Showing results for "Das Event" in World Literature

Berlin, 1938. It’s no longer safe here. When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps.

There's a reason Emmeline Frothingham left her hometown of Creek Water, Missouri, as soon as humanly possible. That reason is small-minded, judgmental people. After graduating from college, Emmie gets her dream job in New York City. As the head buyer at Silver Spoons - a high-end boutique - and single girl about town, her life is ideal. That is, until the night of The Event, her company's annual awards ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Facing the repercussions of her wild night, Emmie is forced to go home to work in her family's business.

Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes, and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox, the older boy he idolizes to distraction.

Brought to you by Penguin. Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting 'Run, Àjàyí, run!' The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life was split in...

The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally, and, under false charges, sentenced to a ten-day stretch at a special detention center.

They think he’s just the driver. They’re wrong. In Houston, Orlandus Shorter moved quietly through the lives of the city’s elite, its strivers, its liars, its lonely, its grieving, its beautiful, and its broken. CEOs. Athletes. Couples on the edge. Men performing power. Women carrying secrets. People who believed a closed car door made them invisible. It never did. The Silent Driver is a hybrid work of interconnected literary fiction written from the lived perspective of Orlandus Shorter, who becomes both witness and vessel for the private lives passing through the backseat of his car.

This book is a collection of short stories that have materialized over a period of quite a few years. They are written in a variety of styles and voices. They are stories about life, loss, greed, wrong-doing, forgiveness, and accepting people for who and what they are. Some are tales of love and some are tales of woe. They are all unique in their own way. I hope that the reader will find them enjoyable and extraordinary, and that they will remain in your memory for many years to come.

Blossom of the Orphanage: The Bebe Story is a poignant and inspiring tale that traces the remarkable journey of Tiago, a child abandoned at birth on the doorstep of a Portuguese orphanage. Through sheer determination and an unyielding passion for football, Tiago transforms into the renowned footballer known as Bebe. His path takes him from the shadowy corridors of the orphanage to the hallowed grounds of Old Trafford, as he joins Manchester United.

Esta ficción histórica basada en hechos reales que describe el espíritu de la época, las motivaciones de los protagonistas y el desarrollo del conflicto entre las facciones en pugna, intentando representar los hechos con la máxima objetividad posible. Es una tarea extremadamente compleja porque es un tema tan conflictivo que la elección de las palabras que describen el hecho ya implica una toma de posición.