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![]() ![]() In Stalingrad, published here for the first time in English translation, and in its celebrated sequel, Life and Fate, Grossman writes with extraordinary power and deep compassion about the disasters of war and the ruthlessness of totalitarianism, without, however, losing sight of the little things that are the daily currency of human existence or of humanity’s inextinguishable, saving attachment to nature and life. Viktor’s research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. ![]() Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. ![]() At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. ![]() The story told in Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe, and its characters include mothers and daughters, husbands and brothers, generals, nurses, political activists, steelworkers, and peasants, along with Hitler and other historical figures. In the rubble of the bombed-out city, Soviet forces dig in for a last stand. Launched in the summer, the campaign soon picks up speed, as the routed Red Army is driven back to the industrial center of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga. In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini meet in Salzburg where they agree on a renewed assault on the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() Jaouad was supported by her parents and a new boyfriend, who put his life on hold for several years to care for her. Raised to roam the globe, Jaouad found that her world had suddenly shrunk to a hospital room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she underwent a stem cell transplant and other grueling treatments, which she began chronicling in a New York Times column called “Life Interrupted.” Her engrossing memoir, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted, paints a more complete portrait of her experiences during and after treatment. Twenty-two-year-old Princeton grad Suleika Jaouad was working as a paralegal in Paris when symptoms of acute myeloid leukemia sent her home to Saratoga Springs, New York, to live with her Swiss-born mother, an artist, and her Tunisian-born father, a French professor at Skidmore College. ![]() ![]() ![]() What problems and challenges do your characters have to overcome in this story?įirestar faces his greatest challenge yet (at least, that’s what the strapline says…) when he discovers that his warrior ancestors, the ancient cat spirits known as StarClan, have been lying to him about something huge. It’s a chance to see what Firestar’s first year of being leader of ThunderClan was like, and to see how he settled into this role even though he’s still relatively young and inexperienced compared with the other cats in his Clan. What would you like people to know about in this story? We are pleased to present this Take 5 with Victoria Holmes.įIRESTAR’S QUEST is the first stand-alone story about the warrior cats, in which we go back in time to the twelve-month gap between the first and second series to find out what our hero Firestar got up to after the decisive battle with BloodClan in Book Six: The Darkest Hour.Ģ. The cat-clans are back in force in another adventure, FIRESTAR’S QUEST, certain to vault to the top of the NYT’s bestseller lists. As most of you know, WU contributor Victoria Holmes is the brainchild behind the wildly popular WARRIORS series for YA readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Brave Bird trapped in the winter and farmed in the summer. While she studied nursing in Pierre, South Dakota, her four children were raised by their grandparents. Francis Mission boarding school where she was converted to Catholicism. Mary Brave Bird’s mother, Emily Brave Bird, had been raised in a tent in the village of He-Dog on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, then taken to St. Lakota Woman, written under the name Mary Crow Dog, portrays her life from her birth to 1977, and Ohitika Woman written under her current name of Mary Brave Bird, covers events up to 1992 and adds new details to the earlier history. In these two books, written 15 years apart, Brave Bird told how the American Indian Movement (AIM) gave meaning to her life. Mary Brave Bird (Septem– February 14, 2013) dictated her life story in the two books Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman to Richard Erdoes, a photographer and illustrator who himself became involved in political activism through having taped and transcribed her story. ![]() ![]() Frances survives the Great Fire, the Great Plague, and the debauchery of the Restoration Court, yet loses her heart to the very king she must control. He believes her love can make him a better man, and even chooses Frances to pose as Britannia for England's coins. Her tactic to inspire King Charles to greatness captivates him. He banishes her to England with orders to seduce King Charles II and secure an alliance.