Jim Shepard
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aron, a child living in World War II Poland, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution ... When his family is finally stripped away from him, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, a doctor renowned throughout prewar Europe as an advocate of childrens' rights who, once the Nazis swept in, was put in...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories gives voice to our visionaries and pioneers and secret misfits, whether they're nineteenth-century Arctic's most nightmarish expeditions, twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home while their husbands staff precarious radar stations in treacherous waters, or eighteenth0century French balloonists inventing manned flight. --Publisher
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The birdcage: The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
The world to come: Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship...