Anthea Bell
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is running and how far the purists are willing to go to stop him. His beautiful wife, Nura, is ignorant of the great plans on her husband's mind. She knows...
24) Back to back
Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by a harsh Jewish single mother who prioritizes her socialist party connections over her family in mid-twentieth-century East Berlin, Thomas is forced to abandon his dream of becoming a writer while his sister, Ella, becomes increasingly introverted.
25) Ice cold
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's Munich, in the late thirties, the first years of fascism--the last before the war--is a dangerous place. Kathie is desperate to leave her sheltered village life and sets out for the city, determined that she'll get by, one way or another. She is dark-haired, buxom and pretty, like the women who recently disappeared without a trace.Young women are being found around Munich, abused and murdered. Josef Kalteis has been arrested, but is he really...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Violetta, a little princess, is determined to become as big and strong as her brothers. She secretly teaches herself to become the bravest and cleverest knight in the land until she must face the king's best knights in a jousting tournament. Will she be ready?
29) The Murder Farm
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A whole family has been brutally murdered with a pickaxe at their remote farm home, now dubbed "The Murder Farm". The newspapers are full of stories and rumors about the sensational case, but the police have no firm leads and little sense of how to find the killer. The reader learns about the case when a former resident of the village returns home to collect evidence and attempt a solution to the case. Written as a collage of first-person recollections...
30) Campo Santo
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Modern Library trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This final collection of essays by W.G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work--the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts.
32) Winter's end
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brünhilde Blum is a successful undertaker, a doting mother, the loving wife of a decorated police officer-- and a woman whose life that masks the terrible secrets of her past. A hit-and-run changes everything. As Blum's grief over the death of her husband, Mark, overwhelms her, only her two little girls can drag her back to the land of the living. Packing up Mark's office, Blum discovers a recorded conversation from a case he was investigating and...
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Daniel's grandfather insists that the story about treasure at the end of a rainbow is only a fairy tale, but when he and Daniel encounter a leprechaun after spending a day looking for the gold, he is not so certain.
35) Underground in Berlin: a young woman's extraordinary tale of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
37) Little daylight
Author
Series
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
At her christening, the princess, Little Daylight, receives a curse from a wicked fairy that she shall never see the sun until kissed by a prince.
39) Nicholas
Author
Series
Nicholas series volume 1
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
US edition.
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows Nicholas as he runs away, buys his mother a birthday gift, and worries about showing his parents his report card.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a robber steals his grandmother's musical coffee mill, Kasperl and his best friend Seppel try to catch the robber, who enlists the help of his wicked magician friend, Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.