Eva and her little brother Grant meet Terry Turtle and, with his help, fly to the future. Eva is amazed by people and animals' shared love and friendship. However, an unexpected evil comes from space, and Eva does her best to save the animals in the future. With her little brother, Eva learns precious lessons about improving the earthlings' lives.
The War Came to Me is a testament to the many persons throughout Europe that risked their lives to save Jews from the extermination effort by the Nazis. This book tells the story of the courageous and compassionate Dutch citizens who helped two young Austrian sisters avoid deportation to the death camps where they almost certainly would have perished. The sisters, Eva and Ruth, were sent by their parents to the Netherlands in order to escape the increasing persecution of Jews in their homeland. They would endure years of separation from their parents and each other, before the family was eventually reunited. Through the daring efforts of these Dutch families, Eva and Ruth were able to escape Nazi persecution and survive the war. Their story serves as a reminder that the best of humanity can be discovered even in the darkest of times.
"Timmy the Time Traveling Turtle" is a delightful children's story about a curious and adventurous turtle named Timmy. Timmy discovers a mysterious shell that turns out to be a time machine, sending him on incredible adventures through different time periods and even outer space. Along the way, he meets friendly dinosaurs, helps build pyramids in ancient Egypt, paints with famous artists in the Renaissance era, goes on treasure hunts with pirates, and much more. After his exciting journeys, Timmy returns home to his peaceful pond, eager for more adventures yet to come. It's a charming tale filled with imagination, discovery, and the joy of exploration.
"Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end," Denise Low says, "as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible." Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry as she recovers the life story of her Kansas grandfather, Frank Bruner (1889-1963). She remembers her childhood in Kansas, where her grandparents remained at a distance, personally and physically, from their grandchildren, despite living only a few miles away. As an adult, she comes to understand her grandfather's Delaware (Lenape) legacy of persecution and heroic survival in the southern plains of the early 1900s, where the Ku Klux Klan attacked Native people along with other ethnic minorities. As a result of such experiences, the Bruner family fled to Kansas City and suppressed their non-European ancestry as completely as possible. As Low unravels this hidden family history of the Lenape diaspora, she discovers the lasting impact of trauma and substance abuse, the deep sense of loss and shame related to suppressed family emotions, and the power of collective memory. Low traveled extensively around Kansas, tracking family history until she understood her grandfather's political activism and his healing heritage of connections to the land. In this moving exploration of her grandfather's life, the former poet laureate of Kansas evokes the beauty of the Flint Hills grasslands, the hardships her grandfather endured, and the continued discovery of his teachings.
In 1942, blonde and blue-eyed Milada is taken from her home in Czechoslovakia to a school in Poland to be trained as "a proper German" for adoption by a German family, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
A Day In The Life Of A Storm , is a novel in the style of, Bridget Jones Diary with a touch of spirituality as in, Eat, Pray, Love. Novels that represent real life issues have become increasingly popular lately as everyone is seeking to identify with others that are weathering the storms of life. Sara is living the American dream. She is married with two, grown children that have found their path in life. She has a job she loves and travels often with her husband. Her world is turned upside down when her husband had an affair and decides he does not want to be married anymore. What follows is a funny, honest look at what happens when a woman that is almost forty is alone for the fi rst time in her life. She does it all, from sex with younger men to visiting an old friend in prison. She refuses to live her life for anyone else and finds her own way. Her new life is not perfect but it is her own.
