Poland, Autumn 1942. Entire communities were guided by their rabbis to come to the local train station and board cattle trains which the rabbis said would take them to Auschwitz, a work camp ready with a local synagogue. The Tiktinski family, like others, entered into a fierce debate: to believe the rabbi? To board the train? The persistent rumors leaked the truth -- a horrible death ahead. The members of the family, all real people, the family...

"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...

Desnuda en la Azotea es una bella historia de amor e intriga escrita con hechos de la vida real relatados por sus protagonistas y combinados con la imaginacion del autor, que con su estilo crea un profundo suspenso que mantiene al lector expectante y lo hace participe de la trama. Sus actores se mueven dentro de dos culturas, abatidos por el presente sistema de cosas y aferrados a sus principios se dejan arrastrar por sus pasiones que de manera...

Drei Frauen, die aus den Trümmern einer Katastrophe eine neue Gemeinschaft errichten Eine Krise führt Angelina zurück an den magischen Ort ihrer Kindheit in Kansas. Dort begegnet sie zwei Frauen, die wie sie an einem Wendepunkt stehen: Traci, eine junge Künstlerin, und Gayle, die durch einen Tornado alles verloren hat. Schnell werden die drei füreinander unentbehrlich und entwickeln eine Schaffenskraft, die sie zu etwas ganz Neuem führt.

In this luminous story of family life-the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening-the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England privilege. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when...

The Lost and Founders form groups to work on a song. Isaac and Jude find a songbook and are impressed by the lyrics. Leia, Maggie, Rachel, Annabelle share secrets to bond as a group, but Leia is unwilling to disclose her secret to Maggie.

Falk learns the truth about Liebermann.

A gunman opens fire on a Parisian bistro. Mia (Virginie Efira) survives with no memory of the attack. Determined to remember what happened that night, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process she forms bonds with fellow survivors, reliving the worst night of her life through the eyes of the only other people who could possibly understand.

Claudio Monteverdi developed the principles of opera with L'Orfeo in the first decade of the 17th-century. At the very end of his life he wrote L'incoronazione di Poppea. The opera marked a decisive move from allegorical and mythic elements towards a historical subject - the love affair between the Roman Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea. His final masterpiece, where the beauty of the arias vanquished the decadence of the storyline, was first performed...

Henning hat es geschafft - als Arbeiterkind im grauen Ruhrgebiet der siebziger Jahre aufgewachsen, hat er sich als Journalist und Literaturkenner in den Kreisen der Bohème und Gebildeten einen Namen gemacht. Seine Herkunft bleibt ein Makel, den es zu überdecken gilt. Als sein Vater Walter an den Folgen einer Krebserkrankung stirbt, spürt Henning keine Trauer: Das Verhältnis der beiden war distanziert, der eigene Vater war für ihn ein Fremder...