![]() With them, they bring their SS boyfriends. ![]() Then comes a knock on the door: Two nurses are moving into the apartment. She is threatened in the street by young German soldiers and sees a man hanged, executed for hiding Jews, on her way to work. Under suspicion, Stefania is taken to Gestapo headquarters. As the number of people in the attic increases, hunger shrinks bellies, and tempers flare. Stefania works in a tool factory making screws and hunts food in the markets, certain each time she returns to the apartment the SS will be waiting. Thus begins Stefania’s journey to save others from certain death. Struggling with the execution of the Jewish boy she hoped to marry, she chooses love. Stefania, a Catholic, believes love breeds love, and hate breeds hate. ![]() ![]() Nearby is the ghetto where Jews live in the worst conditions imaginable, until they die of sickness or are shot. This incredible true story of survival centers on Stefania Podgórska, the teenage girl who hid thirteen Jews in the attic of an apartment she found for herself and her six-year-old sister, Helena, during the German occupation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thoreau believed that individuals could be free only if their actions were true to their own beliefs, with or without the support or approval of the community, or of friends and family. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name if ten honest men only ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this co-partnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. Thoreau called for the use of what we now call "passive resistance" to laws perceived to be unjust, and predicted that individual resistance to unjust laws could have a significant effect on government and its policies. "Civil Disobedience" was inspired by Thoreau's arrest in 1846 for refusing for six years to pay a poll tax in protest of both slavery and the Mexican-American War. ![]() Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." ".I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. In 1849, Henry David Thoreau famously argued for the power of citizens to demand better government and policies in his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government"). ![]() Laying the Foundation of Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau ![]() ![]() ![]() With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all. ![]() ![]() What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. “A delightful and witty take on witchy mayhem.” - Popsugar Erin Sterling casts a delightful spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. ![]() ![]() The hyphenated form cutie-pie can be used as an adjective. Still, it’s possible that cutie pie can be directed toward someone other than a young child in a way that’s not considered demeaning, especially when it comes from a person they love as a term of affection. Because the term is most typically used to refer to children, calling an adult a cutie pie is even more likely to be considered demeaning. ![]() Though it’s less common, the term cutie pie can also be used to refer to or address a person whom one considers attractive. However, this sense of the word can be considered demeaning toward the person it’s referring to or addressing. It can also be used as a term of address. However, cutie can also be used to refer to a person whom one considers attractive, as in There are a couple of real cuties in my math class. The word cutie can be used by itself to mean the same thing. ![]() You can call a young child a cutie pie or you can address a young child as cutie pie, as in Hey, cutie pie! I missed you! ![]() Cutie pie is a term of endearment and affection that’s especially used to refer to or to address young children, much like sweetheart, sweetie, or darling. ![]() ![]() ![]() 18 of the novels written by author Boyle have been included as Top Pick by the Romantic Times. In addition to that, author Boyle has been nominated for the RITA Award for a couple of times more since the year 1997 and has also won the Love and Laughter Award by the Romantic Times.Īpart from that, she has won a Career Achievement Award in the category of the Innovative Historical Romance, and has been nominated for a number of Romantic Times awards, a Choice Award by the National Reader, a Bookseller’s award, and a few other awards as well. As many as 17 of her novels have appeared on the bestseller lists of a number of literary magazines such as the New York Times, the USA Today, etc. ![]() Since then, author Boyle has gone on to pen down more than 20 adventurous and romance books in her writing career. It also won the RITA Award by the Romance Writers of America in the category of the Best First Book. This novel made its entry with a bang and won the Dell Diamond Award in the category of the best debut novel. Moving ahead with her far-fetched tales about her imaginary cow or several other fictitious accounts, she went on to write and publish her first novel titles Brazen Angel. The members of her family say that she has always