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Anne frank jurnal6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The first deportation transport left Westerbork on July 15, 1942, for Auschwitz-Birkenau. They also decided to intern all non-Dutch Jews in Westerbork transit camp. From Westerbork, German officials deported the Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centers in German-occupied Poland. ![]() At this time, they required all Dutch Jews to be concentrated in Amsterdam. ![]() In early 1942, the Germans began preparations to deport Jews from the Netherlands to killing centers in the east. The fate of the Frank family and other Jews in Amsterdam was wrapped up with the German occupation of the city, which began in May 1940. The rest of the Frank family soon followed, with Anne being the last of the family to arrive in February 1934 after staying with her grandparents in Aachen. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Otto Frank fled to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he had business connections. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank.įor the first 5 years of her life, Anne lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her documentation of this time is now published in The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne and her family went into hiding for two years to avoid Nazi persecution. Anne Frank was a German girl and Jewish victim of the Holocaust who is famous for keeping a diary of her experiences. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Just add the right emoticon to your email and everyone will know what self-expressive effect you thought you kind-of had in mind. And a smiley is, famously, this:įorget the idea of selecting the right words in the right order and channelling the reader's attention by means of artful pointing. ![]() Emoticons are the proper name for smileys. That's why they came up with the emoticon, too-the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes and italics and capitals ("I AM joking!") to compensate. “Clicking on "send" has its limitations as a system of subtle communication. ![]()
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Breakout kate messner6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() In Breakout, a middle-grade novel for readers ages 9 to 14, Plattsburgh, N.Y., author Kate Messner has once again tackled a challenging subject with creativity, sensitivity and tact. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Wolf Creek's local market is inundated with national reporters, as well as inmates' out-of-town families who can't visit their loved ones, now under 24-hour lockdown.Īs the search for the escapees unfolds, Nora and her friends confront some difficult realities about race, white privilege and the previously invisible lives of the prison inmates. When Nora Tucker, a seventh grader at Wolf Creek Middle School, begins her summer vacation by compiling students' submissions to a community time-capsule project, she expects it'll be filled with essays about the usual summertime fare: swimming in the creek, marching in the Fourth of July parade and competing in the annual Mad Mile foot race.īut when two inmates escape from the town's maximum-security prison, where Nora's father works as superintendent, her previously quiet hometown turns into an armed fortress, besieged by search parties, police roadblocks and helicopters circling ominously overhead. ![]()
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Volcker by William L. Silber6/4/2023 ![]() Silber manages to provide cogent explanations of how metal-based currency systems work, or don’t, as well as flesh out some fascinating yet lesser-known denizens of, in particular, the US Senate over the past century and a half. Silber tells the story of these outsized personalities and financial shenanigans with gusto and evident relish. The first is a detailed history of silver-in the United States.The second is a page-turner of a financial-political multi-generational thriller worthy of, say, John Grisham, filled with larger-than-life speculators, businessmen, manipulators, crooks and politicians-it not always being easy to tell them apart. The Story of Silver is two different books threaded together. ![]() If you thought a book entitled The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World and published by the venerable and academic Princeton University Press would be a dull, dense, heavily-footnoted tome, you’d be wrong. ![]()
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Sara holland evermore6/4/2023 ![]() I appreciated the lack of a focus on romance in book one, but anticipated more with the conclusion. This keeps the romance shimmering low throughout the novel and there’s an intriguing tension there, but we never quite get that explosive romantic moment I’d hoped for. ![]() Caro believes she needs to break Jules’ heart to defeat her, so her growing feelings for Liam are a major red flag that could lead to both of their deaths. The two begin an adventure to unlock the secrets of The Alchemist’s past in hopes of finding a way to destroy Caro, but traveling with Liam is a real danger. Now Jules is on the run while her newly discovered twin sister, Ina Gold, is crowned queen of Sempera and Caro sits at her side, plotting the domination of their world through blood magic.ĭespite the accusations against her, Jules has one surprising ally: Roan’s brother Liam Gerling, who’s studied The Sorceress and Alchemist his whole life and knows the truths and secrets of Jules’ many lives. But Jules knows that it is Caro, The Sorceress, who is truly evil after she kills The Queen and Jules’ childhood crush, Roan, to frame her. Now, the secret of her identity is out: She is the final reincarnation of The Alchemist, an ancient magical being whom history and religion have painted as an evil spirit. Sara Holland brings a different vibe to her EVERLESS duology conclusion, EVERMORE!Īs Jules Ember roamed the halls of the Everless estate after years away, she suspected there was something not quite right about her life as she knew it. ![]()
