Over the past four years, we’ve been lucky to witness the publications of Zora Neale Hurston’s archived work. In 2016, Amistad Press releasedBarracoon, an account of Cudjoe Lewis, one of the last remaining survivors of the Middle Passage, and, earlier this year,Hitting a Straight Lick wit...
The crack continues to grow wider and wider and the bands of survivors in the ruins between the highlands of the North and the river fragment into various cliques: hundreds of women follow a wild-haired seer called Medea Smith; a few wealthy developers assemble an army of enforcers that gathe...
I always welcome a new WW II book, because I realize that many of the survivors will soon be gone. It is so refreshing to read their stories. Each story offers a different perspective about how ordinary adults and children from many different countries come to the aid of the Jews and mak...
I always welcome a new WW II book, because I realize that many of the survivors will soon be gone. It is so refreshing to read their stories. Each story offers a different perspective about how ordinary adults and children from many different countries come to the aid of the Jews and mak...
So did Bou van Oort who, after spending his early years in a Second World War concentration camp in the Dutch East Indies, went on to become a Rhodes scholar. Margaret Horsfield, the author of three books about the west coast of Vancouver Island, shuttled titles from the sorting stations ...
The popular book tells about a group of shipwreck survivors who run out of food and water. Suddenly, they pick up a man who claims to be God and offers salvation. Albom discussed the themes of the afterlife and religion before - in The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The First ...
About the Book:Even thoughAwakenings,his 1973 account of his work with survivors of theencephalitis lethargicaepidemic of the Twenties, should arguably be the more famous one of the two (if not merely because of the eponymous 1990 Academy Award-nominated film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Wi...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024, marked the 85th anniversary of theNazi invasion of Polandand the outbreak of World War II, which led to the Holocaust. New books about that horrendous period are still emerging. Some are written as witness testimonies by Holocaust survivors in the twilight of their lives, ...
are concentration-camp survivors from Germany and meet again in Les Lauzes. The school provides a home for Henni, before she and Max flee to Switzerland. Jules is the local 10-year-old goatherd who knows the mountains, town and its secrets better than anyone. He passes messages and creates...
Its two primary characters, Blanche Willoughby and David Hare, were raised in it and now, meeting again in their eighties after decades of separation, are its survivors, adrift in the Atomic age. They met as children in another century and another New York, a New York where their parents ...