Author: Mary Reeves Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971349988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It's a deadly game . . . and every move could be their last!As Constantine Rea and his best friend, Hannah, sit across a chessboard from each other, a rickety train takes them from their Vienna home to a dream ski vacation in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. There, the sixteen-year-olds will be staying in style with Hannah's uncle-the American ambassador! But Con's VIP visions melt away when he opens a letter from his elderly friend Frau Maria Rozstoski describing a violent mystery from her Romanian youth and asking a rare favor: Could Con look into it on his vacation?This seemingly simple request leads Con and Hannah straight into the dark corners of Romania's anti-Jewish past, from a terrifying neo-Nazi rally to World War II secrets of the brutal Iron Guard. The closer they get to the truth, the greater the risk. And why does their search keep coming back to an orphan named Poppy?
Checkmate in the Carpathians
Author: Mary Reeves Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971349988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It's a deadly game . . . and every move could be their last!As Constantine Rea and his best friend, Hannah, sit across a chessboard from each other, a rickety train takes them from their Vienna home to a dream ski vacation in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. There, the sixteen-year-olds will be staying in style with Hannah's uncle-the American ambassador! But Con's VIP visions melt away when he opens a letter from his elderly friend Frau Maria Rozstoski describing a violent mystery from her Romanian youth and asking a rare favor: Could Con look into it on his vacation?This seemingly simple request leads Con and Hannah straight into the dark corners of Romania's anti-Jewish past, from a terrifying neo-Nazi rally to World War II secrets of the brutal Iron Guard. The closer they get to the truth, the greater the risk. And why does their search keep coming back to an orphan named Poppy?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971349988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It's a deadly game . . . and every move could be their last!As Constantine Rea and his best friend, Hannah, sit across a chessboard from each other, a rickety train takes them from their Vienna home to a dream ski vacation in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. There, the sixteen-year-olds will be staying in style with Hannah's uncle-the American ambassador! But Con's VIP visions melt away when he opens a letter from his elderly friend Frau Maria Rozstoski describing a violent mystery from her Romanian youth and asking a rare favor: Could Con look into it on his vacation?This seemingly simple request leads Con and Hannah straight into the dark corners of Romania's anti-Jewish past, from a terrifying neo-Nazi rally to World War II secrets of the brutal Iron Guard. The closer they get to the truth, the greater the risk. And why does their search keep coming back to an orphan named Poppy?
School Library Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
The Writers Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
The English Historical Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Secret of the Mezuzah
Author: Mary Reeves Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556615498
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
When Con, an American teenager living in Austria, learns that Vienna is a center of international intrigue, his search for a spy entangles him in a mystery that leads back to the Holocaust.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556615498
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
When Con, an American teenager living in Austria, learns that Vienna is a center of international intrigue, his search for a spy entangles him in a mystery that leads back to the Holocaust.
Children's Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
Book Description
A Feast of Longing
Author: Sarah Klassen
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550503579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An intimate, powerfully written, collection of stories featuring characters who seldom find themselves present in Canadian fiction - ordinary middle class people. A Feast of Longing presents a fourteen-course banquet of characters whose common thread is their own longing D for significance, for meaning in their lives, for their troubles to pass, for guilt to let them go. Inspired by a charismatic speaker to side with the poor, a woman volunteers at a charity soup kitchen and is intimidated by one of the patrons she tries to befriend. A man whose son has been arrested for several crimes tries to find some peace in regular visits to a church. A first year university student reluctantly befriends her aunt's neighbour, a mentally challenged woman. With a poet's eye, ear and heart, sharpened over the creation of five collections of verse, Sarah Klassen brings an insight into characters and a depth to her stories that is not often found in short fiction. In every story optimism is present, but is tempered by the presence, or at least the awareness, of life's cruel underside, adding an extra power to the work."
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550503579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An intimate, powerfully written, collection of stories featuring characters who seldom find themselves present in Canadian fiction - ordinary middle class people. A Feast of Longing presents a fourteen-course banquet of characters whose common thread is their own longing D for significance, for meaning in their lives, for their troubles to pass, for guilt to let them go. Inspired by a charismatic speaker to side with the poor, a woman volunteers at a charity soup kitchen and is intimidated by one of the patrons she tries to befriend. A man whose son has been arrested for several crimes tries to find some peace in regular visits to a church. A first year university student reluctantly befriends her aunt's neighbour, a mentally challenged woman. With a poet's eye, ear and heart, sharpened over the creation of five collections of verse, Sarah Klassen brings an insight into characters and a depth to her stories that is not often found in short fiction. In every story optimism is present, but is tempered by the presence, or at least the awareness, of life's cruel underside, adding an extra power to the work."
The English Historical Review
Author: Mandell Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description