epub |eng | 2021-06-08 | Author:Solomon, Rachel Lynn [Solomon, Rachel Lynn]

* * * The ceremony goes flawlessly, or as flawlessly as a ceremony can, given there’s no such thing as perfection in the wedding business. For some reason, my parents ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Solomon, Rachel Lynn [Solomon, Rachel Lynn]

NEIL MCNAIR IS ogling my parents like he can’t quite believe they’re real. “Do you want to lead the kiddush?” my mom asks him after lighting the candles with a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Krasner

AN ENCOUNTER ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF SOPHOMORE YEAR BENJY AND THOMAS In the cafeteria line, the lunch lady ladles macaroni and cheese. “Go on, do it!” the Nordlanders say. ...

epub |eng | 2023-07-25 | Author:Elana K. Arnold

Part III A Very Lucky Girl June 1941–May 1942 One The Nazis Many families leave with the Russians, the Oppenheims among them. They’d so publicly aligned themselves with the Soviets—loudly ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-17 | Author:Aden Polydoros

CHAPTER 17 Past the window, the sky lightened to shades of pink. The rising sun was the brightest crimson. This close to the city, it was too dangerous to leave ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Tara Lynn Masih

The chicken bones are boiled for soup, the bones picked of their marrow, even the gristle chewed by the men. We miss the taste. The smell hangs in the cabin ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-03 | Author:Betsy Aldredge [Aldredge, Betsy]

10 Night Four of Hanukkah Noah picks me up for work this morning, eliciting a raised eyebrow from my grandmother, and a quick smile from me, which makes his even ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sharon Cameron [Cameron, Sharon]

“Thou shalt not extinguish thy anger, but master it …” —Commandment Three, from The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis ISA SAT BACK down at the table in front ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-29 | Author:Fiona Rosenbloom [ROSENBLOOM, FIONA]

14. Avocado Schmear with a Side Order of Fried Friendship It was becoming a party divided. After the infamous kiss, we retreated to the kitchen, where we scoured the refrigerator ...

epub |eng | 2023-05-10 | Author:Just a Hat (epub)

26 HARD HAT Baba and Maman came to watch Joseph’s first home game as a starter. Baba was working out of the local office that week, and he talked her ...

epub |eng | 2023-07-11 | Author:R. M. Romero [Romero, R. M.]

I only left to watch Franz paint at Neuschwanstein, I protest. It helps me keep my feet on the ground, my past still at the back of my throat. It ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Morris Gleitzman [Gleitzman, Morris]

I fell asleep and the next morning me and Zelda went to find some new parents. Slowly. Carefully. Watching out for Nazis. ‘Why?’ says Zelda sleepily, rubbing her eyes as ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Katia Raina

29 Afternoon Off A wall unit with shelves and shelves. China that shimmers with soft mother-of-pearl shades. A few assorted-size iron weights on the floor in the corner. They remind ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-02 | Author:Ruth Tenzer Feldman

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR I asked about Izabel the next morning. Serakh and I were in the grape arbor, eating figs and sipping watery yogurt from handle-free cups. Apparently the family wasn’t ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Carol Matas [Matas, Carol]

EIGHT When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. —Shakespeare, Hamlet By August we’d been in Le Chambon almost a year. It’s funny the way time flew ...