It’s often the sophomore novel that never quite reaches the grandeur of its predecessor. Yet with Ruta Sepetys, it’s her third foray into historical fiction that doesn’t live up to its (admittedly incredible) forebears. Salt to the Sea sees Sepetys return to the territory of Between...
Salt To The Seaby Ruta Sepetys is about four teenagers at the close of World War II who are connected by a ship called theWihelm Gustloff. This is a ship that will take refugees across the Baltic sea to safer parts of Germany. Unfortunately, not to be all spoiler alert, but how can...
Norris Kaplan, the protagonist of Philippe’s debut novel, is a hypersweaty, uber-snarky black, Haitian, French-Canadian pushing to survive life in his new school. His professor mom’s new tenure-track job transplants Norris mid–school year, and his biting wit and sarcasm are exposed throug...
2016. It isRuta Sepetys’s third novel. Like Sepetys’s other three novels,Salt to the Seaexplores the lost and forgotten stories of history. In particular, it focuses on the sinking of theWilhelm Gustloffduring Operational Hannibal, which took place during WWII and was the largest sea eva...
This week I'm reviewing a young adult, historical fiction novel that chronicles the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Salt to the Sea is one for the books!
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Lisa loses meaning and thirst for life, and later finds a friend on the social network under the strange nickname White Whale and decides to commit suicide with him as a challenge to the intolerance of their lives. Based on Anastasia Nikulina's novel Salt for the Sea, or the White Whale....
In this study, the drawbacks associated with liquid-based seawater CRMs were tackled by developing a salt-based seawater proxy for nutrients that could be reconstituted in water solution just before use. Phosphate, silicate, and nitrate were chosen as target analytes. Sea salt mimicking the ...
to introduce rich ore or other valuable matter fraudulently into (a mine, the ground, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value. to add interest or excitement to: a novel salted with witty dialogue. adjective containing salt; having the taste of salt: ...
The macrolactins, a novel class of antiviral and cytotoxic macrolides from a deep-sea marine bacterium Eight new secondary metabolites, macrolactins A-F (1-6) and macrolactinic and isomacrolactinic acids (7 and 8), of an unprecedented C24 linear acetogenin o... K Gustafson,M Roman,W Feni...