Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother



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As a boy in Brooklyn, James McBride knew that his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she'd simply say, "I'm light-skinned". Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. "You're a human being", she snapped. "Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" When James asked what the colour of God was, she said, "God is the colour of water". As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell the story. Her stor... More >>

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven



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In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled be... More >>

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Friday, June 12, 2009

Black Boy



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In a new edition of this classic autobiography, the author of Native Son chronicles his experience growing up black in the Jim Crow South. Reprint. NYT. ... More >>

Black Boy

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Lord of the Dance


  • ISBN13: 9780743293006
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As the spirited step dancer and international star of Riverdance, Michael Flatley shattered records, silenced doubters, revolutionized an ancient dance form, and brought joy to millions of people worldwide. After finding his calling at the age of eleven, when he was "dragged by the ears" to dance school, Michael went on to become the first American to win the World Irish Dancing Championship. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Michael explains what really happen... More >>

Lord of the Dance

Saturday, June 6, 2009

The Secret Scripture: A Novel


  • ISBN13: 9780143115694
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An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist

Sebastian Barry 's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2005 his novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In The Secret Scripture, Barry revisits County Sligo, Ireland, the setting for his previous three books, to tell the unforgettable story of Roseanne McNulty. Once one of the most beguiling women in Sli... More >>

The Secret Scripture: A Novel

Thursday, June 4, 2009

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors


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From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class.Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Ed... More >>

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir



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Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language—but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s s... More >>

A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman


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A solitary woman. A foreign country.An unknown language.An impossible dream?No, God's call on the life of Gladys Aylward.With no mission board to support or guide her and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God's call to take the message of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese War waging around her, she struggled to bring the basics of life and the fullness of God to orphaned children. Time after time, God tr... More >>

Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman

Monday, May 25, 2009

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph



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Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. In the words of E. M. Forster, 'Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, em... More >>

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption



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In this true and inspiring book, a unique and transcendent friendship rises from the depths of a shocking crime and a devastating miscarriage of justice.... More >>

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World


  • ISBN13: 9780060822187
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Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any count... More >>

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter


  • ISBN13: 9780440228653
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A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.

A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when h... More >>

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

Sunday, May 10, 2009

America Is In The Heart: A Personal History



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This classic of Asian American history is now available in an unabridged audio edition. First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. Bulosan does not spare the reader any of the horrors that accompanied the migrant's life; but his quiet, stoic voice is the most con... More >>

America Is In The Heart: A Personal History

Saturday, May 9, 2009

The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale


  • ISBN13: 9780679406419
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At last! Here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). It now appears as it was originally envisioned by the author: The Complete Maus.

It is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s s... More >>

The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale

Thursday, May 7, 2009

The Duchess of Padua



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One of Oscar Wilde’s lesser known plays, the five act melodramatic tragedy is set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down, it was abandoned until its first performance at The Broadway Theatre in New York under the title Guido Ferranti on the 26th January 1891, where it ran for three weeks.

This edition of the Oscar Wilde’s play includes a short critical commen... More >>

The Duchess of Padua

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800



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A demand for a Second Edition of the "Illustrated History of Ireland," within three months from the date of the publication of the First, consisting of 2,000 copies, is a matter of no little gratification to the writer, both personally and relatively. It is a triumphant proof that Irishmen are not indifferent to Irish history--a fault of which they have been too frequently accused; and as many of the clergy have been most earnest and generous in their efforts to pro... More >>

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member



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Writing from solitary confinement, a former member of Los Angeles's notorious gang, The Crips, recounts his baptism by violence into the gang at age eleven and his evolution behind bars into a militant black nationalist. Reprint. ... More >>

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Friday, May 1, 2009

Enrique's Journey


  • ISBN13: 9780812971781
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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better and go to school past the third grade.
Lourdes p... More >>

Enrique's Journey

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts



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Mule Bone is the only collaboration between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two stars of the Harlem Renaissance, and it holds an unparalleled place in the annals of African-American theater. Set in Eatonville, Florida--Hurston's hometown and the inspiration for much of her fiction--this energetic and often farcical play centers on Jim and Dave, a two-man song-and-dance team, and Daisy, the woman who comes between them. Overcome by jealousy, Jim hits Dave wit... More >>

