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9781847398222
Anne Frank Remembered
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Miep Gies
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For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange-checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- into Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty.
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Hetty
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Hetty Verolme
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Hetty was just twelve years old in 1943 when her family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands.
Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her parents were sent to the Children's House, within Belsen concentration camp. Hetty became the 'Little Mother' of the camp, helping to care for the other children.
This is one of the remarkable, largely untold, stories of the Holocaust - the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of children through those terrible years.
The Australian said the adult version of this book was a 'powerful and chilling account' of the Holocaust. The Australian Book Review called it 'profoundly moving' and an 'uplifting story'.
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I am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die
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Christine Arnothy
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The compelling and moving narrative of a young girl caught by the tides of marching armies during the siege of Budapest in 1945. Told with calm compulsive force, and with an intimacy and maturity that defies the author's youth, I am fifteen is a poignant coming-of-age memoir, and a remarkable tale of ordinary lives destroyed by war. Budapest in early 1945: the siege - which was to kill some 40,000 civilians - raged around Christine Arnothy, her family and the various inhabitants of their building. Hiding in cellars, venturing out in a desperate search for food and water only when the noise of battle momentarily receded, they wondered if the Germans from the West or the Russians from the East would be victorious and under which they would fare best. Praying she would survive, and mourning the loss of some of her fellow refugees, Christine found solace in her writing - in pencil on a small notepad in the cellar - and dreamt of becoming ...
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Oppenheimer and the Bomb (The Big Idea)
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Paul Strathern
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A charismatic teacher who inspired a generation of physicists, Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of this brief biography, is remembered today as "the father of the atom bomb". It was his creation that brought a devastating end to World War II. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands, destroyed the lives of millions, and ushered in a new era in which the potential for nuclear annihilation held the world in a precarious balance for the next five decades. Developing the bomb involved highly complex and theoretical work on splitting the atom. How did Oppenheimer go about this work, and what about the Manhattan Project and the frantic race to create the first atomic weapon? What of the moral dilemmas Oppenheimer faced over the creation of a weapon of such mass destruction? And what about his contributions to quantum mechanics and his early work on black holes? This book, one of a series which gives ...
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Dangerous Days
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Ernest Brough
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At 19, Ern Brough signed up for the biggest adventure of his life, fighting with the Anzacs at Tobruk and El Alamein. At 22, he was a prisoner of war. But Ern and his mates were determined not to spend the rest of the war behind bars. Their aim: to make a break for Italy to rejoin the army, at any cost...In a nerve-wracking dash for freedom, they travelled by night, swam icy rivers, climbed mountain passes and crossed borders within metres of German guardposts. Exhausted and starving, and with only the infamous Yugoslavian partisans as allies, they would need to escape capture again and again to reach journey's end. Ern's incredible courage during the war earned him the Military Medal. But this is also the story of Ern's life after the War, and the actions at home that have made him a local hero to this day. This edition brings Ern's amazing story to a new host of readers, many only a few years younger than he was when he made his ...
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Factory Girls: Voices from the heart of modern China
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Leslie T. Chang
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'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' - Simon Winchester. Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces behind China's economic boom: they work very hard and for little money to make the trainers, ornaments, designer handbags and toys which we buy. Through the lives of two young women, Chang vividly portrays a world where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a cell phone; where lying about your age, your education, and your work experience is often a requisite for getting ahead; and, where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. This is a powerful and humane portrait of the forces which are shaping China. ...
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My Secret Diary
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Jacqueline Wilson
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This is a wonderfully written and engaging memoir of Jacqueline Wilson's life as a teenager - her problems with her family, first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real secret teenage diaries and the stories she wrote as a teenager, to build up a fascinating picture of a real teenager and her inner life. Covering issues as diverse as the songs she danced to and the way she created beehive hairdos to her troubled school life and her parents' problematic relationship, this work follows on from the massive success of "Jacky Daydream", her first memoir. Written in Jacqueline's usual and inimitable style, this will be fascinating reading for her fans, and for anyone who's interested in life in the UK in the Fifties and Sixties.
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No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson
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Paul Millar
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'There is no place in normal New Zealand society for the man who is different', wrote William Harrison (Bill) Pearson. One of New Zealand's most distinguished fiction writers and sharpest critics, Pearson's life was also fraught with contradiction and secrecy, largely because of his homosexuality. Born in Greymouth in 1922, he grew up in a society dominated by a rugged ideal of New Zealand manhood; not an easy childhood or adolescence for an unusually sensitive boy who preferred intellectual pursuits to sports. He went to university and Dunedin Training College, then taught at Blackball School - a period from which he drew the material for his celebrated novel, Coal Flat. After serving in the Second World War he received his PhD from the University of London - where distance gave him a clear critical perspective on this country of 'fretful sleepers' - then returned to New Zealand as a scholar and lecturer, writer and editor. Bill ...
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9780330519052
Stephenie Meyer: the Unauthorised Biography
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Marc Shapiro
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Stephenie Meyer is as important to "Twilight" fans as the characters in her novels. This wonderful, warm book will answer fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling "Twilight" books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed details. This is a must-have for the millions of "Twilight" fans! Where did the idea for "Twilight" come from? Which music did Stephenie listen to as she wrote each book? What are the latest details on the films of "New Moon", "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn"? What does Stephenie Meyer think of Robert Pattinson? What was Stephenie like as a child? What is the real story behind "Midnight Sun"? What are Stephenie's plans for the future? How did she come to write "The Host"? And much, much more...
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Anne Frank (Usborne Young Reading Series 3)
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Susanna Davidson
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This story of Anne Frank has been written with the expert advice of Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne. It begins before she went into hiding, and tells the story of her life until she died.
Series three in the Usborne Young Reading series is for readers who are ready for longer stories.
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