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Mark Deakins
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Rachel Seiffert
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Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process.
Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat of deportation, Ephraim anxiously awaits word of his two sons, missing since daybreak.
Come in search of her lover, to fetch him home again, away from the invaders, Yasia must confront new and harsh truths about those closest to her.
Here to avoid a war he considers criminal, German engineer Otto Pohl is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind the lines, and no one but himself to turn to.
And in the midst of it all is Yankel, a boy determined to survive this. But to do so, he must throw in his lot with strangers.
As their stories mesh, each of Rachel Seiffert's characters comes to know the compromises demanded by survival, the oppressive power of fear, and the possibility of courage in the face of terror.
Rich with a rare compassion and emotional depth, A Boy in Winter is a story of hope when all is lost and of mercy when the times have none.
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De: Sara Tuvel Bernstein, y otros
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The List
- De: Patricia Forde
- Narrado por: Imogen Wilde
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In the post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval city of Ark, speech is constrained to 500 sanctioned words. If somewhere were to speak outside that approved lexicon, they'd face banishment. The only exceptions to this rule are the Wordsmith and his apprentice, Letta. Together, they are the keepers and archivists of all language. But when Letta's master dies, she is suddenly promoted to Wordsmith and finds the situation more complicated than she knew.
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Love is Language
- De Jennie Smith en 02-19-21
De: Patricia Forde
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This Census-Taker
- De: China Miéville
- Narrado por: Matthew Frow
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In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over. But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether?
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Only Feeding the Darkness
- De Darwin8u en 01-14-16
De: China Miéville
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Nocturne
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
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It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams. As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers. In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistance, then flies bombers for the RAF.
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Blech
- De Caroline H. en 02-20-11
De: Diane Armstrong
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
- A Novel of War and Survival
- De: Louise Murphy
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel". They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villagers.
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Intriguing Title
- De Simone en 05-25-14
De: Louise Murphy
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Wolf Winter
- De: Cecilia Ekback
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms BlackAsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.
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So atmospheric, it hurts
- De Bookmarque en 08-24-15
De: Cecilia Ekback
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The Winemaker
- De: Noah Gordon
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a young man - the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulália, in Northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. In Madrid, an assassination plot creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eulália.
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Inspiring, true to life
- De Cody W. en 12-18-20
De: Noah Gordon
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The Wood's Edge
- De: Lori Benton
- Narrado por: Liz Pearce
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths. On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His son, born that day, has died in the arms of his sleeping wife.
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Awesome
- De WeRLoved en 04-25-18
De: Lori Benton
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The Spymaster's Lady
- De: Joanna Bourne
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit... British spymaster Robert Grey must enter France and bring back the brilliant, beautiful - and dangerous - Fox Cub. His duty is to capture her and her secrets for England.
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Highly enjoyable; Audiobook is fantastic
- De Emily London en 12-28-10
De: Joanna Bourne
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The Long Walk
- The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
- De: Slavomir Rawicz
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.
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Inspiring and absorbing
- De A. Millard en 05-30-07
De: Slavomir Rawicz
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Now & Then
- De: Jacqueline Sheehan
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she’s trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love.
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Loved This Book
- De Janina en 03-07-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Boy in Winter
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- Sara Chapper
- 07-20-21
Stunning!
A stunning book whose strength lies in the realistic, and sometimes surrealistic way events are experienced and remembered. This book pulls no punches but is also subtle, not overwritten, allowing the reader to feel and empathize rather than just sympathizing. The choices made by the uninvolved whether to become involved are not moralistic but are reactions to life being thrust upon them. Such a fantastic read.
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- David
- 12-27-17
The Unspeakable
“A Boy in Winter” offers a variety of perspectives on the horrifying events of the Nazi occupation of a small Ukrainian village during World War II. Surprisingly, the author presents the German occupiers—primarily Pohl, a dissident engineer who is nevertheless a cog in the German war machine—as sympathetic characters, trying to do their best in situations they find unpleasant and, to some, morally reprehensible. The author shifts her focus from one character to another: a Jewish optometrist, a former Red Army soldier, a farm girl torn between romance and her own safety, the runaway boy of the title.
I did not think the book worked well until the final scenes. So much has been written about the Holocaust, it is hard to be original or to offer a new perspective. I have read that two of the author’s grandparents were Nazis, her grandfather not unlike her character Pohl. This is unusual but does not necessarily make the book better. I found Pohl, with his conscience and his struggle to maintain his integrity, somewhat cardboard. Only in the surprising final scenes did I find the novel moving and effective.
The narration was very good, with subtle shifts to reflect the voices of the various characters.
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- Alec Drumm
- 10-23-19
Harrowing escape from hell
This is the story of an SS raid on a nameless small town in Ukraine. The author describes in matter of fact, unemotional detail how the SS occupied a town and rounded up its Jewish residents in an empty factory building. Two young boys escape the pogrom with the help of a local Ukrainian girl. The 3 of them go on an arduous journey through a frozen marsh with little food or water.
The experiences of the Jewish families and children are made very real. In the factory the conditions are inhumane. Everyone has to stand for more than a day, even small children and elderly people, because there is no place to sit or lie down. Rumors spread about a journey ahead to a ghetto, or a concentration camp, or a new settlement. Few anticipate what will eventually happen. Meanwhile the terrified town residents huddle in their homes waiting for the Germans to leave.
A key role is played by a German engineer who works with the SS captain to build a road through the marshes. The SS officer explains that "where there is light, there must also be darkness". The terrible implications of that statement slowly become clear.
Narration is terrific.
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- Jennifer
- 03-07-19
Great Writing but Unfulfilling Story
Well-written book but so very incomplete. Abrupt ending and so many missed opportunities to flesh out the story and characters.
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- Woodsguy
- 10-10-18
Cliche after cliche after cliche
Ugh.
Nothing new or original or even remotely compelling here.
A lazy uninspired meandering story that offers cardboard cut-outs for characters and a tired—and tiresome—predictable plot.
Reads like a first draft, not a published (and apparently edited?) book.
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