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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s, about all that's available to her is marriage. When Constance's parents arrange her a marriage with a man more than twice her age, she's powerless to resist. Four months into the marriage, she slips out of their bed in the middle of the night, and puts on his clothes. Sneaking out of the house before dawn, Stance visits the baker's scrawny son, who has just been drafted into the army, and offers...
2) Soldier bear
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
""One of the most beautiful novels that I've written." - Willem Frederik Hermans Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and patient hand of a guardian angel. Flitting about from the hood of Alberegt's car to the rim of his windswept hat, the angel attempts to quell their unhappy ward's fears and secrets. (On...
4) The ascent
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this revealing and poignant story, Stefan Hertmans uncovers haunting details about the previous owner of his house and the crime he committed as a member of the Nazi police. In 1979 Stefan Hertmans became obsessed with a rundown townhouse in Ghent. The previous owners were mentioned only in passing during the acquisition, and it wasn't until the new millennium, long after he had sold the house, that he came across a memoir by the owner's son Adriaan...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Linus Muller takes over making deliveries for his family's Manhattan grocery store in 1943, including bringing a crate of oranges every other week to an artist from Europe, the two become friends as they discuss war, the future, freedom, and imagination.
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