Īrmed in pearls and silks, Frances maneuvers the political turbulence of Whitehall Palace, but still can't afford to stir a scandal. King Louis XIV turns vengeful when she rejects his offer to become his Official Mistress. But Frances is no ordinary court beauty-she has Stuart secrets to keep and her family to protect. Frances discards threadbare gowns and moves to gilded Fontainebleau Palace, where she soon catches the Sun King's eye. But in 1660, the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy in England returns her family to favor. ![]() ![]() Impoverished and exiled to the French countryside after the overthrow of the English Crown, Frances Stuart survives merely by her blood-relation to the Stuart Royals. Debut author Marci Jefferson's Girl on the Golden Coin brings to life a captivating woman whose beauty, compassion, and intellect impacted a king and a nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucado has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print.Īfter serving as the pulpit minister for 20 years, Lucado announced in early 2007 that he was stepping down due to health concerns related to atrial fibrillation. Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and minister of writing and preaching at Oak Hills Church (formerly the Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. Max and Denalyn have three grown daughters, two in ministry, one in publishing, and one son-in-law, also serving in ministry. Max and family moved back to Texas in 1988, and Max has been a minister at Oak Hills Church ever since. 2013 brings the release of Max’s 30th trade book, You’ll Get Through This (September), which beautifully illustrates Lucado’s ongoing mission to encourage the brokenhearted and to remind all readers of the healing love of God. Max Lucado’s first book, On the Anvil, was published in 1985. Max’s words have traveled around the world in more than 41 languages via more than 100 million individual products. Eventually some of these sermons and stories are refined and fashioned into books that are shared far beyond the walls of Oak Hills and the city limits of San Antonio, Texas. It is in this setting that his stories are first told, from a pastor’s heart. Max’s sermons begin at home with the congregation at Oak Hills Church, which he has led for more than two decades. Max Lucado is a preacher with a storyteller’s gift-a pastor’s heart and a poet’s pen. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a series of page-turning chapters, King guides us through Native history from contact, but instead of moving in chronological order, or from east to west, he never stays in one era or one place for too long. That’s about it.” He writes that “there has never been a good collective noun because there never was a collective to begin with,” but for the purposes of this book, which draws on the experiences of both (Canadian) First Nations and Native Americans (in the U.S.), he uses Indian as a blanket term, joking that it is “the one name to rule them all.” Likewise, King uses White as shorthand for the various settler cultures in North America. King illustrates the diversity of these cultures early in the book with an anecdote about his drum group, writing that the members were “Anishinaabe, Metis, Coastal Salish, Cree and Cherokee” and had “nothing much in common. King’s literary patchwork quilt is particularly apt for a study of native North Americans, a group made up of hundreds of individual nations and language groups. Instead King draws from each of these forms to create a richly layered story, one which combines the strengths of multiple genres. ![]() It is a hybrid text, neither history, essay, nor memoir. ![]() ![]() The Inconvenient Indian is no exception, and King’s “curious account” of First Nations history is as idiosyncratic and gripping as any of his fiction. All of his works, from his novels to his 2003 Massey Lectures and CBC radio series Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour, are a mix of powerful storytelling, deadpan humour and deep intelligence. ![]() ![]() To complicate matters, Lily is a District Attorney, and so getting tangled with the suspect of a case her office are prosecuting (and she’s leading!) is probably not the best idea. Add to your shelves here.ĬAMBION’S LAW is a fun paranormal mystery romance about a half-human, half-succubus cambion trying to avoid using her succubus powers who is drawn into the mystery of who is killing succubi in the city. ![]() Can Lily face her true nature without losing her humanity-or will she become the monster she fears most of all?īlurb taken from Goodreads. To stop the killer, she must embrace the full power of her heritage and risk the soul of the handsome suspect she can’t help but fall for. And when human justice falls short, she launches an unsanctioned investigation to find the real culprit. An ambitious criminal prosecutor, she’s all work and no play, determined to prove herself in the courtroom to atone for the ex-lovers she’s left for dead in her past.īut after a fellow succubus turns up murdered and the police arrest an innocent man, Lily discovers evidence of a supernatural killer stalking the foggy San Francisco streets. ![]() Lily protects her secret and the safety of those around her by abstaining from the skin-to-skin contact that would grant her superhuman powers. Lily Knight is both-half-human, half-succubus, and utterly dangerous. ![]() ![]() ![]() Achilles' Heel: Gardnerians can only work magic by way of wands.Abhorrent Admirer: Fallon Bane is obsessed with wandfasting to Lukas Grey, despite the fact that Lukas is not at all interested in her. ![]()
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