been an excellent storyteller. ![]() Elizabeth Boyle is one of the prominent authors of America who has written a number of exciting novels based on the historical and contemporary romance genres. ![]() ![]() Baker's sense of place and time is extraordinary. Baker includes theories and the why's behind those theories that I'd never heard before and they don't sound like mad innuendo. ![]() the Kennedy's connection to Marilyn, US relations with Cuba, possible LAPD corruption, speculation about the role of the Mafia, and possible FBI involvement in Monroe's death, etc. In fact the book covers some old ground i.e. I love how Baker intersperses political and historical information into the story. Why did it take 5 hours to contact police? Who are all the people in her home when police arrive? Why does the body position look `staged'? It's August 5th, 1962 and Marilyn Monroe has just been found dead in her Brentwood bungalow. We're kept guessing who Deputy Coroner Fitzgerald is recounting his story to. "The Empty Glass" is an interesting murder mystery told from an unusual perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are constantly doing stuff like calling each other boring, and not enjoying time they spend together, and also not really spending time together in general. I don't think Crystal (our protagonist, an Instagram influencer) and Scott (our love interest, a firefighter) ARE that compatible. I honestly loved these characters and their family (yes, family singular, their grandparents get married in what is a very normal and not at all uncomfortable and insane thing, apparently), and the body positivity plot, but I didn't care about the actual reason we all found ourselves gathered here like at all. My least favorite part of this romance novel was the romance. So, anyway, here it is, what has become basically my catchphrase: ![]() But then again, I don't really, because to know about exercise implies doing it, and that sounds horrible. I wish I knew anything about exercise, so that I could make a comparison that would be on theme. Prepare yourselves, because this is going to sound familiar. Reading books about working out counts as exercise, I'm pretty sure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The posse also includes Cat's detached older brother, Christian, as well as Beef Pierson: an ex-athlete, high-school dropout, and long-time sympathizer with Cat's past struggles. She starts by questioning members of her conservative Christian community, which is ravaged under the surface by a crippling culture of meth.Ĭat confronts members of what she calls the "redneck posse", led by cocky, wealthy, homophobic Tommy Lawson. Cat's own tortured past has caused her to withdraw from the world for three years, but she begins to return by taking the criminal investigation into her own hands. ![]() Cat feels guilty for having become recently estranged from Patrick due to unrelated personal trauma, though she now vows to find his attacker, knowing the police will do little to help. In Black Creek, North Carolina, 16-year-old Cat Robinson's gay best friend, Patrick Truman, is left temporarily comatose from a brutal and discriminatory act of violence. Shine won the 2012 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award and is on the ALA's "YALSA Reader’s Choice" and "Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults" lists for 2012. The book was published on May 1, 2011, and follows a teenage girl investigating a hate crime involving the beating and near-death of her best friend in a small, North Carolina town. Shine is a 2011 young adult mystery novel by Lauren Myracle. ![]() ![]() Suddenly You was originally published in 2001, and it’s easy to understand why it’s such a firm favourite with many. ![]() Kleypas’ backlist, Someone to Watch Over Me, uses one of the worst narrators I’ve ever heard, but that’s another story!) (I’m not so pleased that Tantor’s next foray into Ms. I was really pleased to see that some of Lisa Kleypas’ older, previously un-recorded/out of print titles are making their way into audio format, and even moreso when Suddenly You popped up at Audible with Beverley A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters of the novel are chosen very beautifully and executed in tremendous way. This novel reflects the great writing skills of the author. ![]() This author has a very clear idea of how to write a great story and engage the reader in a great environment. No one can beat the excellent ability of the author’s writing, whenever there is a talk about great novel writing. ![]() Shen Is the author of this beautiful novel. Tyed is a beautiful novel with a great story and impressive moral and social lesson for the readers of all ages. If you are interested in reading this novel, you can download its ePub, PDF or Mobi formats just in a few clicks. Shen is a beautiful novel for all fiction readers as it offers lots of unexpected twists, powerful characters, excellent story and fantastic entertainment of reading from the very first page till the last word. ![]() |