A novel inspired by a true story of survival.Esfir Manevich is a young Jewish girl who lives in the Polish town of Kobrin in 1936. Facing antisemitism in public school, Esfir moves in with her charming aunt who runs a boardinghouse in the bustling city of Brest. Being younger than the other boarders, Esfir struggles to find a place in her new life, all the while worrying about her diminishing role in the family she left behind.As the years pass, Esfir exper...

Ci sono un italiano, uno spagnolo, un tedesco, un francese e un’inglese, ma non è una barzelletta. Sono un gruppo di ex-Erasmus, ormai quarantenni, che decidono di attraversare il Regno Unito per fare campagna contro la Brexit, per salvare l’Europa unita: un sogno, il loro, sempre meno gradito agli europei di oggi.Riusciranno nella loro impresa? Evidentemente no.Usciranno cambiati da questo viaggio? A voi la risposta.

Anita Rappaport is dogged by the question: Did you have the life you wanted?Life begins for Anita in 1968 when she graduates from college, leaves her family home in Brooklyn, and moves to Greenwich Village, stepping into the revolutionary heyday of her times. Against the turbulent backdrop of racially charged school strikes, the Stonewall Inn and Attica uprisings, and the nascent feminist movement, Anita grapples with gang violence, job restrictions, gender stereot...

Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers.On a group tour of ancestral Jewish homeland sites that had been crushed in the Holocaust, she makes a riveting detour to her grandmother's village of Volchin, in what is now Belarus, where the last known family members had lived. There, she followed the trail of the death march taken by t...

Haunted by her grandmother's Old World stories and bigger-than-life persona, Andrea Simon undertook a spiritual search for her lost family. Her sojourn, a quest for truth, gave her tragic answers.On a group tour of ancestral Jewish homeland sites that had been crushed in the Holocaust, she makes a riveting detour to her grandmother's village of Volchin, in what is now Belarus, where the last known family members had lived. There, she followed the trail of the death march taken by t...

We call ourselves the Lady Bunch. One of our nine members named us after the iconic TV show The Brady Bunch, which introduces its cast members in a rectangular format. As we begin our monthly Zoom meetings, each member pops into view like a Brady kid, and we fit snugly into our triple-line grid.Here's the Story . . . is our first compilation of the writing that emerged from our Zoom meetings since 2020 at an online course called "Writing about Your Mom without Guilt," for ...

This autoethnographic account of the author’s Japanese as a second language learning trajectory is an important and unique addition to diary studies in SLA and applied linguistics qualitative research circles. In-depth ethnographic details and introspective commentary are skilfully interwoven throughout Simon-Maeda’s narrative of her experiences as an American expatriate who arrived in Japan in 1975 – the starting point of her being and becoming a speaker of Japanese. The book joins the re...

Die schönste Doppelrolle der Welt!Große Zielgruppe: 2022 waren knapp 70 % der Mütter minderjähriger Kinder erwerbstätig (Destatis)Mamas in Führungsrollen sind eines der Win-win-Konzepte für UnternehmenMit zahlreichen handfesten Impulsen für die Vereinbarkeit von Familie & KarriereMit Begeisterung und Leidenschaft die Doppelrolle als Mutter und karr...

Defeat slavers. Take their monster girls. Conquer the world.When William stumbles through a portal in the middle of Antarctica, he'll suddenly find himself in a world unlike any he's ever known. Now, he's surrounded by monster girls, vicious warlords, and everything in between.Worse, his only weapon is a magical branding iron, which seems to have one skill and one skill only, to overwrite slave brands. Thing is, monster girls seem pretty grateful about bein...

The classic blockbuster thriller about three women who refuse to let death itself stop them from seeking justice on the man who took their lives...“Hands down, one of my favorite reads of the year!” —Freida McFadden, author of The HousemaidMeghan, Brecia, and Skye have just one thing in common.They were all murdered by the same man.He hunted them online, masquerading as an eligible bachelor. Then he played the perfe...

Nesta obra profunda e corajosa, Simone de Beauvoir esmiúça o envelhecimento em todos os seus aspectos, apresentando uma revisão histórica sobre essa fase da vida e propondo uma mudança radical na forma de encará-la. A filósofa francesa analisou a fundo como algumas ciências e suas especializações tratam a senilidade, valendo-se também de pesquisas e estatísticas, sempre com o cuidado de não se deixar levar pela aparente certeza dos números. Utilizando diversos exemplos, a escritora relata ...

Henriette fühlt sich gar nicht gut. Wegzug der besten Freundin, Zickenzoff mit der Klassenkameradin und Langeweile plagen sie. So verkriecht sie sich oft in der Schneiderwerkstatt ihrer Mutter zum Nähen. Das kann sie nämlich außergewöhnlich gut. Doch als das rätselhafte Mädchen Rubinchen mit ihrer weißen Maus in die Nähstube kommt und sie um Hilfe bittet, ist es schlagartig vorbei mit Frust und Langeweile. Für Henriette beginnt ein hexenhaftes Abenteuer von dem sie nicht zu träumen gewagt ...