This issue of Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond is the first one in which all the stories focus on a single theme. That is Redbird Institute, a new STEM, arts, and vacation venue a few miles east of the Ring of Fire.State Library Papers(Non-Fiction)This is our first issue that opens with a non-fiction article. It's "What is Redbird?" by Bethanne Kim. It's background information for the entire issue.Redbird Reader(Fiction...

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, ...

Duncan is an ocean from home over the holidays and expects to spend them alone. To his pleasant surprise, one of his European co-workers, Georg, befriends him and includes Duncan in the holiday traditions of his homeland: cutting a Christmas tree under starry skies at Georg's country estate, decorating it at the family's city home, and shopping at the Christmas market in Munich. Both men are lonely and realize they have much in common. But Georg's life is in Germany and Duncan's is in Bost...

German Jewess Margarete doesn't want to die…...but to survive she has to become the one person she hates most in this world.Destined for deportation to a labor camp, she has nowhere to hide.When a bomb hits her building, she emerges from the rubble unscathed.But there's only one way to stay alive.She needs to switch identities with a dead Nazi girl.Will Margarete betray everything she ever believed in to survive?

Trivia-on-Book: All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony DoerrTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for readers...

After the death of Shinobu’s archnemesis—his foster father—Shinobu’s long lost sister Megumi vanishes in his arms once again, leaving Shinobu desolate. When Kaori offers him her love to support him, he accepts, causing his summons to be laden with shock. One person takes it harder than the rest, however—Shinobu’s young apprentice, Alice, who has to come to terms with her own feelings. At the same time, an announcement that throws the world into disarray: La Vita Online is entering its fina...

Praise for A Piece of Blue String: "Well written and engaging--enjoyed it!""A wonderful story of the youth in Germany during WW ll.""A very moving historical story from a point of view that is rarely presented."A companion short story to Playing with Matches.Excerpts from Katharina Ackermann's diary marking the turn of WW2 and of her heart to one special boy.Enjoy reading this well researched, dramatic story of what it was like to be...

**The internationally bestselling novel-**a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the modern age. A man who could be read as having a different past.Inspired by the author's family history, Library for the War-Wounded transports readers to the a...

Over 50 color photos show the most beautiful views of Rügen and Hiddensee. With a chronology, captions and a map.

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Dressage Riders to Ever Compete: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Greatest Dressage Riders to Ever Compete: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, e...

This is a reissue of the first half of A 1632 Christmas, one of the last Ring of Fire Press books Eric worked on. The second half is Special Issue 2, December 2024. These stories range from Grantville, through Germany, to Sweden and even farther.Garrett W. Vance's "A Christmas in Wonderland Isles" takes us back to Pam Miller and all the other wonderful people working to save the dodo bird in Wonderland Isles. In George Grant's "A Christmas for Kjell", we celebrate Saint Lucia in Sw...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Top Dressage Riders of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Top Dressage Riders of All Time did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and m...