The story follows the Benecke family as they are uprooted from their home in Liechtenstein by the Gestapo and are sent by cattle car to Auschwitz concentration camp. Through lucid details and engaging dialogue, the author captures the traumatic and melancholy experiences the family and countless other Jewish men, women, and children undergo as prisoners in the most notorious of death camps. From their arrival on the platform and through the selection process, the family witnesses the traum...

In this book, the author elucidates through lucid fictional accounts real-life issues people experience, and the deleterious circumstances they experience in an endeavor to understand why things happen as they do. The short stories focus primarily on the themes of faith, pain, suffering, and the negative effects of pride and arrogance. Through meticulous descriptions and dialogue, the author captures the experiences of the characters and their struggles, and how it is through a return and ...

This is a suspenseful, historical fiction account of immigrants who risk their lives and all that they have to immigrate into the United States and begin life anew. Agustín is a teenage boy who desires a better life—a purpose for his own existence. He has the courage to leave his family in the seaside city of Guaymas, Sonora, to seek success and independence in America. But he also wishes to fill the emptiness that resides deep in his soul from a life of loneliness and emotional abandonmen...

My Strength and My Defense reveals the authors thoughts and experiences on God and life, based on real-life events that helped shape his thinking and view of the world and religion. The writings draw on biblical teachings and classical literature for reference, based on the inspiration of the Paraclete.In the work, the author endeavors to present to the reader insightful, intelligent perspectives on issues such as death, sin, faith, and reliance on God for our daily needsthings tha...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Nig...

This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language Hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. His works are hailed by Christians throughout the world and many denominations venerate him as a saint. He has been declared a Doctor of the Church in Roman Catholicism. He is especially beloved in the Syriac Orthodox Church.Ephrem wrote a wide variety of Hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as we...

With the Nazi invasion of Hungary underway, the German army was determined to round up as many Jews as they could and place them into concentration camps. “A Doctor in Auschwitz” is a harrowing tale of survival. It follows one Jewish doctor who was spared and forced to perform experiments on his fellow prisoners. This is a first-hand account of his often brutal assignments, sparing no details.With the Nazi invasion of Hungary underway, the German army was determined to round up as ...

Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her ...

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem).“Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza’s chronicle is both personal and political.”—The Washington PostA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:...

The first and greatest commandment is this: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind.” Medieval monk and church leader St. Bernard of Clairvaux explores four stages of love by which the follower of Christ moves from selfishness deeper and deeper into a life of all-consuming love for Almighty God. His deeply insightful words, penned centuries ago, ring just as inspiring and true today as they did the day they w...

Remarkable first-person story of survival in Nazi occupied Poland. Narrowly escaping the Nazi sweep in Southern Poland, Jafa Wallach and her husband, Natan, a physician, were able to send their four-year-old daughter to safety (they prayed) while they themselves—along with two of Jafa's brothers—managed to dig a shallow hole in the ground beneaththe cellar of an heroic Polish mechanic's shop.