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America



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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing project in Chicago over a two-year period. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle to survive gun battles, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and mismanaged bureaucracies. Through extensive research, Ko... More >>

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Monday, April 27, 2009

Night; with Connections



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An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.Amazon.com Review
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believe... More >>

Night; with Connections

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir


  • ISBN13: 9780684842677
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mothe... More >>

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Up from the Projects: An Autobiography



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A life of achievement and overcoming the oddsA lifetime of challenging conventional wisdomA uniquely American story of achievementFrom his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, the life of Walter E. Williams is an "only in America" story of achievement. In Up From the Projects, this nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author recalls some of the h... More >>

Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

Saturday, April 25, 2009

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family



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"Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape of Singaporean cuisine teaches us that food is the tie that binds."
--Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles After growing up in the most food... More >>

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street



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"Quite literally, I could not put this book down." --Manisha Thakor, Forbes

"...told with alarming detail and considerable humility--it's a tale that will help the reader hone his or her ambition down to a finer, more human point."   --Los Angeles Times
"This book about choices and their consequences is a gripping read."--Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices

"heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hilarious in one g... More >>

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

Friday, April 24, 2009

Our Nig



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Considered the first novel by a female African-American, Our Nig is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. Ignored upon first publication in 1859 and lost for more than 100 years, the novel achieved national attention when it was rediscovered and reprinted in 1983. Our Nig tells the story of Frado growing up as an indentured servant in the antebellum northern United States.... More >>

Our Nig

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Seamstress


  • ISBN13: 9780425166307
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"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from tha... More >>

The Seamstress

Monday, April 20, 2009

A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy


  • ISBN13: 9781440509971
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Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet rec... More >>

A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage



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FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by an American submarine and went on to become president. The reality of what happened to the eight prisoners has remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the shocking truth. Not even the families of the airmen ... More >>

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter


  • ISBN13: 9780767903578
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Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence a... More >>

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Saturday, April 18, 2009

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer


  • ISBN13: 9780553494112
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IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.

“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, Starred

A Book Sense Top Ten Pick

A Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best Books


A Booklist Editors ChoiceAmazon.com ... More >>

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

Monday, April 13, 2009

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir


  • ISBN13: 9781400052295
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There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness.

Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.

And that’s when things got interesting….


You have in your hands the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. ... More >>

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery


  • ISBN13: 9780061173004
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Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a... More >>

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books


  • ISBN13: 9780812979305
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to spe... More >>

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Friday, April 10, 2009

Confessions of a Video Vixen


  • ISBN13: 9780060842420
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Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kel... More >>

Confessions of a Video Vixen

Thursday, April 9, 2009

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels, The Critical Edition with Complete Novels and 300+ Pages of Historical Materials



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ANNOTATED:

* Contains literary critiques, detailed biographies, and detailed historical context


SPECIAL CRITICAL, COMPLETE, AND UNABRIDGED EDITION OF CHARLES DICKENS' GREATEST NOVELS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES & GREAT EXPECTATIONS

This special critical edition of Charles Dickens' classic great novel A Tale of Two Cities is the only volume currently available that contains:

* The complete, unabridged novel A Tale of Two Cities, with a crit... More >>

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels, The Critical Edition with Complete Novels and 300+ Pages of Historical Materials

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets


  • ISBN13: 9780143114932
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In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs

First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and captured the world's attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness-and participat... More >>

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Monday, April 6, 2009

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love



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Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history. Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswom... More >>

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts


  • ISBN13: 9780679721888
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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.Amazon.com Review
The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted an... More >>

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Making of a Royal Romance



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Katie Nicholl, Royal Correspondent for the "Mail on Sunday", has been at the centre of royal reporting since she joined the newspaper in 2001. There is no one who is more intimately acquainted with the lives and loves of Princes William and Harry. Katie has spoken to a wealth of contacts close to William and Catherine Middleton and reveals how their love affair really started at St Andrews, the hurdles the pair overcame and the challenges they still face. Originally... More >>

The Making of a Royal Romance

Friday, April 3, 2009

Children of Terror



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Two very young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, are caught in a web of terror during World War II. These are their unforgettable true stories. "War does not spare the innocent. Two young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, were witnesses to the horror of the Nazi occupation and Hitler's terror in Germany. As children they saw their homes and communities destroyed and loved ones killed. They survived de... More >>

Children of Terror