investigators end up right in the middle.
From Broken Glass
Title | From Broken Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Ross |
Publisher | Hachette Books |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0316513083 |
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year. Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.
Shattering Glass
Title | Shattering Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Giles |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2003-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0689858000 |
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
Mystery of the Smashing Glass
Title | Mystery of the Smashing Glass PDF eBook |
Author | William Arden |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780785749042 |
Three young detectives try to trap the vandal who has been breaking windows.
The Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Cranky Collector
Title | The Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Cranky Collector PDF eBook |
Author | M. V. Carey |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9780394991535 |
When an ornery book collector disappears, the Three Investigators break into his secret computer files in search of clues and gradually uncover his mysterious past.
House of Glass
Title | House of Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Hadley Freeman |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501199153 |
A writer investigates her family’s secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz. Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family’s past, discovering more about the lives of her grandmother and her three brothers, Jacques, Henri, and Alex. Their stories sometimes typical, sometimes astonishing—reveal the broad range of experiences of Eastern European Jews during Holocaust. This thrilling family saga is filled with extraordinary twists, vivid characters, and famous cameos, illuminating the Jewish and immigrant experience in the World War II era. Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, this powerful story about the past echoes issues that remain relevant today.