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Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() But when they uncover evidence of a powerful cult determined to rule the world, Whyborne must choose: to remain safely alone, or to risk everything for the man he loves. His only clue: an encrypted book that once belonged to the victim.Īs the investigation draws them closer, Griffin’s rakish charm threatens to shatter Whyborne’s iron control. Now in business for himself, he must investigate the murder of a wealthy young man. ![]() Griffin left the Pinkertons after the death of his partner. ![]() So when handsome ex-Pinkerton Griffin Flaherty approaches him to translate a mysterious book, Whyborne wants to finish the job and get rid of the detective as quickly as possible. Instead, he spends his days studying dead languages at the museum where he works. Ever since the tragic death of the friend he adored, Percival Endicott Whyborne has ruthlessly suppressed any desire for another man. And a book of spells that could destroy the world. ** Over 1,000 5-star reviews on Goodreads! **Ī reclusive scholar. ![]()
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All her little secrets book review6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s just in his best interest if he stays loyal. Now, if my husband cheated on me I would lose my mind as well, but in a much different way. I would tear the space-time continuum to shreds until I got him back. And if someone kidnapped him I would LOSE MY FUCKING MIND. Obviously, I know having a pet and having a child is not the same same, but I love my dog more than anything. ![]() And no I don’t have any biological children of my own, but I do have a dog and that’s basically the same thing… * waits for mothers to scream at me about how it’s not the same thing at all…* This book is basically about two of my greatest fears – a cheating husband and a kidnapped child. Little Secrets has done nothing but convince me even more that Hillier is one of the best psychological thriller authors out there. ![]() It made such an impression on me that I’ve picked up her work a few more times, but being that my TBR pile is so fucking huge this is only the second book of hers I’ve gotten around to actually reading and not just looking at on my shelves. I’m a fan of Jennifer Hillier even though I’ve previously only read one other book by her – Creep. ![]()
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Novel by daphne du maurier6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() She is at the top of my “favorite authors whose work I need to explore more deeply” list, so I’ve put together a primer for getting started with Du Maurier that we can all work through together. She was a master at leaving just enough strings still dangling at the end of a novel that the reader ends up batting like a kitten at them far after the reading is done. Her work has a quality of being easy to relish, fun to read, and also sticking with the reader. If Du Maurier were writing today, she would fall squarely in the “popular fiction” category. ![]() Barrie patterned the Darling children after in Peter Pan, and her father was friends with one Sir Alfred Hitchcock, who directed three of her works ( Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and The Birds). Her maternal grandfather was a Punch cartoonist and is the author of Trilby (1894). Her father was a well-known actor-manager, and her mother was an actress. To begin, a short biographical sketch: Daphne Du Maurier was born in 1907 in London, England, into a literary and dramatic family. In short, she was a Writer with a capital “W.” Du Maurier was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a literary critic, a nonfiction writer, and a biographer. Her books were huge bestsellers when they were published, and many live on in edition after edition. Daphne Du Maurier’s career was long and storied her life was equally so. ![]()
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The witch elm book6/3/2023 ![]() So when it came to the ending of In the Woods, I had three choices:ġ - Turn the narrator into a totally different character at the end of the book, for the sake of a neat plot resolution: shoddy and dishonest.Ģ - Have some other character do a deus ex machina and find out for him: forced and cheap.ģ - Complete the arc of his psychological journey (which for me was the core plot arc of the book) and the arc of the modern-day mystery, but leave the old one unsolved. So when he gets to the verge of remembering what happened, that's what he does: he runs. ![]() Whenever he gets close to anything that's irrevocable, he runs as far and as fast as he can - he does it in his relationship with Cassie, for example. ![]() ![]() The thing about In the Woods is that Rob Ryan is - possibly because of whatever happened when he was twelve, possibly just because of who he is - the kind of person who's incapable of taking any irrevocable leap. ![]()
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Our woman in moscow6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of OUR WOMAN IN MOSCOW, THE SUMMER WIVES, HER LAST FLIGHT, THE GOLDEN HOUR, THE SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT, A HUNDRED SUMMERS and several other works of historical fiction, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig.Ī graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before she turned her attention to writing novels that combine her passion for history with an obsessive devotion to voice and characterization. ![]() |