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Beowulf is the earliest surviving poem in Old English. Although the authorship is anonymous it is believed to have been written before the 10th century AD. The only extant European manuscript of the Beowulf text is placed at around 1010. The epic tells the tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf as he struggles against three adversaries; the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother and an unnamed dragon. The epic was recently released as a blockbuster
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Summer Brother is an honest, tender account of brotherly love between a disabled boy and his abled brother, which will resonate with readers of Rain Man.
"Dutch author Jaap Robben's second novel shows us the shedding of innocence. Summer Brother, translated by David Doherty, shakes out over a hot summer, during that potent lull when characters so splendidly
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It's October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared
“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review
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The problem of Aids has been kept largely under control in Europe, but in the Third World it is a different story. There is a devestating lack of resources for medicine and for education. When parents die at a young age, children are left behind with no-one to teach them how to avoid the same fate, and so the cycle continues.
Memory Books could prove to be the most important documents in our time in answer to this crisis. When the official reports
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As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning Ryoji's past, Yaichi gradually comes to understand...
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"A vital, understated contribution to the body of Holocaust literature."-Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrea-von-treuenfeld/going-backy/
How many Jewish women do you know who moved back to post-war Germany?
In this collection of survivor stories, you'll meet 16. Each of these women recounts her life story with grace and courage, even as they remember
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